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Gone Cardboard: Ravensburger has announced the next title in the Disney Villainous game line, with Treacherous Tides featuring Dave Jones and Tamatoa and with this standalone expansion due out on August 1, 2025. BGG game page: boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/44... —WEM

Sometimes more is more and these best-of-the-best expansions prove why. Nick & Mike Murphy share their 10 favorite expansions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEfw...

Chaos: Thanks to the threat of a 50% tariff on goods produced in the European Union, now the rest of the game industry can sweat out whether the U.S. remains a viable market for future releases: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... —WEM

Tonight on GameNight! @chilibeannp.bsky.social, Deborah, Mike & @heccubus.bsky.social teach & play "Flower Fields" by Luca Bellini & Luca Borsa and @horribleguild.bsky.social‬. Thanks so much to @gamegenic.com for the accessories and sponsoring this episode! —Lincoln www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qK1...

We Forlorn Few - BGG How to Play. Nick Murphy teaches you how to play We Forlorn Few by designer Alex Bayliss and published by Knifedge Games. This episode is sponsored by Knifedge Games. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHEl...

Awards: The nominees for the 2025 Spiel des Jahres have been announced: Bomb Busters, Flip 7, and Krakel Orakel. Check out the noms for the Kennerspiel and Kinderspiel awards, as well as recommended titles, on BGG News: boardgamegeek.com/blog/1/blogp... —WEM

Fever: Bee Gees and zombies isn't a pairing I would have expected, but I love the cover of Staying Alive, a co-operative game from Kalle Krenzer and KOSMOS due out in October 2025. Details on this and other KOSMOS titles coming in the second half of the year: boardgamegeek.com/blog/1/blogp... —WEM

Review: Can you crack Alibis to determine which supervillain is the perpetrator of...whatever case you're trying to solve? Learn how to play this clever deduction game from Yusuke Sato and Allplay, as well as how it compares to Sato's earlier release Nigoichi: boardgamegeek.com/blog/1/blogp... —WEM

So awesome to be in Paris celebrating @daysofwonder Ticket to Ride's 20th anniversary! ...and to witness Ticket to Ride played like Chess!(?!) with some of the best players in the world!🤯🚂 #tickettoride

Sometimes one game isn’t enough and you need a whole board game universe to explore. Your journey begins here with our Top 10 Board Game Series. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlxN...

Preview: With Game Market Spring 2025 opening in a few hours, I've pulled the curtain on BGG's Game Market Spring 2025 Preview: boardgamegeek.com/geekpreview/75 The final title on the list? BACON and EGGS, which is a drafting, set-collection, and racing game starring eggs on a frying pan. —WEM

Tonight on GameNight! @chilibeannp.bsky.social, Aaron & @heccubus.bsky.social teach & play "Moon Colony Bloodbath" by Donald X. Vaccarino and published by Rio Grande Games. Thanks so much to @gamegenic.com for the accessories and sponsoring this episode! —Lincoln www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_Xl...

Preview: With Game Market Spring 2025 opening in 36 hours, I've still adding JP titles to BGG's database and our preview, with the latest entry being Ultra-Stupid 300 Raiders: boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/44... Here's the full Game Market Spring 2025 Preview: boardgamegeek.com/geekpreview/75 —WEM

Announced: Hot Streak is a racing game in which you don't control any of the racers — only your bets on these odd mascot! Well, and one card that you slip inside the racing deck. Details on this new release from Jon Perry and CMYK: boardgamegeek.com/blog/1/blogp... —WEM

Tonight on GameNight! @chilibeannp.bsky.social, @panda8ngel.bsky.social, @jackiefox.bsky.social & @heccubus.bsky.social teach & play "Gnome Hollow" by Ammon Anderson and @theop.games. Thanks so much to @heccubus.bsky.social for sponsoring this episode! —Lincoln www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oXV...

Among the legions of board games based on popular franchises these 10 reign supreme. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz9S...

I'm still working on the Game Market Spring 2025 Preview (boardgamegeek.com/geekpreview/75), with the most recent title added being あののみ: あの飲み会を誰も覚えていない (ANONOMI: The Party Night We All Forgot), although the subtitle more literally translates to "No One Remembers That Drinking Party". —WEM

Spinoff: In September 2025, Repos Production will release 7 Wonders Dice, the next title in Antoine Bauza's 7 Wonders game line, with 2-7 players using dice to construct their wonder and build their city. Details: boardgamegeek.com/blog/1/blogp... —WEM

Honors: The winners of the 2024 Golden Geek awards have been revealed: boardgamegeek.com/thread/35084... If you'd prefer to be dramatically surprised by the details, watch this video, which lists all of the nominees, too: youtu.be/L0YI7MO-cfI Congratulations to all of these creators! —WEM

Halo: Mission Command - BGG How to Play. Nikki Pontius teaches you how to play Halo: Mission Command of Influence by designer Ryan Garcia and published by @upperdeckent.bsky.social. This episode is sponsored by Upper Deck Entertainment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoB-...

Review: Let's look to the past to explore Venedig — no, not the city of Venice itself, but a game from Carcassonne's Klaus-Jürgen Wrede and AMIGO that dates to 2007: boardgamegeek.com/blog/1/blogp... Tourists love to check out old things, right, so why not reviewers, too? —WEM

Harmonious: Hmm, how about that similar color palette on the current best-sellers on the BGG front page? Not quite the orange/blue presence seen constantly in movies and on TV — tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwik... — but it's close... —WEM

Welcome to another month of all things Geek! Get some news, hear some things we’re excited about happening on BoardGameGeek and as always, we talk about the hottest games of the month! www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gfK...

Tonight on GameNight! @chilibeannp.bsky.social, Deborah, Mike, Dave & @heccubus.bsky.social teach & play "Subjective" designed by Andrew Wolf and published by Spin Master. Thanks so much to @gamegenic.com for the accessories and sponsoring this episode! —Lincoln www.youtube.com/watch?v=fugy...

Announced: At SPIEL Essen 25, Czech Games Edition will release SETI: Space Agencies, an expansion for Tomáš Holek's hit game, as well as the new title Wispwood. In July 2025, Galaxy Trucker 2E will see a new expansion of its own. Details: boardgamegeek.com/blog/1/blogp... —WEM

In this episode of Solo-Mode with Jamie from Foster the Meeple, Jamie takes on Gaia in "Earth" from designer Maxime Tardif and published by Inside Up Games! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA2c...

If you’re on the hunt for a quick board game fix, look no further than this top 10 list of 30 minute or less games. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLg5...

Review: Today I explore Adulthood, by which I mean the 2024 game by Johnny O'Neal of Brotherwise Games, a game in which you start as a youth and must grow up, ideally making a positive impact on society while ensuring your own happiness: boardgamegeek.com/blog/1/blogp... —WEM

Tricky: BGG has launched a preview for Game Market Spring 2025, a large convention taking place on May 17-18 near Tokyo. Only a few dozen titles are listed so far, including Lunar Trick, which sounds like an intriguing take on trick-taking: boardgamegeek.com/blog/1/blogp... —WEM

Stoppage: Flat River Group has decided not to attend Gen Con 2025 as originally planned, so its booth will (I imagine) go up for grabs to other publishers still interested in attending...assuming that they have goods to sell. (FRG had placed its productions on hiatus in mid-April 2025.) —WEM

Tonight on GameNight! @chilibeannp.bsky.social, Deborah, Mike, Dave & @heccubus.bsky.social teach & play "Combo" designed by Ikhwan Kwon and @happycampergames.bsky.social. Thanks so much to Gamegenic for the accessories and sponsoring this episode! —Lincoln www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkeC...

Stoppage: I've posted another round-up of tariff-related news from publishers and others in the game industry, with the lead item being that CMON has paused "all future game development and new crowdfunding campaigns until trade conditions have stabilized" — boardgamegeek.com/blog/1/blogp... —WEM

Take a closer look at Crafting the Cosmos 💫 - In Focus! by David Gordon & TAM. This episode is presented by Candice Harris & sponsored by @officedoggames.bsky.social Check it out:

I appreciate designers being honest about the games they create. This design from Yusuke Sato is about ditching groups of numbered cards to score points, and that's it. BGG game page: boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/44... —WEM

Take a closer look at "Trickerion 10th Anniversary Edition" & the "Arcane Arts Expansion" - In Focus! by designers Richard Amann, Viktor Peter & Dávid Turczi. This episode is presented by Mike Murphy & sponsored by Mindclash Games. Find out more here: bit.ly/4ioZmqY www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtLn...

Diary: Designer Justin Schroeder tells the story of 7th Inning Stretch, a solitaire baseball game that took (roughly) thirty years to develop from a youthful activity to its final form from Best With 1 Games: boardgamegeek.com/blog/1/blogp... —WEM

Review: Take a gander at Ananda, a game from Dirk Barsuhn and Zoch Verlag that challenges you to be a competitive meditator. Yes, you want to meditate to the EXTREME, putting up big numbers to show everyone who's the meditating boss! Now with a working link: boardgamegeek.com/blog/1/blogp... —WEM

Our official statement and a mini-rant by me on tariffs. TLDR: I'm not happy and you should probably get your orders in for our games soon before prices rise or we run out of stock.

In my mailbox this morning : a big colorfull metal medal as 7 Wonders entered the @boardgamegeek.com Hall of Fame (boardgamegeek.com/geekpreview/...) 🏅

Tonight on GameNight! @chilibeannp.bsky.social, @panda8ngel.bsky.social, Jackie & @heccubus.bsky.social teach & play "Stalk Exchange" by Christopher Ryan Chan and @theop.games. Thanks so much to @gamegenic.com for the accessories and sponsoring this episode! —Lincoln www.youtube.com/watch?v=olGY...