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Every story and video about Board games from the outlets and channels we follow, newest first. 20 stories from 3 outlets in the last 60 days, 8 of them this week.
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- Board games have officially gone mainstream - Codenames is now on Netflix On Tuesday, Netflix Games launched a brand new videogame for Netflix subscribers, Codenames Party, a digital adaptation of the hit head-scratching board game. It even comes with…
- Lord of the Rings: The King's Gambit is a "beefier" board game than the beloved Star Wars original The Lord of the Rings: The King's Gambit, a new board game set in Middle-earth, launched on Kickstarter today. Well, I say 'new'. It's a reimplementation of The Queen's Gambit, a…
- The new Call of Cthulhu strategy board game stars the old gods "at the height of their power" As far back as Risk, board games have seen players wage war for control of planet earth, and Twilight Imperium and many games like it have expanded the scope out into a war for…
- Why I Love Board Gamers Loneliness is an epidemic. And evidence shows it is not just an issue in the USA where I live, but across the developed world. For some reason, as much as it promised to unite us,…
- The 10 Essen Spiel board games Wargamer wants to play most Wargamer is officially going to Essen Spiel. The world's largest tabletop convention covers games of all types, but board games are by far the biggest draw. Essen Spiel is an…
- This "reverse heist" board game punishes the loot hoarder in you Board games still have so much fun fantasy shenanigans, even without the roleplay elements in focus. I've always been tickled by roleplaying in board games that don't even have…
- Devils may cry in this board game about battling personal demons Board games aren't usually associated with delving into deep "character study" as a tabletop RPG can. That's not to say board games can't hit those personal notes, but the lack of…
- This new board game from the designer of SETI is simple, stunning, and addictive Designer Tomáš Holek burst onto the board games scene in 2024, and he's made quite the first impression. While he's best known for the stunning, award-winning strategy game SETI,…
- Wingspan board game designer Elizabeth Hargrave wants to take you bird-watching in Colombia Wake up gang, new luxury board game holiday just dropped. Avian tourism team Good Bird is offering a 10-day trip to Colombia to view the country's most beautiful birds. You'll be…
- Wingspan publisher's next board game is a complex, cloud-hopping fantasy euro Popular board game publisher Stonemaier Games revealed its next project on September 23. Braided Skies is the first in a trilogy of fantasy strategy games, where you'll play as…
- Roguelike city-builder sensation Against the Storm reveals board game adaptation Indie city-building roguelike Against the Storm is getting a board game. Developer Eremite Games has teamed up with the guys at Mindclash Games to create a co-op eurogame style…
- This Game Is Killer: Alien On Board Game Review If you asked me many moons ago whether the horror genre would be a good fit for a party game, my answer would have been a straight-up no. Sure, Murdery Mystery party games exist,…
- Five classic board games that would be better with working catapults If you enjoy the simple, tactile pleasure of pulling back the arm on a toy catapult and yeeting a plastic boulder across the table at your opponent, your choices are tragically…
- Want to Play an Ancient Roman Board Game? Battle AI at the newly pieced together Coriovallum game What looks like a broken chunk of limestone architecture salvaged in the late 19th- or early 20th-century is actually a Roman board game called Coriovallum . That claim is made by…
- Sci-fi horror board game from Pandemic veteran gets crowdfunder for legacy mode No ominous sci-fi corridor is complete without the prospect of a murderous xenoform lurking in the shadows. The Nemesis series of board games from designer Awaken Realms…
- Animalfolk merchants haggle in 10th anniversary crowdfunder for adorable board game Involved deckbuilding games are a surefire way to make my brain release the good chemicals. The prospect of combining this particular delight with whimsical art of enterprising…
- Steamforged fans accuse the board game publisher of ignoring backers In 2024, UK-based game maker Steamforged Games (SFG) purchased the miniature wargame Warmachine, reviving the ailing game's fortunes and steadily pivoting its business operations…
- Wyldwood preview - a slick strategy board game with colossal minis that should give GW nightmares I first encountered Wyldwood, the game of stone-age tactical combat in a fantasy world developed, at Adepticon this year. Sitting right on the border between a miniature wargame…
- Thunder Road: Ignition is a shining example of a board game tuning up, and pricing down I am, generally speaking, Not A Big Fan of car board games. So, when Restoration Games' team racked up $762,000 on Kickstarter for Thunder Road: Vendetta in 2023, I just watched…
- Magical Athlete is a stupidly smart board game, powered by pure nonsense Here's a riddle for you: what do you get if you take Chutes and Ladders; set it in a dreamlike, primary-colored 1970s kids' cartoon that never actually existed; make each piece an…
