We hope everyone had an incredible International Tabletop Day, and played many awesome games, we sure did! Now, as we roll into May, Portal Games is extremely excited to announce all of our new releases, available May 16th! We Didn’t Start The Fire Portal Games is continuing to expand the

Board Games Insider is a bi-monthly podcast brought to you by industry veterans Ignacy Trzewiczek and Stephen Buonocore intended for designers and small publishers, but invaluable to everyone. Listen to the podcast here: Play in new window | Download What’s inside? This special episode was recorded at the Gathering of

Watch Ignacy’s trip to Niagara Falls, where he demoed Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game, at the Gathering of Friends 2018!

We were on the right track. I exactly knew what I wanted to achieve with the expansion. I exactly knew what the title of the expansion would be. We were ready to rock. The expansion was supposed to increase interaction between players, make the game more brutal and aggressive and

Just an average week here for us in Portal Games Headquarters. Watch as work on the Detective, Robinson Crusoe: Mystery Tales and many other awesome games!

The Dice Tower team is in Niagara Falls at Gathering of Friends and plans to do a lot of live streams from the event. The first guest is Ignacy Trzewiczek. Tune in today at 10 am EDT / 7 am PDT / 4 pm CEST to the Dice Tower YouTube

Long story short, I played the card game called Revolver. I liked the general idea, but I did not like the details. I thought I can do better and based on the general concept of moving cards from one location to another towards the final city I designed Convoy. Asymmetric

The tweets our fans or colleagues sometimes post are so funny, or so cool, that we would like to share them with you. Here are couple of them from the last week, that you may like. If you would like to join the conversation, please feel free to tweet us

[I run #BoardGamesThatTellStories blog since July 2011. I’ve decided I will choose articles I like the most and republish them to present them to all new board game fans that joined our hobby meanwhile! For all of you who already read the article, I hope, you will have a good

The storyline for Alien Artifacts moves the universe to the point in which humans discover a new resource – Xenium. Hidden under the crisp surface, not known before, now, thanks to miners from Community faction, got suddenly revealed. Everything in the known worlds immediately changed. How the fluff, the story

We are happy and proud to share with you, that couple of our games are nominated for the 5th annual Board Game Quest Board Game Awards! In the Best Game Expansion category we are nominated for Imperial Settlers: Aztecs expansion by Ignacy Trzewiczek for the award winning Imperial Settlers. Will

New expansion for Robinson Crusoe is coming! Are you excited? We sure are!

I talked recently about Rising Sun, new design from Eric Lang, and what was said was: ‘There is no single rule that you could call not necessary. It’s super clean design.” I nodded. Games Eric designs lately are brilliantly clean. I had a pleasure and honor to work with him

[I run this blog since July 2011. I’ve decided I will choose articles I like the most and republish them here to present them to all new board game fans that joined our hobby meanwhile! For all of you who already read the article, I hope, you will have a

Board Games Insider is a bi-monthly podcast brought to you by industry veterans Ignacy Trzewiczek and Stephen Buonocore intended for designers and small publishers, but invaluable to everyone. Listen to the podcast here: Play in new window | Download What’s inside? EVENT DECK: Fields of Mars, Authentic Product, Asmodee Entertainment,