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Eat the Reich is a gory, indulgent, quickfire RPG about WWII vampires out to drink all of Hitler’s blood.
Sic exsanguinatis tyrannis.
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$300,000 worth of MTG cards stolen from Gen Con 2023 have been recovered
Indianapolis Metropolitan Police expect to file charges against the suspected thieves soon.
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Development on Witcher 4 video game sends The Witcher RPG into hiatus
R. Talsorian Games’ Cody Pondsmith says “The Witcher TTRPG line is not dead” but don’t expect big, new books in the near future.
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Hans Niemann resolves $100m lawsuit against Magnus Carlsen and Chess.com out of court
Niemann will be allowed to take place in tournaments, while Hikaru Nakamura continues to stir the pot.
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Classic RPG Mutant Chronicles goes noir gumshoe in mystery-focused Luna City Blues
Moon-based mysteries.
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Cyberpunk and Witcher RPG maker teases new tabletop project condenamed Blue Moon
R. Talsorian Games will reveal more information about Project: Blue Moon on August 31st.
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Warhammer’s Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin RTS announces release date and third playable faction
Step into the crackling, golden suit of Sigmar's armour on November 17th.
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Phandelver and Below promises a nostalgic romp through Dungeons & Dragons 5E’s beginnings
You can’t go back home to old Phandalin.
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Board game giant Asmodee’s corporate owner allegedly loses $2bn deal with Saudi Arabian partner
Savvy Gaming Group, a public investment fund attached to the Saudi government, reportedly pulled out on the eve of the deal.
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Fan-made Lorcana digital app gives the Disney TCG the Hearthstone treatment
Disney lawyers: do not interact.
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X-Wing meets LEGO miniatures game Snap Ship Tactics releases a starter set into retail next month
Comes with versus, co-op and solo mode against a card-powered AI.
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Spooky podcast sensation Welcome to Night Vale heading to tabletop from the makers of Power Rangers RPG
A friendly desert community where the people are NPCs and dice rain from the sky.
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Challengers followup opts for beach-themed name for standalone competitive deckbuilder
Sand, surf and sequels
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Dolmenwood is mushroom-infested Old School Essentials by way of British Isles folklore
Spore me a pint, adventurer.
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Wilds of Eldraine not a “filler episode”, will introduce at least one big character for the TCG’s Omenpath Arc
Story designer says the fairy tale-centric set is not related to the release of Lorcana in any way.
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MTG Wilds of Eldraine Mechanics and draft archetypes: storybook Roles, costly Bargains and Celebrations
Plus, the return on Adventures and Food tokens in the fairy tale-flavoured set.
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Pathfinder RPG Humble Bundle shelves up nearly $200 worth of fiction for $25
A novel experience.
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Take up a life of space piracy with this Humble Book Bundle for sci-fi RPG Traveller
Do spacecrafts have poop decks?
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Dimension 20 resumes production of RPG actual play series after SAG-AFTRA contract clarification
Dropout CEO Sam Reich gives Mulligan and co. the go-ahead to roll more dice on-camera.
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Werewolf: the Apocalypse 5E writer alleges racist and belittling treatment by White Wolf staff
Writing team reportedly asked to create “a player’s guide to being a Nazi werewolf”
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Dungeons & Dragons maker will revise AI-processed artwork in upcoming sourcebook
Midjourneys in the Forgotten Realms.
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Galactic death races and a return to both Tarkir and Lorwyn highlight Magic: The Gathering’s three-year plan
Dragons, Scarecrows and aliens all walk into a deck.
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Magic: The Gathering announces a fourth booster pack type releasing with Assassin’s Creed crossover
Four-barreled booster fun.
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Jurassic Park’s classic dinosaurs stomp into Magic: The Gathering - Lost Caverns of Ixalan
Hold onto your butts.
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A Wild West set, Modern Horizons 3 and Ravnica Remastered lead Magic: The Gathering’s 2024 releases
A standalone Ravnica Clue crossover and a Haunted Mansion-themed set are also planned.
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The One Ring RPG delves too deep in upcoming Moria - The Long Dark campaign expansion
They are, in fact, calling it a mine.
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Indigenous RPG Coyote & Crow wins 2023 Diana Jones Award
Tabletop's oddest-looking award honours this year's "excellence in gaming" and emerging designers with a new resin pyramid.
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MTG’s Wilds of Eldraine reprints several powerful enchantments as anime girls (and one goose)
Honk if you love powerful animated women.
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IGDN’s 2023 Groundbreaker winners include a 90-pound butter heist, reality-spanning stickers and dinos in cars
Who's selling automobiles to these dinosaurs, anyway?
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TCGPlayer Union slams eBay with Unfair Labour Practice action for allegedly stalling negotiations
The union will join New York Senator John Mannion for a press conference discussing eBay union-busting tactics.
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Card Kingdom Union approves contract between employees and upper management of TCG seller
Vice President Bob Woods says the company will “honour the union process and employee voices”.
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Magic: The Gathering’s return to Eldraine trades Arthurian knights for fairy tales
Things are looking Grimm.
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Pikachu Happy Meals reportedly return to McDonald’s, along with 15 Pokémon TCG cards
The latest batch of fast food critters include recent starters Sprigatito, Fuecoco, Quaxly.
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Tabletop creators struggle to plot their future amidst Twitter’s still-burning ashes
The death of the bird app at the hands of Elon Musk leaves designers big and small in the lurch.
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Neopets Battledome brings the digital pets back to trading card games after 17 years
The Aughts are back, cardboard style.
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Magic: The Gathering’s 2024 sets teased at SDCC and it includes a colossal goose hydra
Yes, we all want that little mouse to be a Redwall teaser.
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Trigun Stampede joins My Hero Academia and Cowboy Bebop in UniVersus CCG’s new Challenger Series
Publisher Jasco Games rebrands as UVS amid popular anime set reprints.
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Monopoly maker exec imagines a future where board games sport “AI-driven game mechanics”
Chat GPTabletop.
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Fill the late-nite airwaves with music and meaning in playlist-building solo RPG VOID 1680 AM
Caller, you’re on the air.
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Candela Obscura’s second chapter, featuring Marisha Ray and Brennan Lee Mulligan, plans 5-hour cinema premiere
Fairelands, Pt. 2: Electric Spookaloo
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Magic: The Gathering’s baffling teaser ignites rumours of Reserved List shenanigans
Players wonder if the trading card game publisher plans to sell their own proxies.
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Dorfromantik board game sequel trades idyllic calm for a village building competition
Duelling windmills.
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Pathfinder studio pushes several RPG books into 2024 amid relocation and website upgrades
CEO Jim Butler said Pathfinder and Starfinder material had to move to 2024 to make room for for ORC licence sourcebooks.
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Tarot-based RPG Likeness Machines pits a struggling actor against their corporate AI replacement
All proceeds from the satirical biography game support WGA and SAG-AFTRA workers on the picket line.
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SAG-AFTRA strike won’t affect Critical Role, D20 but raises question over RPG shows' part in labour movements
The largest names in tabletop actual play voice support for workers’ rights even if their shows aren’t immediately affected.
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Pokémon TCG’s Scarlet & Violet 151 set revives nostalgic holofoil card treatment
Nostalgia never looked so shiny.
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Fabula Ultima, Pasión de las Pasiones and Trophy make 2023 ENnie Awards best RPG shortlist
Avatar Legends and Blade Runner swamped by a sea of smaller tabletop titles in this year’s nomination round.
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Chill village-building board game Dorfromantik takes home Spiel des Jahres 2023
Mysterium Kids and Challengers! among other winners at one of tabletop’s biggest awards
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Flesh and Blood’s 2023 world championship follows record turnout for new Dusk till Dawn set
That pound of flesh is increasing in value.
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Star Trek Adventures lets you boldly go solo with new Captain’s Log RPG supplement
Solo, not Sulu.
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Critical Role announces return to UK for Mighty Nein reunion show and MCM London
The actual play stars’ first international show reconvenes fan-favourite characters one more time.
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MTG’s Commander Masters set charges a king’s ransom for a mixed bag
"That's clearly a proposition for absolute suckers."
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Risk Strike sells a 20-minute version of the classic world domination board game, sans world map
Pocket-sized Genghis Khan simulator.
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Marvel Multiverse slings across the Spider-Verse in new expansion to comic book RPG
What a… sticky web we weave.
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Coyote & Crow maker’s new semi-cooperative board game only has a winner if nobody loses
Meeples for all the peoples.
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King’s Dilemma, Evergreen publisher to handle neighbourhood building board game Sunrise Lane
Reiner Knizia’s latest design goes back to an old well - civic planning
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Texas Chainsaw Massacre’s asymmetric board game casts all but one player as horror film victims
Don’t try the local barbecue.
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Cyclades Legendary Edition hauls in half a million in crowdfunding for revamped Bruno Cathala board game
I gave all my lunch money to Zeus.
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Roll20’s PocketQuest 2023 game jam sent more than 50 tabletop designers to space camp, sort of.
This is Ground Control to Player Tom.
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Take a look at Dark type-shifted Charizard and other Pokémon from upcoming Obsidian Flame card set
A fiery Eiscue is among the odd Tera-type cards.
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Gloomhaven’s bite-sized board game Buttons & Bugs coming from Mountains of Madness designer
Finally, a Gloomhaven box below lethal throwing weight.
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Magic: The Gathering’s one-of-a-kind The One Ring has been found and graded
PSA gave the highly coveted card from Tales of Middle-earth a Mint 9 rating.
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Crossroads of Destiny retells the story of Team Avatar through a board game from the Disney Villainous team
Sokka gang won't need bending to win.
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Liminal RPG attempts to map out The Backrooms in an expansion based on the collaborative creepypasta universe
Hell is mouldering yellow wallpaper.
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Kickstarter steps further away from a blockchain future but stops short of promises
The crwodfunding company's Community Advisory Council might have pulled that particular bacon out of the frying pan.
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War of the Ring: The Card Game maker expands its RPG footprint with indie book Fantasy World
Powered by the genre-specific Apocalypse.
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Bridgerton board game readies for a turn within the Netflix series adaptation machine
Scandals, suitors and the search for a good licensed board game.
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New Walking Dead and Invincible board games celebrate the comic series’ shared 20th anniversary
Mantic Games returns to the Walking Dead well and picks up adult-bent Superhero series Invincible for its trouble.
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Nausicaa meets Mad Max RPG Eco Mofos!! does climate post-apocalypse with a heavy dose of hope
“Weirdhope not Grimdark”.
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West Kingdom trilogy makers return to the North Sea to remake the board game that started it all
Righting the shipwrights.
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Magic: The Gathering Secret Lair pulls scenes from Ralph Bakshi’s Lord of the Rings
Respect to the OG big screen Hobbits and elves.
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Pathfinder, Cyberpunk and Boop win big at 2023 Origins Awards
The people love cat hijinks on a bed.
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Warhammer 40k tourney organisers have already fixed “nearly 100” balance problems with 10th Edition
The brand new rules are causing chaos in the competitive scene. No, not that kind of chaos.
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Magic: The Gathering creators ditch ‘tribal’ at urging of cultural consultants
Mark Rosewater explains the switch to 'typal' won't affect anything but official messaging.
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Cowboy Bebop RPG’s faithful recreation of the jazzy, sci-fi anime is now available
Mana Project Studio takes a crack at bringing Spike & Co. to the tabletop
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Avatar Legends, Dragonbane and Heckin’ Good Doggos among no-cost games for Free RPG Day 2023
Easy intros into bending elements, petting dogs and delving into all manner of dungeons.
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Adventure Time’s official RPG will let you play as Finn, Marceline or wholly original characters
A “Yes, And” mechanic drives collaborative storytelling that doesn’t rely on a bunch of maths
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Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG to revamp starter decks and release two new sets by end of 2023
Calendar full of cardboard.
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Sushi Go spinoff fills the the table with rotating steamer baskets and family style dishes
Steamed dumplings are serious business
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Blade Runner and Symbaroum RPG maker knocks up to half off prices during Free League’s summer sale
Hobbit Girl Summer.
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Surgery scars, stretch marks added to Hero Forge’s digital miniature maker
“Scars are stories of survival,” the company says.
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Thousand-Year-Old Vampire RPG adaptation adds keepsake creation and collaborative play
Nothing better than suffering the curse of eternity with your closest friends.
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Root creator Cole Wehrle, indigenous RPG Coyote & Crow among finalists for 2023 Diana Jones Award
The pyramid-shaped award for “excellence in gaming” also includes a journalist for the first time.
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Achtung! Cthulhu and Dune RPG maker eases players into original post-apocalyptic world with new starter set
Do mecha dream of electric sheep?
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Exploding Kittens reimagines Dobble as a chaotic, pancake-themed party game
Who ordered the shortstack with cactus and raw ribeye?
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Warhammer 40,000’s 10th Edition core book will let everyone who missed out on Leviathan actually play the game
Required literature for the common Astartes.
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. board game cracks $2m in crowdfunding for a campaign-focused cooperative “zone crawler”
A replayable Zone Survival Mode won’t be included in the base game post-crowdfunding.
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Bad Baby Lich Lords relaunches crowdfunding for ‘Saturday morning cartoon’ competitive card game
Deathly mayhem, round 2
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New Pokémon TCG expansion brings original 151 to Scarlet & Violet - including Kadabra
This special set marks Kadabra’s first appearance since magician Uri Gellar’s infamous lawsuit over bent spoons.
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Sky Team’s tense, co-op cockpit simulator board game will hit the runway at Gen Con ahead of fall release
It takes two to tarmac.
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Defend the last Waffle House standing against a zombie apocalypse in this cheeky two-page tabletop RPG
Hashbrowns, pancakes and two brains over easy.
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Warhammer 40k: Leviathan won’t go made-to-order to meet surging demand, Games Workshop confirms
Limited-time Tyranids.
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Spanish hobby shop trumps bounty for MTG’s serialised The One Ring card, offers €2 million and paella
Whoever finds the golden ticket will also enjoy a free holiday to Valencia and at least one solid meal.