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One of the fastest growing tangent businesses of boardgames is that of accessories. All you need to do is a search on Etsy and you’ll see there is a large amount of shops offering 3D printed bits, organizers, dice trays & bags, and many other items. A new accessory that has been making its way into the market lately is boardgame-themed art posters,clothing, and home ware goods.

One such company Meeple Design , created by Tony and Hannah Webb, have recently entered into an authorized accessory merchandise partnership with Frank West , owner of ...

The Strong Museum of Play in Rochester, NY has long inducted various toys, games, and random items into the National Toy Hall of Fame . Past inductees have included the stick, the cardboard box, and sand. Notable board game titles such as Risk, Chess, Scrabble, and Monopoly also grace its hallowed halls. This year, the nominees for induction include the hobby board games Settlers of Catan (now just called Catan) by Klaus Teuber and Phase 10 by Ken Johnson , right alongside Nerf , Lite-Brite...

Board game publisher Rose Gauntlet Entertainment was founded in early 2021 by veteran game designer Isaac Vega , of Dead of Winter fame, and Linsdey Rode from Dog Might Games . Their first title, Keystone: North America , a gorgeous nature themed card game, funded on Kickstarter that May and recently delivered to critical acclaim. The publisher has now announced their second title, previously referred to as “Project Acorn”. Wild Gardens by Vega is a card driven game about foraging for ingredients in the great outdoors, cooking...

Rippling rivers, rustling forests, wheat fields swaying in the wind and here and there a cute little village - that's Dorfromantik!

Dorfromantik is an immensely popular and addictive tile-laying video game released in March 2021 by Toukana Interactive. In Dorfromantik, players place hexagonal terrain tiles from a limited stack, slowly growing a quaint village landscape. Tiles can have houses, farms, trees, rivers, trains, and more. Points and more tiles are awarded for fulfilling conditions on the tiles, and for creating perfectly pretty regions. And as these things are want to go, publisher Pegasus...