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Los Angeles Times: Board games are growing in popularity again
By Todd Martens Table-top games, once overshadowed by video games, are drawing people who want more social forms of entertainment. Still, it’s a tough business for publishers. Blockbuster board games are unusual, but Days of
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The Sydney Morning Herald: Gallipoli at 100
By the Staff of The Sydney Morning Herald: Part I: By Tony Wright Why Anzac’s heroics and horrors have a hold on history There is a spot behind Quinn’s Post cemetery high up on
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Deseret News: Game Review: Age of Napoleon is a grand war game adventure
By Cody K. Carlson: Age of Napoleon, from Mayfair Games, is a two-player war game in which one player takes on the role of Napoleonic France while the other takes on the role of
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Wired: April 10, 1815: Tambora Explosion Triggers ‘Volcanic Winter’
by Randy Alfred The 200th anniversary of the Tambora eruption and “the year without a summer.” 1815: Tambora volcano in the East Indies erupts with a mighty roar. It sends enough pulverized rock into
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The New York Times: Lee Surrenders to Grant (150 years Ago today).
From Our Own (NYT) Correspondent.
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Deseret News: Boldly go with ‘Star Trek: Fleet Captains’
By Cody Carlson For nearly five decades, “Star Trek” has been a part of American popular culture. With five TV series, 11 films and one more due out next year, the franchise shows no
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Deseret News: Pay Dirt is an immersive board game about modern-day gold mining.
By Ryan Morgenegg The board game Pay Dirt is about the gritty and competitive world of modern-day gold mining in frigid Alaska. In this worker-placement-style game, players take the roles of enterprising mining companies
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WSJ: This Spring, Mets Play for the Love of the (Trivia) Game
By JARED DIAMOND If you want to know which river is Europe’s longest, or which Chicago hotel was built in the Italian Renaissance style, someone in the dugout can probably tell you PORT ST. LUCIE,
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The Telegraph: Confessions of a ‘Grognard’: why I am an unashamed board game geek
By Dan Hodges “A confession. I am a Grognard. “Isn’t a Grognard a species of tropical fish?” assistant comment editor Tom Chivers asked me suspiciously when I outed myself this morning. No, a Grognard
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The New York Times: A Game as Literary Tutorial
By ETHAN GILSDORF Dungeons & Dragons Has Influenced a Generation of Writers When he was an immigrant boy growing up in New Jersey, the writer Junot Díaz said he felt marginalized. But that feeling
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