News
An Elder Scrolls title has been teased by the studio behind Too Many Bones
The Skyrim’s the limit.
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News
“Digital fatigue” is fuelling board game sales among adults - report
Games and Puzzles market expected to top $12bn worldwide this year, Euromonitor International predicts.
News
Magic: The Gathering Arena’s next Historic Anthology digitises the Phyrexian Praetors
Compleat in box.
News
Deckbuilding game Paperback Adventures is like Slay the Spire, but with spelling
Explore worlds using words.
News
Dominion’s new mobile and PC app has an AI that can learn cards that don’t exist yet
Upcoming digital version of deckbuilder evolves neural network used in Race for the Galaxy.
News
CollegeHumor is releasing a party game based on its Um, Actually! YouTube series
Reply guys universally suck.
News
Frosthaven designer to address “harmful” tropes, decolonise its design and talks cultural consultancy
Chilling introspection.
Interview
“We want to amplify that games are truly for everyone”: Keystone studio founders on championing diversity and community in tabletop
Isaac Vega and Lindsey Rode discuss launching Rose Gauntlet Entertainment and the label’s debut release.
News
As d’Or winner and Spiel des Jahres nominee MicroMacro is getting a sequel
Time to find more crimes.
News
Myth & Goal wants to be a very different kind of fantasy football game from Blood Bowl
Shares Warhammer spin-off’s “design DNA” but isn’t a spiritual successor, designers insist.
News
Transformers deckbuilding game officially announced, Decepticons coming in future expansions
Are you Optimus Primed?
News
Spiel des Jahres 2021 nominees: Here are this year’s frontrunners for board gaming’s biggest award
As well as the ‘expert’ Kennerspiel des Jahres and kid-friendly Kinderspiel.
News
Destinies mixes a digital app with a competitive board game that prioritises player choice
Launching under a slightly different name from its Kickstarter.
Video
We invent the greatest board games that don’t exist in the first live Dicebreaker Podcast!
New time, new format, same old nonsense.
News
Mosaic is a new civilisation title from the creator of the Age of Empires III board game
As well as Raccoon Tycoon and Railways of the World.
News
Life After Dungeon creators hope to let you play as your dead RPG characters
“It’s a big if. I don’t know if it has ever been done before.”
News
Indie platform Itch.io’s inaugural Creator Day eschews revenue cuts for 24 hours
The first of many?
News
Magic: The Gathering dissolves its Pro League to “focus on bottom up growth”
Currently no details or date for replacement structure
News
Last Message mixes Mysterium with a drawing game as you doodle to solve crime
Draw the connection.
Deals
Vampire: The Masquerade’s Summer of Blood bundles bite up to $150 off the gothic RPG
A bloody good deal.
News
Roll bones like a real Viking with the physical Orlog game from Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla
Only 500 being initially produced.
News
Target will no longer sell trading cards in stores following increasingly violent customer behavior
Follows rising demand for Pokémon boxes and boosters among collectors and scalpers.
News
Monopoly: Lifesized mixes escape room antics with the classic real estate board game
Money so big your little sibling can't steal it.
News
Pandemic: Hot Zone - Europe gets a release date and free print-and-play you can try right now
Can be combined with North America spin-off using new Hemispheres rules.
News
First board game from Critical Role publishing studio is coming later this month
Get ready to whisper Uk’otoa....
News
Dead of Winter co-creator is working on a new horror board game that’s “actually scary”
“Just pay attention to There Will Be Ghosts.”
Best Games
SPONSORED: 7 most unique board games that are truly original
You’ve never played anything like these before.
News
The designer of Dice Hospital is creating two board games for newly founded studio, Bright Eye Games
Coraquest also coming from new company.
News
Pixel Tactics, the 16-bit inspired tabletop title, is becoming an actual video game
From admiration to imitation.
Opinion
Unmatched is the Avengers Assemble of board games - it successfully unites a team of unlikely heroes
Kneel before this excellent tabletop series.
News
After just two years of releases, Story Machine Games closes its doors
In response to the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
News
Warhammer Age of Sigmar’s announced third edition shakes up the table and the storyline
Reforged and ready to roll.
Opinion
“To an outsider we were success incarnate, but inside we were hollow”: How my dream job at a board game startup became a nightmare
What appeared to be a Kickstarter darling and fast-growing company was a carefully projected illusion.
News
Art Decko is a deckbuilding game about collecting expensive pieces of art
Don’t get painted into a corner.
Video
What should hobby newcomers play after gateway games? Professor Meg joins us on the Dicebreaker Podcast!
Plus this week's must-know news, what we've been playing and your questions answered.
News
US in-person Magic: The Gathering events to return in time for Modern Horizons 2 release
Local game stores must still follow government safety guidelines.
News
Magic: The Gathering’s upcoming Dungeons & Dragons crossover set will include at least one (in)famous weapon
Give me cellar rats already!
Interview
One More Multiverse co-founder on helping give tabletop RPGs a ‘good nudge into the mainstream’
Sara Alfageeh talks focusing on indies first, helping designers make a living and giving players customisability.
News
Delve through frost-choked arctic ruins one layer at a time in competitive board game Ice
It ain’t easy being freezy.
News
Investigate a world of fallen heroes and dark fairy tales in the horror RPG, Broken Tales
Storybook slayings.
News
Indiana Jones, Tomb Raider and Uncharted-inspired RPG Broken Compass returns to Kickstarter next week
With new adventures exploring the golden age of piracy and Jules Verne-style expeditions.
News
Voidfall is an epic sci-fi board game co-created by the designer of Anachrony
Domineum oblivion.
Review
Dune: Adventures in the Imperium RPG review - as dense and complex as the sci-fi classic
The dice must flow.
News
Designer of Minecraft: Builders & Biomes teams up with Munchkin artist to create drawing game, Doodle Dungeon
Ink-credibly evil intentions.
News
Kiwi Chow Down completes a trilogy of flightless bird-themed board games
Three feathered friends.
How To
SPONSORED: How to host a great board game night
From snacks to seating, what makes for the perfect event for playing board games?
News
Nowhereville is a horror RPG inspired by Stephen King novels and Twin Peaks
You can roll anytime you like, but you can never leave.
News
Experience espionage alone in a solo card game about spies called Harsh Shadows
Me, myself and spy.
News
Galactic 2E is a Star Wars inspired tabletop game that puts the focus on relationships
No Dice, No Midi-chlorians.
News
Treasures of the Troll King is an excellent example of the Mörk Borg indie design space
Abandon all hope (and a tenner), ye who enter.
News
Tabletop RPG Inspirisles will teach you sign language as you play
Players use ASL and BSL to cast spells in a Celtic-inspired world.
Deals
Stationfall is like an Among Us board game where everyone has something to hide
Spacechimp seems sus.
News
Author of The Stormlight Archive reaches out for ideas on another tabletop adaptation
Herald-ing the next potential release.
News
Fallout: Wasteland Warfare miniatures game takes a gamble on New Vegas with its latest expansion
It’s the region with Caesar’s Legion.
Opinion
As thrilling as it is simple, Pack Wars is one of Magic: The Gathering’s best overlooked formats
Here’s how - and why - to play.
Best Games
10 best movie board games that are actually good
Not all games based on movies are bad - and we’re here to prove it!
News
Bundle of Holding’s starter packs introduce ready-to-play RPG deals won’t expire
Roleplay without the rush.
News
Deep Sea Adventure studio Oink is bringing its delightful board games to Nintendo Switch
Nintend-to back the Kickstarter?
Video
Stardew Valley: The Board Game impressions, board game storage tips and our favourite legacy games - it’s the Dicebreaker Podcast!
We talk Stardew Valley: The Board Game, MTG Arena, Gloomhaven Digital, Unmatched and more.
News
Ironsworn: Starforged spin-off RPG swaps dark fantasy for a sci-fi setting inspired by The Mandalorian
Making vows in the vastness of space.
News
Catan: Treasures, Dragons & Adventures expansion is arriving in English this summer
For the first time since its release in 2009.
News
Keepsake game The Shape of Shadows transforms a day planner into a magician’s grimoire
A date with divination.
News
Teeth: Blood Cotillion is an RPG one shot about hunting occult horrors at a high-society ball
Belle of the battle.
News
Green Hell, a survivalist video game set in a deadly rainforest, is being adapted into a board game
Adventures in the Amazon.
Feature
Magic: The Gathering players say Killian Lu is the “Panda Expressification of Asian Culture”
The character’s version of representation frustrates AAPI fans.
Opinion
Lines and veils, and other RPG safety tools, open up tabletop roleplaying for everyone
Ensuring comfortable, collaborative creativity around the table.
News
Jeff Goldblum is going to be playing Dungeons & Dragons on an actual play podcast
Dice finds a way.
News
Cyberpunk Red: Combat Zone turns the tabletop RPG into a beginner-friendly miniatures game
First game built on [RE]action system.
News
Hellboy: The Dice Game is a fast-paced exploration title about fighting frog monsters
Rolling against ribbits.
News
Vampire: The Masquerade RPG universe World of Darkness is getting its own film and TV franchise
From the people behind Arrival and The Witcher.
Best Games
The best board game box art you could hang on your wall
This gallery of beautiful box artwork has everything from adorable woodland critters to a noir crime scene.
News
Magic: The Gathering’s latest Secret Lair Superdrop might require a magnifying glass
Tap to strain eyes.
Opinion
MTG Arena on mobile is great, but it highlights one of the game’s worst accessibility issues
Word (size) up.
News
Follow in the gruesome footsteps of your forebears in the Frankenstein-inspired horror board game, My Father’s Work
An experimental experience.
News
20 Questions-meets-Mastermind party game Master Word gets free two-player rules and family-friendly mode
Available to download now, with inclusion in future printings.
News
A third game in the Undaunted deckbuilding series is on its way
Could be set in either the Pacific Theatre or Eastern Front.
News
Wavelength publisher set to release catapulting dexterity game Hurlyburly
“When the battle’s lost and won.”
Opinion
Call of Cthulhu’s epic Masks of Nyarlathotep shows the perfect way to run a RPG campaign over years
Into the Months of Madness.
Deals
Catan is under £23 on Amazon UK, the lowest price it’s ever been
With the 25th Anniversary Edition cheaper than ever on Amazon US.
News
‘Incredibly rare’ Pokémon card signed by studio founder sells for almost $250,000
Ishihara GX sets a new record for most valuable Pokémon card from 2017.
Opinion
Is Strixhaven a good entry point for the Magic: The Gathering newcomers? Well, it’s complicated.
For the cardboard curious.
News
Sea of Thieves RPG’s first big expansion adds ghost ships, ashen lords, vaults and emissaries
A Tale of Two Captains out in digital now, with a print release in August.
Video
Do we need a Metacritic for board game reviews? We discuss on this week’s Dicebreaker Podcast!
And choose our favourite meeple shapes.
Feature
Tabletop roleplaying has given players comfort, connection and control in a world that’s taken them away
“A really big thing is having an arena where you feel like you have some control over the stories that are told.”
News
Fantasy Flight founder and ex-CEO has bought and rebranded the publisher’s Game Center
What’s in a name?