Board Games (Page 17)
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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.
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Catan VR invites Oculus Quest and Quest 2 owners to trade digital wood
Electric sheep are no longer a dream.
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Here’s our first look at the gameplay of Arkham Horror video game Mother’s Embrace
If I were eldritch man.
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CoraQuest is a dungeon-crawling board game that began life as a homework project
Add treasure and subtract monsters.
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How logging your board game plays can curate your collection - and save you money
Stats the way I like it.
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Long Shot: The Dice Game takes roll-and-write games to the races
No horsing around.
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New edition of World’s Fair 1893 makes space for BIPOC exhibitors and attendees
Eat cotton candy on a ferris wheel as Susan B. Anthony.
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He who controls ten victory points, controls the universe.
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Defend a city in Champions of Midgard creator’s next game, Meeples & Monsters
Rowan in the right direction.
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Feature: Monster Hunter World: The Board Game’s designers on tracking down the perfect tabletop adaptation
“We like people to make difficult choices that are also fun choices.”
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Exploding Kittens makers’ next game is Tacocat Spelled Backwards, out this month
Welcome to the palindrome.
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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.
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Monster Hunter World: The Board Game will launch on Kickstarter in April
Grab your hammer and potions, hunters.
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Sushi Go! designer’s next board game transports players to Llamaland
Wool you come along?
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Team up with Sherlock Holmes and Robin Hood in the next Unlock! escape room game
Can you open the Loxley?
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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.
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Plus: the least foot-friendly gaming components to step on.
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The Chess Effect: How The Queen’s Gambit turned me into a chess obsessive
What a feeling, when we’re castling on the ceiling.
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9 best space board games, from Treks to Wars
To boldly roll.
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Remix Monopoly, Cluedo and other classics into better games with hack collection A Fine Mend
Milton Bradley, eat your heart out.
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Brass: Birmingham co-creator’s British mining board game Tinners' Trail gets a remake
Mine your own business.
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Marvel Champions, 7 Wonders 2E and more board games discounted in Zatu’s January sale
Alongside Arkham Horror LCG, Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle and Dune.
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Risk is the next board game classic to be turned into a TV series
From House of Cards creator.
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Terraforming Mars is getting a card game spin-off, Ares Expedition
Featuring new artwork and ‘faster gameplay’.
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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.
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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.
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Fort designer’s next game is another inventive deckbuilder, Nine Ravens
Remake of 2017's Five Ravens.
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Debut release from studio Unexpected Games delayed from 2020 release due to COVID-19.
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Games of the Year 2020: Matt on Pandemic Legacy: Season 0
A fond farewell.
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2020: good for games, bad for just about everything else.
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The co-founders of design studio Needy Cat Games run through their top two-player picks.
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Having our Christmas cake and eating it.
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How to play Love Letter: board game's rules, setup and how to win explained
Princess of Hearts.
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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.”
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Best board games to play at Thanksgiving
No Thanksgiving turkeys here.
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‘First Inuit-designed board game’ Nunami strives for a natural balance
Always make room for polar bears.
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House of Cats adds a social deduction bent to the roll-and-write formula
Several floors of fluffy mischief.
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PAX Unplugged dated for December 2021
Tabletop convention set to return next year after cancellation due to coronavirus.
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Plus Uri Geller’s 20-year Pokémon beef, overlooked board game themes and how to kill Hitler.
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Catan: Starfarers’ first rebooted expansion is out today, adds more players and faster turns
Wood for electric sheep?
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War of the Ring card game releasing in 2021 - first gameplay details revealed
Created with focus on multiplayer in mind.
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The Queen’s Gambit has caused a massive spike in chess sales
On top of a resurgence during lockdown.
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Unmatched’s latest pop culture showdown pits Little Red Riding Hood against Beowulf
All the better to beat you with.
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Board games ranked by SAGE among top COVID-19 risk factors during holiday gatherings
Seriously, just stay home.
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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.
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10 hottest upcoming board games for 2021
These are the hottest board games hitting the shelves in 2021.
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Dungeonbreaker merchandise is here! Plus, a sale!
Grab Dicebreaker merch for 30% off during Black Friday.
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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.
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10 best board games to play at Christmas instead of Monopoly
Gather the family around some proper Christmas crackers.
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Kids on Bikes confront The Snallygaster Situation in new board game spin-off
In it to Schwinn it.
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Plus lots of roleplaying advice.
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How to teach board games to new players
The explanation, explained.
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Tsuro publisher is offering a bundle of three quick and easy board games
Spin a yarn, refeather a peacock and help some meeples home before supper.
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Uno is being turned into a TV game show
By studio behind upcoming Ticket to Ride series.
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Feature: Board games are expensive, so we tried to make our own for a tenner
It went about as well as you’d expect.
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Embrace the theatrics and physicality of Hibachi as you cook - or steal - the perfect meal
Making a dog’s dinner of it is the whole point.
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Battle royale board game Reload sounds like a tabletop Fortnite
Parachuting onto Kickstarter next January.
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Creature Comforts wraps worker-placement in a cozy, family-friendly blanket
Now, where did I bury those stockings?
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Gloomhaven is currently the cheapest it’s ever been on Amazon US
Machi Koro, Kingdomino, Forbidden Island and the Exit series also on sale.
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You can and will squeeze blood from this stone.
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How to play Betrayal at House on the Hill: board game's rules, setup and haunts explained
Don't fear the rulebook.
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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.
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Travel the Andes mountains with a llama friend in modular resource game P’achakuna
An adventure to dye for.
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Classic horror board game Fury of Dracula sinks its fangs into PC today
Transform into Steam.
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Dungeons & Dragons Monopoly is on the way
How has this not happened already?
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Bardsung has a 50+ hour campaign, massive demon miniature and $99 price tag
Will they sing of your glory or your corpse?
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Rhianna Pratchett, Ian Livingstone and Sara Thompson to pen scenarios for upcoming roguelike board game.
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Too Many Bones studio’s next board game is co-op robot heist Burncycle
Burning up Kickstarter next week.
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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.
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Feature: 10 Catan house rules that make the classic board game even more fun
Don’t settle for less.
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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.
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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.
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Conversation hotter than a crispy lizard.
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How to paint miniatures: A step-by-step beginner’s guide
From sprue to stunner.