Jun 15, 2023

  The classic dungeon crawl HeroQuest is getting its first original expansion in over 20 years! Gen Con attendees will be able to purchase limited quantities of this expansion and more at the Avalon Hill booth, or you can preorder from Avalon Hill. The dramatic story of treachery and unrest in the elven kingdom continues in this HeroQuest Rise of the Dread...

May 1, 2023

  Para Bellum has announced  the Order of the Ashen Dawn, a heavy cavalry order for Conquest, on May 26. The Premium Cavalry Regiment Set will include three plastic miniatures, three sets of cavalry bases and stands, and three command cards. Rules will allow for fast movement across the field, and the ability to break even the sturdiest of defenses with...

Mar 7, 2023

  The first expansion is Midnight Storm, which features the ninja master Storm Shadow as a boss. It also allows players to play new JOE heroes Jinx and Mutt/Junkyard. The game box comes with 2 Hero figures, 2 Character cards, 12 Foot Soldier figures, 10 Foot Soldier Enemy cards, 2 Lieutenant figures, 2 Lieutenant Deployment cards, 16 Lieutenant Enemy...

Mar 2, 2023

  Avalon Hill will release HeroQuest: The Mage of the Mirror Quest Pack, a board game expansion, into retail in Q1 2023. We told you and showed you some shots of this expansion at Gen Con 2022.     In this expansion, players will battle the archmage  Sinestra who has kidnapped Princess Millandriell.  A player will need to navigate the Elf...

Sep 26, 2022

  Steamforged Games aims to make Elden Ring a board game thing. The UK-based company announced that it’s working on an adaptation of From Software’s 2022 hit. It intends to fund the adaptation through a Kickstarter-based crowdfunding campaign, though the campaign hasn’t been launched yet.     In a post on its blog, Steamforged said Elden Ring the...

Sep 26, 2022

  Modiphius Entertainment announced another Fallout game, Fallout Factions: Nuka World, a new skirmish wargame which is based on Fallout 4, which will be coming soon.   The new game allows players to play the factions from Fallout 4 in a player-versus-player battle over territory in an attempt to take over Nuka World. The game utilizes d10 dice in a...

Aug 15, 2022

  One of the big shocks at Gen Con 2022 was Avalon Hill dropping the bombshell news of Heroscape coming back.   Heroscape, the beloved hex-based battle game, is coming back with a brand-new starter set. Titled Heroscape: Age of Annihilation, the set will include a massive red dragon as well as a rogues gallery of humanoid, dwarven, and other fantasy...

Apr 21, 2022

  DUNGEONS & DRAGONS Onslaught is a competitive skirmish game in which each player controls an adventuring party from one of the powerful factions of the Forgotten Realms. Parties delve into dungeons, battle rival adventurers, and confront fearsome monsters on a quest for treasure and glory!       This core set includes everything two...

Mar 2, 2022

  Archon Studio has announced Wolfenstein: The Board Game, which is based on the classic first-person shooter video game, on March 31, 2022.     In this miniatures board game, players are headed into the original Castle Wolfenstein to take out Adolph Hilter. This game is based on the classic video game developed by id Software and published by...

Feb 24, 2022

  This year marks the 40th anniversary of G.I. Joe. If you are like me, then you probably have a ton of fond memories of spending Saturday mornings with a big bowl of sugary cereal and watching the cartoon or rushing home from school to watch it every day after I got cable TV as a kid!   This is a cooperative board game for 1-5 players that takes...

Nov 11, 2021

  The Silver Bayonet: A Wargame of Napoleonic Gothic Horror is a historical fantasy adventure-skirmisher, combining elements of Napoleonic warfare with gothic horror. Designed by Joseph McCullough, the creator of popular miniatures skirmisher Frostgrave, the game is out now, with a core rule book, and accompanying miniatures.     The Silver...

Aug 27, 2021

  Mythic Games and Privateer Press announced today the co-production of a new Monsterpocalypse big-box product range that will be coming to Kickstarter before the end of the year. “We are excited about this collaboration! Many of us at Mythic are long-time players of Privateer’s miniatures games,” said Mythic co-founder and Head of Communications Leonidas...

Aug 4, 2021

  Hasbro announced today in an email for HeroQuest backers that they will be creating a companion app in late 2021 to work with the HeroQuest game system.   “With great fanfare, we’re excited to announce that we will be launching a HeroQuest Companion App in late 2021 alongside the HeroQuest Game System. The app is still in the forges of our most...

Jul 31, 2021

  We told you, that it was coming, and now we know when we will be delving through the dungeons.  Fantasy Flight Games confirmed the game will be released in August 2021.     Terrinoth is in peril. The barony of Kell has already fallen, and the demontainted barbarians of the Uthuk Y’llan stalk the realm. In the Mistlands, the undead servants of...

Jul 13, 2021

  The second major expansion for the adventure board game The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-earth will have you traveling the kingdoms of Gondor and Rohan to defeat invading mercenary forces.   The big-box expansion includes 15 scenarios that will have you defending the tainted depths of Fangorn Forest and the ruins of Osgiliath against the...

May 22, 2021

  Ares Games announced The Battle of Five Armies: Revised Edition, an updated edition of the original two-player standalone game, for release in September. The epic boardgame inspired by the most famous battle from The Hobbit, The Battle of Five Armies will become available again by September 2021 with a revised edition, including an exclusive variant...

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...

Apr 6, 2021

  Unmatched: Deadpool is an expansion featuring the popular foul-mouthed antihero.     “When a mutant mercenary approaches his third decade, he begins thinking about where he’s been, who he’s stabbed, and what he’s got left to do, And I realized that I couldn’t live another day without more likenesses in my own image.” Deadpool   Last year,...

Mar 17, 2021

  Wonderstorm and Brotherwise Games announced a partnership to create strategic board games for The Dragon Prince. The Emmy® Award-winning Netflix original series is set in the rich and diverse fantasy world of Xadia, and its first board game will be The Dragon Prince: Battlecharged.   The game’s trailer, reveals that The Dragon Prince: Battlecharged...

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...