Tag: Board Games

The battle rages from the lands, seas, and skies of planet Earth to the remote corners of the galaxy on the planet Arrakis. You are sent back in history to fight some of the most devastating wars mankind has known, and immerse yourself in the abstract warfare of Root, only to find yourself in one of the most epic...

Collectibles and toy company Funko Games has shared some bad news with its employees. On Friday last week, the company disclosed in a US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing that it would be reducing its workforce by about 12-13%, meaning that 180-200 team members will be impacted. The move is part of Funko’s cost-trimming strategy, which will result in...

Elizabeth Hargrave has found various way to introduce scientific principle in her board games, creating sound game designs that rely on their accurate parallels with real life as they do on a good concept from beginning-to-end. Wingspan’s creator new game, Undergrove, is her latest take on the tabletop hobby in which players start as a Douglas-fir tree which try...

We have been writing a lot about video games being transformed into tabletop experiences, but guess what? The other way around also works. We are not talking about Dire Wolf’s excellent interpretations of games such as Dune: Imperium or Root, no. The product we mean is Asmodee Entertainment’s outstanding collectible card game, Legend of the Five Rings, which is easily one of...

Paizo has confirmed that its first board game in more than a decade, Pathfinder: Elemental Stones, will be released into retail on November 15, 2023. The title, although briefly teased by the publisher, has already been able to flesh out a full and vibrant gameplay story around it over the past months. Elemental Stones will have players enjoy a quick tile-placement experience which will feature...

Gamelyn Games is working on a new instalment in the Tiny Epic series, a family of games, that have grown over the past years to feature knights, zombies, dungeons, and entire galaxies. The latest installment in the franchise is a hush-hush Noir-style and mystery-solving game titled Tiny Epic Crimes. Latest Tiny Epic Game Is About Solving Crimes The title is set...

Ares Games is extending the line of expansions for War of the Ring 2nd Edition Board Game with the introduction of a third dedicated expansion. “Kings of the Middle-earth” will be officially introduced at Gen Con in August 2023 and it will be based around the rules of the Free Peoples. The expansion will help flesh out details about the...

The Big Book of Madness is a fun deckbuilding game that allows 2-5 players to band together and try to beat the monstrosities coming out of an accursed tome that has been opened by a careless student with suicidal tendencies. The book is very titular as failing to close it shut by defeating all monsters, and a final boss,...

Euro board games are some of the most popular ones in the hobby. They are intricate and beautiful designs that reward those who are interested in strategizing their every move. Often contrasted to American board games as more mature and accomplished in design and execution, euro board games are some of the best to try if you love a...

Hasbro, the company behind blockbuster IPs such as Monopoly and Dungeons & Dragons may be looking at integrating artificial intelligence into its board games before long. Hasbro recently announced a partnership with an Italian AI company, Xplored, which the publisher confirms is intended to allow it to develop a new tabletop platform that mixes elements of digital and physical...