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What are the different types of board games?

June 14, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A table of categorise board game types and define them concisely

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board games

UKGE: Horrified Dungeons & Dragons with d20 and iconic monsters

May 31, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Ravensburger has put the minis for the four iconic D&D monsters that will appear in forthcoming Horrified Dungeons & Dragons on display at the UK Games Expo.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board games, Dungeons & Dragons, ravensburger, uk games expo

Pandora Celeste: Pirates & Salvage expansion coming to the sci-fi monster board game

May 29, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Guntower Games are currently at UKGE and stand 2-372, where they have their Gamefound-funded Pandora Celeste for purchase.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board games, uk games expo

Minty Noodles: An early look at Interstellar Adventures

May 29, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Harriet Cody and Cole Jefferies are a designer and computer game programmer partnership at the Expo to launch Interstellar Adventures.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board games, uk games expo

Trouble On The Tempus: Minor Disaster Games launch time-travelling Kickstarter (exclusive pictures)

May 28, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

At last year’s UK Games Expo, Minor Disaster Games showed off a cooperative time travel disaster management board game called Trouble On The Tempus. Now, even as UK Games Expo 25 opens, the publisher has launched a Kickstarter for the clever game.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board games, kickstarters, uk games expo

UK Games Expo preview: Black Metro

May 16, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Developed by Emesh De Zoysa over two years, starting in the summer of 2020 amidst pandemic lockdowns, Black Metro received overwhelmingly positive feedback at its 2022 UK Games Expo showcase.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board games, uk games expo

Trump’s tariffs cost more jobs as CMON stops games development

April 24, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The news follows the closure of Greater Than Games for the same reason: millions of dollars of games stuck in China, and Stonemaier Games trying to take legal action against the tariffs.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board games, cmon, money

Stonemaier Games is taking legal action against Trump over the American tariffs

April 21, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Stonemaier Games make popular games like Wingspan and Scythe. Today, they’ve announced they are joining a lawsuit to challenge the American President’s ability to impose tariffs in the way he has.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board games, money

Deep Regrets: An opening night review of the fishy board game

April 4, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Geek Native got a sneak peek at Deep Regrets at Tabletop Scotland, and then both Bronwen and I rocked up at Argonaut Books here in Edinburgh, Scotland to play the game on its opening night.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board games, reviews, uk games expo

Celebrate JAWS’ 50th anniversary with this updated version of ‘The Game of JAWS’

March 16, 2025 by Bronwen Winter Phoenix Leave a Comment

That’s right, it’s been 50 years since the classic shark horror movie JAWS was released – and now, one of the classic games, The Game of JAWS, has had a MAJOR update!

Filed Under: Games Tagged With: board games, jaws

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