Mar 23, 2022

  Van Ryder Games and Lucky Duck Games have partnered to produce The Dark Quarter, an app-driven game of supernatural mystery set in the 1980s New Orleans, releasing later this year.     The Dark Quarter will be a co-op board game for one to four players and will heavily focus on narrative progression and character development. The Dark Quarter...

Feb 9, 2022

  Yes, they will make a munchkin game out of anything.   Steve Jackson Games and Cryptozoic Entertainment announced Munchkin Batman, which will be headed to Kickstarter soon. Munchkin Batman features classic Batman characters and villains like The Joker, Catwoman, Bane, and Commissioner Gordon alongside flavor cards like New Costume and Hunt Out of...

Dec 8, 2021

  Prospero Hall has officially unveiled Jurassic World: The Legacy of Isla Nublar, a new legacy-style board game featuring the characters and dinosaurs from the Jurassic Park franchise. First teased earlier this year, game design studio Prospero Hall has announced Jurassic World: The Legacy of Isla Nublar, a new legacy-style board game that will launch on...

Jul 24, 2021

  The golden age of Vale is over. A mysterious explosion devastated the Magic Quarter and brought the once great city-state to its knees. Without Vale’s influence, the surrounding continent of Taelmoor grows ever more wild and untamed. This new age is one of danger, intrigue, and for the intrepid adventurer, perhaps opportunity…    ...

May 18, 2021

We have a chat with Andrew Lowen of Lowen Games about the upcoming Kickstarter for his board game Deliverance.   Audio Only Listen And Download Link http://subvertedmadness.com/ddo/playersnews/DPNDeliverance.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (81.0MB) YouTube Watch Links       “Since the victory on the Cross, you have hunted the...

May 4, 2021

  If you haven’t heard of games like Night Trap, Phantasmagoria, or Her Story, you may not be familiar with what an FMV is. It stands for full-motion video, so instead of using 3D models like most games, you play a narrative-driven story using pre-recorded footage, kind of like an interactive movie. The genre was incredibly popular in the 80’s, and...

Feb 22, 2021

  High Noon, an easy-to-learn, tactical Western shoot-out board game where no two games are ever the same is announcing its launch on Kickstarter. Set in an immersive and cutthroat turn of the century Wild West world, the goal of the game is to achieve dominance playing as the gunslingers from the World of High Noon, known as “posses”. The player with the...

Feb 9, 2021

  The One Ring is getting a second edition. Designers Francesco Nepitello and Marco Maggi are working with Free League, publishers, to revitalize the game that was first released in 2011. A core rulebook and boxed starter set are planned, both with new art throughout. The Kickstarter will begin Feb. 11 with delivery expected before the end of 2021.  ...

Jun 8, 2020

  CMON is printing money yet again it would seem.. Massive Darkness 2 has been announced with a reveal trailer teasing its release later this year. The upcoming board game is a sequel to the 2017 co-op game in which players ventured into a series of perilous dungeons to defeat the crushing forces of Darkness spreading across the land....

May 3, 2020

  Welp, we have a new #1 in the world of Kickstarter that it is.     Cephalofair Games’ Frosthaven has become the top tabletop game Kickstarter project of all time,  The final take was $12,969,161, from 83,184 backers at $155.91 per backer. Frosthaven, a new campaign in the Gloomhaven universe, passed Kingdom Death: Monster 1.5, which has been...

Mar 31, 2020

  The crowdfunding campaign for Frosthaven, the sequel to the hit indie board game Gloomhaven, has blown up on Kickstarter. Frosthaven has earned more than $3 million in its opening three hours. The Kickstarter campaign could soon be the largest of its kind in the platform’s nearly decade-long history.     The campaign launched around 11 a.m. EST...

Jan 15, 2020

  The dark tower is calling!     Return to Dark Tower, the app-enabled board game brings together Rob Daviau (Pandemic Legacy) and Isaac Childres (Gloomhaven) for the first time.   Dark Tower has been in the works for about three years, There is a lot of tech that drives the experience. The tower itself, a translucent black plastic obelisk. ...

Sep 23, 2019

  We told you that Jasco Games was hoping to raise the failed Evil Dead 2 game back from the grave, the kickstarter was a success and the game will see the light of day after all.     As announced during the Kickstarter, Jasco will ship games to the original Kickstarter backers, new Kickstarter backers, and will also bring the game to retail. The...

Aug 26, 2019

  Thousands of Kickstarter backers who put hundreds of thousands of dollars towards a board game adaptation of cult horror movie Evil Dead 2 only for the project to be plunged into chaos might finally get their game. Well, sort of. Space Goat Productions raised over $700,000 for Evil Dead 2: The Official Board Game in mid-2016, originally telling the...

Jun 1, 2019

  Altar Quest pays homage to the 1980s D&D-like game of exploration and monster-bashing, down to the inclusion of 3D furniture and scenery in the box alongside a party of adventurers.     Altar Quest is a cooperative game of fantasy adventure inspired by the classic dungeon crawling board games that many of us grew up with. Using the Modular...

Nov 26, 2018

  In an alternative near future, Badass Force is the name of the most popular live show of the ultra-net. Like The Ninja Warriors before it and Big Brother before that, contestants go into a battle arena, not as themselves, but as someone else. Before the show became a household name, historical leaders were pitted against one another. All due to the...

Sep 25, 2018

  Grey Fox Games announced today Reavers of Midgard, the much-anticipated spiritual successor to the worker placement hit Champions of Midgard, will launch on Kickstarter on November 1st.     Reavers of Midgard is a single worker placement game with elements of set collection, dice combat and engine building set in the Champions of Midgard...

Aug 29, 2018

  Quixotic Games is in the final week of its second Kickstarter Campaign for Dungeon Alliance! In February 2017, over a thousand backers brought this adventure board game to life. Later, after the backers received their copies and the game released to retail venues, the game sold out of the publisher’s warehouse within 9 days. This new campaign will...

Jul 27, 2018

    CMON Limited announced that they have teamed with Steve Jackson Games to design and publish Munchkin Dungeon based on the award-winning card game. Munchkin Dungeon captures the same playful sense of humor of the original card game, while providing a completely new experience. It is the first collaboration between designers Eric M. Lang (Blood...

Jul 11, 2018

  CMON is printing money again, um I mean they are back with a new Kickstarter.     In Cthulhu:  Death May Die, the players must work together to thwart the efforts of a cult that seeks to summon one of the Elder Ones into our world.  But just facing those unthinkable beings is enough to drive an investigator mad, so each character begins the...