Board Game Geek
BoardGameGeek is a website that was founded in January 2000 by Scott Alden and Derk Solko as a resource for the board gaming hobby. The database holds reviews, articles, and session reports for over 59,000 different games, expansions, and designers. BoardGameGeek includes German-style board games, wargames, card games and other tabletop games. Even public-domain card games like Spades are included. The site also features bulletin boards, a marketplace, several online boardgames, and a gamer database to help gamers find each other in the same location. BoardGameGeek was the recipient of a 2010 Diana Jones Award, which recognized it as "a resource without peer for board and card gamers, the recognized authority of this online community."
In 2009 there was an attempt to integrate BoardGameGeek along with similarly styled websites for roleplaying games and video games under a parent site Geekdō. Scott Alden announced in August 2010 that the Geekdō domain would be disbanded, while retaining individual domain names for Board Game Geek, RPG Geek, and Video Game Geek.
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