Botanicus scores Italian game of the year award win, Castle Combo creator Grégory Grard named 2025 designer of the year
Botanical garden-building game Botanicus has scooped its second game of the year award in less than a month by triumphing in this year’s Italian Gioco dell’Anno prize. The win for Botanicus – the debut title from designers Samuele Tabellini Ferrari and…
I Turned My WordPress Site into a Mobile App — Here’s What I Learned
If you’ve ever tried building an online community on your WordPress site, you know how hard it is to keep people engaged. At first, some members sign up and post a few updates, but before long, activity drops off and…
In 2026, Red Notice Pits Forger Against FBI
by W. Eric Martin ▪️ At SPIEL Essen 25, Matthieu Bonin from French publisher Catch Up Games showed off the company’s planned release for the FIJ game fair in Cannes, France at the end of February 2026. Red Notice is…
Matt: Andrej on Dwarkesh
Most interviews I watch at 1.5-2x speed, but among my friends, we joke that there are a few people for whom we really enjoy their thoughts at 1x (shoutout to JT). I’m an unabashed fanboy of Andrej Karpathy (blogged nanochat…
Tigris & Euphrates Coming from 25th Century Games in 2026
by W. Eric Martin In a video interview with BGG owner Scott Alden, designer Reiner Knizia revealed (starting around the 10:00 mark) that U.S. publisher 25th Century Games will release a new edition of Tigris & Euphrates with art and…
WordPress.org blog: WordPress 6.9 Beta 3
WordPress 6.9 Beta 3 is available for download and testing! This beta version of the WordPress software is still under development. Please don’t install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites. Instead, you can evaluate…
Record-breaking Altered TCG needs another €2m to save latest expansion – despite having already raised over 10x its crowdfunding goal
Altered, the trading card game which broke Kickstarter records with its €6.2m debut crowdfund two years ago, is running almost €2m short of the amount needed for its latest expansion – despite having raised more than 10x its crowdfunding goal…
Discover New Teams to Tag, Create a Panorama, and Spar over Oddball
by W. Eric Martin ▪️ If you’ve played Gricha German and Corentin Lebrat‘s Tag Team, you won’t be surprised to discover that publisher Scorpion Masqué plans to release a new set in 2026. I mean, the box includes a teaser…
Catan follows Netflix deal with Minnesota Timberwolves partnership
Asmodee has unveiled its second surprise partnership for flagship title Catan in as many weeks, this time teaming up with a major professional sports franchise for the first time in the form of the NBA’s Minnesota Timberwolves. The deal will…
Designer/Publisher Diary: Forests of Pangaia, or A Kickstarter Journey
by Thomas Franken The process of transforming an idea into reality is wonderful and scary at the same time. It’s a dream that’s always on the verge of turning into a nightmare — and sometimes it does. When I embarked…
