Tabletop game publisher Asmodee is bring a range of globally popular board games to Nintendo Switch. The news was announced during today's Nintendo Direct presentation.Carcassonne, Pandemic and Lord of the Rings: The Living Card Game are al...

Magic: The Gathering is getting ready for a massive shakeup in October. In less than a month standard (read: the most popular competitive mode) is cycling out a whopping five sets (Kaladesh, Aether Revolt, Amonkhet, Hour of Devastation, and...

PAX West weekend is here and I know one game many people are eager to check out is Super Meat Boy Forever. Team Meat is bringing an Xbox One build to the big show, but it isn't the only game it'll have for event goers to try out. Anybody wh...

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 ...

Over the course of the last eight months I've become engrossed in the world of Fantasy Flight Games' Lord of the Rings LCG, despite the fact that it was released all the way back in 2011. For those of you who aren't familiar with the c...

After a long wait, Wizards of the Coast has mostly unveiled the cards that are arriving in its newest Magic: The Gathering set by way of a spoiler weekend.. A lot of classic cards return in Core 2019 in a sort of interim release before the ...

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...

For a game that's in beta, Magic: The Gathering Arena has been moving along at a rather brisk pace. Wizards of the Coast has just announced that starting June 7 Kaladesh and Aether Revolt are going to be added in -- two sets that compr...

It's crazy to think a collectible card game is still around after 25 years, but when you're the first one and are created by one of the most prolific game designers of all time, you have a little help. Yes Magic: The Gathering is going stro...

"I played Magic in the '90s and am just now getting back into it" is a phrase I've heard a lot as I've flocked back to my local hobby stores to re-embrace the game. Flash back to elementary school. One year at a local summer camp hosted by ...

This is what I like to see! Developers doing really interesting things with the Switch, just like several studios did with the Wii U (Rest in Peace). Evidently the Japanese developer Gift Ten Industry is creating a project that's codenamed ...

Last week we reported on a new tabletop game, based on the Street Fighter series, being developed by YouTube personality Angry Joe (Joe Vargas). Yesterday, Vargas opened the game's Kickstarter page, and immediately saw phenomenal success.St...

Joe Vargas, better known by his online persona as Angry Joe, has revealed details on tabletop game he currently has in development, based on Capcom's legendary Street Fighter series.Street Fighter: The Miniatures Game is an officially licen...

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...

Tabletop role-playing has survived all these years, through the advent of video games and the resurgence of board games starting in the 1990s. One reason it's still around is that it provides an experience those other media don't. It gives ...

Asymmetry in board games is a tricky thing. Do it wrong, and asymmetry can lead to imbalance, which can lead to flipped tables and scattered pieces, or at the very least a muttering of "I'll never play that again."  So most games that ...

Superhot was slick as heck last year. The stark red-on-white low-poly models were one part of that, but the real draw was its unique "time only moves when you do" mechanic, allowing for careful planning and some Matrix-esque bullet-dodging....

Atlus have announced that the revamped edition of PS3 RPG brawler Dragon's Crown will not make its original Japanese street date of January 25, having been put back to February 8. The silver lining to this story is that they also announced ...

You know who Sony Pictures is. You know the kind of movies it creates, the drivel that its marketing executives spout. Jack and Jill, Pixels, Ghostbusters (2016), The Emoji Movie. This studio has generated some of the worst p...

Steamforged Games, the company responsible for the Dark Souls board game, has announced a new partnership with Capcom to bring a tabletop adventure based on Resident Evil 2.  Resident Evil 2: The Board Game will be launched via Kicksta...

Fantasy Flight Games has quite a few video-game-to-board-game adaptations under its belt at this point (there's Gears of War, XCOM, and DOOM, to name a few). It's about to add another one to its repertoire, and this one's a doozy. Fallout: ...

All I want from a modern Dungeons & Dragons video game is a virtual approximation of the tabletop role-playing game. We already have hack-and-slash games, we already have dungeon crawlers, that road has been well-tread. I want a go...

The PAX empire is growing. The sixth show in the PAX canon, PAX Unplugged is debuting this year in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Unplugged is all about board, card, and other tabletop games. Sure, the original gangster PAX shows have always h...

Today, during PAX South 2017, Penny Arcade announced PAX Unplugged, the latest in its ever-expanding series of Penny Arcade Expos. As the name suggests, PAX Unplugged will focus on tabletop gaming, taking the community-forward nature of you...

The first addition to Dungeons & Dragons this year is Tales from the Yawning Portal, a new campaign book that takes ideas and dungeons from the past five decades and brings them to the fifth edition. It's framed as a collection of tales...