Tickets to the world’s largest board game fair, Germany’s SPIEL Essen 2025, sold out this year, with 220,000 people attending to get first looks at more than 1,700 new board games from 948 exhibitors, ...

Oli Welsh is senior editor, U.K., providing news, analysis, and criticism of film, TV, and games. He has been covering the business & culture of video games for two decades. This doesn’t happen every ...

This Deutschland’s Kolonien-Spiel, or “Game of Germany’s Colonies,” toured child players through German territories abroad. Images of the game were recently digitized by the Getty Research Institute, ...