New Accredited Critic Feature

We are pleased to announce the brand new Board Game Atlas review system is now live! Working with some of the best names in the business, game pages will now feature a separate critic score in addition to the aggregated review score from the community.

The open enrollment period is now closed. The response was overwhelming and we appreciate all who applied. And with that, we are very excited to reveal the initial slate of publications with accredited critics:

3 Minute Board games
Blue Peg Pink Peg
Board Game Barrage
Board Game Halv
Board Game Quest
Board of It
Cardboard Rhino
Chairman of the Board
Dice Tower, The
Game Boy Geek
Game Cows
GamesRadar+
Geeks Under Grace
Hungry Gamer
Kotaku
Lighten Up Initiative, The
Meeple Mountain
Not Bored Gaming
Punchboard Reviews
Rahdo Runs Through
Tabletop Family
TechRaptor
There Will Be Games
Unfiltered Gamer
What's Eric Playing?

This is the first group of critics with the program to be expanded in July during the next open enrollment period. In addition to the separate score, the previous community reviews have been converted to a 100 point system.

The system has launched with over 3000 critic review snippets with more being added every day while we catch up on the deep catalogs of all these prolific voices. You can head over to a game page now to see the two different scores.

Not surprisingly, some of the titles with several reviews already include many of the most popular games you would expect to see. Head on over to the popular titles page where several of the games have very comprehensive coverage from the experts.

This marks a key step in a road map of many new features planned for the coming weeks, each one just as exciting as the next. Stay tuned for new updates, but as a preview tease, we will just say that maybe you should click on the profiles of the people you like and try to find the fairly hidden "follow" button to click for now.