Swedish publisher Enoch Fryexlius shows us mass market versions of two previous titles: Wilderness and Space Station. Then, we discuss Brawling Barons, a strategy card game where players must build, upgrade, and defend a village.

Mattias Wagner chats about Abacusspiele's new edition of Hanabi, a crazy, clue-driven, co-operative card game. We also discuss a fast, fun dice game version of Zooloretto.

Petr Murmak discusses the development and manufacturing challenges behind Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar. In addition, we learn about Another Big Expansion for Galaxy Trucker and Dungeon Lords: Festival Season.

Didier Delhez talks about the new worldwide edition of Plato Magazine. Plato covers the world of board games from a truly international perspective, including interviews, reviews and features stories with designers, artists and publishers in the industry.

The European Society of Board Game Collectors is an organization devoted to spreading their love of games far and wide. Each year the group selects a theme and creates an exhibit to showcase the many different games that reflect this theme in some way.

Designer Vangelis Bagiartakis discusses Among the Stars, a game where players compete to build the best space station.

Noted game designer Bruno Cathala discusses three new games: Button Up, Okiya, and Shadows Over Camelot: The Card Game.

There is a Press Event the day before the game fair opens. Publishers large and small display their games to an eager crowd of journalists. 800 new games made their debut at Essen. Here's a small sample of the hundreds of games released this year.

Designer Filip Neduk talks about Goblins, Inc. a new game from Czech Games Edition. Teams of goblins scramble to build giant robots battling to become the next big Boss.

Designer Laurent Escoffier talks about his latest game Columba, a team driven tile laying game about falcons, pigeons, and dovecoats.