Thursday, October 15, 2026
The Wire
Posts from 19 of the hobby's best blogs, reviewers and publishers — updated every few hours. Every story links to its original source.
10 stories · Tick up to 12 stories and we'll write you a quick roundup.
There’s some version or another of Peter Pan that has Captain Hook deliver a quick monologue to Pan just before the good captain is vanquished. “You’ve defeated my men, taken my ship,” that sort of thing. While I cann…
Friendly Fishing , a feather-light set collection game, was one of my most anticipated GenCon releases. This tiny box, from publisher GameHead and designers Bruno Faidutti and Alex Randolph, caught my interest with ar…
Scales of Fate is a strange beast, an uneasy marriage of strategy, bluffing, and deduction. It gets points for originality, ambition, and aesthetic, but I’m not sold on the whole. It’s like eating a cake in which you …
I’ll be honest with you. Panorama had built up a bit of a negative reputation around the metaphorical halls of Meeple Mountain prior to its release. When Justin Bell and I played the prototype with publisher Scorpion …
Kano was a title that had a lot of buzz around the halls of Gen Con this year. Though the theme of the convention seemed to be small-box card games and RPGs, this tile-laying puzzle managed to squeak onto my radar. I …
Mini Rogue: The Council (2026, Nuts! Publishing) is a dream come true for rogue-like video game fans like me. Sometimes, I just want a quick-playing challenge to table by myself, and I now see why the Mini Rogue serie…
Welcome to GM Screen Time, the series where we dive deep into my bag of Gamemastering tricks to find different strategies and tips I've used at my tables to promote a fun environment. In this installment, we discuss t…
Czech Games Edition rolled the dice back in 2022 with the release of Deal with the Devil . It was the most shocking thing I played from a major publisher that year by a country mile. A strictly four-player-only, hidde…
I adore this little game. Absolutely adore it. Le Chocolat , from designer Mashiu, is a quick two-player I Split-You Choose game that comes in a box smaller than most chocolate bars on the market. It has lived in my b…
Wool Street - Justin Bell This is hard to believe, but sometimes a game ends up being…well, too short. Enter Wool Street , a “Mini Card Game” from the folks at Hachette. Players buy and sell wool products in five diff…
