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Azul has been named as this year’s recipient of the Spiel des Jahres. Winning the esteemed ‘Game of the Year’ prize sees Michael Kiesling’s stunning tile-laying hit adding to a lengthy list of accolades including the As d’Or Game of the Year prize and Origins Award for Best Family Game of the Year . A sequel, Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra, was announced earlier this month for release later in 2018 , accompanied... Citeste mai mult

Mice & Mystics designer Jerry Hawthorne has revealed his second adventure book game following the dreamy Stuffed Fables. Comanauts seems to be telling a much more serious story than the childlike battle between plush toys and nightmares under the bed seen in Stuffed Fables, with players working together to explore the mind of a scientist left in a coma while trying to save the world from an expanding black hole – think Stuffed Fables meets... Citeste mai mult

Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering are colliding in the first major crossover between the fantasy RPG and collectible card game. Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica, which is due out on November 20th, will allow roleplayers to explore the city of guilds that joined Magic’s universe in 2005. In keeping with the sprawling city’s faction-based politics, the book will include plenty of detail on each of the ten guilds, such as their... Citeste mai mult

The studio behind the Twilight Struggle app is readying to unleash a barrage of digital tabletop games for PC and mobile, after allying with wargame publisher GMT. Playdek has teamed up with GMT as part of a “long term partnership” that will involve bringing several more of the respected outlet’s strategy and wargames titles to PC, iOS and Android, after proving its worth with its virtual treatment of GMT’s Cold War masterpiece.... Citeste mai mult

An original piece of Magic: The Gathering artwork from one of the game’s rarest and most controversial cards recently went under the hammer for $72,000 (£55,000). Artist Kaja Foglio painted the seven-by-5.5-inch illustration for Shahrazad, a card that made its debut in Magic: The Gathering’s first-ever expansion set, Arabian Nights, in 1993. Over a decade later, in 2007, the card became one of just 37 Magic cards to be banned from every... Citeste mai mult

Munchkin is being turned into a board game by Blood Rage and Rising Sun creator Eric Lang and Kingsburg designer Andrea Chiarvesio. Munchkin Dungeon follows the dungeon-crawling tropes of Steve Jackson’s comical card game, with three to six people venturing into a dungeon in search of treasure and the experience required to level their character up. There’s an element of push-your-luck to the gameplay, with players able to flee from... Citeste mai mult

Dice-chucking dungeon-crawler Arcadia Quest is heading in a new direction with a sci-fi spin-off. And we’d wager good money you’d be able to guess its name. That’s right, Starcadia Quest plans to relocate the chibi-filled fantasy adventure to space, with players taking control of a crew of two space travellers trying to defeat Darth Vader-a-like Supreme Commander Thorne. As in Arcadia Quests past, the players must keep Thorne’s... Citeste mai mult

Zombicide is rising from the grave once again – but the walker-bashing board game’s next outing looks set to be its most extreme reimagining yet. That’s because the dice-lobbing series is becoming a roleplaying game at the hands of Marco Maggi and Francesco Nepitello, two-thirds of the Italian design trios behind acclaimed Lord of the Rings epics War of the Ring and Hunt for the Ring. Zombicide: The RPG will combine the board game’s... Citeste mai mult

Celtic card-drafting board game Inis is celebrating the seasons in its first major expansion. Seasons of Inis introduces a new ‘seasons wheel’ to the area-control battle between clans, which will mix up the possible routes to victory from the original game’s dominance over territories via leadership, land or religion. There will be more regions to squabble over, too, with the set adding six new territories – including the suggestion... Citeste mai mult

A brand new UK tournament will give Wild West Exodus players the chance to show their skills at this year’s Tabletop Gaming Live convention. The inaugural Gunslingers Masters event for the alt-history miniatures skirmish game will take place during the Alexandra Palace show happening on Saturday, September 29th and Sunday, Sunday 30th 2018, hosted by show sponsor Warcradle Studios. The official UK tournament, which will be held on the Saturday,... Citeste mai mult