Sales are down in video games, and some are looking back to board games for help
We’re not talking about board games your grandmother would recognize, like Clue and Monopoly (though those, too, continue their perennial popularity). Video game tie-in board games tend to be different. Dripping with game-licensed themes, packed with cool-looking components and rulebooks that run to tens of pages, learning their ins and outs can be an undertaking on the scale of mastering the games themselves. Or bigger.