As I’ve recently put on record here, I think Tokaido is the best digital board game. Its stay at the top might be…
I love games that involve bluffing, even though I can never tell when any of my friends are lying. This past…
The open source beta for the tabletop RPG DIE, written by comics writer Kieron Gillen and based on his comic of the same name, just dropped today. If you wanna know more about the comic—and hear some of Gillen’s fun RPG experiences—check out our interview with him.
Nintendo’s idea of role-playing is pretty light, so if fans want something with a bit more substance, it’s up to…
Modiphius is releasing a tabletop wargame based on The Elder Scrolls universe. Weird choice, seeing as this is an RPG series in which combat is usually a small-scale solo affair, but whatever, licensing!
This weekend was Pro Tour Dominaria, the first major professional play event taking place after the recently…
I reviewed V-Commandos last year and absolutely loved it, but 12 months later I’m somehow finding space in my heart…
Battle royale games are so popular that even board games are getting in on the fun.
I played several different games at the Game Developers Conference last week, but I only ate one of them.
Dungeons & Dragons is full of mixed up creatures like owlbears, which are half bear and half owl, and perytons, the…
Yesterday one of the regular members of my Dungeons & Dragons group had to cancel, so the rest of us decided to roll…
The thick, black-and-white rulebook packaged with every copy of the 1979 war-game The Campaign For North Africa is…
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Scythe is one of my favourite board games of the last few years, and having missed its first expansion I was super…
It’s hard work, turning a video game into a board game.
Fallout: The Board Game is as faithful an adaptation of the source material as you could possibly hope for.
Anyone who owns a lot of board games will know that storing them isn’t that hard. Storing them nicely, though, is almost impossible, which is why BoxThrone is trying to change that with a modular shelving system designed to accommodate any game, no matter how weird or heavy it is.
In 2011, the board game Letters from Whitechapel put detectives on the hunt for Jack the Ripper. In 2017, that game…
DialVision is an unofficial app for the excellent X-Wing miniatures game that works as targeting computer, using augmented reality to project firing arcs and range limits onto the table so you don’t have to fiddle with those rulers all the time.
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Star Wars: Imperial Assault is already one of the best tabletop experiences around, but it looks like the game’s upcoming app release is going to make it even better, allowing for stuff like fog of war and true cooperative play, as the AI takes control of the Empire.
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