Editor-in-chief
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.
Submissions close on Monday.
Dawn of War, Vermintide and other Warhammer video games are up to 95% off on PC
Slaaneshing prices.
Debut release from Andrew Navaro’s newly founded studio Earthborne Games.
One of board gaming’s first celebrities reflects on designers’ rising recognition.
The next Ticket to Ride game is a cute 3D puzzle about switching tracks
Logical locomotives.
Tales of the Arabian Nights’ third edition is being reprinted for the very last time this month
Z-Man Games announces last hurrah for its revised version of storytelling classic.
Oath board game review - Root creator’s ambitious ‘game with a memory’ is unforgettable
History in the making.
Get started with the modern reboot of sci-fi RPG Traveller for under $18
Pick up its epic campaign The Pirates of Drinax for a steal, too.
The Bard Chronicles is a Dungeons & Dragons rap album you’ll actually want to listen to
With a Kickstarter promo rap, naturally.
Begin your journey along The Paths We Dare Tread this summer.
Start playing RPGs Tales from the Loop and Symbaroum for under £1
Free League Publishing Humble Bundle offers starter sets for a steal.
Pandemic, Catan and Pathfinder RPG publishers pull out of physical Gen Con return
Asmodee and Paizo to focus on digital offering Gen Con Online.
Heroes of Barcadia is a drinking dungeon-crawler that wants to be fun without getting drunk
Headed to Kickstarter on June 7th.
Pick up Pathfinder 2E for under $5, plus adventures, sourcebooks and accessories for the fantasy RPG
Humble Bundle benefitting Stop AAPI Hate runs until June 10th.
“Digital fatigue” is fuelling board game sales among adults - report
Games and Puzzles market expected to top $12bn worldwide this year, Euromonitor International predicts.
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.
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.
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.
We invent the greatest board games that don’t exist in the first live Dicebreaker Podcast!
New time, new format, same old nonsense.
Welcome Liv, Dicebreaker’s new video producer!
Making the video team a terrific trio.
Last Message mixes Mysterium with a drawing game as you doodle to solve crime
Draw the connection.
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.
7 most unique board games that are truly original (Sponsored by Hunt a Killer)
You’ve never played anything like these before.
Plus this week's must-know news, what we've been playing and your questions answered.
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.
With new adventures exploring the golden age of piracy and Jules Verne-style expeditions.
Unlock! Star Wars is under £18 on Amazon UK for May the 4th
Jedi for a bargain.
Tabletop RPG Inspirisles will teach you sign language as you play
Players use ASL and BSL to cast spells in a Celtic-inspired world.
4 best out-of-print board games that deserve to come back
Live, Die, Reprint.
Deep Sea Adventure studio Oink is bringing its delightful board games to Nintendo Switch
Nintend-to back the Kickstarter?
We talk Stardew Valley: The Board Game, MTG Arena, Gloomhaven Digital, Unmatched and more.
Cyberpunk Red: Combat Zone turns the tabletop RPG into a beginner-friendly miniatures game
First game built on [RE]action system.
Available to download now, with inclusion in future printings.
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.
‘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.
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.
Do we need a Metacritic for board game reviews? We discuss on this week’s Dicebreaker Podcast!
And choose our favourite meeple shapes.
Win a Commander deck and set boosters for Magic: The Gathering - Strixhaven
It’s Magic, you know.
Based on VR game reimagining of tabletop hidden role gem.
12 best 1990s board games that are still worth playing today
Not noughtie, but nice.
Alongside the success of Wingspan and the jankiness of Betrayal at House on the Hill.
After selling out last year.
Board Game Atlas wants to be a Metacritic for board games, review aggregator launching next month
Feature will include scores from “hand-selected” critics alongside existing user ratings.
It stands heads, shoulders and horns above the disastrous Dark Souls.
Exit: The Game designer teases Lord of the Rings entry in escape room board game series
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
What are the best parts of bad board games? We discuss in the 50th Dicebreaker Podcast!
Along with our biggest Kickstarter disappointments.
10 best online board games you can play in your browser
Get the lowdown without the download.
Plus, the birth of a must-have piece of cutlery.
Wheels is Dicebreaker’s new Head of Video!
Have a bang on that.
Celebrating our departing Head of Video.
Want to be part of Dicebreaker? We’re hiring a junior video producer!
Join Wheels, Lolies and the rest of the team to help spread the good word of tabletop.
The Crew scoops prize for best ‘Expert’ board game.
How can you defuse player conflict at the table? We discuss in this week’s Dicebreaker Podcast
Plus tips on roleplaying in familiar worlds and making the leap from board games to RPGs.
A Skyrim board game is on the way from makers of the Elder Scrolls miniatures game
See that mountain of cardboard? You can climb it.
Alongside wider restructure of Hasbro to capitalise on success of D&D.
With apologies to CMON and Leonard Nimoy.
Board Game Arena has been bought by Catan, Pandemic and Ticket to Ride maker Asmodee
Following the website's boom in popularity last year.
Set in Glorantha setting of RPG RuneQuest.
Horror RPG Call of Cthulhu is bigger than D&D in Japan
More Japanese-language copies sold than all other languages combined.
How do you play D&D over Zoom? We give our tips on this week's Dicebreaker Podcast
And the birth of a Franken-game.
Grab over a dozen Warhammer 40,000 and Age of Sigmar books for £13 in Black Library bundle
Including the first five entries in the Horus Heresy series and two of the Primarchs novels.
Here’s our first look at the gameplay of Arkham Horror video game Mother’s Embrace
If I were eldritch man.
Free time during lockdown helped board game sales to jump in 2020 - report
Games and Puzzles market exceeded $11bn last year, with $12bn predicted in 2021, according to Euromonitor International.
Tabletop games raised $236m on Kickstarter in 2020, another record-breaking year
Accounting for nearly a third of all money raised on the crowdfunding site.
Plus: the least foot-friendly gaming components to step on.
Magic: The Gathering is getting a new comic book series later this year
First issue of Magic arriving in April.
Best new board games in June 2021: latest tabletop release dates
Things are heating up.
John Wick writer developing live-action Dungeons & Dragons TV series
Hasbro previously said it was considering "a couple of different approaches” to adapting RPG for small screen.
Autographed Black Lotus looks set to become Magic: The Gathering’s most valuable card
Mint-condition 1993 Alpha card autographed by artist and designer Christopher Rush up for auction on eBay.
Carly Rae Jepsen RPG Boy Problems is getting its own Side-B expansion
You roll and I'll say stop.
Keyforge’s Age of Ascension starter set is under £10 right now
Pick up the ‘unique deck game’ for better than half price.
Risk is the next board game classic to be turned into a TV series
From House of Cards creator.
Terraforming Mars is getting a card game spin-off, Ares Expedition
Featuring new artwork and ‘faster gameplay’.
7 Wonders Duel has sold 1 million copies, in half the time of the original
Two-player spin-off shifts impressive number in just five years.
Primal: The Awakening is Kingdom Death meets Monster Hunter, coming to Kickstarter next week
‘Boss-battler’ board game can be played in legacy campaign or standalone scenarios.
Fort designer’s next game is another inventive deckbuilder, Nine Ravens
Remake of 2017's Five Ravens.