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Paco Ŝako, AKA “Peace Chess”, has been flying under the radar since 2017, but it’s about time we gave this Chess-based game a closer look. Designer Felix Albers has created a game of Chess that eliminates capturing opponent’s pieces. Instead of a war, players are in a dance, and the first to win the heart…
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I thought it would be fun to look back on some of the classic board games that have survived the test of time, games that are either beloved or universally despised. This game is often placed in both categories, even by the same people. Anyone growing up in the 70s or 80s is sure to…
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It’s that time of year again—time to hang up the lights, dust off the tree skirt, and fight over who gets to hand out the gifts. It is no secret that the Christmas season has been slowly encroaching on other holidays. Thanksgiving, at this point, seems doomed and is destined to be lost in the…
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Essen Spiel, the world’s largest board game convention, has admitted to using art and copy generated by AIs in its marketing material for 2023. Merz Verlag, Essen Spiel’s parent company, says that the images were supplied by a partner design agency. Merz Verlag does not know which AI and LLM tools were used. Perplexingly, Merz…
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Renegade Game Studios has announced new Hasbro game titles they’ll be producing. Renegade had recently added Hasbro titles Axies & Allies, Diplomacy, and Acquire to their catalog. Now they’ll be adding Nexus Ops and Vegas Showdown, among others. These games should get released some time in 2024.
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Stronghold Games has recently come under fire for using AI Art in its Terraforming Mars expansion Kickstarter project. Kickstarter requires projects to indicate if they use AI-generated art and this seems to be the first way anyone found out about Stronghold’s use of it. The expansion was designed by FryxGames (who also designed the core…
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Mayfair Games has entered into an agreement to distribute games by Pythagorus Games in North America. Pythagorus is a Portuguese publisher whose titles include Garum, Pessoa, and 6 Castles. Games coming to the U.S. in October, via Mayfair distribution, include Gods of Rome, Celtae, Lata, and Lunaris 45.
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The latest Kickstarter for the extremely popular Terraforming Mars board game line has, per Kickstarter rules, disclosed that it uses AI art. Kickstarter campaigns which make such a disclosure also must list answers to two questions within the Kickstarter page. Stronghold’s answers to the second question in particular seem evasive, although the line is so…
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Gather around whippersnappers, and let me tell you about an animation rockstar name Ralph Bakshi. Don’t google him just yet. Quite a few NSFW works to his name. However, he’s far from a stranger to fantasy, considering that he gave us 1978’s Lord of the Rings and 1977’s Wizards. (Fun fact: Wizards featured Mark Hamill…
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Board game publisher Petersen Games has officially announced a partnership with Catalyst Game Labs. Under this arrangement, Catalyst will help with publishing duties for Petersen titles, both already released and coming up. Petersen Games will remain in charge of game design for its own titles, while Catalyst will hand manufacturing, marketing, and so forth. Sandy…
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