Matt Thrower
Contributor
Matt has been writing about games for over a decade and obsessing over them as long as he can remember. He's been lucky enough to sneak articles about tabletop into several video game outlets, including IGN, PC Gamer and Rock Paper Shotgun. The author and co-author of two books on gaming, Matt also enjoys hiking, cooking and being pretentious.
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The Spiel des Jahres doesn’t deserve to be board gaming’s biggest award in 2023
40-plus years on, the German prize is still the most prestigious accolade a board game can receive - despite a very spotty history of winners.
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Best of the rest: 8 Spiel des Jahres winners you haven’t heard of
Winning board gaming's biggest Game of the Year prize doesn’t always mean going down in the history books.
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Feature: Good Old Plays: The throwback RPGs giving modern roleplaying “a breath of fresh air”
OSR designers are reviving the genre’s roots with compact rules, player-led storytelling and creativity in abundance.
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Feature: “We had to quarantine our games”: Friendly local game stores’ struggle to survive during coronavirus
Board game café owners and retailers on the impact of lockdown and social distancing.
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Oath could finally deliver on the exciting lost potential of legacy board games
All of the memories with none of the sacrifice.
