The Christmas holidays are here, and as you all know, board games make the perfect gift for friends and families. And this year we don’t want to overwhelm you with all the options, so we have compiled a guide for you folks, because you deserve some fun and laughter around the board game table. This […..]
Sports fans and board game enthusiasts don’t seem like the most natural of allies, and it can be hard finding common interests with which to bring together groups of friends with these two vastly differing pastimes. So what do you do to bridge that gap between you and your sportier friends? What activities could possibly […..]
The year is 2005, and it’s 11 o’clock on a Sunday night. We’ve just finished watching the most recent episode of Entourage on HBO—well, actually, we watched last week’s episode, then the new episode, then the new episode a second time, as is our weekly tradition. I’m in my best friend John’s huge South Beach […..]
Each casino player wants to beat the casino. However, inexorable statistics tell us that 99 out of 100 regular visitors to gaming halls are in the red. It is due to the contrary construction of the game system and the psychology of the players, who sometimes win considerable sum, but are forced to pay more […..]
The demand for exciting board games has been increasing steadily in recent years and the market is now worth $3.2 billion. It is set to rise to $8.1 billion by 2021 as people across the world are falling in love with the retro pleasures offered by tabletop fun. Once upon a time, popular board games […..]
In the past few years, an awesome trend has sprung up in gaming, and it’s been quickly growing and evolving: home mysteries. One-off, cooperative puzzle adventures, often strongly story driven and with a lot of emphasis on atmosphere. They’re sort of a hybrid between subscription boxes like The Mysterious Package Company (check those out if […..]
For those who do not know me yet, my name is Thibaud de la Touanne and I’m the founder of my board game studio Triton Noir, whose first title was the cooperative V-Commandos (I talked about this amazing project two years ago here on Analog Games). While this tabletop game was all about infiltration, combat […..]