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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. board game cracks $2m in crowdfunding for a campaign-focused cooperative “zone crawler”

A replayable Zone Survival Mode won’t be included in the base game post-crowdfunding.

Climate change charity’s deckbuilding game Carbon City Zero wants to set an eco example for the real world

Work together - or separately - to bring your carbon levels to zero.

Sky Team’s tense, co-op cockpit simulator board game will hit the runway at Gen Con ahead of fall release

It takes two to tarmac.

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

Monsters, mayhem and Mordor.

Puerto Rico 1897, pulled from shelves after a disastrous launch, will receive a corrected edition this autumn

Publisher Ravensburger confirms new box will include updated rulebook, missing tiles and added building text.

Monopoly Scrabble mashes together the two board game classics in one Frankensteinian tabletop crossover

Honestly, how has this never happened before?

How to play Root: board game's rules, setup and scoring explained

Send little cute animals to fight for the dominance of the Woodlands.

Looking to learn how to play Warhammer 40k before 10th Edition? Dicebreaker members can now save 10% on Vanguard Tactics’ expert courses

Jump into 40k for the first time or move over from 9E to the new rules with ease.

Monopoly has lost favour with Gen Z compared to other age groups, says survey

Millennials dominate the hobbyist demographic, but their generational juniors aren’t far behind

Firefly board game is getting a seriously fancy, seriously hefty collector’s edition for its 10th anniversary

Massive box includes everything ever made for the game, plus a new expansion and upgraded components.

Feature: Sudoku meets Minesweeper in nifty puzzle board game Tiwanaku - hands-on impressions

It’s definitely a grower.

Love wrapping your head around board games? You should read Ulysses

Say Yes this Bloomsday.

Cluedo Conspiracy twists the murder mystery formula with hidden identities and an island resort vibe

Whodunnit on holiday.

D&D starter kit and Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion amongst buy two, get one free sale on board games, RPGs

Online sale at Target and Amazon include a wealth of great tabletop titles.

Feature: Scythe spin-off Expeditions feels more like a missed opportunity than a direct sequel – hands-on preview

Not exactly meteoric.

War of the Ring: The Card Game maker announces price and date for Against the Shadow expansion

Google: Route me to Mt. Doom in incognito mode, please.

Disney Villainous plans Gen Con tournament and introductory board game ahead of Oogie Boogie expansion

You're joking, you're joking. I can't believe my eyes!

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

Painting, apawthecary and more!

Noughties wargaming classic Heroscape will still see a return after last year’s failed crowdfunding run

Renegade Game Studios picks up the miniatures game’s reboot after Age of Annihilation missed its goal last autumn.

A Smurfs tabletop game is on the way from 7 Wonders and Dead Cells designers

In time for the blue pop icons' 65th anniversary.

Terraria: The Board Game digs up a co-op tabletop adaptation for the 2D Minecraft-a-like

Mined for inspiration.

Video game classic Worms is being turned into a board game

Incoming!

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.

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.

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

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

Ahead of its Kickstarter campaign tomorrow.

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

Live, die, live again.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.