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Star Wars: Clone Wars – A Pandemic System Game features Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker
Stop the Separatists.
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Is Catan one of the greatest playthings of all time? This year’s National Toy Hall of Fame nominations think it might be
Shortlisted alongside Phase 10, Rack-O, bingo and… the spinning top.
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Idyllic village-building video game Dorfromantik gets a cooperative tabletop adaptation
I’ll be down at the pub hex tile.
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Money off in your local store, cheaper PAX Unplugged tickets, free games and promos: Dicebreaker memberships are here!
Get exclusive benefits in FLGS and gaming cafés, free downloadable promos and even a whole board game for free, all while supporting the team.
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Get the new card game from the creator of Magic: The Gathering for free! Announcing our first yearly Dicebreaker memberships game
Support the team, get exclusive discounts and grab a copy of SolForge Fusion - all for under £6 a month.
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Go behind the scenes at Gen Con 2022 with our vlog from the US board game convention
Starring Matt, Wheels and Dick's Last Resort.
Opinion
How an anime catgirl helped me finally understand mahjong
It’s less weird than it sounds, honest.
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Elder Scrolls board game will take place in Skyrim, Cyrodiil, Morrowind and beyond
With an expansion based in Valenwood.
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Video game puzzler Wilmot’s Warehouse is being made into a board game
Wilmot! designers include some of the team behind indie darling.
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A Monty Python tabletop RPG?! We imagine our dream comedy TRPGs on the Dicebreaker Podcast
And talk about the next game from Wingspan designer.
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Decrypto studio reveals its newest board game will feature case-solving for kids
Fancy a Flashback?
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Next King of Tokyo entry is a co-op board game called Monster Island
Release date yet to be confirmed.
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Rivet Wars: Reloaded is like an Advance Wars board game - here's how it plays
RTS and video game influences meet a dieselpunk World War I.
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Is Disney taking on Magic: The Gathering with its new card game? - lets discuss on the Dicebreaker Podcast
Plus, is the He-Man RPG in indefinite hiatus?
Best Games
7 Game of Thrones board games to play while you wait for more House of the Dragon
“When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die.”
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Sagrada: Artisans is a legacy board game about crafting windows over generations
Time to reflect on your actions.
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Kingdomino designer’s Atlantis-themed board game is getting an English localisation
From the studio behind Machi Koro.
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Pandemic studio’s next title is a deckbuilding battle game featuring dinosaurs and Hollywood stars
A new challenger approaches!
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SPONSORED: Ranking Disney Sorcerer’s Arena: Epic Alliances characters based on whether I could take them in a fight
It’s going down in the House of Mouse.
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Arkham Horror co-designer teams-up with Witcher 3 artist and League of Legends developer on co-op board game
Other credits include Cyberpunk 2077 and Arcane.
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Essen Spiel 2022 makes masks mandatory but not COVID-19 vaccinations
Requirements may change in accordance with regional laws.
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Homeworld Fleet Command board game promises huge fleet battles that won’t destroy an entire evening
Kharak open a cold one with the fleet.
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Will the next version of D&D be any good? Our thoughts on the Dicebreaker Podcast
As well as the new Magic: The Gathering releases.
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Five Nights at Freddy’s: Night of Frights lets you play as the animatronics
Have a Bonnie time!
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Enola Holmes semi-co-op board game pits one player against the rest
A family that sleuths together, stays together.
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Catan and Ticket to Ride owner adds Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit to its massive stable
The Fellowship gets Embraced.
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Gen Con 2022 highlights and SO MANY announcements: it’s the Dicebreaker Podcast!
Everything you need to know from the US board game convention - in under an hour.
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Indigenous TRPG Coyote & Crow’s first expansion brings an in-universe dice game to life
10 pairs of authors and artists will craft stories to fill the science fantasy alternate Earth.
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Official Stormlight Archive miniatures are on the way, but you can't use them in D&D 5E (yet)
Two dozen figures will include first official depictions of Brandon Sanderson characters.
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Indiana’s relationship with Gen Con faces a rocky future in wake of state’s abortion ban
“Passage of Senate Bill 1… will make it more difficult for us to remain committed to Indiana for our long-term home.”
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Forgotten Waters, one of 2020’s best board games, is getting a follow-up in 2023
Spiritual successor to app-powered pirate adventure set to release next summer.
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Empire’s End flips civilisation-building games on their head in a destructive bidding battle
Rome might’ve been built in a day, but it can be destroyed in under an hour.
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D&D YouTuber Blaine Simple has made a Munchkin-like party game (Sponsored)
Fight the Blight with Blaine Simple, JoCat, Crit Crab, Dingo Doodles and Davvy Chappy.
Opinion
Spirit Island is an outstanding co-op game because it’s about doing genuine good
Taking lessons from the tabletop.
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What were the best board games at Gen Con 2022? Everything we saw and played at the US tabletop convention
From epic roll-and-writes to tactical photography.
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D&D’s The Yawning Portal inn becomes the setting of a Diner Dash-esque board game
Opens its doors to adventurers in early 2023.
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Betrayal 3rd Edition’s Werewolves expansion introduces a new character and five fresh haunts
Who let the were-dogs in?
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Grow your pack and dominate a hex grid wilderness in new board game The Wolves
The wolf meeple says, ‘Awoo!’
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Endeavor: Age of Sail series is diving underwater for its latest entry
Everything’s better down where it’s wetter.
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Gen Con says harassers targeting marginalised attendees are not staff or volunteers
Convention officials continue to investigate claims of targeted hate speech and threats of violence.
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Civilisation-building series Imperium includes Mayan and Inuit cultures in new game
Broaden your horizons.
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Remember the Game of Life? Dicebreaker dives back into a classic
Taking out loans on takeaways
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Peter Pan board game sees players searching for lost children in Neverland
From the creator of Treasure Island board game.
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Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-earth gets new campaign and Witch-King of Angmar
He cannot be killed by any man.
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Sentinels of Multiverse series is getting another video game adaptation
A prime example of heroism.
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Point Salad creators announce Point City, a new casual board that trades produce for pavement
Veg out in the city.
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We are Venom in the latest expansion for Marvel Villainous board game
Let’s rock with Eddie Brock.
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Dead of Winter’s spirit lives on in social deduction title Savage: A Game of Survival
Humanity is the greatest threat.
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Surviving an alien encounter in Nemesis Lockdown
Matt, Meehan and Maddie summon all the aliens
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Quacks of Quedlinburg publisher rebrands as Northstar Games Studio to focus on “hobby gamers”
Serious hobbyists.
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Spirit Island studio reveals Strong Bad party game Dangeresque: Crime Scene Tamperer
Strong Bad sleuth good.
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Catan digital online multiplayer to be disabled on Nintendo Switch
After GameSparks’ servers shut down.
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Is the D&D movie trailer a critical hit? We react to the big reveal on the Dicebreaker Podcast!
Plus: a new Stranger Things board game from Pandemic Legacy creator, the return of classic MTG cards and everything else we’ve been playing.
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Co-op board game Spaceship Unity turns your real-life home into an episode of Star Trek
Power up your vacuum cleaner jump drive.
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New Spirit Island spinoff board game will be an entryway to cooperative settler destruction
Alongside the new game, the next expansion - Nature Incarnate - hits Backerkit in October.
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Mansions of Madness and Star Wars: Rebellion designer’s next board game lets you create thousands of unique characters
3000 Scoundrels is the latest experimental game from The Initiative and Voices In My Head studio.
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Stranger Things co-op board game coming in 2023 from Pandemic Legacy designer
And the Duffer brothers have already played it.
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Decrypto studio’s next board game has you cracking codes using a real analogue computer
Prepare for your brain to hurt.
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Deal with the Devil in next app-powered board game from Alchemists designer
Sell your soul to build a city.
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Darkest Dungeon studio requests additional funding due to shipping costs
Publisher cites COVID and war in Ukraine as contributors.
Best Games
11 board games to look for at Gen Con 2022
Travel from Great Western Trails to Weirdwood Manors.
Video
Will you be on the Pokémon TCG reality television show?
Also, the Ennie Award nominees and Azul!
Feature
How did McDonald’s, Monopoly and the US Mafia get tangled up in scandal?
Fraud and a McFlurry, please.
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Dune: War for Arrakis board game coming from War of the Ring co-creators
Don’t Harkonnen about it.
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Game of Thrones-like legacy title King’s Dilemma gets a video game from Horrible Guild’s new studio
Beware the ayes of March.
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Wordle: The Party Game will bring your mobile rivalries to the tabletop
From Clue and Monopoly publisher Hasbro.
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Doctor Who: Nemesis is like Disney Villainous with daleks, cybermen and weeping angels
One to play with extermi-mates.
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Netflix’s Squid Game is getting a board game later this month, because of course it is
Take that, Capitalism.
