2-oct-2026 "Jumpers" (designed by Rey Alicea) is added to the list of available games.
2-oct-2026 "Catena" (designed by Luis Bolaños Mures) is added to the list of available games.
28-sep-2026 igBot can play Shakti and Clamber now.
28-sep-2026 "Clamber" (designed by Corey L. Clark) is added to the list of available games.
27-sep-2026 Two more games have moved to the new platform, bringing the total to 129: Arimaa and Shakti.
20-sep-2026 Eight more games have moved to the new platform, bringing the number of migrated games to 127: TriGo, Reversi Go, Go, Yugo, Grand Chess, Shatranj, Shogi and XiangQi.
7-sep-2026 "Federa" (designed by Luis Bolaños Mures) is added to the list of available games.
5-sep-2026 igBot can play Lielow now.
5-sep-2026 "Lielow" (designed by Michael Amundsen and Alek Erickson) is added to the list of available games.
3-sep-2026 Eleven more games have moved to the new platform, bringing the total to 119: 9tka, Linkage, Taiji, Hippos & Crocodiles, Cephalopod, Hnefatafl, Salta, ConHex, Dots and Boxes, Lynx and Phutball.
30-aug-2026 A new igbot filter in the lobby makes it easy to find all 37 games that can be played against igBot.
30-aug-2026 igBot can play Fields of Action, Trike, Cephalopod and Salta now.
15-aug-2026 "Trike" (designed by Alek Erickson) is added to the list of available games.
14-aug-2026 Five more games have moved to the new platform, bringing the total to 108: Ordo, Fields of Action, Alternator, Atoll and Quax.
10-aug-2026 "Agros" (designed by Saïd Galdseid) is added to the list of available games.
9-aug-2026 "Abacus" (designed by Corey L. Clark) is added to the list of available games.
4-aug-2026 "Bridges" (designed by Marc Rebillet) is added to the list of available games and can be played against igBot.
2-aug-2026 Six more games have moved to the new platform, bringing the total to 99: Renju, Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe, Alta, Hexxagon, Morabaraba and Nine Men’s Morris.
29-jul-2026 "Hinge" (designed by Corey L. Clark) is added to the list of available games.
24-jul-2026 igBot can play Jungle, Teeko, Mad Bishops, Bohnenspiel, Vai Lung Thlan, Kalah, Cross-Kalah, Hawalis, Toguz Kumalak, Alemungula, Quartetto now.
15-jul-2026 Sandbox 2.0 is now available, replacing the original Sandbox with:
  • Support for up to four players instead of two.
  • Access to the entire shared board collection, with square, hexagonal, rhombic and triangular boards available in various grids, coordinate orientations, colors and other variants.
  • Access to the entire shared collection of 243 pieces, including balls, numbered balls, stones, hexagonal and square pieces, checkers, chess, shogi and xiangqi sets.
  • The ability to save complete setups, including the initial position, for future games.
1-jul-2026 igGameCenter has received its largest update in years:
  • The game interface now offers high-resolution graphics, move animations, responsive layouts and better support for both desktop and mobile devices.
  • A brand new game server was developed to support true real-time play, including blitz games, with faster responses and more reliable game handling.
  • The lobby has also been improved, numerous long-standing problems have been corrected and the tools used to maintain and translate the site have been modernized.
93 games are already running on the new platform. Work continues on bringing the remaining legacy games to the new platform.
2-may-2026 igGameCenter has moved to a new server.

The site, player accounts, game archive and live game services were transferred successfully. The new server is faster, more reliable and easier to maintain.

All existing site data was preserved.

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