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2017 Board Game Award Nominees

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

BLOG: Superdesigners!

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

Board Games Insider – Episode 73: Fields of Mars

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,

Portal Games Informant #52

Portal Games was founded in 1999. And from the very beginning, we were designing games. By the end of March 2018, our team consists of 18 people. At the beginning of April, we will grow to 20 employees total! Learn more in our newest Portal Games informant:

Robinson Crusoe In-Store Event Kit

Boy, we have a treat for you. As we continue to support retailers with our exclusive program, we would like to tell you more about our next In-Store Event Kit for our evergreen – Robinson Crusoe. The Robinson Crusoe In-Store Event Kit release date is March 21, 2018! If you

BLOG: 30 miles radius

It was 1999, I was in the process of starting Portal Games and I was looking for an artist to do a cover art for my first product. Finally, I found a guy. It was pretty challenging – in 1999 there was no internet galleries, no DeviantArt, no emails, no

BTTS Archives – Gold prospecting

[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

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.