Stoyan Todorov

One of the best 4X board games of all time, Ascending Empires, is returning with Ascending Empires: Zenith Edition confirmed for release by WizKids in September 2023. The sci-fi-themed empire-building board game is one of the best in its genre and it will be coming with a revamped look and crispy freshness. Ascending Empires Introduces Solo Mode, New Rules, and More In Ascending...

Kickstarter has become one of the best ways to bring quality products to market. From the early days with games such as Zombicide ploughing the course, to the pinnacle of all campaigns, with Frosthaven raising massive backing, the true potential of crowdfunding in the tabletop hobby is not fully explored. Today, we take a look at the most funded Kickstarter...

Hasbro and the Ageless Innovation have teamed up to introduce overhauled versions of popular games such as Trivial Pursuit, The Game of Life, and Scrabble and make them more accessible for the elderly. Although the last several years were difficult for some studios and developers, the pandemic made it abundantly clear that seniors were an underage demographic in the board...

Video games have been adapted into a number of board games recently, from Monster Hunter: Iceborne to Call of Duty, to Apex Legends, to Assassin’s Creed to frankly more games that we have the time to list here. Now, a new medium is crossing the veil with the tabletop hobby with the popular 1978 horror movie, Halloween, and its timeless...

Skytear Horde, the innovative card battler for 1-3 players, is about to launch a new Gamefound crowdfunding campaign. The publisher, Skytear Games, is bringing a reprint of the original game along with a new, standalone expansion, Monoliths.  What’s in the Skytear Horde Box?  The campaign features a reprint of the Skytear Horde original along with the Skytear Horde Monoliths expansion. This...

Clank Legacy 2: Acquisitions Incorporated — Darkest Magic by Dire Wolf Digital is finally on Kickstarter with the second chapter in one of the best family-friendly deckbuilding games finally available to back.  Go Forth, Be Bold, and Acquire!  With more than 8,250 followers at the time of launch, Clank Legacy 2 is a worthy sequel to the original cooperative game that launched in...

The year is 1492 – Anno Domini. The threat – very real. The Hunters A.D. 1492 is a game set in post-apocalyptic Europe – we think – with the title inviting 1-4 players to work as a team to protect human settlements from the monstrosities beyond. Time to Save Humanity – Again  Monsters have spread around the world and human populations are dwindling, as...

Stranger Things will zap you back to the 80s in the age of arcades, the dawn of Dungeon and Dragons, and in the midst of a full-blown interdimensional invasion. For fans of the franchise, there can hardly be enough Stranger Things to enjoy, and this is where our list of the best Stranger Thing board games comes in. The list...

Mensa, the organizaiton that argues that it can best measure and quantify your IQ by posing increasingly difficult puzzles to exam takers, has provided a list of what its members consider to be the best board games of 2023.  The distinction goes to five board games that the organization argues stand out by virtue of their design, execution, original thought, and artwork....

GAMA Expo, one of the most looked-forward professional trade shows reuniting tabletop studios, designers, and players, has marked a rebound, setting a new record in attendance. The 2023 edition of the show brought together 2,041 attendees compared to the 1,680 who showed up in 2019. This year’s numbers outline a significant gain on the 2021 numbers when GAMA brought together...