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News
Ugly Gryphon Inn is a solo game about running a fantasy tavern from Tiny Epic Galaxies designer
Pub in your pocket.
Video
Emma Partlow joins us to talk Magic: The Gathering, D&D and the best Trivial Pursuit replacements on this week’s Dicebreaker Podcast
Plus Uri Geller’s 20-year Pokémon beef, overlooked board game themes and how to kill Hitler.
News
Aliens collide with ancient civilisations in Nemesis designer’s Origins: First Builders
Extra-terrestrial transformation
News
Let’s Summon Demons and other parody books by Steven Rhodes are now board games
We’re not kidding.
News
Standalone adventures are coming to Starfinder RPG next year
First release is called Junker’s Delight.
News
Board Game Arena is set to release a new game every day in December
On the first day of Christmas, BGA gave to me.
News
YouTube creator Jacksfilms turns hit YIAY series into a party board game
“Cards Against Humanity for people who are actually funny.”
News
Manipulate a kingdom with medieval medicine in social deduction game Four Humours
Universal shelfcare.
Video
The Crew 2, Uno on TV and the worst (and best) board game cash-ins: it’s the Dicebreaker Podcast!
This week's board game news and tabletop talk, straight to your ears.
Best Games
10 hottest upcoming board games for 2021
These are the hottest board games hitting the shelves in 2021.
News
Pathfinder Adventure Paths are coming to the Savage Worlds RPG
Beginning with Rise of the Runelords.
News
D&D 5E lead designer says improvements to racial depictions will take "several years" to fully implement
After inclusion of character creation options in Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything.
Deals
Tabletop Simulator, Wingspan and Talisman are among the digital board games discounted in Steam’s Autumn Sale
Alongside Spirit Island and One Deck Dungeon.
Best Games
10 best board games to play at Christmas instead of Monopoly
Gather the family around some proper Christmas crackers.
News
Magic: The Gathering’s Secretversary Superdrop celebrates with Bob Ross and a Box of Rocks
With more cards illustrated by Seb McKinnon.
News
Star Wars: X-Wing’s updated Squad Builder app adds Epic Play and offline mode
New software for your droid.
News
Fly-A-Way takes its cues from Wingspan as another board game about bird conservation
Birds of a feather.
News
Pipeline studio serves a piping hot cup of Joe with its next game, Coffee Traders
Something’s brewing.
News
Trip 1907: Black Sails is like an escape room version of Return of the Obra Dinn
Rough sailing.
Video
We create the Love Letter expanded universe and pick our real-life RPG classes on the latest Dicebreaker Podcast
Plus lots of roleplaying advice.
News
Sail the treetops in Wildsea, a futuristic RPG inspired by Bastion and Blades in the Dark
Featuring chainsaw ships.
News
Perilous RPG swaps a GM for story cards written by Kids on Brooms co-creator
From the designer of Mage Against the Machine.
News
Digital tabletop gaming console SquareOne allows players to use actual cards and tokens
Set to support games like Cthulhu Wars and The Crew.
News
D&D book Dark Places & Demogorgons bears a striking resemblance to Stranger Things
Prepare for a neverending story.
News
Dude: Satish Pillalamarri Memorial Edition fundraising scholarship for son of publisher’s late co-founder
Following the passing of the North Star Games co-president.
News
Star Wars: X-Wing, Legion and Armada development moving to Marvel: Crisis Protocol studio
Out with the old, in with the Jakku.
News
Movie Movie Game turns the popular YouTube series into a tabletop party experience
The first game from The Valleyfolk.
How To
How to play Betrayal at House on the Hill: board game's rules, setup and haunts explained
Don't fear the rulebook.
News
Batman comic The Dark Knight Returns is being adapted into a single-player board game
Winging its way to Kickstarter next year.
Video
There’s new Warhammer, the Terminator RPG and plenty of pickles on this week’s Dicebreaker Podcast
It’ll leave you smirkin’ like a gherkin.
News
Co-op board game Townsfolk Tussle is the tabletop equivalent of Cuphead
That’s a high-class bout!
Deals
Undaunted: North Africa, Wildlands and more Osprey games are currently 30% off
Bird is the word.
News
Dexterity dungeon-crawler series Catacombs dives into a new entry, Monster Pit
Critter-flicker.
News
Above and Below studio’s next release, Rift Knights, is an asymmetric team game about invading demons
Uprising in the underworld.
News
Sealed box of first-edition Pokémon card game boosters goes on auction for £200,000
Don’t Machoke on the price tag.
How To
Dungeons & Dragons 5E sorcerer class explained
Choose the right equipment, spells and origin to create the ultimate sorcerer in D&D 5E.
News
19 years later, Citadels creator’s bluffing game Vabanque is getting its first English edition
You’ve activated my trap card.
News
Castle Panic returns to Kickstarter next spring, with expansions included
Tower defense, take two.
News
Flash Point: Fire Rescue and The Resistance studio reveals co-op game Crack the Code
Bunch of hacks.
News
Harry Potter: Catch the Snitch brings quidditch to the tabletop as a miniatures game
Don’t quaffle on about it.
News
Play Dobble, Dixit and Just One over video call using free remote play guides
As well as Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective.
Best Games
10 best fantasy board games
These fantasy-themed board games are perfect for ye olde tabletop.
News
Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game gets a Game of the Year edition
Includes a collection of character portraits.
Video
This week’s Dicebreaker Podcast talks Descent: Legends of the Dark, Catan shoes and Critical Role games
Conversation hotter than a crispy lizard.
News
Dice Hospital co-designer’s next game is a icy trek through prehistoric North America
A tundra of fun.
News
Dire Alliance: Horror is a deckbuilding game co-created by the makers of Undaunted: Normandy
Part of a cross-compatible series.
News
Tabletop games are coming from ex-Blizzard VPs who worked on Warcraft and Overwatch
Alongside a previous game designer for Hearthstone.
News
Critical Role has launched its own tabletop publisher, Darrington Press
First four games are coming next year.
News
The Dune: Imperium deckbuilding game finally has a release date
Time for a spiced pumpkin latte.
News
Medici: Reformation is a new version of the original auction board game
Return of the Renaissance.
News
New Roll20 mobile app is getting a closed beta “soon”
More D&D sourcebooks also coming to the online platform.
Deals
Pick up Warhammer audiobooks from under £1 in Black Library Humble Bundle
The sound of slaying.
News
Nemesis creator’s next release, Knockdown, is inspired by fighting video games
Cardboard combos.
News
‘Dungeon-scrawler’ Paper Dungeons has players adventuring in a roll-and-write
The pen is mightier than the sword.
News
Concordia, the game about leading a Roman dynasty, is getting a digital version
RAM wasn’t built in a day.
News
Learn to communicate with aliens in Arrival-inspired tabletop game Xenolanguage
Close Encounters of the Word Kind.
News
Agricola creator’s next board game Hallertau has players making beer - and it’s out this week
Something’s brewing.
Review
Escape the Dark Sector board game review - a ghost train ride through sci-fi nostalgia
Beautiful Knightmare.
News
High-tech game table Infinity includes digital versions of Monopoly, Pandemic, Ticket to Ride and other classics
Indie titles also on the way.
News
Kabuto Sumo is a dexterity game about beetle wrestling inspired by coin-pusher machines
Clash of the Carapaces.
Opinion
Eldritch Horror makes you care about its characters because you’re just as doomed as they are
Carefully Lovecrafted.
News
Dune: Imperium will have two-player and solo modes, supported by a companion app
Athreedies company.
Video
This week’s Dicebreaker Podcast explores Dinosaur World, plays A Game of Cat & Mouth and deals with RPG rules sticklers
Roll again, with feeling.
News
Tales from the Loop creator’s next ‘narrative art book’ The Labyrinth envisions a dystopian future
No magic dances here.
