section_path: History/Modern
section_name: Modern
paragraph_text: Modern
  
  In the late 1990s, companies began producing more new games to serve a growing worldwide market. In the 2010s, several publications said board games were amid a new Golden Age or "renaissance". Board game venues also grew in popularity; in 2016 alone, more than 5,000 board game cafés opened in the U.S., and they were reported to be very popular in China as well.
  
  Board games have been used as a mechanism for science communication.