Board Games (Page 2)
News
Funko has sold its board game studio to a Dutch family game publisher
Prospero Hall staff allegedly not part of Funko's abrupt exit from the industry.
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail's official board game includes a working catapult
Fend off the roaming Black Knight, French style.
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Votes for Women’s second board game print run stymied by banned Facebook ads
Publisher disappointed at Meta’s lack of communication over repeated banning with no explanation.
How To
How to play Catan: board game’s rules, setup and how to win explained
Wood that it were so simple.
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Chick-fil-A - yes, that Chick-fil-A - is looking for someone to help make board games
The chicken slinger anti-equal rights funder is on the hunt for the next Sneak King.
News
Exploding Kittens studio’s new titles reskin popular party games Love Letter, Top Ten and Happy Salmon
Brand new title Danger Danger dares players to draw cards on a hidden timer.
News
AI-Powered Trivial Pursuit Infinite is a mostly harmless canary in the tabletop coal mines
New Infinite mode turns players into playtesters for Hasbro’s digital board game app.
Best Games
Upcoming board games 2024: 13 board game releases you shouldn’t miss this year
New year, new games.
News
Undaunted and Consulting Detective designers make a “choose-your-own-adventure” board game set in WWII France
Who spilled all this clue gathering in my tactics game?
Best Games
7 cosy board games to warm you up this winter
Perfect for rainy afternoons and hot cups of tea.
News
Kelp maker urges players not to purchase counterfeit board games circulating online
Wonderbow’s asymmetric title won’t release until late 2024, but scammed copies are popping up on Amazon and other online retailers.
News
Disney Villainous releases to get cheaper, beginning with two-player Wreck-It Ralph and Jungle Book title
Like taking candy from a baby.
News
New board game from Scythe and Wingspan makers trades doves for dragons
Wingspan designer Elizabeth Hargrave helped develop Wyrmspan's high-fantasy alternative to her popular avian engine-builder.
Opinion
Borderlands unfortunately proves great video games don't always make great board games
Not so badass.
Best Games
6 board games from Asian designers you need to play
From compact card games to thinky strategy gems.
News
The Brooklyn Strategist becomes third New York board game and RPG cafe to establish a union
The Brooklyn Strategist Workers United won their election in a 17-1 decisive victory
Best Games
6 board games and RPGs to play over Christmas, no matter what your holiday plans are
Always pass the vibe check.
News
You can now play a free Catan clone on Discord
Colonist.io joins the roster of multiplayer games you can play from inside Discord's interface.
News
SPONSORED: Go full “Et tu, Brute?” on your friends in UBOOT creators’ backstabby Roman politics board game Triumph
Hitting Kickstarter next month after years in the making.
News
Dark Souls board game’s third attempt at tabletop adaptation isn’t for established players
NG+, this is not.
Best Games
6 board games like Grand Theft Auto to play while you wait for GTA 6’s release date
Criminally good fun.
News
Tabletop Creators Summit returns in 2024 with more expert advice and networking for designers, publishers and industry pros
Following success of Dicebreaker’s first-ever B2B event in London last spring.
Feature
If you like Pandemic, you owe it to yourself to make The ART Project your next co-op board game
Stealing hearts.
News
Tabletop Awards 2023 winners: this year’s best board games, RPGs, designers and publishers
Including our first winner in new category Best Art.
Feature
Molly House tells a compelling story of individual vice and queer community with risk-versus-reward gameplay
Throw some period drama parties.
News
The Witcher’s Geralt and Ciri are headed to board game battler Unmatched
Finally, a chance to slay Jurassic Park’s T-Rex with a silver sword.
News
Nature board game Cascadia is getting a series of flip-and-roll-and-write spin-offs
There’s dice in them thar hills!
News
Eldritch Horror creator reminisces on Omens, money and easter eggs for the board game's 10-year anniversary
Corey Konieczka’s “globetrotting Arkham Horror game” remains a high mark of collaborative tabletop design a decade later.
News
Dark Souls board game maker picks up Streets of Rage-inspired board game beat 'em up Street Masters
Street Masters joins Altar Quest as another orphaned Blacklist title rescued by the Manchester-based Steamforged Games.
News
Ticket to Ride and Exploding Kittens maker to take part in owner's restructuring that has already cut 900 jobs
Despite leading a strong quarter for Embracer, one of tabletop’s largest publishers will join Embracer Group's wide scale, cost-saving initiative.
News
Monopoly and Dungeons & Dragons owner announces trio of winners for 2023 Women Innovators of Play Challenge
All three will have their original designs workshopped by Hasbro next year, along with a $10,000 prize.
Deals
Best Black Friday 2023 board game and tabletop deals
Deal with these discounted dice-rolling diversions.
Feature
Undaunted designers’ pint-sized wargame General Orders pulls the perfect lunchtime battle from its tiny box
It’s bigger on the inside.
Feature
Kingdom Death’s seven-year journey to overcome COVID, fear of irrelevance and the Monster promises of its record-breaking Kickstarter
“Tabletop is the only way of gaming I can think of that exists on this additional plane of consciousness.”
News
Sanderson’s Mistborn book series to be made into a deckbuilding game like Dominion
If you fancy some Allomancy.
News
Ticket to Ride has a new PC game, but it’s not going down well with fans
Players will need to re-buy all expansions and are unable to play the previous app online.
News
Sonic Roll looks like a faithful board game adaptation of the blue blur’s retro video game world
Rolling around at the speed of sound.
News
New York board game cafe Hex&Co wins vote to join rising tide of tabletop unionisation
Hex Workers Unite is the latest board game-related business to organise for better working conditions.
News
Announcing the finalists for the Tabletop Awards 2023, this year’s standout board games, RPGs and creators
The games you should be playing and the names you should be watching.
News
Munchkin maker revives classic board game Revolution! in the world of Pathfinder RPG
Viva la revolución, Korvosa!
News
Play deadly hide-and-seek as a shark and octopus in two-player board game Kelp
Kelp yourself to a bite.
News
Wingspan designer’s new board game is all about the symbiotic relationship between trees and mushrooms
Elizabeth Hargrave translates another personal hobby into a theme-heavy tabletop title.
News
The bassist from Cherry Bomb band The Runaways is making a board game about being a rock musician
Jackie Fox’s Rock Hard: 1977 will task players with writing songs, playing gigs and trying to make it big.
News
Saw board game takes Kickstarter miniatures to a grim new level with a life-sized severed hand
You’ll be able to take on the traps alone, or with - or against - friends.
News
Android: Netrunner creator loves the fact fans have kept the cancelled LCG alive - and has "considered" designing more cards himself
Richard Garfield says it’s “very satisfying” to return to games supported by passionate players.
How To
Blood on the Clocktower characters explained: Every Townsfolk, Outsider, Minion, Traveller, Fabled and Demon
Learn how to use your character’s unique ability in the social deduction game.
News
ChatGPT will soon let an AI teach you board game rules
Open AI’s new GPT program allows premium users to create their own AI agents for any purpose - such as teaching your friends to play Twilight Imperium.
News
A God of War (2018) board game is coming from the Zombicide studio
Dad of boy hits the tabletop.
News
SPONSORED: Loyalty is everything in epic strategy board game WarBonds
Convince your rivals’ troops to change sides while keeping your own units faithful.
How To
How to play Blood on the Clocktower: rules, setup, editions and how to win explained
Where to get started with the social deduction smash hit.
News
Bid for spell components on the forest floor in the newest board game from the makers of Calico and Cascadia
Wingspan, Cascadia and Viticulture illustrator Beth Sobel portrays a fantastical forest of foxes.
News
Flamecraft makers’ next board game is Iron Chef-meets-Supermarket Sweep full of whimsical animal cooks
Just imagine the hair nets.
News
A New York board game cafe is joining the wave of unionisation across TCG, RPG and tabletop companies
Workers cite unfair wages, lack of job security and “ineffective grievance procedures” as catalysts for unionisation.
News
Announcing our judges for the Tabletop Awards 2023
The best and brightest from across the industry.
News
Kingdom Death dungeon-crawling meets Baldur's Gate 3's campfire hangs in board game Hope: Chronicles of Osmae
Stand strong together to defeat monsters, then cut each other's throats back at base.
News
DreamEscape is like a choose-your-own-adventure Arkham Horror, with thousands of possible story paths
Part RPG, part card game, part choose-your-own-adventure book.
News
SPONSORED: Submarine sim board game U-BOOT resurfaces on Kickstarter with a massive miniature almost one metre long
Publisher Phalanx reckons the 90cm U-boat is the biggest miniature ever made for a board game.
News
Unsettled and Vindication designer’s MMO-like Spirit Fire claims to be the first “living board game”
This high fantasy solo board game boasts World of Warcraft, Metroidvanias and living card games among its influences.
News
Stationfall maker’s new influence card game puts you in charge of the Enlightenment-era Illuminati
Become the eye in the pyramid.
News
New board game is like “if Betrayal at House on the Hill and Castlevania had a baby”
Beware Dracula’s Curse.
News
Finding Atlantis looks like a Battleship board game upgrade with app-assisted undersea exploration
Periscope way, way down.
Feature
A rich mix of Magic: The Gathering, Oath and auction games, The Old King’s Crown is already my most anticipated board game of 2024
The political subterfuge of Game of Thrones meets the ruthless combo-making of your best MTG deck.
News
Teatime Adventures studio introduces awards for nonbinary representation in RPGs and board games
"We hope that this program gives more folks in the industry the recognition that they deserve, because there is so much amazing work in tabletop that is going underappreciated right now."
Feature
The Halloween board game is much better – and scarier – than you think
Escaping Haddonfield is murder.
News
After one of the world’s best Go players lost to an AI, he designed his own abstract games
If you can’t beat them, make your own game.
News
Xbox looks to Zoo Tycoon board game as possible model to revive stagnant video game series
“Even if certain franchises aren’t currently undergoing active development, they can still be actively appreciated by their fans.”
News
Scooby Doo, Scream actor Matthew Lillard wrote a free haunt for Betrayal at House on the Hill board game
Zoinks, Scoobs! That’s our last omen!
News
Disney Lorcana, Cyberpunk and Critical Role’s Matthew Mercer head to PAX Unplugged in December
The Critical Role DM will open the tabletop convention with a Storytime keynote.
Feature
Sunrise Lane is like a Ticket to Ride board game but with real-estate instead of trains
Perhaps the only way I’ll ever buy property.
News
Monsters Encyclopedia is like a Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? board game, with a touch of roguelites
Around the world in 80 plays.
Deals
Best Prime Big Deal Days board game deals 2023
Grab some of the best board games for the best price in Amazon's second Prime Day sale.
News
MrBeast, YouTube’s biggest name, won $10,000 playing Dune: Imperium Uprising
The self-styled philanthropist currently embroiled in a burger lawsuit can apparently also handle his Spice.
News
Titanfall 2 and The Expanse inspirations for the next Undaunted board game
“I don’t think you can make a game with mechs without mentioning Titanfall 2.”
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Planet Unknown and Mysterium Kids clinch wins at German Deutscher Spiele Preis board game awards
Dorfromantik and Heat: Pedal to the Medal take second and thorp place, respectively.
News
Rhino Hero publisher Haba lays off more than 650 workers in “extremely aching" self-administration process
Haba Family Group filed for insolvency last month and will reportedly refocus on toys and board games.
News
Essen Spiel 2024 dates will see the world’s largest board game event return next October
Remains in slot at beginning of the month.
News
This year’s Essen Spiel was the biggest in the Germany board game convention’s 40-year history, say organisers
Almost 200,000 people flocked to the world’s largest tabletop event.
News
You’ll soon be able to finally play Twilight Imperium online
Committing your friends to a months-long campaign is easier from the comfort of their own homes.
News
Baldur’s Gate 3 creators have ideas for another board game after Divinity: Original Sin - but don’t expect it anytime soon
‘If our fans are happy, then we'll talk about doing something else.’
News
Aqua is a deeply satisfying board game about supporting sealife, developed by Heat: Pedal to the Metal creators and co-designed by a seven-year-old
Place colourful tiles to brings animals to your reef.
News
Semi-co-op board game Fall of Fafnir pits your 3D defences against a marble-spitting dragon
Great marbles of fire!
Feature
Two players, five minutes, 16 cards, one of the most compelling card games I’ve ever played
Sengoku Ji-buy this now.
News
Dixit and Mysterium makers’ new board game will take Azul fans to the next level - literally
Create an island sanctuary for animals.
News
Strategic video game Armello trades a digital board for a real one in upcoming adaptation from D&D 4E designer
From pixels to plastic.
News
Saw: The Jigsaw Trials will bring the gory horror franchise to board game night via Kickstarter
Here’s hoping for a Billy the Puppet miniature.
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Tigris & Euphrates designer revives classic auction game Medici, partners with Dark Souls board game studio
Reiner Knizia’s Italian trading title will sport new artwork, but the gameplay remains untouched.