While they may seem quaint in the era of mobile games like Angry Birds, the category of board games, card games and puzzles has had year-over-year growth in two of the last four years, and totaled $2.2 billion in 2011, the most recent year for which data is available, according to Euromonitor International, a market research and data firm.
A Web series hosted by the actor Wil Wheaton, “TableTop,” features Mr. Wheaton and celebrity guests playing board games, which may sound less than riveting but has been popular. The first episode, featuring the actress and writer Jenna Busch, Grant Imahara of the television show “Mythbusters,” and Sean Plott, a webcaster known as Day[9], playing Small World (a Days of Wonder game), has garnered more than 1.1 million views on YouTube.
Matthew Hudak, a research analyst with Euromonitor who tracks toys and games, said board games, which traditionally had been marketed to mothers as family entertainment, had gained traction with consumers in their late teens and 20s in recent years, as evidenced by game nights on campuses and bars.
The strategy by Match.com to feature board games in events “is a decent idea because it’s following the trend of the popularity of games with millennials,” said Mr. Hudak, “who are in college or just out of college.”
Just, you know, the show I created being talked about in the business section of the New York Times.
Dornröschen (Sleeping Beauty), by Louis Sussmann-Hellborn, 1878 - Berlin, Germany.
The Last of Us: 19 pieces of apocalyptic artwork
Naughty Dog has released a huge gallery of beautiful concept artwork that reveals the bleak, desolate world that they’ve created for their new PS3-exclusive.
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Why not Evil Zoidberg?
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Toph: Moment’s Reprieve by ~c-dra
I came across a bunch of amazing cosplay pics today. Here’s the first.
Wow
For Sansa’s wedding dress the designer Michele Clapton wanted to have an embroidered band that wrapped around which symbolistically told Sansa’s life from the Tully and Stark beginnings to the entanglement with the Lannisters.Her story starts at her lower back where the Tully fish and Stark Direwolf entwine as we move round to the front the Lannister Lion is becoming dominant over the Direwolf and at the back neck the Lions head is stamped onto Sansa. The dress colour was still very much Sansa Stark and the embroidery had pale golden tones but woven through the story are ripe red pomegranates, the red colour symbolising the growing Lannister influence over her. [x]
Amazing details of the costume designer no one really sees