Board Game News (Page 30)
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Zombicide: Undead or Alive rides the co-op series into the Wild West
Rotten and tootin’.
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The One Ring 2E journeys closer to release with a Kickstarter campaign later this week
Arriving precisely when it means to.
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Magic: The Gathering and Monopoly had their “biggest year ever” in 2020, Hasbro says
Dungeons & Dragons retained its growing popularity, as well.
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Clank! studio announces second edition of its sci-fi action board game Gravwell
Race through space.
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Pokémon-themed mod for Wingspan replaces birds with Gengar, Slowpoke and Moltres
Wait, that last one is still a bird.
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Horror RPG Call of Cthulhu is bigger than D&D in Japan
More Japanese-language copies sold than all other languages combined.
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Joining confirmed lead Chris Pine.
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Gaston flexes his way into Disney Villainous' standalone expansion Despicable Plots
No one graces a box likes Gaston.
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Apothecaria mixes Theme Hospital and Stardew Valley for a potent solo journalling RPG
Hair of the werewolf.
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Let’s Role is a free online platform for playing RPGs that’s launching this autumn
Includes microtransactions for cosmetics.
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The Grizzled spin-off We Care sees players treating patients on the frontlines of a medical crisis
Donations made to Doctors Without Borders for every copy sold.
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Netflix’s The Dragon Prince adapted as tabletop RPG Tales of Xadia
Public playtest materials available now.
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Catan VR invites Oculus Quest and Quest 2 owners to trade digital wood
Electric sheep are no longer a dream.
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Keyforge and Star Wars Miniatures World Championships delayed until 2022
Organised play set to potentially return later this year.
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Magic: The Gathering’s next Secret Lair features alternate art by Black artists
Proceeds benefit Black Girls Code.
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Pandemic studio announces Cryo, a board game that puts its players on thin ice
A tundra of trouble.
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Trace a magical diagram using ice skates and a dry erase marker in tabletop RPG Summon Skate
Triple axel a demon in the face.
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Indie video game Extreme Meatpunks Forever builds a tabletop RPG out of guts and gumption
Quickstart rules already available.
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Quest publisher plans to support new RPG writers with The Adventure Award
Grant recipients will create short quests for the fantasy game.
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YouTuber Logan Paul will auction first-edition Pokémon card boosters live on stream
A different kind of boxing.
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Here’s our first look at the gameplay of Arkham Horror video game Mother’s Embrace
If I were eldritch man.
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Avatar: The Last Airbender and Legend of Korra are being adapted into a tabletop RPG
Roll to smash cabbage cart.
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Hibernation Games bundle delivers five journalling RPGs to help weather the cold
Fun for all ice ages.
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CoraQuest is a dungeon-crawling board game that began life as a homework project
Add treasure and subtract monsters.
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Sink your teeth into What We Do in the Shadows-inspired RPG Low Stakes
Do your dark bidding on the internet.
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Upwind is a roleplaying game inspired by Studio Ghibli and Treasure Planet
Co-created by writers behind D&D 5E and World of Darkness.
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Zinequest 3 delivers a month of indie RPG projects to support on Kickstarter throughout February
Helm a rusted spaceship, fall out of time or solve inter-generational conflict.
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Long Shot: The Dice Game takes roll-and-write games to the races
No horsing around.
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New edition of World’s Fair 1893 makes space for BIPOC exhibitors and attendees
Eat cotton candy on a ferris wheel as Susan B. Anthony.
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Defend a city in Champions of Midgard creator’s next game, Meeples & Monsters
Rowan in the right direction.
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Cyberpunk Red releases free Cyberchair DLC in collaboration with D&D combat wheelchair designer
Night City’s hottest new ride.
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Merchants of Magick is a roll-and-write game based in the Set a Watch universe
Shop until you drop.
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Exploding Kittens makers’ next game is Tacocat Spelled Backwards, out this month
Welcome to the palindrome.
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Itch.io bundle raises relief funds for Croatians affected by recent earthquakes
$25 bundle including RPGs and video games runs through February 22nd.
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Free time during lockdown helped board game sales to jump in 2020 - report
Games and Puzzles market exceeded $11bn last year, with $12bn predicted in 2021, according to Euromonitor International.
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Monster Hunter World: The Board Game will launch on Kickstarter in April
Grab your hammer and potions, hunters.
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Sushi Go! designer’s next board game transports players to Llamaland
Wool you come along?
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Team up with Sherlock Holmes and Robin Hood in the next Unlock! escape room game
Can you open the Loxley?
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Dungeons & Dragons’ Gothic Lineages offer an alternative to race, but not yet a replacement
Moving the needle on character creation options - just.
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Joan of Arc designer is working on an open-world cyberpunk board game about solving murders
But early details about Cyber Odyssey’s setting raise questions of cultural sensitivity.
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Comic-book card game Sentinels of the Multiverse flies back into action with a Definitive Edition
“Writing and gameplay have both been stripped down and rebuilt.”
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Carcassonne’s 20th anniversary edition lets you customise the classic board game’s meeples
Countryside celebration.
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Cyberpunk social deduction game Human Punishment returns with prequel The Beginning
Turing up the night.
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Pandemic’s speedy spin-off Hot Zone is headed to Europe in a new game
International inoculation in an instant.
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UK Games Expo 2021 announces summer dates for return of in-person convention
Betting large on eight-week delay.
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Blood Rage designer teases another entry in the series, Exploding Kittens family game and more
Eric Lang confirms an upcoming project with Detective co-creator.
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Alice is Missing publisher shreds into the apocalypse with new RPG Gods of Metal: Ragnarock
Poseurs need not apply.
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Quest’s first expansion adds a character book, bestiary and treasure book to the RPG
Alongside card decks for characters, beasts and items.
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Dragonlance authors announce new trilogy of “Classic” D&D novels beginning this year
Wizards of the Coast apparently legally mollified.
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Tabletop games raised $236m on Kickstarter in 2020, another record-breaking year
Accounting for nearly a third of all money raised on the crowdfunding site.
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Dead of Winter co-designer launches own studio, announces debut board game and RPG
Plus a deckbuilding video game.
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Grab 60+ indie RPGs on Itch.io and help designers create better-looking games
Itch.io bundle runs until February 1st.
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15th anniversary edition of Ticket to Ride: Europe coming this spring
Railways to remember.
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Dune adventure board game trilogy on the way, starting with this year’s House Secrets
Intergalactic investigation.
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Magic: The Gathering Arena details mobile early access and future updates
At the tap of your fingers.
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Ultimate Railroads combines Russian, German, American and Asian Railroads into a single box
Trainspotting around the world.
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Funagain Games CEO steps down after retailer’s employees decry sexist comments
Jeff DeBoer has relinquished control of the company, but many call for divestment.
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Magic: The Gathering is getting a new comic book series later this year
First issue of Magic arriving in April.
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Night Market is a Eurogame that wants to celebrate the food stalls of Taiwan
Hungry, hungry meeples.
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Troyes co-designer and Lisboa artist team up for board game Carnegie
Based on the life of the philanthropist and industrialist.
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Boss Monster spin-off gets a new name, Overboss, and release next month
World-building game inspired by retro video games comes to retail.
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HeroQuest: The Card Game seemingly leaked for spring release
Rumour delving.
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Azul and Century studio remaking fantasy betting game Colossal Arena as Equinox
A staggering announcement.
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Marco Polo publisher will no longer work with Daniele Tascini following “racist remarks”
Future sales of his games will benefit anti-racist charities.
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Remix Monopoly, Cluedo and other classics into better games with hack collection A Fine Mend
Milton Bradley, eat your heart out.
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John Wick writer developing live-action Dungeons & Dragons TV series
Hasbro previously said it was considering "a couple of different approaches” to adapting RPG for small screen.
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Lighthearted is an RPG that mixes The Breakfast Club with magic and vampires
Don’t you play without me.
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Autographed Black Lotus looks set to become Magic: The Gathering’s most valuable card
Mint-condition 1993 Alpha card autographed by artist and designer Christopher Rush up for auction on eBay.
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Teotihuacan publisher cuts ties with designer over “racist remarks” and ‘failed’ apology
Tzolk’in co-creator Daniele Tascini faces criticism from the community, as well.
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After selling for $360,000.
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Scouts can soon earn a Dungeons & Dragons activity badge
Two decades too late for us, sadly.