Board Game Arena, one of the top rated platforms to play your favorite board games online, is adding another of Z-Man Games’ top titles to its library. Pandemic joins the likes of Carcassonne, Stone Age, and many others as it makes its way into the Board Game Arena space for both you and your friends to enjoy.

Pandemic: Hot Zone - North America introduced Crisis Cards to give players new and unexpected challenges to overcome. In that same vein, Pandemic: Hot Zone - Europe brings forth a new challenge known as Mutation Cards with lasting effects that increase the danger of the viruses in play.

Our Behind-the-Z series takes us on a tour of Cryo through the unique art that brings life to the cold planet and its dangers. Z-Man Games Managing Art Director Samuel Shimota leads us through the process of creating art for the game while breaking down not only his own experience and inspirations, but the collaborative effort of the entire art team.

Z-Man Games is proud to announce our collaboration with Aconyte Books to bring you the upcoming novel Pandemic: Patient Zero, the first book in a series of novels set in the Pandemic universe. Aconyte Books, the publishing arm of Asmodee Entertainment, has slated Pandemic: Patient Zero for release in September 2021, with two more novels in development for publication in 2022. For more details, read their press release below, and visit Aconyte Books online to see their entire catalogue of titles.

Today, Z-Man's Head of Studio Steve Kimball recounts his experiences with the narrative classic Tales of the Arabian Nights before introducing Eric Goldberg, game designer and venerable tabletop guru, to reminisce about the game’s inception and its future.