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US board game convention Gen Con is cancelled for the first time in its 50-year history
Online event announced in wake of COVID-19 concerns.
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Rally-racing board game Rallyman: Dirt is returning in a new edition
Combines original Rallyman and Dirt expansion.
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Cancelled Essen Spiel 2020 board game convention replaced by online event Spiel.Digital
Taking place during October weekend of ‘postponed’ games fair.
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Tabletop games made more money than ever before on Kickstarter last year
Two-thirds of tabletop projects reached their goal.
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Spyfall party game spin-off changes its name to Spyfest after trademark hiccup
Publisher admits ‘forgetting to check’ availability of Spycon.
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Cyberpunk Red RPG release date delayed after coronavirus 'gut punch'
“There’s just no way we can release in June without compromising quality.”
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Above and Below creator’s next board game Deep Vents is about surviving in the ocean depths
Limited availability now ahead of wide release in August.
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Spiel des Jahres 2020 nominations, the shortlist for Germany’s top Board Game of the Year prize, announced
The Crew, The King’s Dilemma and Cartographers: A Roll Player Tale lead shortlist for 'expert' Kennerspiel des Jahres.
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War of the Ring, The One Ring and Zombicide RPG designers join Blood Rage and Rising Sun studio CMON
Francesco Nepitello and Marco Maggi working on “several high priority and super-secret future releases”.
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Essen Spiel 2020 is cancelled
2021 dates announced following ‘postponement’ by one year due to COVID-19.
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Forgotten Waters remote assistant app lets you play the pirate board game over the internet
Sailing the Wi-Fi waves.
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Power Rangers: Heroes of the Grid and Clank! publisher holding its first online convention, Renegade Con Virtual, next month
Teases glimpse at future of Power Rangers board game.
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Gladiatorial board game Spartacus: A Game of Blood and Treachery re-enters the arena in upcoming second edition
The 2012 release is finally getting a reprint.
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Eighties tabletop RPG Twilight: 2000 is returning with its first new edition in 12 years
World War Freed.
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Zombicide and Blood Rage maker CMON is holding a virtual board games convention this weekend
With designer talks, painting competitions and more.
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UK Games Expo 2020 replacement online convention Virtually Expo announced
Following Birmingham show’s cancellation due to COVID-19.
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Tiny Epic Pirates sails the small seas onto Kickstarter next week
Edward Titch and the Teeny Anne’s Revenge.
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Mystic Vale creator’s Dead Reckoning is yet another pirate board game out this year
Like ships in the night.
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Liven up lockdown video calls with the free Working From Home edition of prank party game Don’t Get Got
Keep it on the download.
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Forgotten Waters, the Crossroads pirate board game, is out in the UK next week
Followed by the US in a month.
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Pandemic: Hot Zone - North America officially announced, first in new series of ‘fun-size’ co-op board games
Planned for release this summer, with play-at-home demo on the way.
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Unofficial D&D mobile app Downtime Manager lets you keep playing between sessions
The waiting game.
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Tabletop Simulator challenger Tabletop Playground launches into Early Access on PC this week
Over 100 mods available off the bat.
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Gloomhaven’s beginner-friendly spin-off Jaws of the Lion has a release date
Exclusive to US retailer Target for one month.
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Breaking Bad Monopoly will let you play as Heisenberg’s hat, won’t let you sell drugs
Blue Sky thinking.
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Spider-Man: Homecoming and Avengers producer reportedly joins the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons film
After a torrid development history.
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Clank! Adventuring Party expansion grows the deckbuilder’s gang of thieves with more players
Stealing for six.
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Arkham Horror LCG gets a new parallel investigator and scenario, free to download now
Monster, She Wrote.
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New edition of Mansions of Madness brings the classic collection of haunted house stories back to Call of Cthulhu RPG
Two revised classic scenarios and three brand new adventures.
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Ride the subway for free with print-and-play game Metro X from Sushi Go! maker
Provide your own cards or play along with the publisher.
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Aliens: Another Glorious Day in the Corps release date still up in the air after two years of delays, publisher says
Gale Force Nine blames “a variety of circumstances out of our control”.
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Talisman: Star Wars takes the classic ‘80s adventure board game to a galaxy far, far away
I have a bad feeling about this.
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Detective board game teases new murder-mystery scenario written by Pandemic Legacy co-creator Rob Daviau
Set in 1970s Boston.
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Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG organised play heads online with ‘remote duels’ in wake of COVID-19 tournament cancellations
Digital initiative coming to apps Duel Links and Legacy of the Duelist.
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Oriflamme, one of 2020’s board game highlights so far, gets free two-player rules for coronavirus lockdown play
Official variant available to download now.
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Catan’s two-player rules and free mini-expansion released for COVID-19 lockdown
Don’t steal, stay at home.
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Capital Lux 2 mixes up the card game with 250+ more ways to play, landing on Kickstarter this month
New characters and solo mode coming to strategic card game.
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Gloomhaven sequel Frosthaven is now the biggest board game Kickstarter of all time
With nearly $13m raised and over 80,000 backers.
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Sail into The Innsmouth Conspiracy with the latest Arkham Horror LCG expansion
Too coast for comfort.
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Sue Perkins, Nish Kumar and other UK comedians are playing Dungeons & Dragons next week for Comic Relief
Fundraising for COVID-19 support.
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NHS Heroes playing cards launched to fundraise for key workers during COVID-19
All proceeds will go to NHS Charities Together.
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The Dicebreaker merchandise store is open now, featuring two new T-shirt designs!
BE NICE ROLL DICE and show off your BIG DECK ENERGY.
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Jodie Whittaker’s 13th Doctor joins new edition of Doctor Who board game Time of the Daleks
Alongside companions Rose Tyler, River Song and Amy Pond in upcoming expansions.
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The Hobbit board game on the way from Lord of the Rings movie effects studio
Films' senior artist and Endeavor co-designer throw An Unexpected Party.
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Play Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle as a lone wizard with free solo rules
A game a day keeps the dementors away.
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Sci-fi deckbuilder Star Realms’ upcoming set Rise of Empire is a standalone prequel with a legacy-style campaign
Hitting Kickstarter this autumn ahead of release in 2021.
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Infinity CodeOne is a slicker, quicker edition of the sci-fi miniatures game aimed at newcomers, out now
Rulebook and quickstart rules available to download for free.
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A Feast for Odin, Terra Mystica and more will be published in English by original studio Feuerland Spiele
Language rights relinquished by Z-Man Games.
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Tapeworm is a delightfully gross card game mash-up of Uno and Snake from Binding of Isaac creator
Edmund McMillen's second tabletop project live on Kickstarter now.
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UK Games Expo 2020 has been cancelled
Following postponement to August as result of coronavirus.
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Beginner-friendly RPG Quest’s first official setting, The Reach, is a free ‘story sandbox’ in a doomed world
You’ve met a terrible fate, haven’t you?
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Play mystery board game TIME Stories Revolution at home with free demo scenario Damien
Against the clock.
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The next Batman board game, based on the Dark Nights: Metal comics, twists the Caped Crusader into a terrifying villain
Team up with The Joker in The Batman Who Laughs Rising.
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Anime deckbuilder Tanto Cuore is coming back to digital
Publisher Japanime Games working on tabletop adaptations of Japanese video games.
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Upcoming board game Canvas lets you paint your own masterpiece using transparent cards
A brush with depth.
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You can now play dungeon-crawling board game Arcadia Quest single-player with free solo mode rules
Support for Inferno and expansions to follow.
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Study ancient spell books in Atheneum: Mystic Library, the next board game from the creators of Obscurio
Dewey Deci-spell System.
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Party game Insider is 20 Questions meets Werewolf, and it’s getting a trickier new edition
Insider Black is both a standalone game and expansion for the original.
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2019 was the biggest year for Dungeons & Dragons in the RPG's almost 50-year history, says Wizards of the Coast
As starter set sales quadruple.
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Weird West tabletop RPG Deadlands is being revamped with its biggest new edition in 15 years
Built on updated Savage Worlds: Adventure Edition system.
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Essen Spiel 2020 organisers say world’s biggest board game convention will go ahead - for now - despite coronavirus
Events banned in German region of North Rhine-Westphalia until September.
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Sushi Go! creator Phil Walker-Harding reveals his next board game, 3D Tetris-a-like Monolyth - exclusive
"What if Bärenpark had 3D pieces?"
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Games Workshop is already preparing to re-open Warhammer stores after COVID-19 lockdown
No US or UK locations included in limited ‘pilot’.
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Survive a slasher movie in Final Girl, a single-player horror board game from the maker of Detective: City of Angels
Lights! Camera! Murder!
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Bargain Quest, the card game of fantasy flogging, sets sail in next expansion Sunk Costs
Vesselling your waves.
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Download and play a free adventure for Overlight, the fantasy tabletop RPG from Kids on Bikes studio
Roleplay the rainbow.
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Kids on Brooms is a Harry Potter tabletop RPG in all but name, out this summer
Based on the gameplay of Stranger Things-ish RPG Kids on Bikes.
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Pandemic: Hot Zone is a portable 30-minute version of the hit co-op board game
Leaked ahead of full announcement.
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Tabletop Simulator rival Tabletop Playground is currently free to download on PC during its open beta
Includes classic board games and user-made mods.
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Four starter decks for Keyforge’s upcoming Mass Mutation set released as free print-and-play after COVID-19 delay
Latest expansion pushed back to summer.
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Play Carcassonne by yourself or in co-op thanks to free official solo rules for the board game
German publisher also releases single-player variant for Hadara.
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“For now, I’m done”: Ankh: Gods of Egypt is final board game in Blood Rage and Rising Sun ‘mythic trilogy’, Eric Lang confirms
Designer teases potential future title inspired by Greek mythology.
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Sci-fi board game epic Twilight Imperium is being adapted into a book series
First novel to be The Fractured Void by Tim Pratt.
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Shadows Over Camelot co-creator teases possible spiritual sequel to co-op board game, Shadows Over Brooklyn
Bruno Cathala reveals “uncertain future” for follow-up to award-winning title.
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BattleCON is Street Fighter as a card game, and it’s back with a new fourth edition this summer
Here comes an old challenger.
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Fantasy Flight suspends all X-Wing, Keyforge and Legend of the Five Rings organised play in wake of COVID-19
In-store events postponed until September.
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Trivial Pursuit: Horror Ultimate Edition stalks onto shelves this autumn
Let the Right Wedge In.
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Bullet?? is bringing the intense ‘puzzle action’ of shoot ‘em up video games to the tabletop
Inspired by classic shmups such as Ikaruga.
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Railroad Ink Challenge ramps up the competition in the colourful roll-and-write train game with two new sets
Visit Lush Green forests or Shining Yellow deserts.
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Dead of Winter creator’s next board game Forgotten Waters has retail release date postponed indefinitely
Releasing tool to enable online play.
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US tabletop event Origins delayed to autumn, ‘virtual convention’ to be held this summer
Decision made in light of COVID-19 pandemic.
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Family board game Kingdomino gets a free print-and-play expansion, The Court
Also compatible with Queendomino.
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Gloom of Kilforth creator reveals solo deckbuilding board game Veilwraith
Multiplayer possible with extra copies.
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Anachrony and Kitchen Rush designer’s next board game Excavation Earth sees extraterrestrials selling human garbage as art
One man’s trash is another alien’s treasure.
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Pirate board game Forgotten Waters' voice cast includes Dragon Ball Z, My Hero Academia and Red vs. Blue stars
Anime actors narrate latest game from Dead of Winter creators.