Tide of Iron is a World War II based wargame designed and published in 2007 by Fantasy Flight Games, also notable for publishing other large games containing a large number of counters and/or other components such as "" and "Arkham Horror".
Flotilla is a 2010 turn-based strategy space combat video game developed by Brendon Chung's studio, Blendo Games.
 The game was released in March 2010 on Steam for Microsoft Windows and on Xbox Live Indie Games for the Xbox 360.
 "Flotilla" was designed with Microsoft's XNA tools, and its development was influenced by animals as well as board games such as "Axis and Allies" and "Arkham Horror".
 The game takes the player in an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy.
Elder Sign is a cooperative card and dice game, based on the Cthulhu Mythos of horror writer H.P. Lovecraft and Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game.
 It is published by Fantasy Flight Games, which also produces the Cthulhu Mythos games "Arkham Horror", "", "Mansions of Madness", and "Eldritch Horror".
Fireball Island is a board game first published by Milton Bradley in 1986.
 The tagline is ""The dimensional adventure game of pitfalls and perils!""
 It is set on an unexplored tropical island, the home of the primitive idol Vul-Kar.
 Players progress along winding paths around the island, avoiding fireballs and trying to capture Vul-Kar's jewel and carry it to the escape boat.
 Game concept originally developed by artist / toy designers Bruce Lund and Chuck Kennedy.
 The game was licensed to Milton Bradley by Anjar Co., an international toy licensing company and co-licensor of the game.
The Arkham Collector was an American fantasy, horror fiction and poetry magazine first published in Summer 1967.
 The magazine, edited by August Derleth, was the second of two magazines published by Arkham House, the other being the "Arkham Sampler".
 Each issue of "The Arkham Collector" had an approximate print run of 2,500 copies.
 Its headquarters was in Sauk City, Wisconsin.
Miskatonic University is a fictional university located in Arkham, a fictitious town in Essex County, Massachusetts.
 It is named after the Miskatonic River (also fictional).
 After first appearing in H. P. Lovecraft's 1922 story "Herbert West–Reanimator", the school appeared in numerous Cthulhu Mythos stories by Lovecraft and other writers.
 The story "The Dunwich Horror" implies that Miskatonic University is a highly prestigious university, on par with Harvard University, and that Harvard and Miskatonic are the two most popular schools for the children of the Massachusetts “Old Gentry”.
 The university also appears in role-playing games and board games based on the mythos.
David Parlett (born 1939) is a games scholar, historian, and translator from South London, who has studied both card games and board games. His published works include many popular books on games and the more academic volumes "The Oxford Guide to Card Games" and "The Oxford History of Board Games", both now out of print.
 Parlett also invented a number of board games, the most successful of which is Hare and Tortoise (1974).
 The German edition was awarded Spiel des Jahres (Game of the Year) in 1979.
Word board games are those games played on a board as players of the game attempt to construct words that use a scoring system.
 The player with the highest score wins the game.
 Many if not most board games are also available as software programs and online.
 Online word board games can be organized so that the player is playing against other people or the game can be played against an automated program acting as an artificial intelligence.
 Players of some word board games organize themselves into associations, clubs, and tournaments.
Arkham Horror: The Card Game is produced by Fantasy Flight Games.
 It is a cooperative game set in the universe of Chaosium's "Call of Cthulhu" roleplaying game which is based on the Cthulhu Mythos of H.P. Lovecraft and other horror writers.
 The setting of the game is based in the titular (fictional) town of Arkham, MA.
 The game was originally leaked in May 2016, before being officially announced in August of that same year.
 It made its first limited public release at Arkham Nights 2016 to a sold out crowd.
Arkham Horror is an adventure board game designed by Richard Launius, originally published in 1987 by Chaosium.
 The game is based on Chaosium's roleplaying game "Call of Cthulhu", which is set in the Cthulhu Mythos of H.P. Lovecraft and other horror writers.
 It was revised and reprinted by Fantasy Flight Games in 2005.
 In this game, players take on the role of investigators in Lovecraft's Massachusetts town of Arkham.
 Gates to other planes open throughout the town.
 If too many gates open, a powerful alien being will enter, likely destroying the town and possibly threatening the world.
 The investigators must avoid or fight alien creatures that enter Arkham through the gates, enter the gates themselves, survive the alien places beyond, return to Arkham, and close the gates.

Question: Are "Fireball Island" and "Arkham Horror" both board games?
Answer: yes