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.
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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 March 2021: latest tabletop release dates
Fresh as a daisy.
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.
Magic: The Gathering Arena finally launches on mobile later this month
But there’s a catch.
World of Darkness and D&D RPG writer and designer Jackie Cassada dies of COVID-19
Fundraising efforts launched to support collaborator and widow Nicky Rea.
Debut release from studio Unexpected Games delayed from 2020 release due to COVID-19.
Sword & Board is Dark Souls as a tabletop RPG
be wary of roll
Games of the Year 2020: Matt on Pandemic Legacy: Season 0
A fond farewell.
2020: good for games, bad for just about everything else.
Having our Christmas cake and eating it.
World of Chaldea is a YouTube series based on Wizards of the Coast founder’s eighties D&D campaign
Includes animated videos and live-action short films.
Cyberpunk Red is spinning off into skirmish miniatures game Combat Zone
Releasing in 2021.
Gen Con plans to return with a physical convention next summer
“A variety of factors need to come together for a physical convention to be feasible.”
Star Wars: The RPG’s 30th anniversary edition is almost half price right now
Includes core rulebook and sourcebook as you remember them from the eighties.
PAX Unplugged dated for December 2021
Tabletop convention set to return next year after cancellation due to coronavirus.
Plus Uri Geller’s 20-year Pokémon beef, overlooked board game themes and how to kill Hitler.
Catan: Starfarers’ first rebooted expansion is out today, adds more players and faster turns
Wood for electric sheep?
Pick up Warhammer 40,000 RPGs Black Crusade and Only War with all their expansions for under £14
Includes core rulebooks and all supplements for Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay’s Chaos and Imperial Guard titles.
War of the Ring card game releasing in 2021 - first gameplay details revealed
Created with focus on multiplayer in mind.
The Queen’s Gambit has caused a massive spike in chess sales
On top of a resurgence during lockdown.
Unmatched’s latest pop culture showdown pits Little Red Riding Hood against Beowulf
All the better to beat you with.
The Crew 2, Uno on TV and the worst (and best) board game cash-ins: it’s the Dicebreaker Podcast!
This week's board game news and tabletop talk, straight to your ears.
Alien: The RPG, Tales from the Loop and Mutant: Year Zero are half price for Black Friday
Core rulebooks, starter sets and supplements discounted as part of Free League Publishing’s sale.
Dungeonbreaker merchandise is here! Plus, a sale!
Grab Dicebreaker merch for 30% off during Black Friday.
Catan is the cheapest it’s ever been on Amazon US for Black Friday
With a number of expansions and Game of Thrones spin-off also on sale.
Social RPG app Role is opening up early access and adding custom game support this week
Ahead of full launch next spring.
Pokémon card game booster box from 1999 sells for record-breaking £269,000
Sealed first-edition box breaks previous record by over $150,000.
Plus lots of roleplaying advice.
Cyberpunk Red’s starter set and Cyberpunk 2020 are just £6 in the latest RPG Humble Bundle
Along with a lot of sourcebooks for the seminal tabletop game.
Uno is being turned into a TV game show
By studio behind upcoming Ticket to Ride series.
Feature: Board games are expensive, so we tried to make our own for a tenner
It went about as well as you’d expect.
Battle royale board game Reload sounds like a tabletop Fortnite
Parachuting onto Kickstarter next January.
Video chat app Backyard comes with clones of Codenames, Cards Against Humanity and other board games
With games inspired by Secret Hitler, One Night Werewolf and Fish Bowl on the way.
Gloomhaven is currently the cheapest it’s ever been on Amazon US
Machi Koro, Kingdomino, Forbidden Island and the Exit series also on sale.
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.
VTM Companion introduces shape-shifting Tzimisce, illusory Ravnos and healing Salubri.
All future releases to be developed with sensitivity reviews in place.
Classic horror board game Fury of Dracula sinks its fangs into PC today
Transform into Steam.
Dungeons & Dragons Monopoly is on the way
How has this not happened already?
Save some galactic credits.
D&D 5E gift set, including three essential rulebooks and a DM screen, is 25% off right now
Get your party started.
Warhammer games including Dawn of War, Vermintide and Gladius are up to 80% off on PC
Including plenty of Warhammer 40,000 spin-offs, plus fantasy board game Warhammer Quest.
Launching with a new starter set and warscroll battalion boxes.
Rhianna Pratchett, Ian Livingstone and Sara Thompson to pen scenarios for upcoming roguelike board game.
How to play chess for beginners: setup, moves and basic rules explained
Learn how to play chess using our beginner’s guide, from basic moves to en passant and castling.
The One Ring RPG is a “proper 2E” releasing in 2021, with new Moria adventure planned - Free League
D&D 5E-compatible version to follow release of standalone Lord of the Rings game.
Too Many Bones studio’s next board game is co-op robot heist Burncycle
Burning up Kickstarter next week.
Dragon Ball Z: The Board Game Saga will let you play the anime series from start to finish
Features all four main arcs from the legendary manga and TV show.
Play Above and Below creator’s next game Sleeping Gods with free print-and-play demo
Includes spoiler-free campaign for one or two players.
Spectre & Vox is an escape room game played inside a complete 3D haunted house
From Sherlock: The Official Live Game and The Crystal Maze Live Experience creators.
Conversation hotter than a crispy lizard.
Sus! is a tabletop RPG inspired by Among Us
Not An Imposter.
Dungeons & Dragons live-action TV series in the works
“A couple of different approaches” being discussed.
10 best anime board games, from Dragon Ball Super to My Hero Academia
Impressive power level.
Catan is being turned into a range of ‘fashionable’ shoes
Wood for feet?
Not a third edition of Journeys in the Dark, Fantasy Flight confirms.
Hoop Godz brings street basketball to the table as a board game
Second game from Rap Godz creators.
Steam Digital Tabletop Fest sale includes Scythe, Warhammer, Terraforming Mars and more
Discounts of up to 80% running throughout celebration of digital board games.
Mansions of Madness video game renamed Arkham Horror: Mother’s Embrace, releasing in 2021
Spooky spin-off headed to PS4, Xbox One, PC and Switch.
Dungeons & Dragons publisher Wizards of the Coast sued by Dragonlance authors
Upcoming trilogy cancelled following alleged breach of contract.
Learn to communicate with aliens in Arrival-inspired tabletop game Xenolanguage
Close Encounters of the Word Kind.
Magic: The Gathering’s next Secret Lair card drop will raise money for charity Extra Life
Features four foil cards with new family-themed artwork.