Netflix has closed a deal for the exclusive global rights to popular multi-player board game Catan. Under the wide-raging pact, the streamer will develop live-action and animated film and scripted TV ...

The streamer has won the rights to global sensation and plans projects that are scripted and unscripted, live-action and animated. By James Hibberd Writer-at-Large The Catan franchise may have taken ...

Designed by Klaus Teuber, the game sees players take on the roles of settlers, each attempting to build and develop holdings while trading and acquiring scarce resources as robbers roam the land.

Board games are hostage situations. “C’mon, it’s fun!” your brother or so-called friend says, and then for the next two or eight hours you’re stuck. Rules are read, cardboard chits are distributed, ...

Some games like Mysterium and Gloomhaven have rules that hinder cooperation, making gameplay challenging. Games like Blood On The Clocktower with roles like Drunk can render players useless, leading ...

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The Catan franchise may have taken the longest road to a Hollywood adaptation, but the hit board game has finally struck a deal to bring the iconic resource-management strategy game to the screen.