How newspaper games like Wordle became behemoths
In today's edition, we have a big feature on newspaper games like Wordle, a wrap-up on the biggest featured blogs of the year, and plenty of news featuring the likes of the Game Developer Collective, Balatro and more.
Charting the meteoric rise of newspaper games, from Wordle to Pile-Up Poker and beyond.
Wordle's massive popularity is just one inflection point in the history of newspaper games—typically word or number puzzles, crosswords, Sudoku, and other games you play once per day. These kinds of games have been popular for over a century, and almost every mainstream subscription publication you can think of has their own.
Read the most significant featured blogs of the year.
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