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Gloomhaven: Second Edition will feature revised classes, scenarios, story and miniatures

“Gloomhaven is well-loved, I’m not sure anyone would call it perfect.”

10 board games and tabletop RPGs to check out at UK Games Expo 2023

It's time to take a trip to Birmingham.

Challengers 2 reveals a sequel to the capture-the-flag deckbuilder hot off its Kennerspiel des Jahres nomination

Standalone game will also work as an expansion for the original, with over 70 new characters.

Amazon Prime Day 2023: Everything we know so far, and what to expect

The online retailer’s annual sales event is due to return this summer with more tabletop deals.

Ticket to Ride legacy board game features a western-themed campaign from Pandemic Legacy co-creators

The good, the bad and the business-minded.

Classic gamebook series Fighting Fantasy is being turned into a co-op RPG card game by Brass designer

Martin Wallace’s Fighting Fantasy Adventures will adapt four of Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone’s choose-your-own-path books.

Warhammer 40,000 video game Space Marine is getting a board game

Board game adaptation of the video game adaptation of the sci-fi miniatures game spin-off of the fantasy wargame.

Ameritrash is dead - long live Ameritrash

How two opposing styles of board game found harmony.

Board game executive apologises for sexist reply to Wingspan creator’s criticism of industry sexism

AEG’s Ryan Dancey tells tabletop players to “hold me accountable” for publishing projects from underrepresented groups.

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Suffragettes, legends, Romans and mice.

Don’t miss your chance to win $130 worth of premium RPG dice by watching us play D&D live at MCM Comic Con London!

We’ve got $800 worth of accessories to give away thanks to Misty Mountain Gaming.

Poll: Do you prefer playing with miniatures or meeples?

Counter-attack.

Two years after it was cancelled, Metal Gear Solid: The Board Game is back with a new publisher and 2024 release date

Kept you waiting, huh?

How to play Go: rules, setup and scoring explained

Slowly build your frontiers and dominate the board on Go.

Zombicide studio CMON is teasing a new Metal Gear Solid board game

Just a box?

It looks like a Ticket to Ride legacy game is on the way

Pandemic Legacy designers Matt Leacock and Rob Daviau are teaming up with the venerated train game’s creator Alan R. Moon on a mysterious new project.

Battletech, Shadowrun maker spins up a dedicated board game division for future projects

The first title will be a personal project from the son of a veteran employee.

Cardboard Edison 2023 winner is a puzzly board game about microscopes, mosaics and algae

Plankton can be beautiful, too.

Win a copy of the real-life Orlog dice game from Assassin’s Creed Valhalla!

Got my Eivor on that.

Spiel des Jahres 2023 nominees: Dorfromantik, Fun Facts and Next Station: London shortlisted for Game of the Year award

With a ‘Special Prize’ for puzzle series Unlock!

Good Omens’ official board game summarises past battles’ between Heaven and Hell ahead of second season

Apocalypse in a box.

Dungeon-delving deckbuilder Clank! is headed to PC and mobile

Make some noise.

Poll: How important is a board game's artwork to you?

Different strokes for different folks.

Terraforming Mars producer wants screen adaptation to be as “enduringly good” as Pirates of the Caribbean and The Lego Movie

“Adaptations have no business being half as good as they are.”

Feature: What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!

Playing games Till the Last Gasp.

A third of Monopoly players in the UK have argued over the board game classic, survey finds

YouGov survey also crowns Brits’ favourite playing piece.

Feature: Dead Cells’ board game nails the roguelike genre - and I’m finally hooked

Hands-on with the latest video game adaptation.

“A lot of people hadn’t even asked about tabletop IPs”: Film producer Chris Kaminski on adapting Terraforming Mars and other board games for the screen

As well as Terra Mystica, Anachrony and Trickerion.

Get expert crowdfunding, game design, manufacturing and marketing advice from industry pros at next week’s Tabletop Creators Summit

Hear from BackerKit, Panda Game Manufacturing, Osprey Games and more at the free London event.

Watch us rank everything in Honor Among Thieves and play D&D live at MCM Comic Con London next week!

Catch our actual play series Storybreakers live for the first time.

Poll: What's your favourite setting for board games?

Let's do the time warp again.

One-vs-one survival-horror RPG looks like the perfect love letter to Halloween and classic slasher movies

1978: The Night THEY Came Home pits one player’s supernatural killer against the other’s everyday survivor.

War of the Ring: The Card Game adds co-op and solo modes in its first expansion

Against the Shadow introduces an AI opponent to the Lord of the Rings title.

Get premium dice, game manufacturing toolkits and entry to MCM Comic Con for free at next week’s Tabletop Creators Summit

Industry event on May 26th will be free to attend in London’s ExCeL.

Dark Souls, Elden Ring board game maker cut one-third of employees in recent “restructure”

Nearly 20 workers at Steamforged Games were hit with redundancies and left shocked.

Dead Cells board game started as an ‘awkward’ clone of the video game

“The game we wanted to make was so closely inspired by Dead Cells that it would have been awkward not to call it that way,” admits Scorpion Masqué studio head.

Here’s how the Dead Cells board game’s roguelike and Metroidvania gameplay works

Live, die, live again.

Here’s an exclusive first look at the Dead Cells board game in action

Ahead of its Kickstarter campaign tomorrow.

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From real history to great fiction.

How to play Star Wars: The Deckbuilding Game: board game’s rules, setup and scoring explained

Join the Rebels or the Empire.

Breath of the Wild-inspired board game Leviathan Wilds returns to crowdfunding with tighter focus

Be runnin' up that bull. Be runnin' up that snake. Be runnin' up that big crab.

Poll: Do you buy fewer board games nowadays?

Hey big spender.

Learn how to get your game published and meet industry experts at the first Tabletop Creators Summit later this month

Free London event will include expert talks on design, manufacturing, crowdfunding and marketing, followed by an industry networking event.

We've just made it easier for you to keep up with your favourite games

Spend less time searching for the things you love, and more time reading about them.

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Magic, moles and Mancunians.

After raising $1.5m on Kickstarter, Rainbow Six: Siege board game asks backers for more money to receive their copies

Due to costs incurred by COVID and Ukraine war.

Boba Fett jetpacks into Star Wars Villainous in new board game expansion

Enter a hive of Scum and Villainy.

Warhammer 40k spin-off Kill Team gets its first narrative expansion in Ashes of Faith

Smouldering.

Halloween: The Board Game sees one player stalking the others as Michael Myers

Watch for The Shape.

6 best cheap board games under £15

Spend less, play more.

Elden Ring board game studio picks up HeroQuest spiritual successor Altar Quest

Steamforged acquires Warhammer Quest designers’ co-op dungeon-crawler from Blacklist Games.

Dice-placement board game Eternal Palace is almost half price at Zatu

Rebuild monuments and paint a beautiful picture to gain the Emperor's favour.

Feature: “It gives us a sense of pride”: Adugo, the Indigenous Brazilian board game helping to teach maths and protect wildlife

The traditional ‘Jaguar Game’ has broken down barriers to education and conservation awareness.

Mensa’s favourite board games of 2023 include treks through history, catfights on beds and Victorian garden-growing

Smart choices.

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Trains, guns and Japanese warfare.

MOBA-inspired board game Guards of Atlantis II returns to crowdfunding with new heroes and updated rules

Stay in your lane.

How to play Codenames: board game’s rules, setup and scoring

In Codenames you’ll find all the tension and fun a world full of spies can offer.

Poll: Do you prefer hexes or squares in your board games?

Shaping your mind up.

Hello Kitty is getting a new board game from the folks behind the Binding of Isaac card game

Prepare for a Day at the Park.

Clash of Cultures is the greatest Civilization board game without Sid Meier in its name

You have discovered Entertainment.

6 best Aliens board games to play this (and every) Alien Day

They’re coming outta the goddamn shelves!

Assassin’s Creed board game adds an open-world campaign, grapple and familiar face from the video games in new expansion - exclusive first look

Apocalypse takes Brotherhood of Venice to the jungles of 16th-century Cambodia.

You can save £50 on dungeon-crawler board game Frosthaven right now

Get the follow-up to Gloomhaven for under £200.

Here’s everyone you’ll be able to play as in Apex Legends: The Board Game - and how to get them (Sponsored)

The 13 Legends making their way from screen to table.

Call of Duty’s board game adaptation will include a Ghost miniature and iconic multiplayer maps

Pay two bullet resources to de-escalate civilians.

Arnak publisher’s new city-building board game asks if collective prosperity is worth its weight in silver

Burnish your sterling reputation.

Critical Role publisher announces new tabletop titles and hiatus on Critical Role Adventures

And an update on Guardians of Matrimonia and Syndicult.

6 Nimmt! designer’s classic Monopoly-esque board game is getting a re-release

Reach new heights.

Poll: How many games do you back on Kickstarter each year?

Put your money where your mouth is.

Disney Animated is a co-op board game from the studio behind Disney Villainous

Don’t cell out.

How to play Splendor: board game’s rules, setup and scoring explained

Get to grips with this gem of a card game.

Boop. and Turing Machine among big winners at 2023 American Tabletop Awards

The US’ largest tabletop awards also honoured Carnegie and Planet Unknown

New D&D board game Trials of Tempus is an eight-player arena brawl that rewards more than just violence

Brawl that glitters is gold.

Bag-building board game Quacks of Quedlinburg is over 30% off

Fill your cauldron with some potentially calamitous ingredients.

How to play Frosthaven: setup, character creation and rules explained

Face many dangers while protecting your base in Frosthaven.

Trickerion and Anachrony film rights sold to studio producing Terraforming Mars for cinema

Small boards, big screens.

7 best hidden movement board games

Stealth on your shelf.

Monster Hunter World board game sequel will adapt Iceborne’s clutch claw and mid-fight turf wars

Stay frosty, hunters.

Monopoly Go! is a “highly social" mobile game based on the family classic

Build and destroy property empires.

9 best 4X board games

A bunch of eXtremely eXtraordinary and eXacting eXamples of 4X games.

Feature: What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!

Tell us what’s on your table.

New owner of Sub Terra 2, Alba and other board games from troubled UK studio Inside the Box confirms plans for burned Kickstarter backers

Naylor Games acknowledges it’s ‘making the best of a bad situation’ as backers asked to pay shipping again or donate money from missing games to charity.

How to play Carcassonne: board game’s rules, setup and scoring explained

A chill and fun mediaeval experience

Star Wars Rivals is the sci-fi giant’s latest lightsaber stab at a collectible tabletop game

On the way from Funko Games, but without Funko Pops.

Without Catan, board gaming as we know it today wouldn’t exist

A look back on Catan’s lasting legacy following the death of designer Klaus Teuber.

Spider-Man, She-Hulk and Doctor Strange suit-up for Unmatched board game entry

Other new expansion features iconic Japanese warriors.

Creator of Catan, Klaus Teuber, has passed away at the age of 70

“Contributions to board gaming industry are immeasurable.”

Pathfinder studio’s “first board game in more than a decade” mixes tile placement and secret objectives

Pathfinder Elemental Stones seems tied to the upcoming Rage of Elements sourcebook.

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An adaptation of Terra Mystica is coming from studio with Terraforming Mars screen rights

Terra-fic news.

Sub Terra and Alba picked up by Magnate publisher as embattled UK board game studio Inside the Box closes its doors

Inside the Box Board Games to liquidate, with all assets acquired by Naylor Games, following claims of unpaid staff and missing pensions earlier this year.

Feature: What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!

Tell us what’s on your table.

New Marvel co-op board game sounds a lot like Eldritch Horror with superheroes

Wield the D.A.G.G.E.R.

Co-op gem Forgotten Waters’ follow-up is the gorgeous fantasy RPG board game Freelancers

Deal with dungeons, dragons and... taxes?

Greek god board game gem Santorini returns with new co-op expansion and deluxe Pantheon Edition

Riddle of the Sphinx will also include a single-player mode.

Feature: An Awkward transition: How the creators of your favourite PS2 quiz game went from pixels to paper

‘I like the purity of board games; you can just really focus on creating the fun.’

Cross-country train game Ticket to Ride is discounted in the Amazon Spring sale

Collect cards and claim railway routes to race across America.

Clank! legacy board game is getting a sequel featuring PvP gameplay

Return to Acquisitions Incorporated.

Feature: What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’ve been playing!

Tell us what’s on your table.

Sleeping Gods is the greatest video game board game that isn’t based on a video game

Don't sleep on it.