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Freak War throws Exploding Kittens and Pokémon into a blender for a trading card game you can play at parties
You don’t even need to build a deck, but you can if you like.
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City of Six Moons is a board game written in an alien language you’ll need to translate to play - and you’ll never know if you’ve got it quite right
The designer will refuse to answer any rules questions, too.
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Hannibal and Hamilcar bring two out-of-print classic historical wargames back to crowdfunding (Sponsored)
Gamefound campaign offers exclusive metal miniatures for pair of card-driven strategy games.
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“You don't know when something profound is going to happen”: Designer behind Critical Role's new RPG on the therapeutic potential of tabletop games
A talk with For the Queen creator Alex Roberts.
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I sure hope Frostpunk’s escape room board game is easier to survive than the video game
It’ll offer a frozen puzzle challenge this summer.
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The Walking Dead: Surrounded squeezes the entire zombie franchise into a tiny card game
Walkers in your wallet.
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Western Legends is the closest board game to Red Dead Redemption I've played, and it's getting a story-driven spin-off
Build up a town, Deadwood-style, with “permanent” changes based on your decisions.
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Warhammer Skulls returns next week for a fresh look at Space Marine 2 and Boltgun, plus other video games
Big-screen Warhammer fan Rahul Kohli is back as host, too.
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Neon Hope blends Android: Netrunner and the Arkham Horror LCG into an optimistic cyberpunk co-op card game
Play your cards right to avert a dystopian future.
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Jim Henson’s Labyrinth: The Board Game will give you another chance to get a miniature David Bowie codpiece in time for the movie’s 40th anniversary
There’ll be a new expansion and figures for those who already own it.
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Loved Dune Part II? You'll soon be able to get one of the best Dune board games on Gamefound
Alongside new expansion.
Best Games
The best games to play outdoors this summer, wherever you are and whatever the weather
Beach? Picnic? Hotel room? Torrential downpour? There’s a game for that.
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Puerto Rico 1897 cultural consultant rejects anti-colonialist board game remake as “not real inclusion”
“Our industry has a long way to go.”
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Lost Cities designer will pack epic Greek classic The Iliad into a half-hour board game for two players
Ichor and Iliad are the first two in a new line of 2-player board games in the Mythos Collection.
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Root designer’s Oath: Chronicles of Empire & Exile is getting its first board game expansion
“Wouldn’t be happening if not for Arcs.”
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Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle-Earth is basically a reskin of the 7 Wonders 2-player board game
Promises “iconic travel”.
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Kinfire Council is an asymmetrical political bout full of cultists, political schemes and hidden knives
Protect the city, but also your own neck.
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Booktok has reached the tabletop gaming world, starting with a card game based on The Cruel Prince
Tag with enemies to lovers.
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Demon Loop is Slay the Spire via Loop Hero from the designer of Great Western Trail
Beloved board game designer Alexander Pfister tries his hand at a digital deckbuilder.
Opinion
Betrayal at House on the Hill’s card game betrays what makes the board game great
Different in everything but name.
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Become a gold-hungry dragon stealing from your friends’ hoards in board game Pillage the Village! (Sponsored)
No need to wait your turn, either.
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Brazilian board game creators are giving the country’s voiceless a way to be heard
Local designers and publishers are incorporating the stories and cultures of favelas and other Brazilian communities into their own games.
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Cult card game Warlord: Saga of the Storms plans a grand return of “the game you already know how to play”
There’s a new warlord in town.
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Bug board game Insectarium could do for insects, what Wingspan did for birds
One to be buzzing over.
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Eighties board game classic Tales of the Arabian Nights is getting a sequel set in the times of King Arthur
Will you be a saviour, a villain or a lovelorn tragedy? It’s all in the cards.
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Elden Ring maker buys one of Japan's biggest board game companies
Arclight, a major importer and localiser of Western board games, has a new corporate owner.
Opinion
Hades 2 has mastered tastefully sexy character designs, so why can’t fantasy board games do the same?
That’s some attractive artwork!
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Lord of the Rings board game teased by co-designers and publisher of 7 Wonders: Duel
It could be your next Precious.
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This pocket-sized set is like Game Pass for board games, giving you something new to play every week
One pocket, 100 components, a whole year of games.
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Desperate for Hades 2? This Ancient Greece inspired board game should tide you over
Something to muse on.
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Wingspan maker’s new cooperative, roguelike board game was inspired by Breath of the Wild and will contain over 1,700 unique cards
Explore your way back to friends, or die trying.
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Imperial Assault co-creator's co-op Mandalorian game looks a bit like Star Wars: Gloomhaven, out this summer
The Mandalorian: Adventures will be based on the first season of the spin-off show.
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Wingspan publisher commits to not use “any form of AI to replace or augment” creative work, admits there are “grey areas”
“What about a first-time designer on a shoestring budget?”
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Chronicles of Crime maker snagged by same Dutch publisher that now owns Funko Games brand
Goliath adds the digital hybrid board game publisher to its growing portfolio
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Ticket to Ride and Catan maker granted freedom from Embracer along with €900m of former owner’s debt
Embracer becomes Divider.
Opinion
Desperate for more Shōgun after the stellar TV show’s finale? Board game Sekigahara is the perfect sequel
Even Blackthorne would give up his boat for this.
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A new edition of Risk 2210 A.D., a gritty offshoot of the classic board game, is now available to preorder
Mechs, moons, and mega-continents.
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No more arguments about movement and line-of-sight in games like Warhammer? This mobile app wants to handle it all for you with a picture
Sci-fi shooter Light Speed: Arena will debut the Tablescope tech, with a companion for WWII dogfighter Wings of Glory in the works.
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Dead by Daylight board game’s first expansion adds more killers and survivors to hunt in new maps this summer
Including several of the familiar faces reappearing in next month’s Endless Hunt DLC.
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Munchkin and GURPS maker called 2023 a “golden age for gamers” amid second year of sales loss
The longstanding industry player openly wrestles with tough times.
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Reel in nightmares from the depths in Dredge-inspired horror-fishing card game Deep Regrets
You’ll be hooked.
Best Games
The best Fallout games to stash in your tabletop vault after finishing the Fallout TV show
That SPECIAL something.
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7th Citadel, the open-world board game that raised almost £3 million on Kickstarter, is coming back to crowdfunding
If you missed it the first time around.
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Armless hero Rayman and friends head to an official board game from the designer of Earth
Globox, Barbara and a whole lot of Teensies join in the fun.
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Turn your game into a hit with advice from makers of the Warhammer and Fallout RPGs, games lawyers, distributors and more at the Tabletop Creators Summit next month
A day of free talks and networking opportunities for anyone in the tabletop industry.
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Shadow of the Colossus-inspired board game Leviathan Wilds is one of the most compelling co-op experiences I’ve had in years
On the shoulders of giants.
Opinion
Votes for Women turns the frustrating fight for women’s rights into a vital board game lesson in history - and the present
History repeats itself.
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Co-op Scrabble more accessible version for players “intimidated by the classic game”
Wording with you.
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Monopoly will head to theatres as a live-action film courtesy of Barbie, Harley Quinn actor Margot Robbie
Robbie’s production company might just give Rich Uncle Pennybags the Ken treatment.
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Thunder Road: Vendetta and Sea Salt & Paper take home American Tabletop Award wins
Other winners at the biggest board game award in the US include The White Castle and Blob Party.
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Blair Witch Project creators are making a "forgotten" board game supposedly played by fairies
Emerald Anvil's other projects unfortunately include an NFT-powered digital land ownership game.
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D&D and Monopoly maker will publish last year’s winning card game from the Women Innovators of Play
The second annual event makes good on Hasbro’s promise to invest in one of 2023’s winners.
Opinion
Wish you could play Dragon’s Dogma 2 with friends? Take on massive monsters as a party of adventurers in this multiplayer board game
Skulk Hollow offers a lot of the same thrills as the creature-climbing, pawn-commanding video game.
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Marvel United board game spinoff tackles the DC Comics universe with Batman, Wonder Woman and Superman
Clown thugs to the left of me, Joker cards to the right.
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Bugsnax card game brings the bizarrely charming video game of edible critters to the table
Kinda bug, kinda snack, all cardstock.
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Catan, Exploding Kittens maker called “one of the absolute most important businesses” by Embracer CEO
Sale of video game publisher Gearbox brings a close to the holding company’s sweeping layoffs, for now.
Opinion
Trying to get your kids into board games? It's not about what you play, but how you play
Magic: The Gathering creator Richard Garfield on how to share grown-up games with younger players.
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Don’t Starve’s board game adaptation takes roguelike survival from the wilderness to the kitchen table
Better craft plenty of torches.
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Railroad Tiles takes the roll-and-write train game on a trip to a Carcassonne-like sequel
One of the best travel board games shakes up its winning formula.
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Cyberpunk 2077 - The Board Game sees players strutting around Night City as V, Judy, Panam and Jackie
From publisher behind The Witcher: Old World.
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Wingspan maker’s sales decline for second consecutive year, but the board game company isn’t worried
Infinite growth is for the birds.
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God of War two-player board game bridges the gap between the 2018 video game and Ragnarok
Dad of Boy: The Board Game.
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Lord of the Rings board game - War of the Ring: The Card Game can now support six players thanks to new expansion
Join the war in the North.
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Video game-inspired Boss Monster board game gets a hardware upgrade with new title
A super addition.
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Grant boons or bane to humans who beseech your monstrous aid in dark fairytale RPG Kedamono Opera
Beauty is in the eye of the legendary beast.
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Travel board game from Ticket to Ride creator redesigned with fresh art
Play 10 Days in 30 minutes.
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How to play Ticket to Ride: rules, setup and how to win explained
Get on board with the classic train game.
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Avatar: The Last Airbender deckbuilding game will take players through the entire series
Seize Aang’s Destiny.
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Fall of Rome maker and Undaunted studio set sights on accessible wargames with Battalion: War of the Ancients
Roman wars on a Gaul budget.
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Board-game video game Armello becomes board-game board game as D&D 4E designer's adaptation hits Kickstarter
No need to rabbit on about it.
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Almost a fifth of money raised by Kickstarter projects goes to scam campaigns, report alleges
Crowdfunding platform denies claim about its own internal figures.
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Dune: Imperium Digital lets the spice flow on mobile and Xbox as it exits early access on PC tomorrow
Arrakeen to take a look?
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Former Arkham Horror LCG lead dev Maxine Newman joins Earthborne Rangers studio as eco card game's lead designer
Reuniting with ex-Arkham Horror: The Card Game creative director and Fantasy Flight studio head to work on co-op title.
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I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream author Harlan Ellison saved the first-ever Dune game
“Frank Herbert said: ‘Don’t worry, I hate lawyers anyway.’”
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Before Denis Villeneuve’s Dune movies, the sci-fi epic’s best adaptation was a board game no-one could buy for decades
The groundbreaking Dune board game changed everything - and then vanished.
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One Piece and Digimon tabletop games are on the way to mark the anime's 25th anniversaries
From studio behind Spy x Family card game and Sonic Roll.
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Mage Knight’s The Apocalypse Dragon is legendary fantasy board game’s first big expansion in a decade
Fourth expansion for Codename creator’s epic adventure game will hit tables in early 2025.
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One of the oldest board games in existence seeks crowdfunding for a brand new version
The Royal Game of Ur wants a facelift.
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Unfathomable, Arkham Horror remake of Battlestar Galactica board game, gets an expansion three years later
New monsters, characters and ways to shake up the hunt for traitors aboard a ship.
Opinion
Like everything else, tabletop gaming would look very different without Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama
The influential mangaka and iconic designer for Dragon Quest has passed away at age 68.
Opinion
The best adventure board game you've never heard of turns translating medieval manuscripts into a compelling odyssey
Paint a Vulgari picture.
How To
How to play Monopoly: rules, setup and how to win
Ditch the house variants and avoid arguments with our recap of the classic board game's official rules.
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Balance cats on electricity cables in cute dexterity board game Nekojima
Hanging on by a whisker and a prayer.
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Puerto Rico 1897 publisher promises no AI art in final release after deluxe edition backlash
"Generative AI cannot be used in any part of the art process for this Ravensburger game."
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Shakespeare and Hamlet battle with barbed words in latest Unmatched release
The pen is mightier than the sword.
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Mass Effect co-op board game will see players battling Cerberus as Shepard, Tali, Garrus, Liara and Wrex
Co-designed by creator of Blood Rage.
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Mega Civilization, the 18-player, 12-hour-long board game covering 8,000 years of history, returns in a new edition this year
War of the Ring publisher plans future additions to Mega Empires after revised West and East boxes.
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Pandemic Legacy creators reunite for a new co-op legacy adventure board game
Matt Leacock and Rob Daviau’s Ziggurat is a family-friendly affair that looks to be based on Leacock’s Mole Rats in Space.
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Netrunner meets Werewolf in two-player witch-hunting card game Pagan: The Fate of Roanoke
Core game and expansions will see a re-release later in 2024 after launch at Gen Con.
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Arkham Horror LCG co-creator and Lord of the Rings designer leaves Fantasy Flight after 11 years
MJ Newman’s last expansion was the ambitious non-linear campaign The Scarlet Keys.
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Terry Pratchett’s Discworld gets its first new tabletop RPG in over 25 years, with board games also on the way
“Terry had a lifelong affection with roleplaying games.”