Zen Of Design – The design and business of gaming from the perspective...

Ever since the double-whammy of ‘having kids’ and ‘global pandemic’, I haven’t been going to board game nights at game stores that much. To regain some of my exposure to new game releases, I tend to watch ‘Top 10’ lists for the last year. This year,...

Here we are, once again, at the top of my annual list of board games. There’s a lot of familiar faces from previous years in here – not a surprise, great board games rarely stop being great) but this section includes not only two variants of great game...

What makes for a great board game? Well, as you can see, I’m amenable to almost any subject matter and weight. Different gaming sessions and different audiences want different things, usually on the same game night! My favorite games tend to be midweights...

As you move further up the list, one would expect for there to be fewer new entries in every section. We have now moved largely into experiences we would hope and expect to be tried and true battle-tested affairs that have withstood my withering so-called...