Varvara Budetti is a deputy editor of data and automation at Forbes Marketplace. She specializes in leveraging automation and data-driven insights to enhance editorial workflows and content strategy.

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"We're big strategy gamers at Steamforged, so when we got the opportunity to work with Paradox on turning Hearts of Iron — quite possibly the grandest of strategy video games — into a board game, we ...

As well crafted as a music box, and just as dainty, Flamecraft Duals is the first time a 'deluxe' board game has genuinely impressed me.

Thanks partly to the influence of Sid Meier’s series of Civilization video games, the genre brings to mind vast maps, exploration and inter-empire conflict, whether that’s on the screen or the table ...