Tabletop Analytics reports that funding for tabletop game projects declined on Kickstarter in 2023. If those numbers are correct, it marks the second consecutive year of decline for the crowdfunding ...

One of the best parts of our jobs at Polygon is recommending awesome new games to play. Whether it’s indie games, cozy games, board games, or just the best of the year, we’re always trying to ...

Games for Change, a leading progressive voice in gaming, spent 2023 getting way into tabletop. Now it’s back for the summer convention circuit with the Games for Change Festival in New York City, held ...

Charlie Hall is Polygon’s tabletop editor. In 12-plus years as a journalist & photographer, he has covered simulation, strategy, and spacefaring games, as well as public policy. President Donald Trump ...

Into The Inklands offers two preconstructed starter decks: an Amber and Emerald deck featuring the gangs from 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan as well as a Ruby and Sapphire deck featuring Moana and ...

In February of last year, the Distilled Spirits Council estimated that, for the first time ever, consumers in the U.S. were purchasing more hard liquor than beer. It’s a titanic shift in the beverage ...

BackerKit had previously limited its work largely to late-pledge (post-campaign) and pledge management (logistics and more traditional e-commerce) activities before launching its own crowdfunding ...

Yet recently, I feel that trend has started to change. This once-exciting method of producing games has taken a bit of a turn, and the dice have started to come up craps. Projects have become less ...

Unless you’ve actually been stuck outside watching birds for the past five years, you’ve probably heard of Wingspan. This aviary-themed board game has sold over a million copies and ignited a new wave ...

Flashpoint includes bigger “heroic scale” unpainted miniatures, which are downright massive compared to the minis included in previous Halo tabletop titles. How you paint them is up to you; if you’re ...