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First Martians demos in North America

More than 100 hundred Heralds will demo First Martians this January in 38 states and two Canadian provinces! They are going to visit clubs, shops and other places, where people gather to play board games. They will show you the game. They will help you understand the rules. They will

BLOG: In the doorstep of the new era

Welcome to 2018. A year of huge changes as I see it. But before we head into that, first things first. Congratulations to Isaac Childres, and his epic Gloomhaven game. Congratulations on reaching #1 on BGG. Congratulations on publishing the perfect KS game, the dream project, the game no publisher

Portal Games Informant #40

It has been almost a whole year with Portal Games Informant, showing you the life and work Ignacy Trzewiczek and the rest of the Portal Games crew. It was a pleasure and a ton of fun. Here are some outtakes and bloopers, that we filmed along the way, but didn’t

First Martians: Epidemic – new scenario!

First Martians had their official release a while ago, but we are still working on new, free content for the game and constantly improving the companion app. And since we are few days away from holidays, we thought that this is a perfect occasion to give you all, fans of

Portal Games Online Shop Maintenance

In about 10 days, form December 28 to January 15 our on-line shop will be closed for maintenance. We are going to make an announcement, when the store will be operational again. We apologize for any inconvenience caused by this break. At the same time, we would like to inform

New skills in Cry Havoc: Aftermath

Aftermath expansion comes with 15 new Structures and 20 new skills. We discussed Structures in the previous article, today let me talk about new skills – in Aftermath each Faction gains 1 new Default skill and 4 standard ones. Trogs Distraction is their new Default skill. It allows Trogs to

A week with Cry Havoc

The Aftermath expansion for Cry Havoc is here and we are celebrating it with articles, blog entries, videos and photo galleries. But especially with some silly mashups and crossovers between Cry Havoc franchise and Imperial Settlers or Neuroshima HEX! 3.0 franchises. Check this out!

BLOG: Brainstorming ideas with fans

Last week we finished another contest for our fans. Previously this year we run a contest for new abilities for Cry Havoc, then we run a contest for a new scenario for Robinson Crusoe, then for new events and adventures for First Martians. It’s not a joke. It’s not marketing

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.