Board Games
Games and health
How One Dev Is Using Games as Therapy to Reach Across Generations
Game designer Alex Jimenez and social worker Timothy Burns are using games to help young people to open up about mental health.
Dante Douglas
11.16.18
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1960s Board Games For Girls Were Messed Up
I entered the world of heteronormative 60s board games marketed to young girls this weekend. It was a wild journey.
Danielle Riendeau
4.24.18
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Winning Is Fun, But Not Knowing What Victory Means Might Be Better
The 'Terraforming Mars' board game kept me guessing right until the end, which is something I'd like more strategy games to try.
Rob Zacny
4.16.18
Board Games
Board Games Were Indoctrination Tools for Christ, Then Capitalism
The very weird tale of how American board games used to teach you how to get to heaven, and later, how to make bank.
Robert Rath
11.30.17
Board Games
How Fantasy Flight Made 'Fallout' Into a Surprisingly Authentic Board Game
Fantasy Flight Games has adapted the radioactive world of Fallout into cardboard.
Samantha Nelson
11.21.17
magic: the gathering
This New Spinoff Re-Imagines 'Magic: The Gathering' as a Board Game
'Explorers of Ixalan' lets you and up to three friends battle across a dinosaur-and-pirate infested island.
Cameron Kunzelman
10.10.17
Lords of Waterdeep
'Lords of Waterdeep' Is a Great Board Game Adaptation but a Bad Teacher
The game you know and love, but only if you know it enough to love it in the first place.
Rob Zacny
9.5.17
Board Games
Before 'Paper Mario' There Was Cardboard Mario and Tabletop Zelda
Game researcher Nathan Altice looks at the fascinating history of NES board games.
Cameron Kunzelman
8.2.17
Board Games
I Played 5 Professionally-Designed Drinking Games
I had a party with my closest friends, 5 drinking-themed board games, and a whole lot of booze.
Samantha Nelson
6.9.17
BattleTech
'BattleTech' Brings 'MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries' into a Post-'XCOM' World
Reinventing an Ameritrash board gaming classic, sans all the trash.
Rob Zacny
6.6.17
Sherlock Holmes
Why Players Always Return to Games About Baker Street and Jack the Ripper
How the Victorian Era endures as the classic setting for mystery and murder.
Samantha Nelson
5.28.17
Tabletop Games
Playing the Birth and Death of Language in 'Dialect'
Language can be quietly—or loudly—revolutionary in 'Dialect,' a tabletop game about communities and the words that make them.
Alex Roberts
5.7.17
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