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If you’ve ever tried to teach a six-year-old how to play Splendor and ended up questioning your life choices, good news: Asmodee has your back. The tabletop gaming giant just announced Asmodee Kids, a brand-new line that takes their most iconic games and reimagines them for younger players—without losing what made them awesome in the first place. The goal is simple: make family game night fun for everyone. These aren’t just “junior” versions slapped together; Asmodee worked with child development…

Over the past few years, I’ve recognized the importance of networking within the board game community, and most of that networking happens virtually. While I’ve not been given many opportunities through that group, one came up last week that I am REALLY excited about. First, however, let me wax poetic about the struggles of finding good kids board games to play! Kids Aren’t Smart Enough   For a long time, we have basically been force fed that kids are not smart…

Nintendo announced that they will have a video for a “New Interactive Experience for Nintendo Switch” later today. We have what little details there are below. Nintendo said on Facebook that people should “Tune in here on Facebook or at youtube.com/nintendo at 2 p.m. PT/ 5 p.m. ET to discover a new interactive experience for Nintendo Switch that’s specially crafted for kids and those who are kids-at-heart.” We also know, thanks to Nintendeal and other sources, that “Aya Kyogoku, Series…

All kids are different, and all parents are different. The most important thing is for everyone to understand each other and communicate about the subject. If parents have hard rules about content that they want to impose, they have to be able to explain the reasoning behind them so the kids understand the rules and internalize the logic being used. Particularly as kids get to be 9 or 10, they’ll have friends that are “allowed” to play contentious stuff, like Grand Theft Auto (sometimes it’s really that the parents of those kids have no idea of the content) ...