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HeroQuest returns to shops next month for the first time in almost 30 years
Retail release follows last year’s $3.7m crowdfunding campaign for relaunch of classic dungeon-crawler.
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What board games have been ruined by new editions? We talk the worst tabletop re-releases on the Dicebreaker Podcast
Don’t forget your Beyblade briefcase.
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Be Like a Crow is a solo tabletop RPG that lets you do exactly what it promises
Murder, you wrote.
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Elysium and Skora designers open studio focused on eco-friendly board games you can print at home
First project Voyages to launch on Kickstarter later this year.
News
Red Giant is a brutal but beginner-friendly RPG inspired by Castlevania and Berserk
From creator of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure and Persona-inspired RPG Over Arms.
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Star Wars Roleplaying reprints and new supplements on the way from Edge of the Empire lead developer
UPDATE: Edge Studio dismisses original indication it is working on brand new Star Wars RPGs.
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War of the Ring: The Card Game and Hunt for the Ring expansion delayed to late 2022, studio behind Lord of the Rings games confirms
Ares Games reveals plans for additional War of the Ring games after next year.
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We turn Where's Wally? into horror, explore Lost Ruins of Arnak and discuss the return of Risk Legacy on the Dicebreaker Podcast!
Unleashing the greatest terror this Halloween: the Yahtzee chad.
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The post-Essen Spiel 2021 episode of the Dicebreaker podcast, we give a summary of our favourite games of the show
And update our personal list of desert island games.
Deals
Get started with Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay by grabbing the RPG’s latest starter set for under £1
Net dozens of adventures, sourcebooks and the 4E core rulebook for a bargain.
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Lost Cities designer’s Art Robbery is one of the hidden gems of Essen Spiel 2021 you shouldn’t miss
Play light robbery.
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Kingdomino Origins isn’t quite a full evolutionary step for the excellent board game series
Kings of the Stone Age.
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Sherlock Holmes’ dog Toby gets his own board game in next year’s The Animals of Baker Street
Family-friendly investigation game penned with author Clémentine Beauvais releasing in October 2022.
Interview
Cowboy Bebop RPG lead designer on the anime adaptation’s ‘jazzy’ gameplay and satisfying cynical fans
“Haters gonna hate and we accept that.”
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The King’s Dilemma sequel The Queen’s Dilemma won’t release in 2022, will continue stories from first legacy game
Horrible Guild promises “levels of continuity” in follow-up to acclaimed story-driven board game.
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Ice Cool spin-off Iron Forest will let you flick and fire tiny robots into the air
Launching - quite literally - onto Kickstarter next year.
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What's new at the world’s biggest board game convention? The Dicebreaker Podcast is at Essen Spiel 2021!
The team chats about what we've seen during the first day of the German game fair.
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Cowboy Bebop RPG will let you play as the anime’s characters, won’t touch the movie or Netflix series
Players will be able to take control of the Bebop crew or create their own interplanetary bounty hunters.
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King of Tokyo and King of New York are getting a new sequel next year
Third in Richard Garfield’s monster rumble dice game series teased at Essen Spiel 2021.
News
Resident Evil’s new co-op card game is designed to feel like passing the controller as kids
Up to four players control either Jill Valentine or Chris Redfield together.
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Brian Goldner, CEO of Monopoly, Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons maker Hasbro, has passed away
Following cancer diagnosis in 2014.
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UBOOT creators’ Purple Haze is a co-op board game set during the Vietnam War with a branching story campaign
Latest ‘immersive simulation’ from publisher behind World War II submarine game.
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Cowboy Bebop RPG studio’s Knights of the Round: Academy blends My Hero Academia, Gundam and King Arthur
Anime-inspired RPG from design team Fumble GDR draws from shonen, mecha and school drama - plus Arthurian fantasy.
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What are the board games we’re most excited to play at Essen Spiel 2021? It’s the Dicebreaker Podcast!
Looking ahead to Root creator’s Arcs: Collapse and Conflict in the Void and back on Mysterium, Insider, Monikers and more.
Deals
Digital board game charity bundle offers Game of Thrones, Scythe, Terraforming Mars, Arkham Horror and more on PC for under £10
Play Pink Humble Bundle includes Asmodee Digital’s most popular digital board games in aid of Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
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Pokémon TCG Celebrations is out today, featuring remakes of 25 classic cards - including Base Set Charizard
25th anniversary collection brings back familiar favourites alongside brand new additions.
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‘Controversial party game’ Awkward is the first tabletop release from Buzz! and Family Feud developers
Cards handpicked from “most divisive” questions in 2018 video game.
Deals
Indie horror RPG bundle gathers haunted cabins, vampires next door and trans necromancers for a Halloween game night
Includes games inspired by Scooby Doo, House of Leaves and the nightmare of the NHS waitlist.
Interview
‘It was important that the characters feel like real people’: Nikki Valens on representation and storytelling in Artisans of Splendent Vale
“We hope players will be able to see themselves in each of the characters in one way or another.”
News
PAX Unplugged makes full vaccination and masks mandatory for December return of board game convention
Following 2020 cancellation due to COVID-19.
News
Root and Oath creator announces story-driven sci-fi board game Arcs: Collapse and Conflict in the Void
Designer Cole Wehrle, artist Kyle Ferrin and publisher Leder Games plan Kickstarter for 2022.
Deals
TRPG Bundle for Afghan Support offers dozens of indie RPGs for $20 to aid those targeted by the Taliban
Turn books into poetry, rob the British Museum and steam hams for charity.
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What board game would you stake your life on? We imagine our tabletop Squid Game on the Dicebreaker Podcast!
We discuss what's next for D&D, look ahead to Essen Spiel and choose our favourite video games that deserve to come to the tabletop.
News
Deep Rock Galactic: The Board Game brings the hit co-op video game to the tabletop next year
From Champions of Midgard designer.
News
Steam’s Digital Tabletop Fest returns to celebrate RPGs later this month
And Dicebreaker’s part of it!
News
Gen Con 2022 dates confirm return of US board game convention next summer
After this year’s in-person event sees 50% of 2019 attendance.
Opinion
Netflix’s latest hit series Squid Game is bloody, brutal - and perfect viewing for board game fans
Playing with lives.
News
Dungeons & Dragons’ “next evolution” will release in 2024
Wizards of the Coast confirms return to three classic D&D settings in 2022 and 2023.
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We write the greatest Dungeons & Dragons musical you've never heard on the Dicebreaker Podcast!
Critical one-hit-wonder.
News
Ticket to Ride gets a set of pink trains to benefit breast cancer research charity
On railways we wear pink.
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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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Which board games do you house-rule? It's the Dicebreaker Podcast!
We talk our favourite mystery RPGs, the latest news from Gen Con and more.
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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.
News
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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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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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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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”.
News
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”.
News
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.
News
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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Well Hydrated Yellow? Tim's Magical Green? We fix miniatures paint names on the Dicebreaker Podcast!
Board games? Never heard of 'em.
Feature
The Civilization board game pioneered epic strategy a decade before Sid Meier
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tech tree.
News
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.
News
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.
Video
We cast the upcoming Blades in the Dark TV series on this week's Dicebreaker Podcast!
And pine for the board games we'd love to play right now, but can't.
Interview
Pokémon TCG expert talks the collecting boom, celebrity fans and why your cards probably aren’t worth anything
“Almost everyone thinks they have something of value.”
News
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.
News
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.”
News
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.
News
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.
News
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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We talk intriguing indie RPGs, MTG's latest reveals and Netrunner's (possible) return on the Dicebreaker Podcast!
Inventing the board game sequels that'd don't exist... but should.
Best Games
10 best trading, collectible and expandable card games that aren’t Magic: The Gathering
Big deck energy.
Best Games
10 best anime board games, from Dragon Ball Super to My Hero Academia
Impressive power level.
News
Resident Evil 3: The Board Game’s $100 retail edition has a release date
Hitting shops in October alongside first expansion City of Ruin.
Best Games
10 best online board games you can play in your browser
Get the lowdown without the download.
News
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.
Deals
Shadowrun bundle lets you get started with the classic science-fantasy RPG for under $8
Includes a collection of fiction set in the universe.
News
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.
Video
Is it better to stack board games upright or sideways? It's the Dicebreaker Podcast!
Plus our thoughts on Descent, Avatar Legends, Jaws, Villainous and more.
News
Steve Perrin, co-creator of ‘70s fantasy RPG RuneQuest, has passed away
Seminal roleplaying designer created Basic Roleplaying system later used in Call of Cthulhu.
News
Comedy clickbait website ClickHole has made a party game, Business Walrus
Create a game-changing toilet accessory haunted by the ghost of a Victorian child, then sing its jingle.
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Cult psychedelic-fantasy board game Dungeon Degenerates is weird, wild and back on Kickstarter
Offering fourth printing of co-op adventure, as well as new booster packs and dungeon-crawl module.
Video
We play the Board Game Thesaurus Game, check out the Avatar RPG and flirt with Thanos on the Dicebreaker Podcast
Romancing the Infinity Stone.
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Arkham Horror, Marvel Champions and Android: Netrunner studio says it’s still committed to the living card game format
Following cancellations, hiatuses and shifts in release format.
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The Warhammer Fantasy RPG is getting a card game
Elector Counts inspired by games played by ‘ruffians and gamblers’ in the Old World.
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Gen Con 2021 makes face masks mandatory for all in updated COVID-19 guidelines
Drops option for vaccinated visitors to attend without mask.
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Show off your love of board games in style with new Dicebreaker merch!
Tees, a hoodie and pin badge inspired by Werewolf and classic game night experiences.
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Former Z-Man Games exec Sophie Gravel rejoins Pandemic and Carcassonne publisher as studio head
After founding Azul and Century: Spice Road studio Plan B Games.