Staff Writer
Alex’s journey to Dicebreaker began with writing insightful video game coverage for outlets such as Kotaku, Waypoint and PC Gamer. Her unique approach to analysing pop culture and knack for witty storytelling finally secured her a forever home producing news, features and reviews with the Dicebreaker team. She’s also obsessed with playing Vampire: The Masquerade, and won’t stop talking about it.
Pipeline studio serves a piping hot cup of Joe with its next game, Coffee Traders
Something’s brewing.
Plus lots of roleplaying advice.
Sail the treetops in Wildsea, a futuristic RPG inspired by Bastion and Blades in the Dark
Featuring chainsaw ships.
Perilous RPG swaps a GM for story cards written by Kids on Brooms co-creator
From the designer of Mage Against the Machine.
Digital tabletop gaming console SquareOne allows players to use actual cards and tokens
Set to support games like Cthulhu Wars and The Crew.
D&D book Dark Places & Demogorgons bears a striking resemblance to Stranger Things
Prepare for a neverending story.
Marvel Collector’s Chess Set pits the Avengers against Loki and Thanos
Knight to a Thor.
Following the passing of the North Star Games co-president.
10 best Christmas gifts for board game lovers
O come all ye playful.
Star Wars: X-Wing, Legion and Armada development moving to Marvel: Crisis Protocol studio
Out with the old, in with the Jakku.
Movie Movie Game turns the popular YouTube series into a tabletop party experience
The first game from The Valleyfolk.
How to play Betrayal at House on the Hill: board game's rules, setup and haunts explained
Don't fear the rulebook.
Batman comic The Dark Knight Returns is being adapted into a single-player board game
Winging its way to Kickstarter next year.
There’s new Warhammer, the Terminator RPG and plenty of pickles on this week’s Dicebreaker Podcast
It’ll leave you smirkin’ like a gherkin.
Co-op board game Townsfolk Tussle is the tabletop equivalent of Cuphead
That’s a high-class bout!
Grab the Conan RPG Player’s Guide and character sheets for under £1
Enter the Hyborian Age.
Power Rangers: Deck-Building Game lets you summon Megazords or Masters
Morphin’ and shakin’.
Uprising in the underworld.
Sealed box of first-edition Pokémon card game boosters goes on auction for £200,000
Don’t Machoke on the price tag.
Dungeons & Dragons 5E sorcerer class explained
Choose the right equipment, spells and origin to create the ultimate sorcerer.
19 years later, Citadels creator’s bluffing game Vabanque is getting its first English edition
You’ve activated my trap card.
Castle Panic returns to Kickstarter next spring, with expansions included
Tower defense, take two.
Play Dobble, Dixit and Just One over video call using free remote play guides
As well as Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective.
Harry Potter: Catch the Snitch brings quidditch to the tabletop as a miniatures game
Don’t quaffle on about it.
Mystic Vale creator’s next game Cubitos is out later this week
Get it on like a Hexahedron.
These fantasy-themed board games are perfect for ye olde tabletop.
Terraforming Mars designer remakes debut game as Star Scrappers: Orbital
Hexis stage right.
Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game gets a Game of the Year edition
Includes a collection of character portraits.
Conversation hotter than a crispy lizard.
Dire Alliance: Horror is a deckbuilding game co-created by the makers of Undaunted: Normandy
Part of a cross-compatible series.
John Wick inspired fantasy RPG Urban Shadows gets a second edition
Metropolitan magic.
Tabletop games are coming from ex-Blizzard VPs who worked on Warcraft and Overwatch
Alongside a previous game designer for Hearthstone.
Critical Role has launched its own tabletop publisher, Darrington Press
First four games are coming next year.
Get Dungeon Crawl Classics books for less than £1
Beast-slaying on a budget.
The next Unlock! escape room game has been announced
Prepare for some Mythic Adventures.
The Dune: Imperium deckbuilding game finally has a release date
Time for a spiced pumpkin latte.
Medici: Reformation is a new version of the original auction board game
Return of the Renaissance.
New Roll20 mobile app is getting a closed beta “soon”
More D&D sourcebooks also coming to the online platform.
Pick up Warhammer audiobooks from under £1 in Black Library Humble Bundle
The sound of slaying.
‘Dungeon-scrawler’ Paper Dungeons has players adventuring in a roll-and-write
The pen is mightier than the sword.
Concordia, the game about leading a Roman dynasty, is getting a digital version
RAM wasn’t built in a day.
The Captain is Dead’s digital version gets a new PC release date
Blasting off again.
Gloomhaven and Frosthaven are being adapted into a book series
Dungeon-dive into a good book.
Learn to communicate with aliens in Arrival-inspired tabletop game Xenolanguage
Close Encounters of the Word Kind.
Escape the Dark Sector board game review - a ghost train ride through sci-fi nostalgia
Beautiful Knightmare.
Ascend your demigod child to the throne in hidden role game Veiled Fate
Direct lie-neage.
Indie titles also on the way.
Kabuto Sumo is a dexterity game about beetle wrestling inspired by coin-pusher machines
Clash of the Carapaces.
Flirt and fight in queer tabletop RPG Thirsty Sword Lesbians
Roll for romance.
Dune: Imperium will have two-player and solo modes, supported by a companion app
Athreedies company.
A Game of Thrones: The Board Game’s digital edition is out on PC now
Spend your Lannisterling.
Zombicide is getting a book series next Halloween
Re-animated reading.
10 best horror tabletop RPGs for telling spooky stories
Zombies, vampires, aliens and monsters galore await you.
HeroClix’s pre-painted miniatures are getting a long-awaited makeover
After being criticised for poor quality.
Boy Problems creator’s beginner-friendly RPG Tales’ End sparks memory and conversation
“Very mechanics light and focused on storytelling.”
Build a farm from your pocket in tiny Sprawlopolis spin-off Agropolis
Pint-sized pastoral.
Fantastic Factories is back on Kickstarter with two new expansions
Manufacture happiness.
TIME Stories Revolution: A Midsummer Night has a release date
Get to the Bottom of it all.
Groundhog Day’s board game is like The Mind with Bill Murray
Allow us to Phil you in.
Browser app features narration from Brandon Potter.
Tsuro is flying onto PC and Mac next month
Alongside a VR release on Oculus Quest.
The Last of Us board game on the way from Blood Rage studio
Sure to firefly off the shelves.
Mother of Frankenstein escape room game tells the story behind the horror classic
Includes complete 3D puzzle of the castle that gave Mary Shelley’s story its name.
D&D series Critical Role has launched a fundraising foundation
Non-for-profit organisation led by actor Ashley Johnson.
Dungeons & Dragons 5E druid class explained
Create a character that Captain Planet would be proud of, from how to cast spells to which druidic circle you should choose.
Blood Rage studio’s ambitious board game Trudvang Legends delayed for “possibly” a year
Due to unsatisfactory gameplay and story.
There’s a new Hogs of War miniatures game, 20 years after the video game’s release
Pig out on nostalgia.
Another The Thing board game has scuttled onto Kickstarter
Great to assimilate.