Board Game News (Page 15)
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ENnie Awards 2022 winners: Thirsty Sword Lesbians sweeps top TRPG categories amid tough competition
Call of Cthulhu and Wanderhome among other big winners.
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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.
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Hex-based miniatures battler Heroscape just rose from the grave after nearly 12 years
13-year-old me is screaming with excitement.
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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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Wingspan designer’s next board game is about domesticated foxes
You'll be kitted out.
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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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Free League is reincarnating Sweden’s first TRPG as “mirth and mayhem roleplaying” game Dragonbane
The Swedish tabletop invasion goes back to its roots.
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Richard Tait, Cranium co-creator, has passed away
Following complications with COVID-19.
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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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D&D’s beholders star in RPG supplement Big Eye Chungus
Flying meatballs of doom.
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Get Tiny Epic Galaxies creator’s new solo game for £10
Take the bait.
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Almost Innocent is a co-op board game version of Clue
12 angry mice.
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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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Dragon Ball, Naruto and My Hero Academia inspire tournament tabletop RPG Stand Up! Hero!!!
Based on Alex Roberts’ storytelling game For the Queen.
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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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Post Malone is challenging fans to a game of Magic: The Gathering
With a $100,000 prize.
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Play an entire RPG in an hour with these adventures for D&D 5E
Storytelling in sixty minutes.
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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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Pokémon TCG announces Trick or Trade BOOsters as part of new seasonal program
Hand out cardboard instead of candy this year.
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Pokémon-style TRPG supplement for D&D features over 160 monsters to catch
Also designed for Pathfinder.
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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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Sons of Anarchy-esque supplement for D&D lets you form your own motorcycle gang
Highway to the Nine Hells of Baator.
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Hickory Dickory board game is giving off serious Moss vibes
House of mouse.
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Tikal co-creators team-up once again for wildlife board game Caldera Park
Moose on the loose!
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Dominaria United will return to MTG’s first home with stained glass, new legends and a touch of oil
More like Phy-wrecks-ia, am I right?
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MTG’s Unfinity set will let you slap stickers on cards to change their name, abilities and artwork
The new mechanic could be key to escaping a sticky situation.
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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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Elden Ring is getting a tabletop RPG next year
From creators of Japanese Dark Souls RPG.
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Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel’s current in-game event is the EX-Zero Festival
Special summon haters, rejoice.
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Magic: The Gathering’s next two Fortnite Secret Lairs have opened preorders
Remember to tap your bus driver.
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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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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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Legends of the Five Rings’ D&D 5E rulebook has a release date - and it's soon
Adventures in Rokugan adapts the long-running RPG to 5E, with new classes and species.
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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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Magic: The Gathering’s Dominaria United set will include original cards from 1994 boosters
Cards pulled from Legends packs will be included in upcoming expansion’s Collector Boosters.
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Leo DiCaprio pointing meme, the movie.
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Have a gander at Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves’ film cast in full gear
He looks like he strums a mean lute.
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Undaunted: Battle of Britain takes the two-player series to the skies
Dogfighting and deckbuilding.
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Marvel United publisher deal with Sony opens the door for The Last of Us, God of War TRPGs
Dungeons & Dad stories.
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Play Gloomhaven Digital alone with new solo scenarios DLC
There’s definitely an i in Inox.
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Darkest Dungeon studio requests additional funding due to shipping costs
Publisher cites COVID and war in Ukraine as contributors.
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Magic: The Gathering Arena is coming to Steam later this year, consoles in 2023
Couch-based card slinging.
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1982 film inspired by real-life disappearance of James Dallas Egbert III starred a young Tom Hanks.
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Call of Cthulhu Classic TRPG is returning for GenCon 2022
For a limited time.
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Snap Ships Tactics is like a Lego X-Wing, and it sounds fantastic
Bricks! In! Space!
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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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Spiel des Jahres 2022 winner is wildlife board game Cascadia
Living Forest wins Kennerspiel.
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Magic: The Gathering’s greatest villains are fundraising relief for Uvalde families
All donation goals will be compleated.
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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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These adorable Root meeples are moulded from actual clay
Marquise de clay.
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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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Stranger Things melds with Werewolf in a new social deduction game
Mind Flayer mix-up.
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Netflix’s Squid Game is getting a board game later this month, because of course it is
Take that, Capitalism.
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TRPG inspired by Diablo and Castlevania co-created by Dungeons & Dragons writer
One night in Hellguard.
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Don’t make me point at the “consolidation is bad for the consumer” sign again.
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The Boys expansions are coming for the Zombicide board game
Will you bring it Home-lander?
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Play as Stranger Things characters in Dungeons & Dragons with free supplement
Make your own Hellfire Club.
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A Pokémon TCG reality show is in the works
The Only Way Is Ekans.
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Disney Kingdomania looks like a loot box board game
With 40 characters - plus items and 'glitched' variants - to collect in randomised packs.
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Mörk Borg’s artless, plain-text edition costs nothing and finally adds accessibility.
This should be a day-one feature for tabletop RPGs.
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Consolidation is *checks notes* good for customers? That can’t be right.
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Terrifying Hieronymus Bosch paintings come to life in this horror TRPG
Hell never looked so awful.
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Root digital developer bringing Wings of Glory to PC, mobile and The Last Gameboard
Winging its way to Steam, App Store and Google Play.
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Thirsty Sword Lesbians, Uncaged: Goddesses and Colostle clinch major noms in the 2022 ENnie Awards
Uncaged: Goddesses, Wanderhome and Jianghsi among other top contenders.
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Phoenix burns a path into Marvel Champions: The Card Game
Play Jean Grey.
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Bloodborne meets Sherlock Holmes in this solo/co-op tabletop RPG
Spinning Yarns in Yharnam.
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The studio plans to release a public statement soon calling the allegations against Stone “inaccurate”.
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Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG manga creator Kazuki Takahashi has passed away
At the age of 60.
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Santa and Krampus give the gift of brawling this Christmas with Dice Throne
The fight before Christmas.
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Award-winning co-op game The Crew turned into a choose-your-own-adventure style book
Silence in the space library.
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Magic: The Gathering pushes Warhammer 40,000 Commander decks into October
Delayed deployment.
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Punk rock musician Frank Carter has made a card game
Alongside Rattlesnakes guitarist Dean Richardson.
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Over 9 billion Pokémon cards were printed last year, a fifth of all the cards ever made
That's one way to deal with a shortage.
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This tabletop RPG Blades of Ether sure looks a lot like Xenoblade Chronicles
You’ll be really feeling it!
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Great British Bake Off-inspired tabletop RPG lets you roll up a star baker
Roll for Britishness.
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Fan-made Pokémon Master Trainer game features levelling up and shopping
Time to go on an adventure!
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De-colonialised version of Puerto Rico game focuses on autonomous country
Previous editions perpetuated colonialist narratives.
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We’re not talking about spreading Pokérus, here.
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Kickstarter brings Zine Quest back to February for 2023’s fifth annual indie TRPG event
A representative says the creator-focused event will keep this schedule going forward.
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Arkham Horror TCG expansion adds six new investigators and an open-world campaign
Search for the Scarlet Keys.
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Ticket to Ride studio teams up with Deep Blue creators for racing board game
Pedal to the Metal!