ARTICLE: Master Set – Boring Stuff, Boring Article

So Master Set, huh? Let’s talk about building this baby! 51st State had 110 cards including Location cards, Connection cards and Leader cards. The New Era had 110 cards including Location cards and Connection cards. No Leaders though. Some of these cards were exact reprints of cards from 51st State. Winter expansion

BLOG: They Deserve Better!

I am a huge fan of children‘s games. I have a big collection of board games for kids and even though my own kids got older and they won’t play with me anymore, I still keep these kids games in my collection. I won’t get rid of them. I will play with my grandchildren, right?! There are some real gems among

ARTICLE: 51st State – New Stretch Goals!

Holy cow you guys! You’ve crushed our planned stretch goals already! We assumed that you would like our little “campaign” but we weren’t sure just HOW much you would! This is awesome! We’ve crashed through all the stretch goals we had planned (and hoped!) for and now, we have three

ARTICLE: Spotlight on – My Happy Farm

At the start of a game of My Happy Farm, your animals are sad. They are hungry! You need to plant crops, harvest them, and then feed your livestock. This makes your animals happy, and happy animals will win you the game! My Happy Farm is a game of planning. Each

ARTICLE: I am a Lunatic

We are a few weeks into the 51st State pre-order campaign and it’s going great. Yesterday, we posted the rulebook for everyone to see and asked that you check it out and let us know if you like it and if you find any problems. Over the next few days,

RULES: 51st State – Master Set

It is time! Today, we share with you the NOT FINAL rules for the 51st State Master Set. Why isn’t this final? Because we want to hear from you! We have been much more pro-active with the editing and proofing of these rules, and now we want to engage you,

ARTICLE: From His Perspective…

Ignacy was recently interviewed by the Polish boardgaming website turlnij.pl so we thought we’d share. Enjoy!   From his perspective… an interview with Ignacy Trzewiczek During this year’s Portalkon, the Portal Games’ crew, headed by Ignacy Trzewiczek, announced a very ambitious release schedule. Listed among numerous well-known board games was the

ARTICLE: Outsmart Your Opponent

New edition of Stronghold hit retail in the U.S. just this week. As you probably heard it has amazing components, polished rules, and is much quicker – no glory board, Invader troops already on the map, all those small changes that speed up the game.   Among many changes in

ARTICLE: Enemy Number One

I’ve been there. I wrote Neuroshima RPG, put whole heart in it, made it successful game in Poland and then I became main enemy of fans of the game. I didn’t understand this. I was really shocked reading mean comments in the Internet about me ruining the game. Fans were

Welcome to PORTAL GAMES

We are bookworms. Movie maniacs. Story addicts. We grew up reading Tolkien, Howard, Herbert, Dick, Lem… We were watching Willow, Blade Runner, Never Ending Story, Robin Hood…

And yet, we don’t write books… we don’t make movies. We don’t make those things, because we make games. We make games that tell stories.