Jul 23, 2024

  The Spiel des Jahres jury has announced the winners of the 2024 awards for Game of the year, Children’s Game of the Year, and Connoisseur Game of the Year.     Spiel Des Jahres is one of the biggest awards in board gaming, identifying games that become modern-day classics – Catan, Ticket to Ride, Agricola, Dixit and many more. The awards...

Jul 22, 2024

  Modiphius Entertainment has teamed up with Anderson Entertainment to produce a tabletop role-playing game based on the 1970s science fiction television series Space: 1999.  The new game will launch later this year, shortly before the show’s 50th Anniversary in 2025.     Running for two seasons starting in 1975, Space:  1999 was one of the most...

Jul 22, 2024

  Hasbro/Wizards of the Coast announced a Gen Con 2024 special edition of the Dungeons & Dragons: 2024 Player’s Handbook, which will be on sale during the show at the Lucas Stadium Northwest Concourse from August 1-4, 2024.   WotC will bring the first 3,000 copies of the 2024 Player’s Handbook to Gen Con 2024 for collectors and fans to...

Jul 18, 2024

  Beadle & Grimm’s have announced they will be releasing, six D&D Classic Module Dice Collectors Sets. To help celebrate the 50th anniversary of D&D     Ravenloft, Tomb of Horrors, Vecna Lives!, White Plume Mountain, Temple of Elemental Evil, and Expedition to the Barrier Peaks.   Each limited edition classic module dice...

Jul 17, 2024

  Renegade Game Studios revealed Revelations of the Dark Mother, a new accessory book for Vampire: The Masquerade RPG, which will release in November 2024.   Lilith. Mother of the Damned, the Dark Queen who will arise and usher in the end of the world. Feared by the Children of Caine and adored by her followers Bahari, the mere existence of Lilith...

Jul 17, 2024

  Royal Mail celebrates the 50th anniversary of the tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, which is enjoyed by around 64 million fans globally.   Fantasy game Dungeons & Dragons turns 50 this year and the Royal Mail is celebrating by unveiling a set of 14 stamps, featuring monsters and characters from D&D. The tabletop role-playing...

Jul 17, 2024

  Corvus Belli has announced that  Warcrow, a new combat miniatures game, is available at retail now.     Warcrow is a miniatures game set in the fantastical world of Lindwurm. In this setting you control a small military force made up of warriors, creatures and wizards, who fight skirmishes pursuing the interests of your faction. Before starting...

Jun 21, 2024

  For those care about such things, we now know when all the books for Not D&D 6E, but D&D 2024! Will be released.   On September 17, 2024, the first two products for D&D 2024 will hit FLGS shelves.  The 2024 Player’s Handbook and the 2024 Character Sheets will be the first items out.  This now larger Player’s Handbook has been...

Jun 21, 2024

  Established in 2007, Free RPG Day works with participating hobby game retailers and RPG publishers to bring new and exclusive RPG quick-start rules and adventure modules into the hands of gamers. Consumers WORLDWIDE will be able to grab brand-new material for a variety of RPGs — no overstock, retail-priced or dead product here. The goal of Free RPG Day...

Jun 21, 2024

  The Army Painter have announced a brand new set of paints, Gamemaster: Adventure Starter Role-playing Paint Set Combo, a new Warpaints Fanatic paint and miniatures set, into retail on August 17, 2024.   The Warpaints Fanatic line is a very popular set of paints for the beginner, featuring a paint formula with high pigmentation and the Flexible Triad...

Jun 20, 2024

  Ravensburger revealed a new Horrified title this week, as Horrified: World Of Monsters will be released for retail this August.     Horrified has brought us The Universal monsters, American folklore, and Greek mythology. Launching August 1, World of Monsters will have you face H.P. Lovecraft’s mythos, Cthulhu. The game will take some of the...

Jun 13, 2024

  Bethesda Game Studios  is launching the patch (around 27GB on Steam) on live servers.     This is the first expansion to the open world map. Whereas previous new locations, such as Pittsburgh and Atlantic City, brought players elsewhere, Skyline Valley introduces a whole new area to the Appalachian map. More specifically, Bethesda has added the...

Jun 13, 2024

  HeroQuest Jungles of Dethrak brings players into the dense jungle surrounding the mountains at World’s Edge. In this jungle, an ancient dwarven civilization has found new roots. But a sacred artifact held in Kellar’s Keep, prized by the dwarven refugees, has been stolen.     Because of this, a blight has infected the jungle to its...

Jun 13, 2024

  DUNGEONS & DRAGONS, celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2024, brought a bold new type of game to tabletops all over the world, one in which players collaborate by telling an open-ended story guided by books, dice and their own imaginations. By inviting participants to imagine themselves as wizards, warriors and other adventurers in exciting and...

Jun 12, 2024

  The nominees for the Spiel des Jahres, the German “Game of the Year,” were unveiled alongside nominations for the Kennerspiel des Jahres and Kinderspiel des Jahres.  winners will be announced July 21. Kinderspiel des Jahres Große kleine Edelsteine by Wolfgang Warsch Magic Keys by Markus Slawitschek & Arno Steinwender Taco Kitten Pizza by...

Jun 12, 2024

  Cryptozoic Entertainment will release Conan the Barbarian Trading Cards, with decades of comic art from Marvel Comics and Dark Horse Comics, sketch cards, and more, in Q4 2024, the company announced. The set will be produced with a limited production run, sold in five-card booster packs, 24-pack displays, and 12-box cases.     The Base Set of...

Jun 12, 2024

  Hasbro/Wizards of the Coast launched Avalon Hill Game Nights, a new pilot program for WPN organized play.     Avalon Hill Game Nights program offers up OP events for select Avalon Hill lines to WPN stores.  These demo events coincide with evergreen titles that WotC is increasing availability for to WPN stores via distribution.  These titles...

Jun 12, 2024

  Exalted Funeral revealed Monty Python’s Cocurricular Mediaevel Reenactment Programme, a new roleplaying game, which will hit stores in October 2024 after a successful crowdfunding campaign.   Monty Python’s Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme consists of a core book featuring an original rules-lite gaming system; guidance on designing...

Jun 12, 2024

  Adults bought more toys for themselves than for any other age group last quarter for the first time ever, surpassing toys for even the historically-dominant preschooler market. Consumers 18 years of age and up spent $1.5 billion in toy-related purchases in the period from January through April, overtaking the three-to five-year-old demographic as the...

Jun 9, 2024

  A new edition of Talisman, the classic adventure board game, is coming from the publisher behind Betrayal at House on the Hill.     This is a new publisher for the title, which in addition to its original publisher Games Workshop, has also been published by Fantasy Flight Games.  The most recent edition, 4th Edition, was first released by Games...