Our dear friends at Earthborne have just launched their next crowdfunding game, and it looks spectacular. Give it a peek!

One of my favorite things about working in board games is how years of work often collapse into a little pile of paper that you can easily hold in your hand. It's a lot like writing, but then you have to spend a couple hours with scissors and glue to get it into shape.

Doing a little morning play of An Infamous Traffic to test out a few small cleanups before I build my UKGE kit.

Dave built a full Oath kit (including New Foundations) and brought it to Geekway to the West for a set of three games. You can see how those games went in the thread linked below:

I had a lovely chat with Pete recently about Buried Giant and playtesting and the nature of the games we make. You can find it here:

I'll be at #UKGE2026! If you're in Birmingham in a couple of weeks and want to play a game of Oath or the new edition of An Infamous Traffic, watch this space. I'll be hosting little pop-up games throughout the convention.

Today I played Oath for the first time in 4 years. We used pnp stuff for New Foundations. The owner of this box had players keep a chronicle for their player color so I started the game by reading my family lore dump. I made sure my descendants know to never accept the shame of citizenship as I did.

This year Buried Giant and Eerie Idol will be sharing a booth and room at GenCon. We started working on this collab back when it was just going to be a split with Wehrlegig, and I'm so happy that we'll be able to do something really big. Keep an eye out for the event sign-ups this Sunday!

This is heartbreaking news. At UKGEs and Essens in the past, Osprey often lent us space in their booth to demo games or take meetings. They were fellow game makers who were always looking for ways to advance the state of the art and broaden the audience. Historical gaming is better for their work.

Come for a lovely review of a lovely game, but stay for the absolutely pitch perfect meditation on games and the importance of criticism and advocacy for the art you love. Unbelievable job, Quinns!

New comic! This is fine.🔥 📜 You can read this week's blog post at: semicoop.com/comic/scary-stories/ #boardgames

🏆🙌🏻📣 We are honoured that The Old King’s Crown has won Best Artwork & Presentation at the Golden Geek Awards this year! So many beautiful games were nominated, so it means a lot. Congratulations to all the winners and nominees across the board! 👏🏻

This past Friday and Saturday, I played a set of six back-to-back sessions of Oath with a pool of 5 players. I lost every game, and I cannot wait to do it again someday.

There is no thrill in gaming like closing a complex deal in Civ (Eastern Empires pictured).

When you can finally see factory proofs of 3 of your creations together and you realize how moody they all are. @buriedgiantstudios.bsky.social @djackthompson.bsky.social @fortcircle.bsky.social @saltandpeppergames.bsky.social

Next week we'll be jumping into Arcs dev, but today at Buried Giant we're looking at our upcoming games. This morning the second edition of An Infamous Traffic is on the table, while Ted is taking folks through his heist game in the other room.

The Call for Proposals for Roguelike Celebration 2026 is OPEN! We're looking for speakers to deliver cool talks about procedural content, roguelike game design, generative art, and more! Roguelike Celebration is a virtual conference, no physical attendance required. Check it out and tell a friend!

We've got the Oath PPC! We've spent the past few days going through it and making a few little adjustments. Now it's time to get some games in before we go to mass production.

Today is the final day to back Realis on Kickstarter! In case you missed it, our latest update, @possibleworlds.bsky.social shared sample pages (featuring illuminations by @dancynrew.bsky.social!!), release timing info, and more! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...

And, just like that, I have found my most anticipated 2026 release!

We'll be live in 10 minutes!

Absolutely floored that we've raised $2M+ for Arcs Beyond the Reach! 🤯 Come spend a silly final hour of the Kickstarter with us and then we'll flop our exhausted bodies across the finish line.

I had a really wonderful time chatting with Dan recently about expansions, risk in games, Hunt for Blackbeard, the work of the new studio, and some of the early trials of the game on Reconstruction. You can find it here:

Today Josh has a wonderful diary about the design of some of the new fates for Arcs, including the Senator. You can find it here: boardgamegeek.com/thread/36978...

Curious about how some of the new Arcs stuff plays? Want to catch a sneak peek at our new office space? Well, we've got just the video for you! www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcEY...

Molly House was nominated for three Golden Geek Awards! Voting is now officially open, so head on over to BGG if you want to share in the Molly House joy! boardgamegeek.com/thread/36965... @colewehrle.bsky.social @miasmacorp.bsky.social

Had a blast this morning with an Buried Giant all-staff AMA over on Reddit at r/boardgames. Things are winding down, but we might knock out a few more questions this afternoon! www.reddit.com/r/boardgames...

New Amabel video!

It's a powerful mail day here in Saint Paul with the arrival of two bangers from Cardner and Alex Babakitis! www.oddcandygames.com

This weekend's theme is economic games! Last night we did The Estates and Indonesia with friends remotely. Today it's a double header of Nippon plus some dev work on An Infamous Traffic.

GMT has posted the P500 for Foxes and Lions, designed by the wonderful Paul Wright and Liz Davidson. This is the next game in the series that began with Here I Stand. I had a chance to play a demo last November and was so taken with its many innovations.

For this week's design essay, I write about how Arcs was once a game with basically zero random elements, how the design came to feature so much uncertainty, and what that all means for the development of a fifth player. boardgamegeek.com/thread/36943...

Come join Josh and I as we chat about life at Buried Giant Studios, the Arcs Kickstarter, and the work ahead! www.youtube.com/watch?v=45nW...

Today on @decisionspace.bsky.social I'm joined by famous muppet Analog Arnie for a deep dive of the Arcs campaign expansion! I'm a huge fan of the game and this conversation was an absolute joy to record! @buriedgiantstudios.bsky.social @colewehrle.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

CMYK's Hot Streak and Magical Athlete race to wins in this year’s American Tabletop Awards, Fate of the Fellowship and Molly House also triumph: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20... Huge congrats to @cmyk.games @perryjon.bsky.social @mattleacock.bsky.social @miasmacorp.bsky.social @alex.cmyk.games!

It was nice to get back to work properly on An Infamous Traffic at #CircleDC I had missed working on economic games!

Playing a five player game of Arcs with a heap of Lost Vaults and Fated Leaders here at #CircleDC

In an alternate universe where I went to UT @colewehrle.bsky.social & I would have been PhD classmates. But I’m so glad to know him & Drew as we are now, & to welcome them & @wehrlegig.games & @jdragsky.bsky.social to @asecsoffice.bsky.social — the first of many schemes to come, I hope. #asecs26

Hey folks, tonight 7pm BST we'll air "Investigating Board Game Miniatures"

Today, I have a long post on our blog about expansions in the context of games and innovation. buriedgiant.com/blog/Arcs-be... Or, if you want the short version, read on here! 🧵

Come hang out with Kyle and Pati!

Had a nice chat with Neon Gorilla recently. If you wanna hear more about Arcs, Buried Giant, and other design odds and ends, check it out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC0t...

What a way to kick off expansion month! Here's @mootsmeister.bsky.social's chat with the one and only @colewehrle.bsky.social of @buriedgiantstudios.bsky.social, with loads of BTS info about Arcs Beyond the Reach. youtu.be/SQWgr7CKVHY

I won't be cross-posting every KS update we write for Arcs, but I wanted to share the first. Thank you all for showing up yesterday. buriedgiant.com/blog/Arcs-be...

Today's the day: it's time for Buried Giant's first Kickstarter page. I don't know if I've ever been so nervous before a launch in my life! www.kickstarter.com/projects/col...

Just a few days awaaaaaay #arcsboardgame #boardgames #illustration www.kickstarter.com/projects/col...

The gameplay theme is that you will be forced to make important choices with an incomplete understanding of what has happened and what is going to happen and the consequences will feel unpleasant and also this is all of us for all history and will be us forever.

We're one week from launch! Here, in our last pre-Kickstarter video diary, you can find out about what's going to be in all three of the new Arcs expansions and hear a little about the early design process. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HidN...