Matt Jarvis
Editor-in-chief, Dicebreaker
After starting his career writing about music, films and video games for various places, Matt spent many years as a technology, PC and video game journalist before writing about tabletop games as the editor of Tabletop Gaming magazine. He joined Dicebreaker as editor-in-chief in 2019, and has been trying to convince the rest of the team to play Diplomacy since.
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12 board games to play at Essen Spiel 2022
Whether you’re looking for a sci-fi adventure or monster competition.
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Dead of Winter designer’s tasty next board game serves up recipes from Wild Gardens
Forage for ingredients before plating them up for guests.
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4 brand new and upcoming board games you should play at EGX this weekend
From sci-fi betrayal to the tabletop debut of an indie video game gem.
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Arborea is a gorgeous Ghibli-esque board game about woodland spirits
The best-looking forest game since Root?
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Cyberpunk Red’s ‘Easy Mode’ lets beginners jump into the RPG’s Dark Future for free
New digital quickstart follows booklet released for Free RPG Day.
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Actual play network Dragon wants to be a Netflix for tabletop RPGs
Includes spoof reality show set in the world of D&D and upcoming David Bowie Spelljammer adventure.
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Watch Dicebreaker play Call of Cthulhu, party games and Pokémonikers at EGX this weekend!
When and where you can catch the team during the London show.
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Go behind the scenes at Gen Con 2022 with our vlog from the US board game convention
Starring Matt, Wheels and Dick's Last Resort.
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An adult activity camp was the closest I’ve felt to being a real-life D&D character - and I loved it
A weekend at Camp Wildfire.
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Video game puzzler Wilmot’s Warehouse is being made into a board game
Wilmot! designers include some of the team behind indie darling.
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Lorcana’s first card reveals definitely look like a Disneyfied Magic: The Gathering
Next year’s debut set Disney Lorcana: The First Chapter will star Elsa, Maleficent, Cruella de Vil and other iconic characters.
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Official Monty Python RPG catapults onto Kickstarter next month - exclusive
Monty Python’s Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme has both a ridiculous name and a Fetchez la Vache minigame, because of course it does.
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Feature: Rivet Wars: Reloaded is like an Advance Wars board game - here's how it plays
RTS and video game influences meet a dieselpunk World War I.
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Final Fantasy 14 meets D&D and Lancer in tabletop RPG Beacon
Influences from popular MMO blended with gameplay of Fourth Edition and tactical mech RPG.
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Pokémon World Championships 2022: Where and when to watch Pokémon TCG streams
How to catch this weekend’s TCG, Sword and Shield, Go, Unite and Pokken matches live.
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D&D 5E’s next big release finally bundles its book with D&D Beyond
Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen bundle will include two weeks’ early access to digital adventure.
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Magic: The Gathering is getting a Doctor Who set in 2023
Will span 60-year history of British TV classic, including Ncuti Gatwa’s upcoming 14th Doctor.
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D&D is getting its own virtual tabletop, and it looks stunning
Will feature full 3D environments, custom miniatures and level creation tools.
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Dungeons & Dragons’ successor to 5E is the ambitious, evolving One D&D - and you can play it today
Playtest materials offer preview of revised character creation options and new Ardling race ahead of full 2024 release.
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MTG’s Tales from Middle-earth cards let you recreate iconic scenes from Lord of the Rings
Modern-legal expansion will release on MTG Arena as Alchemy set.
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D&D’s new Spelljammer adventure has inspired an official music album
Spelljams compilation produced by Decemberists guitarist Chris Funk.
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Gen Con 2022 highlights and SO MANY announcements: it’s the Dicebreaker Podcast!
Everything you need to know from the US board game convention - in under an hour.
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Shiny Charizard card signed by Pokémon co-creator Ken Sugimori sells for $13,000
Only PSA-graded copy of 1997 card to feature signature of series co-creator and illustrator behind original 151 Pokémon.
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Official Stormlight Archive miniatures are on the way, but you can't use them in D&D 5E (yet)
Two dozen figures will include first official depictions of Brandon Sanderson characters.
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Forgotten Waters, one of 2020’s best board games, is getting a follow-up in 2023
Spiritual successor to app-powered pirate adventure set to release next summer.
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D&D YouTuber Blaine Simple has made a Munchkin-like party game (Sponsored)
Fight the Blight with Blaine Simple, JoCat, Crit Crab, Dingo Doodles and Davvy Chappy.
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Top 15 Most Rare and Expensive Pokémon Cards
From the Shadowless Charizard to a solid gold Pikachu, here are the most expensive Pokémon cards ever made.
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Dragon Ball, Naruto and My Hero Academia inspire tournament tabletop RPG Stand Up! Hero!!!
Based on Alex Roberts’ storytelling game For the Queen.
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Is the D&D movie trailer a critical hit? We react to the big reveal on the Dicebreaker Podcast!
Plus: a new Stranger Things board game from Pandemic Legacy creator, the return of classic MTG cards and everything else we’ve been playing.
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Co-op board game Spaceship Unity turns your real-life home into an episode of Star Trek
Power up your vacuum cleaner jump drive.
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Stranger Things co-op board game coming in 2023 from Pandemic Legacy designer
And the Duffer brothers have already played it.
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Decrypto studio’s next board game has you cracking codes using a real analogue computer
Prepare for your brain to hurt.
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Legends of the Five Rings’ D&D 5E rulebook has a release date - and it's soon
Adventures in Rokugan adapts the long-running RPG to 5E, with new classes and species.
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Deal with the Devil in next app-powered board game from Alchemists designer
Sell your soul to build a city.
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Magic: The Gathering’s Dominaria United set will include original cards from 1994 boosters
Cards pulled from Legends packs will be included in upcoming expansion’s Collector Boosters.
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Doctor Who: Nemesis is like Disney Villainous with daleks, cybermen and weeping angels
One to play with extermi-mates.
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Netflix’s Squid Game is getting a board game later this month, because of course it is
Take that, Capitalism.
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Best Amazon Prime Day board game deals 2022
This year's top Prime Day deals on board games, D&D, Magic: The Gathering, Pokémon and more.
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Disney Kingdomania looks like a loot box board game
With 40 characters - plus items and 'glitched' variants - to collect in randomised packs.
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Punk rock musician Frank Carter has made a card game
Alongside Rattlesnakes guitarist Dean Richardson.
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Over 9 billion Pokémon cards were printed last year, a fifth of all the cards ever made
That's one way to deal with a shortage.
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Vampire: The Masquerade’s answer to D&D Beyond launches into early access
Digital content to be bundled with physical books.
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Pokémon TCG player enters US tournament with super-sized deck of jumbo cards
No oversized energy or trainer cards meant Matthew Verive couldn't attack using novelty creation.
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Play the upcoming Dr. Grordbort RPG in D&D 5E with this exclusive quickstart adventure
Prepare for Scientific Adventure Violence.
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MTG anniversary event Magic 30 kicks off a year-long birthday bash for the card game this October
Will include Limited Edition Beta Draft.
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These Gloomhaven fans made their own enormous expansion for the epic dungeon-crawler
The Crimson Scales includes almost 70 extra scenarios and over 10 new characters - including a Frosthaven Easter egg.
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Final Fantasy 14 fan turns the critically acclaimed MMORPG into a tabletop RPG
A Realm Reborn, reborn.
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Two of Yu-Gi-Oh!’s most powerful cards have been unbanned after almost 20 years
Yata-Garasu and Change of Heart were put on the Forbidden list in 2004 and 2005.
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Elden Ring-inspired Apotheosis: The Dark Lord provides an indie alternative to the Dark Souls RPG
Dodge roll for initiative.
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Get your Stardew Valley on in D&D 5E and other TRPGs with this fantasy farming bestiary
Includes more than two dozen fantastical Critters & Companions to farm, ranch - or eat.
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