Tag: board game

One of the world’s biggest board game companies has just done the equivalent of Sega selling Sonic to Nintendo

One of the world’s…

CMON started as CoolMiniOrNot.com before turning its hand to board game publishing, having an early hit with co-operative miniatures…
Games Workshop hits the panic button, temporarily shuts down Warhammer site after scalpers descend upon it with ‘abominable intelligence’ and bots

Games Workshop hits the…

Scalpers are a menace in a lot of hobbies, not just in the realm of gaming hardware and paraphernalia.…
Finally, some good news: The world’s only Warhammer academic conference is returning in September to present more talks like ‘The ethical implications of the Imperium’s war with chaos and the inverted meaning of order’

Finally, some good news:…

Last year, I had the pleasure of covering the existence of the Warhammer Conference, the world’s first academic conference…
D&D’s artificers are getting revised for the 2024 rules update in a book that will also let you play a guy who has a magic GPS and knows where everyone is at all times

D&D’s artificers are getting…

The D&D supplement that sees the most use at my table is Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything, which gets referenced…
The creators of Wingspan are ‘suing the president’ to try and save board game publishers from tariff annihilation

The creators of Wingspan…

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how devastating an impact a 54% tariff on imports from China…
The core of the new Dungeons & Dragons rules have been released into the Creative Commons so you can use them when you publish your own D&D material

The core of the…

Last year, Wizards of the Coast announced that when the three core books that formed Dungeons & Dragons’ updated…
Gloomhaven: Second Edition on hold due to Trump tariffs causing a ‘ripple effect’ on the board game industry, says publisher: ‘Our products are no longer retail viable’

Gloomhaven: Second Edition on…

Cephalofair Games, and other board game publishers like it, are in dire straits thanks to Trump administration trade tariffs,…
Games Workshop celebrates the birthday of its killer parallelogram, the Land Raider

Games Workshop celebrates the…

What do you get a tank for its birthday? A new set of treads? One of those aftershave gift…
The mechs of BattleTech will finally fight some proper kaiju in its first-ever spinoff alternate universe

The mechs of BattleTech…

Tabletop wargame BattleTech is getting its first real alternate universe in its 40 year history, and it’s a pretty…
The Tomb Raider board game will let you shoot dogs while sitting around the kitchen table at last

The Tomb Raider board…

Board game publishers may be lamenting the end of the tabletop boom—the golden age of board gaming that has…