Last week I wrote about the philosophy behind the new expansion for Imperial Settlers. Today let me go and dive into the details of each deck. What exactly did we do? What cards made it to the appropriate decks? Romans In a base game of Imperial Settlers Romans built a

Third week of our pre-order campaign starts with a reveal of the next bonus component for the Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game. We would like to present to you the dedicated Playing Mat! It will help you set-up and keep your components in order. The mat includes a spot

Take a sit and come with us on an amazing trip around Pyrkon, the biggest fantasy convention in Poland!

Late Spring season is the moment of the year when geeks read reports from two famous exclusive conventions: Alan Moon’s Gathering of Friends and Bruno’s Faidutti Gathering of Friends. One takes place in Niagara Falls, the other in a small village in France. Both events look so cool. *** It

Welcome, Detectives! Second week of our pre-order campaign starts with a reveal of the next bonus component for the Detective game. We would like to present to you the set of 30 Character Portraits! It is a perfect way to breathe more life onto your mind map! When you encounter

[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

We Didn’t Start the Fire expansion for Imperial Settlers is a small Empire pack. One would say it is just a 50 card you’ll shuffle and hopefully, get some replayability. The other will say that these 50 cards changed the whole game. How is that? The expansion introduces the idea

Hello, Hello! We have new episode of Portal Games Informant for you! Today you gonna see Bruno Faidutti – Gathering of Friend and some b-rolls about Detective 🙂 Watch previous episodes HERE: https://bit.ly/2jC7OrO Thank you for watching this video. We hope you enjoy a sneak peak into our work. Let

Hi there, Investigators! We welcome you to the Antares National Investigation Agency training program. If you would be so kind and join us at: http://detectiveboardgame.com/, you would learn all about becoming the real Detective. But please, do not waste your time, as we have only 1000 vacancies, and great promo

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