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Big Heckin’ Two-Day Prime Day: Shut up and take my money board game deals

July 11, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In this curated selection of geeky highlights, the glare of the shopping eye turns to board games and board games that might be hard to resist.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: amazon, Days of Wonder, dixit, exploding kittens, hasbro, mysterium, pandemic, prime day, sales, Ticket to Ride, z-man games

Star Wars: The Clone Wars Pandemic board game opens for pre-orders

September 21, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The mashup of Star Wars from the Clone Wars era and that topical hit Pandemic has happened. You just can’t play it yet, but Zavvi is taking pre-orders.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board games, pandemic, star wars, z-man games, zavvi

UKGE 2022 Awards: The best RPGs and board games of the year

June 13, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

The UK’s largest and one of the most significant gaming conventions in Europe is over, and the UK Games Expo is done for another year. The busy event has many attractions, one of which is the influential UK Games Expo Awards. The UKGE 2022 Awards has two categories, Judges and People, which means two winners […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: aconyte, aliens: colonial marines Operations Manual, All Rolled Up, awards, exploding kittens, fantasy flight games, Free League Publishing, frostgrave, Iello, lord of the rings, magpie games, osprey games, parable games, root, shiver, the dee sanction, the thing, twilight: 2000, uk games expo, z-man games

No Slave Leia in sight: Star Wars Jabba Palace is a Love Letter variant

February 13, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Princess Leia does appear but looking badass in her Boushh bounty hunter armour.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Asmodee, card games, Love Letter, star wars, z-man games

Tabletop games 2022 pre-orders already selling out in the UK

December 26, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Wayland Games is, they say, Europe’s largest independent retailer for tabletop hobbies.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: assassin's creed, Dungeons & Dragons, HeroQuest, lord of the rings, magic the gathering, petersen games, pokemon, Privateer Press, shopping, the witcher, Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, Wayland Games, z-man games

Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King – A Pandemic board game launched by Blizzard and Z-Man Games

July 21, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In the style of the co-operative Pandemic, the Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King board game is a journey across Azeroth, battles and quests to stop the spread of the Lich King.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Blizzard Entertainment, board games, pandemic, World of Warcraft, z-man games

Rio Grande lose or give up on Carcassonne

June 7, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Hans im Glück is the German publisher who own the very popular board game Carcassonne. Carcassonne is also available as a computer game via Xbox Live – which goes some way to show just how global it has become. Up until this month Rio Grande Games had the rights to publish the English version of […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board game, board game geek, Carcassonne, z-man games

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