Ravensburger pushes for Upper Deck to pay $3.8m legal fees it racked up defeating ‘groundless but unrelenting’ Disney Lorcana lawsuit
Ravensburger is demanding Upper Deck pays the $3.8m in legal fees it ran up in its successful two-year legal battle against the latter’s claims it stole the design for its hugely successful Disney Lorcana TCG. Upper Deck began its lawsuit…
SETI, Botanicus, and Bomb Busters Awarded as the Best Games of the Year
by W. Eric Martin ▪️ While some game industry awards — Spiel des Jahres, As d’Or, etc. — come elsewhen in the year, the fourth quarter sees many awards dropping near simultaneously, as with Fairplay magazine’s annual announcement of its…
Gutenberg Times: State of the Word, WordPress 6.9, Forms styling, Interactivity API, and more — Weekend Edition 348
Hi there, Next week is Release Candidate 1 week! Subscribe to the Make Core Blog, if you haven’t yet, to get all the Dev Notes and the Fieldguide notifications. “String freeze” is this state of the release called until the…
Matt: Kaycee Nicole
Mimi Lamarre at Switchboard Magazine has a delightful long read in The Curious Case of Kaycee Nicole, where, in the early days of online communities and blogging, a fake person claimed to have leukemia. The blogging community was relatively small…
Designer Diary: Monsters Menace the World
by Marcus E Burchers Monsters Menace the World was an interesting challenge to bring to life. The prior version of the game, published in 2005 as Monsters Menace America, was something of a cult classic — not well-known, but with…
Matt: Conversation with John Borthwick
I’m often on the other side, but it’s such a delight to be an interviewer, I really enjoy it and put a lot of work into coming up with questions and shaping a conversation I think will draw out something…
Introducing WPChat: Your Live Chat Assistant for WordPress That Converts
Have you ever lost a customer because they couldn’t find an answer fast enough? Maybe they had one simple question before checkout… but couldn’t reach anyone for help. That lost sale probably went straight to your competitor. Now, imagine if…
Flip Runes in Carnuta, Go All In with Predictions, and Visit a Spooky Tower
by W. Eric Martin At SPIEL Essen 25, I got to spend a bit of time in the asmodee business area checking out upcoming games from studios within that company. ▪️ I’ve already written fondly of Alexi Piovesan and Julien…
Matt: Post-talk Recs
I just got off stage from the great dev/ai/nyc event with John Borthwick, we had a wide-ranging discussion that we’ll post online soon. We had hundreds of people in the room and hundreds on the waitlist… the energy in NYC…
Ask Ms. Meeple: Explaining Mansplaining
by Greyfax “Now that’s called a ‘unicorn’, see?”As I didn’t get any questions this time, I’ll be discussing “mansplaining” and how to avoid doing it and what to do when it has been done to you. Mansplaining is called that…
