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.
Card times.
Dark Places & Demogorgons, an RPG with Stranger Things vibes, is featured in Bundle of Holding
Alongside superhero game Vigilante City.
Live Pokémon auction event involves sealed packs from a Booster Box worth $25,000
Which could contain a $15,000 Charizard.
Return to Dark Tower is being made into a roleplaying game
Following the release of this year’s sequel.
Swoon into a romantic fantasy setting with The Blue Rose Adventurer’s Guide for D&D
From the studio behind the Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide.
Our Minerva is an RPG inspired by legacy games, dating sims and sports
Players can design their own character portrait.
We design the worst/best RPG character for Tony Vasinda from +1 EXP! in the Dicebreaker Podcast
Also, be prepared to relive many childhood nightmares.
An official Marvel tabletop roleplaying game is coming in 2023
Featuring Spider-Man, Captain America and more favourites.
Somninauts is a rules-light RPG inspired by Inception and Salvador Dali
Sleepwalking, sleeprunning, sleepfighting.
Arkham Horror: The Card Game to stop receiving monthly Mythos Packs
With two new expansions announced.
Academy Award nominated film Wolfwalkers is getting a second tabletop adaptation this month
On the hunt for new board games.
Travel to infinity and beyond with these starfaring roleplaying games.
Pandemic: Patient Zero is the first in a series of novels based on the co-op game
Originally intended to be revealed in Spring 2020.
Let’s make board games with Tim Curry and Brendan Fraser on the Dicebreaker podcast
We don’t have a Clue.
Digital version of Gaia Project board game releases to mixed reception
Steam reviews complain of poor adaptation.
New Arkham Horror Files project teased by publisher in Morse Code
Rumours of a Battlestar Galactica crossover circulate.
Ghosts of Saltmarsh comes to D&D adventure board game series
Fishy business.
Disney Sidekicks is the next board game from the co-creator of Marvel United
Featuring Timon & Pumbaa and Tinker Bell.
The inevitable Dungeons & Dragons edition of Monopoly has been released
Caves & capitalism.
What the What?! is an old-timey version of classic party game Snake Oil
Tinker, tailor, soldier, why?
Not That Funny turns Cards Against Humanity on its head to challenge microaggressions
Let’s make it awkward.
An Elder Scrolls title has been teased by the studio behind Too Many Bones
The Skyrim’s the limit.
Deckbuilding game Paperback Adventures is like Slay the Spire, but with spelling
Explore worlds using words.
CollegeHumor is releasing a party game based on its Um, Actually! YouTube series
Reply guys universally suck.
Isaac Vega and Lindsey Rode discuss launching Rose Gauntlet Entertainment and the label’s debut release.
As d’Or winner and Spiel des Jahres nominee MicroMacro is getting a sequel
Time to find more crimes.
Transformers deckbuilding game officially announced, Decepticons coming in future expansions
Are you Optimus Primed?
We invent the greatest board games that don’t exist in the first live Dicebreaker Podcast!
New time, new format, same old nonsense.
Play D&D in VR with digital tabletop platform Dungeon Full Dive
“I cast True Seeing.”
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.
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.”
First board game from Critical Role publishing studio is coming later this month
Get ready to whisper Uk’otoa....
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.”
The designer of Dice Hospital is creating two board games for newly founded studio, Bright Eye Games
Coraquest also coming from new company.
Pixel Tactics, the 16-bit inspired tabletop title, is becoming an actual video game
From admiration to imitation.
Unmatched is the Avengers Assemble of board games - it successfully unites a team of unlikely heroes
Kneel before this excellent tabletop series.
After just two years of releases, Story Machine Games closes its doors
In response to the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Art Decko is a deckbuilding game about collecting expensive pieces of art
Don’t get painted into a corner.
Plus this week's must-know news, what we've been playing and your questions answered.
Ink-credibly evil intentions.
Kiwi Chow Down completes a trilogy of flightless bird-themed board games
Three feathered friends.
How to host a great board game night (Sponsored by Hunt a Killer)
From snacks to seating, what makes for the perfect event for playing board games?
Nowhereville is a horror RPG inspired by Stephen King novels and Twin Peaks
You can roll anytime you like, but you can never leave.
Experience espionage alone in a solo card game about spies called Harsh Shadows
Me, myself and spy.
Author of The Stormlight Archive reaches out for ideas on another tabletop adaptation
Herald-ing the next potential release.
4 best out-of-print board games that deserve to come back
Live, Die, Reprint.
Fallout: Wasteland Warfare miniatures game takes a gamble on New Vegas with its latest expansion
It’s the region with Caesar’s Legion.
We talk Stardew Valley: The Board Game, MTG Arena, Gloomhaven Digital, Unmatched and more.
Have a duel in a dream factory in the two-player board game, Nicodemus
No sleeping on the job.
Making vows in the vastness of space.
Catan: Treasures, Dragons & Adventures expansion is arriving in English this summer
For the first time since its release in 2009.
Green Hell, a survivalist video game set in a deadly rainforest, is being adapted into a board game
Adventures in the Amazon.
Hellboy: The Dice Game is a fast-paced exploration title about fighting frog monsters
Rolling against ribbits.
Vampire: The Masquerade RPG universe World of Darkness is getting its own film and TV franchise
From the people behind Arrival and The Witcher.
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.
A third game in the Undaunted deckbuilding series is on its way
Could be set in either the Pacific Theatre or Eastern Front.
Wavelength publisher set to release catapulting dexterity game Hurlyburly
“When the battle’s lost and won.”
Do we need a Metacritic for board game reviews? We discuss on this week’s Dicebreaker Podcast!
And choose our favourite meeple shapes.
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft included in sale on D&D Beyond
Alongside newest adventure book Candlekeep Mysteries.
Dead of Winter spiritual sequel Gen7 is 50% off in Plaid Hat board game sale
As well as Comanauts, Super Punch Fighter and Crossfire.
Junk Art co-creators team up to make My Singing Monsters: The Board Game
A beastly baritone.
Pletrix is a roll-and-write game that challenges you to play Tetris using dice
Hectic geometric fun.
Next entry in the Dice Hospital board game series is one heck of a roller coaster ride
Welcome to Dice Theme Park.
Monster Hunter World: The Board Game Kickstarter gobbles up $1 million in less than two hours
A beastly amount of money.
Called It’s a Wonderful Kingdom
Yellow & Yangtze publisher cancels Knizia reprints, including Medici Reformation
Grail Games will not pick up designer’s titles from ‘Euro Classics’ line dropped by Z-Man.
Keystone: North America is the next big board game for nature lovers after Wingspan
Co-designed by the co-creator of Dead of Winter.
Magical Kitties Save the Day RPG is scampering back to Kickstarter next month
For when you knead some escapism.
Monster Hunter World board game adds lance and hunting horn weapons after ‘community feedback’
Included in the Hunter’s Arsenal expansion.
Arkham Horror co-designer’s next board game will provide some much needed calm
Raindrops keep falling on my head.
Alongside the success of Wingspan and the jankiness of Betrayal at House on the Hill.
An unannounced Metal Gear Solid board game has apparently leaked via box art reveal
Psycho Mantis Battle surfaces following cancellation of Specter Ops creator’s board game adaptation.
Pirate card game Libertalia could see a return after ten years thanks to Wingspan publisher - report
The tabletop title has been out of print for several years
Marvel United: X-Men Kickstarter campaign X-ceeds $1 million in less than one day
Co-designer Eric Lang calls the game’s success a “validation”.
7 Wonders Mystery game revealed via a speculative trailer
With ‘something’ beginning at the end of the month.
The best, worst and weirdest haunts in Betrayal at House on the Hill
Pick your poison.
Climate Crisis co-op board game from Pandemic creator changes name to Daybreak
Set to be published by Monikers studio.
Create and play RPGs online using the video game inspired platform One More Multiverse
A free-to-play service with tools to make homebrew content.
Dungeons & Dragons graphic novels available for a dollar in Humble Bundle deal
Including recent series set in the world of D&D.
The Riverfolk Expansion is sailing onto the digital version of Root this month
Cultists and commercialists.