The Essen Anticipation List 2018!

Unfortunately, this website doesn’t allow for international travel just yet, so attendance at Essen this year is off the cards but that doesn’t stop us from talking about the releases that we are looking forward to. With over 800 titles being released, it is definitely a mammoth task to keep ahead of the games, but we have […]

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Trouble afoot on Kickstarter..

Kickstarter is a fantastic avenue for the sharing of new ideas and the creation of new board games. From small indy publishers all the way through to big publishers like CMON, Kickstarter seems to be the way to get a game out at the moment. Some of the biggest successes of the past few years […]

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Raiders of the North Sea Solo

We have recently reviewed Raiders of the North Sea and loved it, it is such a great game of pillage and plunder made by Garphill Games – this is just a quick note to say that there is currently a pre-order for a Raiders of the North Sea Solo variant which should be shipping at the […]

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Scythe: The Rise of Fenris

The hype has been building for a little while now, and it is finally the day where Stonemaier Games have released The Rise of Fenris for pre-order. This is the last expansion which is planned for Scythe and is an 8 game campaign that can be used with the base set and the current expansions […]

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Clank! In! Space! Apocalypse!

Renegade Games, makers of some of the best new games on the market (check out Raiders of the North sea review here) have announced an expansion for Clank! In! Space! called Apocalypse! The expansion is designed by Paul Dennen (of the original Clank!) and will be released in August of this year, hopefully hitting shelves […]

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Giant Azul

After many months of annoying the folks at Plan B/Next Move games, they have finally released a run of their Giant Azul game. This is the one that you probably see in a lot of convention footage and is around 200% the size of the original and comes with it’s own suitcase to carry it […]

Ticket to Ride – New York

Adding on to their most successful game, Days of Wonder have announced the new standalone Ticket to Ride – New York.  The spin is that this game should play in about 15 minutes. The game map looks smaller than the usual maps and will incorporate the use of plastic taxis and buses (and other transport) on the […]