Features

Feature: “I spend most of my days wandering around talking to myself”: Baldur’s Gate 3, Witcher 3 and Horizon: Forbidden West actors on how to be a better roleplayer

And why collaboration is the most important thing.

Feature: Evil Mickey Mouse, mysterious seaweed and different timelines: what’s going on in Disney Lorcana’s secret story?

Everything we know so far, and some theories of our own as to what comes next.

Feature: Baldur’s Gate 3 tips from a seasoned Dungeons & Dragons player

These are invaluable to your quest in the Forgotten Realms.

Feature: How a card game helped avoid nuclear war

Or: a brief history of game theory.

Feature: The new-look Cities of Sigmar army is a rousing return for what was a hodgepodge of Warhammer Fantasy holdovers

Greater than the sum of its parts.

Feature: What D&D is to fantasy roleplaying, Traveller is to sci-fi RPGs - and its influence has never been greater, from Coriolis to Starfield

Venturing into the classic tabletop RPG that inspired Starfield.

Feature: The Pokémon World Championships’ transformation of Japan into a real-life Pokémon world was unlike anything I’ve ever experienced

Yokohama’s hosting of the TCG and video games’ prestige tournament put celebration and community first.

Feature: Why are board games that simply let Black players have fun still all too rare?

Examining the Leisure Divide.

Feature: 6 D&D references in Baldur’s Gate 3 that you might not know about

D&Did you know?

Feature: Wilds of Eldraine is a triumph of fairy tale card design and the first set in new era of Magic: The Gathering

Putting the magic in Magic.

Feature: Subbuteo plays on: How the iconic tabletop football game inspired a generation of players and artists - and avoided relegation

What do birds, streakers and The Beatles have to do with the flick-and-kick classic?

Feature: The world's best Pokémon TCG players on the decks, lucky draws and near-defeats that led to their World Championship wins

This year’s world champions reflect on their winning strategies.

Feature: A weekend with Jessica Robinson: the expectations and pressures of the record-making British Yu-Gi-Oh! pro at this year’s World Championships

The TCG’s first female European champion and first woman to compete at Worlds recalls her journey to the top.

Feature: Magic: The Gathering isn’t in a rush to try and top its ‘intensely ambitious’ Avengers: Endgame moment from March of the Machine

“It definitely pushed our team to a level of world-building that I wouldn’t be eager to return to.”

Feature: Pokémon's new animated series Path to the Peak is a charming introduction to the trading card game

A short but sweet inspiring tale of taking your TCG talents to the next level.

Feature: The Amsterdam board game club that became one woman's legacy

“People come in, they don’t know anybody, and then they are there for two years.”

Feature: A weekend of celebration, competition and community among Yu-Gi-Oh!’s top players at the first World Championships in four years

Meeting with hopefuls - and eventual champions - ahead of their appearance on the card game’s grandest stage.

Feature: Guilty Gear Strive: The Board Game hits as fast and hard as the video game fighter

I’m Sol’d.

Feature: Star Wars: Unlimited's fan-pleasing trading card game struggles to escape the shadow of its peers

A good TCG at the wrong time?

Feature: Yu-Gi-Oh!’s first Master Duel world champions and Duel Links winner on the sacrifice of qualifying and team camaraderie on the TCG’s grandest digital stage

Team snipehunters and Jian Yu Jiang discuss their victories at the first Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championships in four years.

Feature: Could another Pokémon card ever dethrone the Pikachu Illustrator as the TCG’s Holy Grail? Collectors weigh in

After selling for a record $5.2m, Pokémon's most valuable card has only reinforced its legendary status.

Feature: Yu-Gi-Oh! champion Paulie Aronson on winning the TCG’s first Worlds since 2019 to become its first-ever US victor

Yu-Gi-Oh!’s top player discusses the nerves of competing on the global stage, dealing with human mistakes - and missing his birthday celebrations to practise.

Feature: Commander Masters is a fantastic Magic: The Gathering set that’s impossible to recommend due to its exhausting, extortionate price

Capitalism Masters.

Feature: Disney Lorcana lays an impressive, enchanting foundation for trading card games’ biggest shift in 25 years

A glimmer of brilliance.

Feature: 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.

Feature: The Witcher’s latest board game is a monster-slaying romp that can’t match the rich world of the video games

Combat outshines story in the solid, if shallow, action-adventure adaptation.

Feature: What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!

Prepare for a healthy dose of The Witcher content!

Feature: Why the Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship is such a big deal - and why you should be watching

As the tournament of top-tier duellists returns for the first time in four years.

Feature: What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!

Terrifying horror and terrific trains!

Feature: Yu-Gi-Oh!’s strangest monsters are back, and they could shake-up the TCG’s competitive scene

Looking back on the long and bumpy history of ritual monsters.

Feature: What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!

Cats, casters,currents and cantankerous gods.

Feature: Warhammer: Age of Sigmar’s first RTS Realms of Ruin is a very promising successor to Dawn of War 2 - hands-on impressions

Worth the waaaagh-t?

Feature: Here’s how the Adventure Time RPG’s new Yes And system works

Come on, grab your dice.

Feature: What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!

One bumper edition!

Feature: From D&D and Pathfinder to Critical Role, cultural consultants have never been more important in the tabletop RPG industry

“It's always been important to engage with this kind of work. It just wasn't done before.”

Feature: What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!

Fantastical adventures

Feature: Tales of Middle-earth is an excellent reimagining of Lord of the Rings that raises the bar for Magic: The Gathering’s crossovers

One set to guide them all.

Feature: Monster Hunter-inspired RPG Wilderfeast is a delectable celebration of food and living in harmony with nature - exclusive preview

An exclusive first look at KC Shi’s upcoming game of cooking, combat and eco-awareness as its quickstart rules release.

Feature: South Korea’s Yu-Gi-Oh! scene is a TCG community unlike anywhere else in the world

The heart in the cards.

Feature: What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!

Monsters, mayhem and Mordor.

Feature: Sudoku meets Minesweeper in nifty puzzle board game Tiwanaku - hands-on impressions

It’s definitely a grower.

Feature: Scythe spin-off Expeditions feels more like a missed opportunity than a direct sequel – hands-on preview

Not exactly meteoric.

Feature: What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!

Painting, apawthecary and more!

Feature: Blue-Eyes White Dragon for dessert? We tried Yu-Gi-Oh!’s Japan-only 25th anniversary food menu

The hungriest heart of the cards.

Feature: Disney Lorcana’s gameplay has potential but its starter set lacks a clear identity – hands-on preview

Can it go the distance?

Feature: Candela Obscura’s first mystery will be solving the horror RPG’s identity crisis

The first new tabletop RPG from Critical Role feels more like Diet Blades with a splash of Vaesen.

Feature: What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!

Masks, magic, marines and music.

Feature: What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!

Suffragettes, legends, Romans and mice.

Feature: Pokémon’s European International Championship saw a dramatic David and Goliath showdown in the TCG’s competitive scene

An unproven deck faced near-unbeaten consistency amidst the first mid-season rotation in over a decade.

Feature: What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!

Playing games Till the Last Gasp.

Feature: Dead Cells’ board game nails the roguelike genre - and I’m finally hooked

Hands-on with the latest video game adaptation.

Feature: The story of Yata-Lock, the deck that broke Yu-Gi-Oh! and birthed the TCG's first competitive banlist

Bird of prey.

Feature: Warhammer 40k’s 10th Edition has turned me around from the missteps of 9E

Consumed by the Leviathan.

Feature: March of the Machine: Aftermath is a Magic: The Gathering oddity in every possible way

Picking up the pieces.

Feature: What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!

From real history to great fiction.

Feature: What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!

Magic, moles and Mancunians.

Feature: “It gives us a sense of pride”: Adugo, the Indigenous Brazilian board game helping to teach maths and protect wildlife

The traditional ‘Jaguar Game’ has broken down barriers to education and conservation awareness.

Feature: Every spell cast in Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

From Arcane Gate to Chaos Bolt.

Feature: What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!

Trains, guns and Japanese warfare.

Feature: The history of Yu-Gi-Oh!’s Exodia, the most complicated win condition in trading card games

Victory for an arm and a leg?

Feature: What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!

Magic, gloom and My Little Pony.

Feature: Magic: The Gathering’s Endgame, March of the Machine, wraps up the card game’s years-long storyline with a fan-pleasing finale

Battles throughout the multiverse.

Feature: Pokémon TCG champions give their tips on how to be the very best

You teach me and I’ll teach you.

Feature: What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!

There’s magic in the air.

Feature: An introduction to Yu-Gi-Oh! Rush Duel, the faster, simpler reboot breathing fresh life into the TCG

Why you should play Rush Duel, if you ever can.

Feature: What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!

Tell us what’s on your table.

Feature: The next D&D movie could see the party level up – here’s what to expect

What a little XP could do for Honor Among Thieves’ adventurers

Feature: Mech miniatures classic BattleTech is a surprisingly approachable, affordable - and brilliantly compelling - way into wargaming

The decades-old franchise continues to be well worth picking up for the first time.

Feature: What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!

Tell us what’s on your table.

Feature: Pokémon TCG’s Scarlet & Violet expansion isn’t groundbreaking, but it does have some great Paldean newbies - hands-on preview

The long and Klawf of it.

Feature: An Awkward transition: How the creators of your favourite PS2 quiz game went from pixels to paper

‘I like the purity of board games; you can just really focus on creating the fun.’

Feature: Does Yu-Gi-Oh! Speed Duel have a future? A look back - and forward - at the TCG’s troubled spin-off

Duel or die.

Feature: What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!

Tell us what’s on your table.

Feature: Jubensha: the mix of Cluedo, Werewolf and LARP that became a Chinese phenomenon

How playable murder-mysteries exploded in popularity and weathered the pandemic.

Feature: What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!

Tell us what’s on your table.

Feature: What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!

Tell us what’s on your table.

Feature: What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!

Tell us what’s on your table.

Feature: Star Wars: Legion is the tabletop miniatures game fans of the films deserve

Checking in with Star Wars’ answer to Warhammer 40,000, five years on.

Feature: What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!

Tell us what’s on your table.

Feature: Phyrexia: All Will Be One is a bad time for Magic: The Gathering’s characters, but a very good time for players

Toxic, but not in a bad way.

Feature: Broken Weave: Inside the D&D 5E tragic fantasy world shaped by Elden Ring, Annihilation and living through a pandemic

“It’s a tale of what comes after everything falls apart.”

Feature: Mantis Falls solves one of board gaming’s biggest problems for fans of Werewolf and social deduction - and it might be an all-timer

Witness perfection.

Feature: What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!

Let us know what’s on your table lately!

Feature: What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!

Let us know what’s on your table lately!

Feature: Exploring Sword World, Japan’s answer to Dungeons & Dragons from the studio behind the Elden Ring tabletop RPG

The history of legendary tabletop creator Group SNE.

Feature: Oros is like classic video game Populous as a board game - and far more interesting than it seems

God-like?

Feature: New cards, old nostalgia and digital ambitions: Yu-Gi-Oh! at Jump Festa gave a glimpse at how the TCG will mark its 25th anniversary

As the home of Yu-Gi-Oh! prepares to celebrate the iconic series.

Feature: What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been enjoying!

Let us know what’s on your tabletop.

Feature: This X-Wing-style miniatures game lets you build your own ships like Lego - and it's one of 2023's unmissable releases

Snap Ships Tactics is far more than its toy gimmick.

Feature: A love letter to Magic: The Gathering and its players, Dominaria Remastered is a strong start to 2023 for the TCG

27-in-1 design.

Feature: What is OSR? A newcomer’s guide to the Old School Renaissance RPGs reviving classic D&D

From retro clones of original D&D to modern successors to ‘70s roleplaying, OSR has never been bigger - or better.

Feature: Meehan’s memories of PAX Unplugged 2022 – from Funyuns to Old Spice

Brit in the big city.

Feature: Witchcraft board game Septima strikes a magical balance between cooperative and competitive

Cast a spell on you.

Feature: Boop, a two-player board game about bouncy kittens on a bed, is every bit as delightful as it sounds

Feline high.

Feature: Dark Souls: The Board Game’s revised edition fixes many of the original’s flaws, but introduces a few of its own

A definite improvement, at a cost.

Feature: How well do you know Dungeons & Dragons? Roll for WIS with our quiz! (Sponsored)

Test your knowledge of D&D lore, rules and history.

Feature: Warhammer Underworlds is a fast and furious entry point to Age of Sigmar and the world of miniatures

Obligatory Punderworld.

Feature: Role’s co-founder isn’t worried about D&D’s plans for the online RPG space

CEO and co-founder Elle Dwight talks to Dicebreaker about actual play, intimacy in streaming and the dragon-branded elephant in the room.

Feature: We’ve played the Elden Ring board game - here’s how it works, and what we thought

90 minutes in the Lands Between.

Feature: Dinosaur Island and Machi Koro studio employees allege toxic workplace directly caused by “negligent” owners

Several former employees, contractors and designers say the environment within the rising star publisher grinds people down to “anxious, overworked” stubs.