05
Apr
Game Overview: Free Ride USA, or One Free Ride After Another | BoardGameGeek News
by W. Eric Martin
In November 2021, I reviewed Friedeman Friese's Free Ride, a game in which players collectively buil...
05
Apr
GAMA Expo 2025: Crabs in a Bucket, Zeit Heist, That’s Dope, and Pet Domination: Kittens vs Corgis | BoardGameGeek News
by W. Eric Martin
In 2020, GAMA launched a new program called the Horizons Fellowship, which it describes as an "eigh...
05
Apr
GAMA Expo 2025: Wardens, Spooktacular, Word Colony, and Space Lion 2: Leon Strife | BoardGameGeek News
by W. Eric Martin
I'm nearing the halfway point(!) for my coverage of GAMA Expo 2025 — or at least I think I am. Hard t...
05
Apr
GAMA Expo 2025: First Monday in October, Shakespeare’s First Folio, Dice Words, Dragoon, and Party Panda Pirates | BoardGameGeek News
by W. Eric Martin
Let's continue walking the aisles of the GAMA Expo 2025 exhibit hall:
▪️ U.S. publisher Fort Circle ...
05
Apr
GAMA Expo 2025: Yokohama Duel, Hacienda, Kinfire Council, and Up or Down? | BoardGameGeek News
by W. Eric Martin
I worry sometimes that my presence at GAMA Expo 2025 was a box-checking exercise: Visit as many exhib...
04
Apr
Publishers Talk about U.S. Tariffs | BoardGameGeek News
by W. Eric Martin
I've used a globe-as-die logo since I ran BoardgameNews.com in the late 2000s. Gaming is a global act...
04
Apr
CMON Warns of Financial Losses, CATAN Awaits a New Champion, and Why Scrabble Isn’t a Word Game | BoardGameGeek News
by W. Eric Martin
▪️ In February 2025, Natasha Dangoor of The Wall Street Journal profiled Nigel Richards, a Scrabble w...
04
Apr
GAMA Expo 2025: Flow, Ace of Spades, Transgalactica, Koinobori, and Red Carpet | BoardGameGeek News
by W. Eric Martin
I'm still mentally walking the exhibit hall of GAMA Expo 2025 and reliving my past life. Join me for ...
04
Apr
GAMA Expo 2025: Lord of the Rings: The Confrontation, KeyForge: Discovery, 18RoyalGorge, and 4 Years to Mars | BoardGameGeek News
by W. Eric Martin
▪️ At Gen Con 2024, Ghost Galaxy had a banner for a new edition of Reiner Knizia's Lord of the Rings...
03
Apr
Explore Pocketopia to Discover Otters, Body Parts, Pastry, and Asymmetric Frogs | BoardGameGeek News
by W. Eric Martin
In late March 2025, I included Surplus of Sloths in a crowdfunding round-up, and as it turns out that...