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 ...

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 ...

The Game Manufacturer’s Association, better known as GAMA, makes its return this year with a slate of industry and consumer-facing events, including GAMA Expo which took place last month in Louisville ...

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 ...

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 ...

A participant presents a bunch of Yu-Gi-Oh cards at the German Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game Championships in Schkeuditz, Germany, 18 May 2013. More than 800 players competed against each other to win ...