After teasing the arrival of a legacy project set in the Ticket to Ride franchise, Days of Wonder has finally fleshed out more of the details about this exciting game. Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West is set in 19th-century North America and the design is the work of Rob Daviau, Matt Leacock, and Alan R. Moon...

UK Games Expo 2023 is one of the most anticipated events around board games and this year, the event is running from Friday, June 2 through Sunday, June 4 at NEC Birmingham, Birmingham.  The event has attracted a variety of sponsors, including Wayland Games, CATAN and Warhammer, along with Funko Games, Paizo, and others. Now, UK Games Expo is upping...

Apex Legends’ Kickstarter campaign by Polish game studio Glass Cannon Unplugged has been going at a good pace, with the title, as of the time of writing, raising $566,154 from 3,144 backers. The game is advertised as a highly-strategic, teams-versus-team miniatures tabletop experience for 1-6 players, inspired by the popular video game by the same name. Apex Legends Gets Solo and Co-Op Modes Now, Apex Legends...

US publisher Steve Jackson Games posted the annual overview of the company’s performance, dubbed “the annual stakeholder report for 2022,” in which he whimsically took a jab at Fortune 500 companies, and offered a full disclosure of the company’s financial and the personal significance of its success. The Shareholder’s Success Is Everyone’s Success The year 2022 proved to be one that...

International tabletop games publisher Lucky Duck Games has signed a worldwide localization partnership with Tangerine Games, the company informed in a press statement.  Lucky Duck Games is an influential company in the tabletop industry, providing players with many notable releases over the past years, including Chronicles of Crime, Kids Chronicles, Yummy Yummy Monster Tummy, and Destinies, among others. The partnership...

Metal Gear Solid fans have a lot to be excited about (again), as the long-anticipated Metal Gear Solid: The Board Game will be making a return under a new publisher. Two years after being abruptly canceled by IDW in 2020, after several complications and delays, CMON has announced that pre-orders for Metal Gear Solid: The Board Game are very...

Elizabeth Hargrave’s recent Twitter post highlighted the gender gap issues within the board games community, most notably the lack of female designer presence. We agreed that she has a solid point, and we support her stance that the community suffers because of that. A strong point and opinion like this, especially from an esteemed board game designer like herself,...

Elizabeth Hargrave, the game designer behind the critically acclaimed board game titles Wingspan, Tussie Mussie, Mariposas, The Fox Experiment, and Undergrove, has posted critical data for the German board and card game award Spiel des Jahres via Twitter. The data collected showed the vast gap between male and female nominees of certain Spiel des Jahres categories, displayed on pipeline...

Several days ago, a controversy involving Quackalope exchange with Into the Unknown, the publisher and developer of Aeon Trespass: Odyssey, was brought to the attention of fans. A comment by the studio left on the Kickstarter page for the game suggested some implied unpleasantness between the YouTuber and the company. Soon after, a BoardGameGeek forum thread appeared. Since then, Quackalope...

Embracer Group, known among other things for its tabletop gaming division Asmodee, has released its full-year and four-quarter financial results for 2022. In the summation of the year’s performance, chief executive Lars Wingefors received news about net sales growth with cautious pragmatism and even a tinge of disappointment.  He called the year past a difficult period for the company that...