Good news about Dino Racer!! 🦖 Looks like it’s going to be available practically ALL OVER THE WORLD thanks to international publishers! 🌍 The speed of these offers has been breakneck from last year with High Tide—and may well lead to High Tide being available in those places as well! Stay tuned!

Marceline Leiman@marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 2d ago

Missed out on Dino Racer at Gen Con? You’re in luck! We’re still taking preorders on the Underdog Games website! www.underdoggames.com/products/din... Preorders will release around Sept-Oct time!

In other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname

It was great to get the latest version of Effervescent (@weirdgiraffegames.com ) to the table to see some of the new additions. If you like tile placement games, this is a really unique, thinky take on the genre that will be heading to crowdfunding later this month.

You can check it out here! By @jackrosetree.bsky.social jackrosetree.itch.io/chessticular...

Chessticular Torsion by jackrosetree

A Painful Twist on Chess

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It's Cardboard Time! Episode 141 is now live (tinyurl.com/3534xv6p). On today's episode - Reviews of Pilgrims: Curious Adventures (Valor Mountain, Radim Jurda) and High Society (@allplay.bsky.social , Reiner Knizia).

My wife wrote a beautiful piece on how we support, and fail, our friends after her experiences at Tabletop Scotland in 2025.

To be a better human, be a gamer? - The Giant Brain

My wife Catherine Dolliver gives us a beautiful piece on how we support/fail our friends and her experience at Tabletop Scotland

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it never got much traction, but this video I did about A THOUSAND CLOWNS has gotten so many kind comments and emails from creative people (screenwriters, playwrights, even the son of the film's editor Ralph Rosenblum) & that's been satisfying in its own way. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRiC...

How Editing & Reshoots Saved "A Thousand Clowns" (1965)

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very normal people being so normal @panda8ngel.bsky.social at @flatoutgames.bsky.social

🎉Excited to announce I've adapted Party House from UFO 50 into a physical card game! 🎉 Teaser trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHNF... Kickstarter prelaunch page (shared w/ a Baba is You game!): www.kickstarter.com/projects/bit... Brought to you by @bitewinggames.bsky.social More details soon! 🥳

Party House: The Deckbuilding Game — Teaser Trailer

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What a month! July was one for the record books, bolstered by my home convention (Cardboard Fest) and OGC. Some great games in this mix!

Episode 100: Lainie - Convention Planning Insights and Tips - 5 Games from BGG's top 100 that we love - Board Game Con Friends is live now! Please go give it a listen! And check out the Hot Games room at Gen Con! boardgamegeek.com/bl...

Charlie took a trip with me to go see my parents this weekend in Buffalo while Aly is at GenCon. It's the first time he's been out of Ohio and fortunately he traveled well, but he's very tired.

Blorp Blitz! was intense, but things fell into place for me and I wound up with a score that I will likely never top.

crossover of the century

Restoration Games@restorationgames.bsky.social · 6d ago

Another year, another set of announcements! We just finished our Blueprints panel at Gen Con and are so thrilled to share all the news! Check out our blog recap: https://restoration.games/2026Blueprints If you're at the show stop by booth 1735 to say hi!

I haven't heard many people talk about Fossilis (@kidstablebg.bsky.social, David Alberto Diaz) in a while, but they should. I finally got this out (solo) and I really want to play this with more folks. All the mechanical puzzle pieces here just fit so well together.

📣 I’m excited to announce!! 📣 I’m partnering with Unstable Games to start a sister studio to them named… ✨ Ordinary Magic!! ✨ I’m so excited to bring 3 BRAND NEW GAMES under this new studio to you this Fall!!! 🍁

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3 New Games, 1 Extraordinary World. Explore this visionary studio partnership between award-winning game designer Marceline Leiman and Unstable Games.

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Many of us in the Board Game podcasting space probably wouldn't be here without the work that Crystal and Ambie did by paving the way for us. Best wishes to them in the future, 10 years is a fantastic run.

Board Game Blitz@boardgameblitz.bsky.social · last wk.

As we announced during our 10th anniversary episode, Board Game Blitz (the podcast) is coming to an end. Our final episode will release on August 6. Thanks to everyone who has reached out to share stories or fond memories you have of us and the show. It means more than you know.

You know that little purple "Shop" button on websites? Yeah - this is the guy you're making a billionaire.

☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️@schwarz.bsky.social · last wk.

Founding Father John Jay famously believed "those who own the country ought to govern it." That perspective has never actually gone out of style at the top of society.

If you see me at Gen Con, you did not. That is a doppelganger and it must be destroyed post haste.

🌱Elaine Lithgow - Back The Children Of Time RPG! 🕷️@elainelithgow.bsky.social · last wk.

If you see me at GenCon, pause and nod knowingly, as I'm clearly projecting my force ghost across the Atlantic just so you know that the force will be with you, always.

Designers with access that are at Gen Con: this is absolutely a panel you want to make an effort to attend.

Elizabeth Hargrave@elizhargrave.bsky.social · last wk.

Today at 4: if you have access to the Gen Con Game Designer Academy, come see me ask @beyondsolitaire.bsky.social (Leder) @bbornmueller.bsky.social (Asmodee), @hcap.bsky.social (KTBG), and Josh West (Ravensburger) about how to make a good impression on publishers. What do you want to know??

🎙️ Ep. XCIX (99) is live! Suzanne & Mandi chat video games, board games, 3D printing and end with a Games with Voting Game Pie. We'll be at Gen Con so we hope to see some of you there! 💻 youtu.be/PF_iP2T2zY8 🎧 saltandsass.riverside.com 🌟 Clip: Suzanne gives a nod to her travel ed. of Spyfall.

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

Exciting to see preview kits out in the wild! Follow the campaign here: bit.ly/KartOnKS

Cardboard Time@cardboardtime.bsky.social · last wk.

Kart ( @leder.games) sees players cobbling together speed machines that get progressively harder to control as they speed up. In our first play we slammed into hedges, tossed mud balls and water balloons at each other, and nearly slammed into obstacles at top speed. Can't wait for the next run!

Early morning flight to Gen Con! Guess who just happened to be on the same flights!!! Sadly, we aren't sitting together. Who will I get to hug there?!

I won’t be at #gencon but you can find my games there. Keep the Faith is at Central Michigan University Press’s booth (in the quote) and Ahoy will be on the table at Leder Games booth!

Central Michigan University Press@cmichpress.bsky.social · 2w ago

Here we come! In just over ONE WEEK, the CMich Press team will be back in the exhibit hall for Gen Con. Stop by Booth 2758 to say hello and check out our amazing new games for sale and preorder (and maybe get a FREE PIN while you're at it)! #GenCon2026 #cmichpress #cmichpresstakesongencon

Kart ( @leder.games) sees players cobbling together speed machines that get progressively harder to control as they speed up. In our first play we slammed into hedges, tossed mud balls and water balloons at each other, and nearly slammed into obstacles at top speed. Can't wait for the next run!

Does your game store shout out local designers? @labyrinthdc.bsky.social has always been good about this and @stickydoodler.bsky.social has been getting other DC-area stores to do it too. What else can we do to help average consumers realize/remember that games are made by humans?

Adam Eschborn@adameschborn.com · last wk.

Heading home from DC now. I finally got to visit the amazing @labyrinthdc.bsky.social. What a cool touch to shout out local designers @connievdc.bsky.social and @elizhargrave.bsky.social!

For no reason whatsoever… Definitely not related to anything with me… I think yall should pay attention to this livestream on Wednesday ✨ www.youtube.com/live/cxSUxO3...

Are You Ready for the Gamefound Summer Feast 2026? ☀️

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If anyone would like to see a short video of a very happy piglet munching on some small cubes of cheese, this is your lucky day.

Look Ma! I made it! Thanks to @creatorsassemble.bsky.social for having me at the Charisma Check Networking event. It was great talking to people with @boardgame.bsky.social at @sandiegocomic-con.bsky.social 2026