Well, shoot. Sometimes small errors happen. We are sorry for that. Please rest assured, that this does NOT affect the gameplay in ANY way. There is a wrong illustration on the Camouflage token. Camouflage token The token currently looks like this: And it should look like this: Unfortunately all copies

A sneak peak into our Essen Spiel 2017 preparations. Watch Ignacy work before the most important board gaming convention in the world!

Alien Artifacts Universe is big, wonderful space, with a lot of interesting factions, conflicts and drama. It is not only a complex 4X, engine building card game, it is, primarily, like most Portal Games games, a board game, that tell stories. We would like to share with you those stories.

Read about our Essen plans from Ignacy’s perspective… 11th anniversary or how to step up the game nevertheless If I knew my shit and did the math right, we’d celebrate 10th Essen last year. Our first Essen was 2007 (the release of Neuroshima Hex) and last year I had this

Ignacy would like to share some thoughts about designing combat rules for Alien Artifacts: I’ve been here Back then in 2011, I wrote an article about the struggle with direct interaction and combat mechanism in 51st State. For long months I had no clue how to approach the problem –

Watch the newest informant, where we talk about our European plans and trips!

We have planned for you many awesome opportunities to play with the designers, meet board game creators, wage wars in the postapocalytpic wasteland under the watchful eye of its creator and much more! Check out our Essen Spiel 2017 plans: Find us at Essen – Booth #3O118 Our guests Our

Let’s watch Ignacy and our guest and Neuroshima HEX designer Michał Oracz working together in Portal Games HQ. New Portal Games Informant is here!

As we are preparing for Essen, this is a good time for some piece of advice straight from the heart and mind of Ignacy… Essen is close. Publishers get a few submissions every day. The show is the perfect opportunity for young designers – they come for 4 days and

First Martians: Adventures on the Red Planet is being updated to version 1.12 on all platforms! There is NO auto-update feature for PC version yet, so you need to download it every time manually, however the newest version is always available via the same link. Mobile users should get their

Ignacy would like to sum up his works on Aftermath expansion for Cry Havoc, as the Cry Havoc celebration month has just ended. I could talk about expansions for hours. I have a quite a few under my belt and I learned a lot each time I designed one. Each

As our First Martians Early Launch Event comes to an end, we would like to feature winners of our photo contest. The rules were simple – send us a photo showing you playing First Martians (as usual, we have accepted all forms of artistic creativity). And you have delivered us

All good things come to an end. In this case though, we ought to be happy, not sad – for today Portal Games officially releases First Martians board game on the US market. Yay! WE would like to use this opportunity to tell you about Early Launch Event, that just

Explore the galaxy! Expand your faction! Exterminate opposition! Exploit their weaknesses! And acquire the ultimate prize – Alien Artifacts! Couple months ago we were at Dice Tower Con. One of the biggest board game convention. We were there… we and Alien Artifacts. That was 4 long days, where we presented

Alien Artifacts arrived! Our big release on Essen 2017 is in our hand. Now we need to start to send pre-order copies to you! You will soon be able to play Alien Artifacts 4-X card game 🙂 Also, we received a couple of ideas for Robinson Crusoe contest! Now it’s