The 2022 “CATAN” World Championship will be co-hosted by CATAN Studio, Kosmos, and CATAN GmbH and will be the first time competitive “CATAN” players have competed in a worldwide, in-person competition since 2018. The CATAN World Championship, typically held every two years, had to skip the 2020 scheduled event due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its many complications. Normally,...

Good news for all board game enthusiasts - Dicebreaker has announced a brand new annual awards event titled “Tabletop Awards''. The awards are set to make their debut at this year’s PAX Unplugged. The nominations will be open for games that have been released in 2022. Note that there is an important detail for crowdfunded games - they must have...

Klaus Teuber, the mind behind one of the most prominent board games ever created - “Catan” - has announced a trilogy of books set in the game’s rich world. This isn’t the first time the popular board game has been novelized and put into fictional writing, however. Rebecca Gable released her novel “The Settlers of Catan” in 2003. She and...

This year’s SPIEL event in Essen, Germany, brought a lot of exciting news to all tabletop game enthusiasts. Unfortunately, among those, we have to report some tragic news - Chris Gabrielson, the co-designer of the esteemed board game “Company of Heroes”, has died while attending the SPIEL event. Understandably, no further details on his death were shared. The announcement was...

This year’s SPIEL event in Essen, Germany, brought “Terra Mystica” fans much-anticipated news in regards to the upcoming “Terra Mystica: Age of Innovation” - the newest board game in the series. Unfortunately, we will have to wait until 2023, per information from last weekend’s SPIEL. “Terra Mystica: Age of Innovation” was originally scheduled for release in the second half...

Mere hours ago, game publishing titan Ravensburger has announced a collaboration with “Minecraft”’s developer Mojang, which will bring the popular PC game to the tabletop once again with two brand new board games - “Minecraft: Portal Dash” and “Minecraft: Heroes of the Village”. Both titles will aim to mimic the feel of the PC version of “Minecraft” using a...

Dark Horse comics’ “Harrow County” board game recently launched its Kickstarter page to great success. “Harrow County: The Game of Gothic Conflict” has already far exceeded the $54,000 funding goal, making $121,000 in less than five days. As a matter of fact, the funding goal was funded in less than three hours after the page officially launched on October...

Game studio Stonemaier Games has confirmed that the third expansion of Elizabeth Hargrave’s hit board game “Wingspan” will include two brand new game modes, a new Asian theme and will introduce new bird species from all over the Asian continent. The new expansion, appropriately titled “Wingspan Asia”, was first introduced at the German SPIEL event in Essen earlier this year,...

“Magic: The Gathering” has revealed its 30th Anniversary Edition product, which will include a modern take on some of the game’s most powerful and rarest cards ever released - The Power Nine. The Power Nine are nine rare cards, widely considered to be the most powerful cards ever printed in “Magic: The Gathering”. They are only legal in the game’s...

Despite numerous setbacks, mostly due to the COVID-19 pandemic, “Magic: The Gathering” has experienced a resurgence like never before - it releases new products constantly, each more successful than the last, across numerous formats. So it should come as no surprise that it is about to become a billion-dollar franchise. Hasbro, the parent company of “Wizards of the Coast”...