3+ hour, 39+ min ago  (453+ words) When the WS Game Company got hit with a seven-figure tariff bill on the board games it imports from China, CEO Jonathan Silva decided to find out whether he could make one in America instead. He picked a special 250th-birthday…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (221+ words) Admittedly, the trailer's callout of "the fascist wave taking over the world" hits a little close to home. Let's give it up for the next year, people: the announcement teaser for the hotly anticipated RPG The Elder Scrolls 6 was revealed…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (434+ words) In bridge, a heart trick earns 30 points while a club trick earns 20, numbers that mean nothing outside of the game. That's the whole point, argues philosopher C. Thi Nguyen in his book The Score. Good games use an arbitrary scoring system…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (404+ words) The same horse-racing board game has been published and republished for decades under at least seven different names — Dubble Kross (1991), The Horse Race Game (2004), Wooden Horse Races Game (2004), Horse Race (2005), The Racing Horse Game (2006), Horse Racing Game (2007) — plus a run…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (280+ words) My first computer was a ZX Spectrum, with all of 48 kilobytes of RAM, and as long as it lasted I obsessively typed in BASIC programs to see what I could get it to do. It was powerful (at least to…...

4+ mon, 2+ day ago  (511+ words) The upcoming game Honcho looks like an eclectic blend of an auto repair sim and a vending machine tycoon game, set in 1980s Japan. The game also features a female protagonist. If this does not alarm you, congratulations on your emotional…...