Features Archive

Feature: Magic: The Gathering’s Theros: Beyond Death set is a wild, cosmic ride through myth and madness

Hera today, gone tomorrow.

Magic: The Gathering's Theros: Beyond Death is a perfect tribute to Greek mythology

Homer run.

Feature: Board game releases 2020: 10 upcoming board games you should play this year

Pandemic Legacy: Season 3, new Gloomhaven and Root creator’s next game lead the biggest tabletop titles of the next 12 months.

Feature: The afterlife of Android: Netrunner - the community taking a beloved card game's future into their own hands

“It felt like losing a friend.”

Feature: Adeptus Titanicus: the staggering Warhammer 40,000 game where stories loom as large as mechs

"We wanted each death to be memorable."

Feature: Meet the Original Dungeons & Dragons diehards still playing by '70s rules

Refusing to roll with the times.

Feature: 10 hours with Magic: The Gathering Arena got me back into trading card games

Sparky rekindled.

Feature: Five predictions about the future that the Cyberpunk 2020 RPG did - and didn't - get right (so far)

Twenty-twenty vision.

Game of the Year 2019: Matt Jarvis' Top 5

Ahead of the Pax.

Game of the Year 2019 guest list: Imperial Settlers designer Ignacy Trzewiczek

The designer of Robinson Crusoe, Detective and more picks his favourite board games of the year.

Game of the Year 2019 guest list: Call of Cthulhu creative director Mike Mason

Creative director for Lovecraftian RPG Call of Cthulhu selects his tabletop games of the year.

Game of the Year 2019 guest list: Sushi Go! designer Phil Walker-Harding

The mind behind Bärenpark, Imhotep and the delicious card game series picks his top five games of 2019.

Game of the Year 2019: Sara Elsam's Top 5

Crime, cannibals and cursed potions.

Game of the Year 2019 guest list: Root and Pax Pamir 2E designers Cole and Drew Wehrle

Wehrlegig Games on the appeal of tabletop experiences with an ‘uncompromising vision’.

Game of the Year 2019: Alex Meehan’s Top 5

A detective skulks into a bar on a quest to forge a key and eat a salad.

In being both profound and playable, Pax Pamir 2E became one of the most important board games of 2019

Gaming the Great Game.

Feature: We played the worst Christmas board games on the UK High Street so you don’t have to

Christmas crappers.

Why Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay is the best tabletop RPG you aren't playing

A roleplaying game to lose your head over.

Feature: Welcome to Dicebreaker!

Your new home for all things board games, RPGs and tabletop, plus silly jokes.

Feature: Here are the best new board games to play at PAX Unplugged 2019

The 10 games we’re most excited to check out this weekend in Philly.

Going Solo: How playing tabletop games alone went from sad to rad

Party for one.

Feature: Choosing when to settle down is everything in Flotilla, one of 2019’s most unique board games

Catch you on the flip side.

Feature: A dream far, far away? Meet the world’s best Star Wars X-Wing players struggling to turn the tournament scene pro

"I don't see a future where a miniatures game player is professional.”

Dungeons & Dragons' best worst spell: Cooking up chaos and comedy with Conjure Food and Water

'45 pounds of bland but nourishing food'