Written by: Vanessa Hennessey. Family board game night has become more popular over the past decade – the global board games market was worth $7.2 billion USD in 2017 and is forecast to reach a value ...

TIME spoke with Leacock to learn more about the board game explosion and what it’s like to design them for a living. The following conversation has been lightly edited for length and clarity.

A board game designed to be played at family dinner tables to ensure children stay away from screens is among projects from ...

The co-op Bomb Busters board game ended up winning this year's Spiel des Jahres award, disrupting the commercial darling, ...

The Rules We Break, the latest book from Eric Zimmerman, professor of game design at the NYU Game Center and award-winning designer, explains why. “The 21st century might be termed a Ludic Century,” ...

It was the source of the revolution in board game design and popularity that swept the West, starting with Klaus Teuber’s Catan (one of the most beloved classic board games), which won the award ...

Tabletop games had a massive influence on video games in 2021, from deckbuilding roguelites, to dungeon-crawler adaptations, to turn-based strategy titles on Windows PC, Nintendo Switch, and more.

Amabel Holland, a forty-one-year-old board-game designer from Dearborn, Michigan, believes that a chance discovery at a comic-book store saved her life. In 2010, she wandered into the shop with ...