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Jamaica announces a new edition of the family board game, but the art remains disappointingly whitewashed
Yo ho, and a crumb of representation.
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“Why do we play games?”: DIE’s creators and Grant Howitt discuss adapting the comic into a tabletop RPG
The tabletop team-up have planned more than a simple almanac for Gillen and Han’s twisted polyhedral world.
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Mothership to bring its Alien-esque, sci-fi horror RPG to a boxed set
Zero gravity, zero chance of survival.
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Magic: The Gathering announces three January releases for Commander and limited play
The preeminent trading card game hits the ground running in 2022 ahead of four planned core sets.
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Heart and Spire creators to help bring TRPG based on Kieron Gillen’s comic DIE into reality
Rowan, Rook and Deckard will be handling publishing and production duties on Gillen’s design.
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Brazilian TRPG designer calls attention to the relative invisibility of games from the Global South
“Here we are, writing games in a second language, swimming against the tide, in the hopes of reaching a larger audience and making ends meet.”
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D&D book Monsters of the Multiverse will miss its holiday launch due to shipping delays
The three-book gift set includes reprints of Xanathar’s Guide to Everything and Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything.
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Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links adds ARC-V characters and Pendulum Summons to digital card game
Swing and a hit for fans of even more math in their matches.
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GAMA has expelled Jeff Bergren and TGG Games from attending Origins Game Fair 2021
Several recent controversies and “numerous instances” of the CEO’s history of harassment led to the organisation’s decision.
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Critical Care simulates the stressors and collaboration of the hospital ICU in a board game
Treat ailing patients while dealing with midnight shifts and surprise infections with a practicing physician’s first title.
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Paizo president Jeff Alvarez releases second statement following firing of customer service manager
“No employee will ever be fired for whistleblowing or advocating for employee safety and wellbeing, and we have never fired an employee for doing so.”
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Pokémon TCG teases a new cross-platform digital application and mobile support for next year
Cards from Pokémon TCG Online can be transferred over, spelling the end for the old app.
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Which board games do you house-rule? It's the Dicebreaker Podcast!
We talk our favourite mystery RPGs, the latest news from Gen Con and more.
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Nigerian board game company Nibcard has won the Diana Jones 2021 award
The committee says it chose Nibcard for its efforts to steward a growing tabletop movement in West Africa.
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Gen Con’s day-one crowd left attendees and online onlookers worried despite safety guidelines
The board game and TTRPG convention proved unable to enforce vaccination cards, relying on masks and best safety practices.
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Chart a magical fishing trip through a bespoke landscape in minimalist RPG Riverbend
Plus, space cat companions that confer fishing bonuses!
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Awkward small talk is the whole point of Humans, a party game for aliens in disguise
Is this music? I can’t get enough of that sweet music.
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Space western board game Forsaken centers would-be legends on unforgiving desert planet
Dust, rust and the promise of fame.
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Mausritter adventure Sanctum of the Ori Magi is genuine, folded-paper magic
A paper cut above the rest.
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Azul: Queen’s Garden, the next entry in the mosaic board game series, has been teased for late 2021
Green for the queen.
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More designers condemn, cut ties with The Gaming Goat over white nationalist imagery in Kickstarter campaign
LudiCreations and designer Artem Safarov end business relationship with the US-based publisher and board game retailer.
Interview
Design degistif: Apothecaria creator Anna Blackwell discusses creating a commentary for her solo RPG
Potent potables.
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Keyforge’s next set is complete but won’t be released until it comes back from hiatus
A “broken algorithm” forces the card game into an interminable break, but a digital version is on the horizon.
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DJ Steve Aoki to crack open auctioned packs of 1999 Pokémon cards to support neuroscience and autism research
A Chansey at cardboard riches, for charity!
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Dragonlance author announces new D&D 5E campaign setting full of sky pirates and airships
Skyraiders of Abarax will come to Kickstarter in the fall of 2021.
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Indie initiative SideQuest bookends the year with a second zine-focused TRPG event
Like Zinequest, but more collaborative and festive.
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Avatar Legends RPG designers were prepared for success, but nearly $10m on Kickstarter changed things
Magpie Games talks supply chain logistics, shielding design from bloat and contributor pay.
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Old-school inspired RPG Down We Go wants to make deadly dungeon delving approachable for all
The OSR system is one of the first roleplaying games on Kickstarter alternative, Gamefound.
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The Broken Token CEO steps down after laying off over half the company’s staff
Greg Spence claims lost contracts following sexual assault allegations against him forced “necessary changes.”
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Super Mario Labyrinth sends a plumber-themed board game classic stateside this month
The eternal hero needs rescuing this time.
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Talent-studded D&D 5E setting Tanares earns over $1m in first day of crowdfunding
Publisher Dragori Games boasts Forgotten Realms, Skyrim and Scarred Lands designers on an unfortunately white team.
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High-powered, high fantasy RPG Exalted will receive a live action television adaptation
Charmed and dangerous.
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A 24-karat gold Pikachu card created for Pokémon TCG’s 20th anniversary is up for auction
Chunky boy, chunky price tag.
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Lancer designers suspend work on planned sourcebooks, citing life changes and pandemic stressors
Massif Press plans to finish and release the books on their own time, instead.
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Beat the superpowered streets of neo-noir RPG City of Mist on the cheap with latest Bundle of Holding
Includes everything needed to explore a city full of secrets, magical or otherwise.
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We talk intriguing indie RPGs, MTG's latest reveals and Netrunner's (possible) return on the Dicebreaker Podcast!
Inventing the board game sequels that'd don't exist... but should.
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There’s another very real and drinkable Catan beer, but this one is officially licensed
Cheers without fear of copyright infringement.
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Netrunner trademark filing sends players speculating on the cyberpunk card game’s future
Wizards of the Coast files for use of the name for “downloadable electronic games”, among others.
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Unlock! and Werewolves of Miller’s Hollow to receive escape room style gamebook adaptations
Escaping from the box to the page.
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The Herbalist’s Primer gives roleplaying groups a crash course in practical and magical botany
Make your party eat its greens.
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The Price of Coal weaves a historical story of labour rights in West Virginia’s coal country
Explore the beginning of the state’s hard road to unionisation through card-based storytelling.
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Local game stores and casual players were the hidden winners of the Magic Showcase 2021
The non-core sets releasing over the next year are some of the best entry points to Magic’s many game modes.
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Magic: The Gathering’s 2022 sets include a return to Kamigawa and Dominaria, along with an urban fantasy plane
Second half of the year will see the urban fantasy Streets of New Capenna and Antiquities-inspired The Brothers’ War
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The Russo Brothers leave Magic: the Gathering’s Netflix show over creative differences
Animation veteran Jeff Kline has stepped in with a whole new team.
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Archives of Alexandria trapped me on a corrupted spaceship of pure information because I’m bad at Wikipedia
Six degrees from escape.
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The Exquisite Corpse in Maggots’ Keep is a gamebook narrated by nearly a dozen revolving writers
Exhumed and loving it.
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Frosthaven creator won’t announce hard shipping dates to avoid a rushed, and expensive, fulfillment
Isaac Childres says Cephalofair can afford the wait, and it saves players on shipping costs.
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Gloomhaven creator and Evil Hat cut ties with The Broken Token following sexual assault allegations against CEO
A former employee accused Greg Spence of “five years of sexual, mental, and emotional abuse.”
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Dune RPG lets players harvest spice on the surface of Arrakis in upcoming sourcebook Sand and Dust
Leave those noble houses in the dust.
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New Thousand Year Old Vampire companion book have some players angrily grabbing stakes and garlic
Designer Tim Hutchings responds to the reaction to his unique addition.
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Achtung! Cthulhu 2D20 sets release date for a more cinematic TRPG world of cosmic horror-obsessed Nazis
Even elder gods aren't immune to shipping delays.
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A new board game based on The Rocketeer lets anyone strap explosives to their back
Neville Sinclair's a… board game character? Saboteur? Fascist? All of the above.
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Inaugural Zenobia Award nominees include Haitian revolution, Indonesian independence as historical board games
Winners will be announced October 15th.
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Don’t Tell Mom & Dad is a tabletop RPG fueled by pulp horror VHS cassettes, sugar and fireworks
Don’t stay out past curfew… or else.
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Heart: The City Beneath, Alice is Missing and Slayers all nab multiple 2021 ENnie Awards nominations
The dark delving RPG from Rowan, Rook and Deckard place top of the list with noms in eight categories.
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Narrative board game That Time You Killed Me lets players engage in temporal assassination
Tick, tock goes the murder clock.
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Indie Game Developer Network announces nominees for 2021 Groundbreakers Award
The awards are "designed to shine a spotlight on excellence in the indie game design community".
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Diminutive RPG Mausritter’s box of new adventures includes a delve through a suit of medieval armour
Nice mice and dice on romps, journeys and heists.
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Magic: The Gathering delays Arena-focused set Jumpstart: Historic Horizons by two weeks
Jumpstart’s false start pushes digital release to the horizon.
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Games Workshop promises better Warhammer pre-order experiences with Kill Team: Octarius and beyond
The emperor decrees: no more alarm clocks.
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Avatar Legends RPG does justice to The Last Airbender and Korra’s storytelling, but fumbles combat - preview
Golden Appa-tunity.
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Nathan Fillion and cast of The Suicide Squad play as a band of rowdy goblins in Nerdist's latest CelebriD&D
Hide your Gundren Rockseekers.
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Magic: The Gathering reveals first cards, mechanics and a planeswalker for Innistrad: Midnight Hunt
Third time’s the hirsute, exsanguinated charm.
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Avatar Legends becomes the highest funded TRPG on Kickstarter within its first week
That’s not rough at all, buddy.
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Ex Libris is a digital Mörk Borg bibliography, and its creators hope they start a new trend
Imagine Belle’s library scene, but it’s grungy PDFs and loot tables.
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Field Guide to Memory co-creator Jeeyon Shim wins 2021 Diana Jones Emerging Designer Program
The committee awarded the "groundbreaking game designer" for her work and emerging influence in the hobby.
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Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game’s Kickstarter campaign is now live
Magpie Games’ official adaptation of the adored animated series comes to the tabletop.
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Post-apocalyptic grid battler Neuroshima Hex! comes to mobile devices in September
Borgo on the go.
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Lancer co-creator’s new post-apocalyptic RPG Icon has a free playtest version that's worth a look
A heavy pinch of Final Fantasy and Breath of the Wild in a pastoral world of broken peace.
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New Magic: The Gathering Arena format is the closest digital players will get to Commander
Historic Brawl queues take advantage of expanded Historic card pools, but still no multiplayer.
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Horrified brings the hunt stateside in cryptid-infested board game sequel American Monsters
Kill Mothman and we riot.
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D&D and Magic: The Gathering to see prices increase later this year due to rising shipping costs
It's not yet clear how this will affect in-store prices.
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Magic Arena’s Jumpstart: Historic Horizons brings back a fan-favourite format with a digital twist
31 new cards and three new keywords will be exclusive to the online platform.
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Oceanic worker-placement puzzler Oros looks fun, except for the appropriative aesthetic
The first title from designer Aesc Games borrows heavily from several disparate cultures.
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Solo card game Spire’s End: Hildegard is “card game comfort food” but looks like a full plate
Draw your own adventure.
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Board game publishers don’t expect shipping woes to end soon, prepare for higher fees and longer delays
Leder Games’ Patrick Leder and Marshall Britt discuss the rippling effects on smaller publishers.
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Both RPG publishers once known as TSR divest themselves of the name, but questions remain
Social media silence obscures ties between publishing entities.
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Batman: Escape from Arkham Asylum casts players as the Rogues’ Gallery in a “semi-cooperative” board game
Filling a villain’s (clown) shoes.
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Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel looks to be the trading card game’s premier digital experience
Duel ex machina.
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Exploding Kittens: Recipes for Disaster is a one-box greatest hits card game of incendiary felines
Includes a cone of shame for distracted players.
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How well do you know your D&D monsters? Test for knowledge on this week's Dicebreaker Podcast!
Creature teacher.
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Gem Dragons return to Dungeons & Dragons 5E courtesy of new sourcebook
A dragon’s hoard of fresh lore.
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Nibcraft, Elizabeth Hargrave, Session Zero among finalists for the 2021 Diana Jones Award
Diana Jones and the Temple of Doing Great Work.
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Magic: The Gathering’s latest card ban reveals digital client Arena’s limitations
Book haters, unite.
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Monopoly Animal Crossing officially releasing in August, despite already selling out in stores.
Currently only available through third-party resale.
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Assassin’s Creed Valhalla fans fund Kickstarter for physical version of dice game Orlog within an hour
Drinking horn literally sold separately.
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Age of Sigmar courts new players with three tiers of introductory wargaming sets
Baby’s first Stormcast sprue.
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You can now play the Avatar: The Last Airbender tabletop RPG with free quickstart rules
Kickstarter campaign for Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game coming August 3rd.
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Warhammer 40,000 redesigns the skirmish-focused Kill Team, announces new Octarius boxed set
Krieg vs. Kommandos
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Wizardman: Queer and Chaos is a free tabletop RPG processing trauma through magic
“A power fantasy for the person I used to be.”
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The Queen’s Dilemma will expand the narrative legacy framework of its board game predecessor
Punting the patriarchy.
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Classic chassis smashing board game Thunder Road to enter Restoration Games’ garage
Rev those miniature engines.
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Konami ends contract with star football player Antoine Griezmann amid allegations of racism
The official Yu-Gi-Oh ambassador was stripped of his title after a video leaked earlier this month.
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Artisans of Splendent Vale is a new narrative board game from designer on Mansions of Madness 2E
Kickstarter campaign coming in September.
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World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King to get a Pandemic-style board game adaptation
Arthas Menepill, more like.
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Machi Koro 2 will release in October, rezones rules for the popular city building board game
Updates rules on attractions and add an initial buy phase.
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Animal Crossing-themed editions of Monopoly spotted on retail shelves across US
Visit your favourite animal villager... in jail.
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Free Dungeons & Dragons adventure In Scarlet Flames replaces Magic: The Gathering’s usual short fiction
The mid-level module sends adventurers into an underground library slated to burn.