News 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. April 27, 2024 Chase Carter
News Desperate for Hades 2? This Ancient Greece inspired board game should tide you over Something to muse on. April 26, 2024 Alex Meehan
News 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. April 25, 2024 Chase Carter 1 comment
News 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. April 25, 2024 Matt Jarvis 1 comment
News 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?” April 25, 2024 Alex Meehan 2 comments
News 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 April 23, 2024 Chase Carter
News Ticket to Ride and Catan maker granted freedom from Embracer along with €900m of former owner’s debt Embracer becomes Divider. April 22, 2024 Chase Carter 1 comment
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. April 22, 2024 Matt Jarvis 1 comment
News 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. April 19, 2024 Chase Carter 1 comment
News 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. April 19, 2024 Matt Jarvis 1 comment
News 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. April 19, 2024 Matt Jarvis
News 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. April 19, 2024 Chase Carter 1 comment
News Reel in nightmares from the depths in Dredge-inspired horror-fishing card game Deep Regrets You’ll be hooked. April 18, 2024 Matt Jarvis 1 comment
Best Games The best Fallout games to stash in your tabletop vault after finishing the Fallout TV show That SPECIAL something. April 18, 2024 Matt Jarvis
News 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. April 18, 2024 Alex Meehan 3 comments
News 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. April 18, 2024 Chase Carter
News 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. April 17, 2024 Matt Jarvis
Feature 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. April 16, 2024 Matt Jarvis
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. April 16, 2024 Alex Meehan
News Co-op Scrabble more accessible version for players “intimidated by the classic game” Wording with you. April 11, 2024 Alex Meehan
News 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. April 11, 2024 Chase Carter 1 comment
News 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. April 10, 2024 Chase Carter
Best Games 7 board games to play at UK Games Expo 2024 Don’t miss these titles this June. April 9, 2024 Alex Meehan
News 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. April 9, 2024 Chase Carter
Best Games 9 best solo board games for single-player fun Rollin’ solo. April 8, 2024 Tim Ford 1 comment
News 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. April 6, 2024 Chase Carter
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. April 5, 2024 Matt Jarvis
News 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. April 5, 2024 Chase Carter
Opinion Why are there so many good Dune board games? Let the adaptations flow. April 4, 2024 Alex Meehan 1 comment
News Bugsnax card game brings the bizarrely charming video game of edible critters to the table Kinda bug, kinda snack, all cardstock. April 3, 2024 Chase Carter
News 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. March 29, 2024 Chase Carter
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. March 28, 2024 Richard Garfield
News Don’t Starve’s board game adaptation takes roguelike survival from the wilderness to the kitchen table Better craft plenty of torches. March 28, 2024 Chase Carter 1 comment
News 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. March 26, 2024 Chase Carter
Feature In bettering Descent's Terrinoth with its vibrant world, Kinfire Chronicles has become the fantasy board game to watch Hot property. March 25, 2024 Charlie Theel
News Cyberpunk 2077 - The Board Game sees players strutting around Night City as V, Judy, Panam and Jackie From publisher behind The Witcher: Old World. March 22, 2024 Alex Meehan
News Wingspan maker’s sales decline for second consecutive year, but the board game company isn’t worried Infinite growth is for the birds. March 20, 2024 Chase Carter 4 comments
News God of War two-player board game bridges the gap between the 2018 video game and Ragnarok Dad of Boy: The Board Game. March 20, 2024 Alex Meehan
News 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. March 19, 2024 Alex Meehan
News Video game-inspired Boss Monster board game gets a hardware upgrade with new title A super addition. March 19, 2024 Alex Meehan
News 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. March 16, 2024 Chase Carter
News Travel board game from Ticket to Ride creator redesigned with fresh art Play 10 Days in 30 minutes. March 15, 2024 Alex Meehan
How To How to play Ticket to Ride: rules, setup and how to win explained Get on board with the classic train game. March 15, 2024 Matt Jarvis
News Gnome Hollow tile-laying game is like a meatier version of Carcassonne Mushroom mayhem. March 15, 2024 Alex Meehan
News Avatar: The Last Airbender deckbuilding game will take players through the entire series Seize Aang’s Destiny. March 14, 2024 Alex Meehan 1 comment
News Fall of Rome maker and Undaunted studio set sights on accessible wargames with Battalion: War of the Ancients Roman wars on a Gaul budget. March 14, 2024 Chase Carter
News 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. March 13, 2024 Matt Jarvis 1 comment
News Clash as rival Westeros houses in Tiny Epic Game of Thrones Big Baratheons and Littlefingers. March 13, 2024 Alex Meehan 1 comment
News Almost a fifth of money raised by Kickstarter projects goes to scam campaigns, report alleges Crowdfunding platform denies claim about its own internal figures. March 12, 2024 Matt Jarvis 2 comments
News Dune: Imperium Digital lets the spice flow on mobile and Xbox as it exits early access on PC tomorrow Arrakeen to take a look? March 12, 2024 Matt Jarvis
News 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. March 12, 2024 Matt Jarvis
News 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.’” March 11, 2024 Matt Jarvis
Feature 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. March 11, 2024 Matt Jarvis 2 comments
News 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. March 11, 2024 Matt Jarvis
News 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. March 11, 2024 Matt Jarvis
News One of the oldest board games in existence seeks crowdfunding for a brand new version The Royal Game of Ur wants a facelift. March 9, 2024 Chase Carter 1 comment
News 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. March 8, 2024 Matt Jarvis
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. March 8, 2024 Matt Jarvis
Opinion The best adventure board game you've never heard of turns translating medieval manuscripts into a compelling odyssey Paint a Vulgari picture. March 7, 2024 Thomas Wells 2 comments
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. March 6, 2024 Matt Jarvis
News Balance cats on electricity cables in cute dexterity board game Nekojima Hanging on by a whisker and a prayer. March 6, 2024 Chase Carter
News 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." March 5, 2024 Chase Carter
News Shakespeare and Hamlet battle with barbed words in latest Unmatched release The pen is mightier than the sword. March 5, 2024 Alex Meehan
News 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. March 4, 2024 Alex Meehan 2 comments
News 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. March 1, 2024 Matt Jarvis
News 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. March 1, 2024 Matt Jarvis
News 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. March 1, 2024 Matt Jarvis
News 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. Feb. 29, 2024 Matt Jarvis
News 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.” Feb. 29, 2024 Matt Jarvis
News Dying Light’s parkour-loving zombie killers will roam an entire modular city block in the official board game Roll dice for both combat and wall jumping across a city with a vicious day/night cycle and UV components. Feb. 28, 2024 Chase Carter
News Pathfinder's fantasy RPG becomes a co-op card game in BattleTech creators' new deckbuilder Runefire Light my Runefire. Feb. 28, 2024 Chase Carter
News Naked mole rats, living room murder parties and robot chefs are up for best unpublished board game award Fourteen worthy tabletop designs advance to a final round of judging for the Cardboard Edison, including titles about comic book sales and fusion reactors. Feb. 28, 2024 Chase Carter
Best Games The best Dune games to play on the tabletop after you watch Part Two Add some spice to your next game night. Feb. 28, 2024 Matt Jarvis
Feature Blood Rage creator's next board game Life in Reterra bridges the gap between complex and casual - and we've played it Is Hasbro courting hobbyists? Feb. 26, 2024 Alex Meehan
News Rising Sun and Blood Rage designer’s next board game is like a meatier Carcassonne Post-apocalyptic pastoral paradise. Feb. 26, 2024 Alex Meehan
News Villainous, Jurassic World and Jaws board game designers form new studio after Funko Games layoffs Based in Seattle, Tempest Workshop's designers say they will embody "being human, creating together, and having moxie." Feb. 26, 2024 Chase Carter
Feature “All the benefits of reading also apply to board games”: Why more libraries are adding tabletop classics to their bookshelves From Wingspan to D&D, local libraries are expanding their catalogues of cardboard. Feb. 26, 2024 James Wallis 1 comment
Opinion The 1950s wargame that still ruins friendships 70 years on, Diplomacy shows just how simple an excellent negotiation game can be. Feb. 23, 2024 Philip Harker 4 comments
Feature From TCGs to TRPGs, Aotearoa New Zealand’s tabletop creators are finding their spotlight on the global stage “We want to help each other out a lot more because we are so isolated.” Feb. 22, 2024 Tim Ford
News Dune board game becomes the Kwisatz Haderach with a comprehensive new edition of the rebooted classic in 2025 Bene. Feb. 20, 2024 Matt Jarvis
News Star Trek Ascendancy enters its Final Frontier with a definitive collector’s edition of the sci-fi board game Setting coordinates for Gamefound later this year. Feb. 20, 2024 Matt Jarvis
News The Adventures of Conan gives the barbarian hero a new board game later this year Quest across Hyboria by rolling dice. Feb. 20, 2024 Matt Jarvis
News After making $100m on Kickstarter, Zombicide studio CMON takes future board games exclusively to Gamefound CMON breaking up with the crowdfunding behemoth is a clear sign of change on the horizon. Feb. 19, 2024 Chase Carter 3 comments
News Egyptian board game Kemet returns this year with six-player support, solo play and new modes Modular expansions headed to a crowdfunding campaign later in 2024. Feb. 16, 2024 Matt Jarvis 1 comment
News Build the first-ever computer in crunchy board game Ada's Dream from Arborea studio Alt-history Eurogame imagines a world where Ada Lovelace survived to complete the Analytical Engine. Feb. 16, 2024 Matt Jarvis
News $15, 15-minute card game Now! could be your next obsession after 6 nimmt and The Mind And you can buy it… er, soon! Feb. 16, 2024 Matt Jarvis
How To How to play Wingspan: board game’s rules, setup and how to win explained Everything you need to know to get started with the birdy board game. Feb. 15, 2024 Alex Meehan
Opinion Board games shouldn't always be about escapism To be not escapist, but free. Feb. 15, 2024 Sean Weeks 4 comments
News Forgotten Waters studio reveals next Crossroads board game from Mice and Mystics creator, Wandering Galaxy Plaid Hat plans its first Kickstarter this summer for sci-fi adventure. Feb. 13, 2024 Matt Jarvis
News Tabletop professional looking to make your game a success? Sign up to attend the one-day Tabletop Creators Summit for free! London gathering for industry professionals will include expert talks and afternoon networking event, with free entry to MCM Comic Con for attendees. Feb. 12, 2024 Matt Jarvis
News Kickstarter rival Gamefound had its biggest year yet in 2023, with $12m Nemesis sequel taking the lion’s share Nemesis: Retaliation and adaptations of The Elder Scrolls, The Witcher and STALKER helped revenue to almost double to $56 million. Feb. 8, 2024 Matt Jarvis
News A Gentle Rain, Arkham Horror co-designer's short, 15-minute board game, returns with a remastered edition Bloomin’ heck, those flowers are pretty. Feb. 7, 2024 Chase Carter 1 comment
News Roguelike RPG Children of Morta gets a cooperative board game where strength is thick as blood The family that slays together stays together. Feb. 5, 2024 Chase Carter
News Deckbuilding board game Dominion is now free to play on PC and mobile A kingdom in your pocket. Feb. 2, 2024 Chase Carter
News Zombicide maker will complete two flailing Kickstarter projects from Darkest Dungeon board game studio Mythic Games told backers the projects would be "excessively difficult, if not impossible, to complete" without asking for more money. Jan. 29, 2024 Chase Carter
News These puzzly board games are played with real-life internet cables Wired: Jan. 29, 2024 Matt Jarvis
News Catan, Ticket to Ride and Pandemic makers partner with LEGO on new family-friendly board game Primed to go ape. Jan. 29, 2024 Chase Carter
News Sci-fi MMO EVE Online warps to the tabletop with massive 4X strategy board game Can CCP Games translate its spacefaring subterfuge and spreadsheet-keeping to an analogue format? Jan. 26, 2024 Chase Carter
Opinion Baldur's Gate 3 studio's first board game is just as epic and entertaining as its RPGs It would be a sin not to. Jan. 25, 2024 Alex Meehan