Scythe. You've heard of it but never played it because none of your friends wanna take the 80-dollar plunge for a game that people might not even enjoy. So you buy the bare-bones licensed Tabletop Simulator version, knowing it has no AI but...

You can tell that the Holiday season is bearing down on us, as all manner of licensed jive is getting set to hit the high street shelves, hoping to find a spot underneath the Christmas Tree. Take for example this Fortnite-themed Monopoly, r...

I absolutely love tabletop games. Whenever I'm back home to visit friends, I always make sure to hop in as a guest character in their weekly DnD session. At family vacation, I'm the one who shows up with Twilight Struggle and Splendor. The ...

Last year's PS4 release Horizon: Zero Dawn turned out to be one of the great sleeper hits of year, drawing in a huge community of fans with its dramatic storyline, great visuals and weird retro-techno, also making an instant star out of its...

This is the most excited I've been for video game news all year. Please hear me out. You might not be the type of person to notice who is writing these news posts. If you are, you might have noticed that I've been flitting between scarcely ...

It's difficult to believe it's been seven years since Halfbrick's fantastic runner Jetpack Joyride originally released, but there it is. Time flies. I'm getting so old. It's also maybe a little difficult to fathom that a bite-sized phone ga...

In a strange turn of events, Cheapass Games is teaming up with the creators of the old web cartoon Homestar Runner to create a board game centered around the beefy-armed dragon Trogdor the Burninator. Titled Trogdor!!, the board game is a ...

Love it or hate it, Settlers of Catan helped shatter the cross-generation barriers of tabletop. Instead of fighting over whether or not to play Scythe or Monopoly, I've witnessed many families settle for Catan and have a blas...

Edmund McMillen, the prolific indie dev behind Super Meat Boy and The Binding of Isaac, is taking his incredibly depressing game about childhood dread and translating it into a real-life card game. Called The Binding of Isaac: Four Souls, t...

This week at E3 board game publisher Asmodee's digital arm, appropriately called Asmodee Digital, made it known that they're aggressively porting more tabletop experiences to consoles -- and next up on the docket is Ticket to Ride...

When it was announced at PDXcon that Paradox would be bringing their games to a new platform, my fears initially turned to a glut of mobile gacha games with cutesy versions of old-world rulers that I'd have to pay to get a good roll of. How...

Mechs vs. Minions is one of the most entertaining board games that's hit my tabletop in some time. If you haven't heard of it the gist is that four players take control of various characters from the League of Legends franchise and do ...

Jasco might have recently announced that supporting the original Mega Man board game (pictured above) was a complicated issue they didn't know how to address, but they currently have their hands full with Street Fighter: The ...

Remember Fireball Island? A lot of people did, as the new "Reignited and Restored" version of it has managed to wrack up $2,349,386 in pledges over the course of its campaign. With just over a day to go at the time of publication there's st...

Atlus is the master of good packaging. I mean, the company is nearly unparalleled, as they're consistently delivering the goods regardless of how impressive individual massive AAA collector's editions might sparingly be. That includes this ...

I'm not popular enough to have any actual friends to play board or card games, which is why something like EGLX is a great opportunity to expand one's horizons and try things they might otherwise miss out on. Uncaged: World Fighters is an e...

As we move forward in board gaming's current golden age, new games are coming out at an incredible pace. Even so, many provide only new dressing on existing ideas. Once in a while, something comes along that feels so new and different, it i...

It's been a while since I've played a regular old game of "in real life" Uno. I doubt that will change given the sheer backlog of tabletop I have to get through (I just tried Viticulture for the first time recently, it's great!), but at the...

I've been playing a lot of the Lord of the Rings LCG (Living Card Game). In the past two months I went from not even being aware that it exists, to creating my own decks in my spare time, to having a dedicated group to play with. It's one o...

Games Workshop is giving Space Hulk another go this year. The latest adaptation of the board game is Space Hulk: Tactics, a turn-based title from Blood Bowl and Styx maker Cyanide Studio. As usual, you'll manage a squad of hulking Terminato...

Rising Star Games have announced that the deluxe edition board game of the notorious 2010 release, Deadly Premonition, is available to pre-order on Amazon, ahead of its January 31 release.In the board game, players walk the mean streets of ...

Mega Man had a rough ride for a while there. Before we saw that Capcom was hard at work on Mega Man 11, there were seven long years of nothing. Instead, other talented studios and fans picked up the torch, and refused to let this once famou...

Polygon managed to get some hard data from Kickstarter in the games sector, and it's pretty illuminating. After being burned in the past so many times by video game Kickstarters, fans seemingly started to get burnt out on the idea of over-z...

Video game RPGs can translate very well into the tabletop realm. It's a sort of cyclical relationship, as many entries in the genre are born out of precepts forged in the pen and paper era, and running them back to board games just seems na...

Co-op games make me happy. Although I'm always down for a good competitive experience, there's something about teaming up with people, whether it's dear friends or strangers, and putting your heads together to solve a common problem. Burgle...