News Fall of Rome maker and Undaunted studio set sights on accessible wargames with Battalion: War of the Ancients Roman wars on a Gaul budget. March 14, 2024 Chase Carter
News Stationfall maker’s new influence card game puts you in charge of the Enlightenment-era Illuminati Become the eye in the pyramid. Oct. 25, 2023 Chase Carter
News Zenobia Award returns to highlight more underrepresented creators in historical tabletop design The annual award and mentorship programme was founded in 2020 by Root creator Cole Wehrle and a team of historians and game designers. Oct. 2, 2023 Chase Carter
News Cardboard Edison 2023 winner is a puzzly board game about microscopes, mosaics and algae Plankton can be beautiful, too. May 23, 2023 Chase Carter 1 comment
News Root and Pax Pamir creator plans to remake historical board game about Chinese opium trade Jamming traffic for a second time. Feb. 2, 2023 Chase Carter 1 comment
News John Company, Pax Pamir maker to produce art installation 1819 Singapore as an actual board game Cardboard imitating art imitating life. Feb. 2, 2023 Chase Carter
News Rising Waters transforms the Great Flood of 1927 into a co-op board game of resistance and community Mississippi meeples. Oct. 13, 2022 Chase Carter 1 comment
News Use gifts, force or guile to control the throne in board game Catherine: The Cities of Tsarina Russian to victory. May 3, 2022 Chase Carter
News Inaugural Zenobia Award nominees include Haitian revolution, Indonesian independence as historical board games Winners will be announced October 15th. Aug. 17, 2021 Chase Carter
News John Company 2E Kickstarter demolishes its crowdfunding goal on the first day Thanks to the ‘Wehrle Effect’? March 31, 2021 Chase Carter 1 comment
News Roman Empire RPG Lex Arcana visits Dacia and Thrace in new sourcebooks More like Pecks Romana Feb. 17, 2021 Chase Carter
News Someone spent £3,500 painstakingly - and authentically - recreating the millennia-old Game of Ur at home Including making their own bitumen. Feb. 12, 2021 Chase Carter 1 comment
News A new historical tabletop award wants to spotlight and mentor underrepresented voices Winners will receive up to $4,000 and direct publisher mentorship on a prototype. Nov. 23, 2020 Chase Carter
News Votes for Women board game marks 100 years since women’s suffrage in the US Kickstarter campaign launched on centenary of 19th Amendment. Aug. 26, 2020 Matt Jarvis
News Operation was originally a desert survival board game called Death Valley Cavity Sand. Dec. 9, 2019 Alex Meehan 1 comment