Altered Carbon’s brutal Fightdrome is becoming a card game series
First game set in Panama Rose arena, with more to follow.
Board Game Archive
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10 best worker-placement games
Take your places.
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Flash Gordon is being turned into a card game for its 40th anniversary
I like to play with things a while.
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Guess Who meets Mysterium card game Similo is coming to mobile and PC
Sign up for app's beta next month.
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The Princess Bride is getting a co-op 'adventure book' board game
Not that inconceivable.
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“I would lie awake at night thinking how fun a dungeon crawl would be.”
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Requires this year's big-box release Shadowed Paths.
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Co-op Disney board game Shadowed Kingdom pits Mickey, Goofy, Donald and more against Doubt
First in new Disney series from The Thing: Infection at Outpost 31 studio Mondo.
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Tinkered, Tailored, Bolder Bye.
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BlazBlue Exceed brings the anime video game fighter to the tabletop
16 characters join card game's roster of fighters.
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Illustrious tabletop prize Diana Jones Award celebrates “Black excellence in gaming”
More than two dozen designers, creators and other members of the industry recognised.
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Anti-colonialist co-op game Spirit Island comes to PC
Currently 15% off as part of launch.
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60 minutes of thoughts, Fort and tangents.
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7 Wonders second edition announced, releasing this September
The difference is night and day.
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Digital board games don’t match the physical experience - and that can be a good thing
Some tabletop games aren’t the same when you can’t touch their bits and pieces... or are they?
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HeroQuest Legacies trademark filing hints at possible return for beloved ‘80s dungeon-crawler
From Return to Dark Tower studio Restoration Games.
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Shake it up, pull the tab and let the opinions spill.
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Talks, workshops and panels running at this September’s super-sized event.
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Make a Hollywood movie with friends in co-op dice game Roll Camera
From script to screen.
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Everdell, A War of Whispers and Black Orchestra devs open indie tabletop studio Quillsilver
Co-founders include former creative director and brand manager at Starling Games.
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Warhammer Humble Bundle includes Blood Bowl 2, Deathwatch, Battlefleet Gothic and more on PC for £10
Spanning tabletop adaptations and other spin-offs.
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Spiel des Jahres 2020 winners: Pictures and The Crew collect ‘Game of the Year’ awards
Party game and co-op card game follow last year's recipients Just One and Wingspan.
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Pandemic Legacy: Season 0 was almost a ‘sixties Bond film’ with a working slide projector
“It’s not Twilight Struggle, nor is it space lasers.”
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Pandemic Legacy: Season 0, Fort and haunted board games: it's this week's Dicebreaker Podcast!
We take no responsibility for any rodent hauntings as the result of listening to this episode.
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Fantasy Flight, Z-Man and Catan Studio parent picks up French publisher.
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The designers discuss closure in Season 0, the trilogy’s influence and whether there’s a chance they’ll ever return.
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Includes real passports, branching story paths and new gameplay elements.
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It’s 2020 and there’s a new Titanic movie board game
Based on James Cameron's 1997 epic drama.
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Star Wars: Destiny has a new print-and-play expansion, Transformations, you can download for free
Despite the collectible dice game being brought to an end in February.
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Ascension Tactics turns the fantasy deckbuilder into a miniatures game
From card game’s co-creator.
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Black board games are key to the future of tabletop
New voices and perspectives at the table benefit everyone.
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Leaked Descent board game confirmed as Legends of the Dark, artwork revealed
“Brand new edition of the hugely popular game” previously named by tie-in book The Shield of Daqan.
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Available to download whatever timeline you’re in.
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Gloomhaven sequel Frosthaven raised more money in May than every April campaign combined.
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Scrabble community bans offensive words, including racial slurs, from competitive play
North American Scrabble Players Association removes 200 words from permitted tournament spellings.
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Pandemic Legacy: Season 3 revealed as prequel Season 0 in announcement trailer - exclusive
“Every end has a beginning.”
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Artificial Intelligence company DeepMind is teaching AI how to play classic board game Diplomacy
How do you backstab a robot, though?
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Kilmonger and Taskmaster deliver the pain in Marvel Villainous: Infinite Power
They join Thanos, Hela and Ultron.
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Cards Against Humanity responds to allegations of “toxic work environment”
“We are committed to rebuilding a workplace that the partners and staff can be proud of."
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Former Cards Against Humanity employees allege “toxic working culture” at party game company
Writers share experiences under hashtag #CAHisOver, but company refutes them all.
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Game of Thrones: The Board Game is arriving on PC later this year
Winter is coding.
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10 best trivia games that are better than Trivial Pursuit
All the answers you need.
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Hedgehog Roll named Kids’ Game of the Year at 2020 Kinderspiel des Jahres
Gotta Velcro fast.
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Unlock! Star Wars takes the escape room game series to a galaxy far, far away
Make it out in time, you must.
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The Dicebreaker Podcast is back to talk solo RPGs, classic board games and more!
Plus, we say goodbye to Sara.
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Bite-sized restaurant management board game Foodies is free to print and play
Publisher CMON encourages donations to the NAACP.
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Root studio’s next game Fort gets a release date this summer
Cutesy remake of civilisation-building card game SPQF.
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Oath could finally deliver on the exciting lost potential of legacy board games
All of the memories with none of the sacrifice.
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Plus, your chance to judge our lockdown takeaway habits.
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Zombicide and Cthulhu: Death May Die are being turned into graphic novels
First run of CMON comics.
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10 best auction board games you can bet on for a good time
A winning bid.
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If your ears are burning, it’s probably all the hot takes.
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Development of first release “pretty much done”, with two more projects already in the works.
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Try the new Pandemic board game, Hot Zone: North America, right now with free print-and-play demo
Shorter, simpler spin-off from co-op hit releasing later this year.
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US board game convention Gen Con is cancelled for the first time in its 50-year history
Online event announced in wake of COVID-19 concerns.
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Rally-racing board game Rallyman: Dirt is returning in a new edition
Combines original Rallyman and Dirt expansion.
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Cancelled Essen Spiel 2020 board game convention replaced by online event Spiel.Digital
Taking place during October weekend of ‘postponed’ games fair.
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The Crew, The King’s Dilemma and Cartographers: A Roll Player Tale lead shortlist for 'expert' Kennerspiel des Jahres.
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War of the Ring, The One Ring and Zombicide RPG designers join Blood Rage and Rising Sun studio CMON
Francesco Nepitello and Marco Maggi working on “several high priority and super-secret future releases”.
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2021 dates announced following ‘postponement’ by one year due to COVID-19.
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Treat your earholes and eyeholes today.
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Teases glimpse at future of Power Rangers board game.
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Zombicide and Blood Rage maker CMON is holding a virtual board games convention this weekend
With designer talks, painting competitions and more.
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UK Games Expo 2020 replacement online convention Virtually Expo announced
Following Birmingham show’s cancellation due to COVID-19.
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Tiny Epic Pirates sails the small seas onto Kickstarter next week
Edward Titch and the Teeny Anne’s Revenge.
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Planned for release this summer, with play-at-home demo on the way.
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6 best escape room games to play at home
Find your way out while staying inside.
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Tabletop Simulator challenger Tabletop Playground launches into Early Access on PC this week
Over 100 mods available off the bat.
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The latest board game and RPG news, what we’ve been playing, and your questions answered.
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Get Scythe, Splendor, Carcassonne and £120+ worth of digital board games on PC for under £10
Latest Humble Bundle features more than a dozen Asmodee Digital apps and expansions.
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Gale Force Nine blames “a variety of circumstances out of our control”.
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Official variant available to download now.
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Capital Lux 2 mixes up the card game with 250+ more ways to play, landing on Kickstarter this month
New characters and solo mode coming to strategic card game.
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Gloomhaven sequel Frosthaven is now the biggest board game Kickstarter of all time
With nearly $13m raised and over 80,000 backers.
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Listen or watch this week’s round-up of tabletop news, opinions and chatter now.
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The Dicebreaker merchandise store is open now, featuring two new T-shirt designs!
BE NICE ROLL DICE and show off your BIG DECK ENERGY.
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The Hobbit board game on the way from Lord of the Rings movie effects studio
Films' senior artist and Endeavor co-designer throw An Unexpected Party.
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Hitting Kickstarter this autumn ahead of release in 2021.
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Tapeworm is a delightfully gross card game mash-up of Uno and Snake from Binding of Isaac creator
Edmund McMillen's second tabletop project live on Kickstarter now.
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UK Games Expo 2020 has been cancelled
Following postponement to August as result of coronavirus.
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Anime deckbuilder Tanto Cuore is coming back to digital
Publisher Japanime Games working on tabletop adaptations of Japanese video games.
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Listen on iTunes, Spotify and Google, or watch the video version!
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You can now play dungeon-crawling board game Arcadia Quest single-player with free solo mode rules
Support for Inferno and expansions to follow.
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Party game Insider is 20 Questions meets Werewolf, and it’s getting a trickier new edition
Insider Black is both a standalone game and expansion for the original.