Board Game News (Page 24)
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New Undaunted board game coming next year, with a fourth entry in the works
“It is the project that almost killed us.”
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Yu-Gi-Oh! Legend of Blue Eyes White Dragon booster case sells for $584,000, setting a new record for the TCG
Sealed boxes of first-edition packs for 2002 US release potentially include some of the game's rarest cards.
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Pokémon TCG teases a new cross-platform digital application and mobile support for next year
Cards from Pokémon TCG Online can be transferred over, spelling the end for the old app.
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Unmatched studio releases sci-fi themed card game Fate of Fantos: The Iridium Wars
Itching for that Iridium.
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Dead of Winter and interior design combine in co-op board game Décorum
Compromise over cushions.
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ENnie Awards 2021 winners: Alice is Missing and Heart: The City Beneath named best RPGs of the year
Free League continues last year’s success with Vaesen, Alien: The RPG and Mörk Borg.
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Nigerian board game company Nibcard has won the Diana Jones 2021 award
The committee says it chose Nibcard for its efforts to steward a growing tabletop movement in West Africa.
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Gen Con’s day-one crowd left attendees and online onlookers worried despite safety guidelines
The board game and TTRPG convention proved unable to enforce vaccination cards, relying on masks and best safety practices.
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Fawlty Towers inspired RPG Flabbergasted invites players into the ridiculous world of high society
Prepared to be Flabbergasted.
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Deep Sea Adventure studio’s latest game Scout is out next month
Releasing at Essen Spiel ahead of wider EU and US launch.
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Chart a magical fishing trip through a bespoke landscape in minimalist RPG Riverbend
Plus, space cat companions that confer fishing bonuses!
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Awkward small talk is the whole point of Humans, a party game for aliens in disguise
Is this music? I can’t get enough of that sweet music.
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Space western board game Forsaken centers would-be legends on unforgiving desert planet
Dust, rust and the promise of fame.
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Arkham Horror, Twilight Imperium and Android studio Fantasy Flight is considering a legacy game
Experimenting with “different narrative possibilities” and “original legacy moments” to make future games “stand out and shine” in the genre.
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Lord of the Rings: The Card Game being revived with a revised core set
Plus a new scenario pack.
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Jurassic World is getting a legacy game from Villainous and Hogwarts Battle creators
Board game due for release next summer will span entire Jurassic Park franchise.
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Spider-man and Venom themed expansion swinging into Marvel Champions
Miles Morales and Spider-Gwen featured.
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Descent: Legends of the Dark expansion Ghosts of Greyhaven will be a ‘side story’ to its main campaign
Act II of dungeon-crawler said to be “well on its way”.
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Arkham Horror: TCG is getting a new time-travelling expansion and Dunwich Legacy reprint
Dunwich coming in two separate expansions.
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Star Wars: Outer Rim is finally getting its first expansion, Unfinished Business
Fantasy Flight Games warns not to expect any more information “for some time”.
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Mausritter adventure Sanctum of the Ori Magi is genuine, folded-paper magic
A paper cut above the rest.
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Azul: Queen’s Garden, the next entry in the mosaic board game series, has been teased for late 2021
Green for the queen.
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The Game of Life designer Reuben Klamer has passed away
Prolific toy inventor created 1960 board game considered only second to Monopoly in terms of sales.
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Jiangshi co-creator’s next game is a LARPG anthology inspired by Get Out and Hannibal
“If Jiangshi is PG-13, I’d say this is closer to an R-rating.”
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Lost Ruins of Arnak takes home prestigious German-language board game award
Beating out Micromacro: Crime City.
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Call of Cthulhu marks the horror RPG’s 40th anniversary with a new Keeper Rulebook
Limited-edition tome includes designer commentary and return of classic scenario.
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More designers condemn, cut ties with The Gaming Goat over white nationalist imagery in Kickstarter campaign
LudiCreations and designer Artem Safarov end business relationship with the US-based publisher and board game retailer.
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Machi Koro publisher Pandasaurus has been robbed, 300 board games taken
Stolen copies already on Ebay.
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Make weapons from beast parts in this Monster Hunter-like supplement for D&D 5E and Pathfinder 2E
A day at the Battlezoo Bestiary.
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Find, walk and care for dogs in this adorable new board game
Time to take the lead on this one.
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Keyforge’s next set is complete but won’t be released until it comes back from hiatus
A “broken algorithm” forces the card game into an interminable break, but a digital version is on the horizon.
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DJ Steve Aoki to crack open auctioned packs of 1999 Pokémon cards to support neuroscience and autism research
A Chansey at cardboard riches, for charity!
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New 7 Wonders board game Architects has players building a replica wonder
Get a tiny temple of Artemis.
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Chronicles of Crime creator lead-designer on digital deckbuilding game about Japanese folklore
Cruising with Kappa and Kitsune.
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Dragonlance author announces new D&D 5E campaign setting full of sky pirates and airships
Skyraiders of Abarax will come to Kickstarter in the fall of 2021.
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Unofficial D&D supplement adds mousefolk and gunslingers to the RPG
Take a visit to Valda’s Spire of Secrets.
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The Spill is a “reverse tower defense” board game about saving sea-life
One slick looking title.
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Indie initiative SideQuest bookends the year with a second zine-focused TRPG event
Like Zinequest, but more collaborative and festive.
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Old-school inspired RPG Down We Go wants to make deadly dungeon delving approachable for all
The OSR system is one of the first roleplaying games on Kickstarter alternative, Gamefound.
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Pathfinder, Warhammer: Soulbound, Root RPG and more feature in this year’s Free RPG Day
Alongside Starfinder, Blue Rose and Zombicide.
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Warhammer master painter Duncan Rhodes is launching his own miniatures paint range
Former Warhammer TV host’s Two Thin Coats Paints will include 60 colours, washes and metallics.
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SolForge Fusion is half Keyforge, half MTG’s Jumpstart - and a physical reboot for the digital card game
First ‘hybrid card game’ from Magic: The Gathering and Ascension designers.
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Create cowpeople and fox-characters in The Delver’s Guide to Beast World, a supplement for D&D
From bovines to vulpines.
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The Broken Token CEO steps down after laying off over half the company’s staff
Greg Spence claims lost contracts following sexual assault allegations against him forced “necessary changes.”
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Super Mario Labyrinth sends a plumber-themed board game classic stateside this month
The eternal hero needs rescuing this time.
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Sci-fi roleplaying game Stars Without Number gets a full hardcover release
An RPG of galactic proportions.
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How playground sexism led to one of the rarest original Pokémon cards
Swaps and scratches have left shiny Chansey hard to find in a good condition.
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A Game of Thrones: B’twixt board game features the deadly politics of King’s Landing
Will you live or die?
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Talent-studded D&D 5E setting Tanares earns over $1m in first day of crowdfunding
Publisher Dragori Games boasts Forgotten Realms, Skyrim and Scarred Lands designers on an unfortunately white team.
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Cyberpunk Red RPG studio R. Talsorian becomes latest publisher to exit Gen Con 2021 over COVID-19 concerns
“We write about Dark Futures for fun, but we also believe we have a responsibility to try and prevent them from happening.”
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High-powered, high fantasy RPG Exalted will receive a live action television adaptation
Charmed and dangerous.
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28 tabletop games have made $1m on Kickstarter in 2021 so far
More tabletop RPGs reached impressive figure in first half of year than on crowdfunding site to date.
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Wanderhome studio’s next RPG is a game about ghost families called Our Haunt
A spirited adventure.
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Machi Koro and TMNT: Shadows of the Past publisher IDW Games will not release any more board games
Following the cancellation of multiple projects, including Metal Gear Solid and Locke & Key adaptations.
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A 24-karat gold Pikachu card created for Pokémon TCG’s 20th anniversary is up for auction
Chunky boy, chunky price tag.
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In Pokémon TCG: Sword & Shield - Fusion Strike teamwork makes the dream work
You teach me and I teach you.
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Lancer designers suspend work on planned sourcebooks, citing life changes and pandemic stressors
Massif Press plans to finish and release the books on their own time, instead.
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Beat the superpowered streets of neo-noir RPG City of Mist on the cheap with latest Bundle of Holding
Includes everything needed to explore a city full of secrets, magical or otherwise.
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Power Rangers RPG drops D&D 5E gameplay, will debut new Essence20 system
d20-based gameplay will also power upcoming G.I. Joe and Transformers RPGs.
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There’s another very real and drinkable Catan beer, but this one is officially licensed
Cheers without fear of copyright infringement.
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Netrunner trademark filing sends players speculating on the cyberpunk card game’s future
Wizards of the Coast files for use of the name for “downloadable electronic games”, among others.
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Dark Sun spiritual successor Red Dawn presents a new wasteland setting for D&D 5E with old problems
Update: Kickstarter campaign appears to remove references to 'slave races'.
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Unlock! and Werewolves of Miller’s Hollow to receive escape room style gamebook adaptations
Escaping from the box to the page.
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The Herbalist’s Primer gives roleplaying groups a crash course in practical and magical botany
Make your party eat its greens.
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Resident Evil 3: The Board Game’s $100 retail edition has a release date
Hitting shops in October alongside first expansion City of Ruin.
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The Price of Coal weaves a historical story of labour rights in West Virginia’s coal country
Explore the beginning of the state’s hard road to unionisation through card-based storytelling.
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Local game stores and casual players were the hidden winners of the Magic Showcase 2021
The non-core sets releasing over the next year are some of the best entry points to Magic’s many game modes.
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Fortnite and Street Fighter are coming to Magic: The Gathering in 2022
Hugely popular battle royale shooter and arcade classic will feature in Secret Lair drops.
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Magic: The Gathering’s Netflix series lands next year, planeswalker Gideon Jura to be "heart of the story"
First details on the animated show’s story and cast revealed.
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Magic: The Gathering’s 2022 sets include a return to Kamigawa and Dominaria, along with an urban fantasy plane
Second half of the year will see the urban fantasy Streets of New Capenna and Antiquities-inspired The Brothers’ War
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The Russo Brothers leave Magic: the Gathering’s Netflix show over creative differences
Animation veteran Jeff Kline has stepped in with a whole new team.
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Dungeon Fighter RPG spin-off sees players aiming dice throws to perform actions
One more throw, for One More Quest.
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Archives of Alexandria trapped me on a corrupted spaceship of pure information because I’m bad at Wikipedia
Six degrees from escape.
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Lupin the 3rd tabletop RPG based on the 50 year old anime is set to be released
Ready to enter the Castle of Cagliostro?
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The Exquisite Corpse in Maggots’ Keep is a gamebook narrated by nearly a dozen revolving writers
Exhumed and loving it.
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Star Wars: Armada miniatures game will not be receiving any more new releases
Reprints prioritised.
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Call of Cthulhu studio acquires Cthulhu Britannica and World War Cthulhu, confirms re-releases and new titles
Scenarios and supplements covering British Isles and 20th-century conflicts originally ran until 2017.
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Frosthaven creator won’t announce hard shipping dates to avoid a rushed, and expensive, fulfillment
Isaac Childres says Cephalofair can afford the wait, and it saves players on shipping costs.
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Gloomhaven creator and Evil Hat cut ties with The Broken Token following sexual assault allegations against CEO
A former employee accused Greg Spence of “five years of sexual, mental, and emotional abuse.”
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Two Pokémon 1999 base set booster boxes are are up for auction at $15,000 a pop
Could contain Charizard, Blastoise or Venusaur cards.
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Fog of Love commits to Floodgate Games, lockdown and LGBTQ+ focused expansions coming
Facebook relationship status updated.
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Dune RPG lets players harvest spice on the surface of Arrakis in upcoming sourcebook Sand and Dust
Leave those noble houses in the dust.
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New Thousand Year Old Vampire companion book have some players angrily grabbing stakes and garlic
Designer Tim Hutchings responds to the reaction to his unique addition.
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Mad Max: Fury Road and Sleepaway serve as inspirations for this horror RPG
What will you find in the Strange Hills?
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Wild: Serengeti board game invites you to become the next David Attenborough
All about those animals.