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Board game and video game writer: IGN, GamesRadar, Dicebreaker, The Guardian and others. Software engineer. There Will Be Puns.

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Duel of Meloch is a bold experiment that blends two beloved strategy board games together, but newcomers may get left behind

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By Matt Thrower Verified
| Yahoo Life Verified
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Future/Matt Thrower Jamey Stegmaier is both a publisher and game designer. He's best known for Scythe, which cleverly blends a complex resource optimization puzzle with the pushing and shoving of area control, delightfully packaged in a novel steampunk universe with giant mechs.
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Wingspan Pocket Card Game Review

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By Matt Thrower Verified
| IGN Southeast Asia
Now it fits in your pocket... if you have really big pockets. This post might contain affiliation links. If you buy something through this post, the publisher may get a share of the sale. Updated: Aug. 15, 2026, 2:27 a.m. You’ve probably heard of Wingspan, the multi-million selling game of bird ecology that introduced a whole new audience to the strategic delight of engine-building games.
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Wingspan Pocket Card Game Review

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By Matt Thrower Verified
| Flipboard
9 hours ago Big news for anyone who was really worried about what all the birds were up to in the first two movies. It may not be immediately obvious—possibly because you, personally, are not a Chinese filmgoer, because, holy shit, does China like Zootopia movies—but Zootopia, at just two installments, has become …
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Writing reviews for Gamezebo.

Who do you wish followed you?

About 750,000 good-hearted gamers.

What story are you most proud of writing or working on?

An expose of how funding was pulled from a successful project researching the use of games in education, apparently for political reasons.