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AT A GLANCE

ASCENSION TACTICS INFERNO ARRIVES HOT! After being fully

10 OF THE BEST DIGITAL BOARD AND CARD GAMES

Sometimes there’s not enough time, room, or energy for all the cardboard – so here’s a few of our favourite board game adaptations and a couple of video games that scratch the same itch

LET ME JUST CHECK THAT...

The host of the We’re Not Wizards podcast tells us why online rulebooks are rubbish

Role Call

ROLE CALL is here once more, delivering sneak peeks at what’s to come in roleplaying

BLOODBORNE: THE BOARD GAME

Bloodborne is known for its speed, brutality and gothic horror – things that aren’t always easy to recreate on the tabletop. And yet, it’s time to dive into this masterpiece of digital-to-tabletop translation…

ON THE CARDS

We take a looksee at some of the biggest trading card game news of the month and discover, what’s on the cards…

GOD GAMES

Each month we explore the world solo gaming one move at a time, this month: God games

EMILY CHARLES

Emily Charles, the woman behind the throne of the Kingmaker relaunch at Gibson games talks about a few of her favourites

HOMEWORLD FLEET COMMAND

We’re going home, and this time it’s to an RTS from 1999 as Modiphius tackle the sheer intergalactic scale of Homeworld

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

East of the coast of Venezuela sits the

CYANIDE & HAPPINESS

We jump into the world of remixing webcomics with Rob DenBleyker

THE GATEWAY

Welcome to the world of hobby gaming. This month we’re starting with a classic: Catan. Build towns and roads, gain resources, and make enough points first to come out on top

READ IT PLAYED...

Join us as we recount how games actually feel when they’re being played

LIVING WITH TRADITIONAL GAMES

In a hobby focused on playing games a handful of times before moving on, we investigate what it’s like to ‘live’ with traditional games

NO RULES REQUIRED

Our round up of the good, the bad and the ugly of nongaming, nearly-gaming, sort-of-gaming stuff

ENCAPSULATE 2014

A Good All-Round Year for Gaming Words by

BOARD OF EDUCATION

We all know games are good for us, but in what way? Each month Tim Clare untangles the science and philosophy behind what makes games good

Each month we explore our reader’s attics to find long forgotten gaming gems

Did you know there’s more than one version

CAN’T TEACH WON’T TEACH

Each month our in-house agony aunt, Ben Maddox, answers your ludological lamentations

SCYTHE: EXPEDITIONS

We jump into the Scythe universe once again for a new expedition…

CONNECT FOUR

We explore the seminal castle building game, and point you to your next gaming crusade

WHO GOES FIRST?

Join us on a tour of some of our favourite ways to start a game

COMMON MEEPLE

Jack and Mike from Common Meeple talk about swapping army boots for ladders and shoots

1633 FOX AND GEESE

Fox and Geese is certainly older than 1633,

KING OF MONSTER ISLAND

Oh Isee how it is, when we’re trashing

READY SET BET

We forget, sometimes, when we sit down to

DISNEY SHADOWED KINGDOM

Despite not being a huge Disney fan, this

SYNC OR SWIM

Moisturized. Happy. In My Lane. Need Cards. Panicking.

RANSOM NOTES

How does one invent funny? Whilst AI software

CATSTRONAUTS

Let’s get one thing out of the way

HELLBOY: THE DICE GAME

Before I can really explore this game, it’s

DULCE

In Dulce the irresistible sweetness of the confectionery

QUICKITY PICKITY

Quickity Pickity is a beguiling game. If I

SHOOT FOR THE STARS

Being right is a powerful skill, and one

LACRIMOSA

There is an oft-voiced criticism of Euro-style games;

WEATHER MACHINE

The reason games are said to be designed

DOMAIN OF MIRZ A NOCTIS

The villager gasped in shock. Perhaps it was

KLIK’S MADNESS

Klik’s Madness is an adaptation of the HEXplore

NIGHTMARE PRODUCTIONS

Human game factory Dr Reiner Knizia has designed

BN1

If directors make films as love letters to

STAR FIGHTERS: RAPID FIRE

Despite its ubiquity, representing warfare and combat on

SHAPERS OF GAIA

It’s been thousands of years since ecological catastrophe

CLANK! CATACOMBS

At the first glance, Clank!: Catacombs might look

ALDABAS: DOORS OF CARTAGENA

In colonial Cartagena society, the design of door

GIFT OF TULIPS

Ican’t claim to know much about delftware, that

HEROES OF NORMANDIE: BIG RED ONE EDITION

Finally, a game that allows you to recreate

FLIES, LIES AND SUPPLIES

I’ve always appreciated standalone expansions. When a title

COME TOGETHER

It’s the tail end of the sixties and

CORRUPT PARLIAMENT

Satire is in a bit of trouble. In

FINAL GIRL

Blimey, the past is a nice place. Not,

ROBOTECH: RECONSTRUCTION

The COIN series from publisher GMT Games is

DUNGEON CRAWL CLASSICS

From the instant you lay your eyes on

CY_BORG

If there’s any genre born to explore the

DURANCE

Science fiction gives us a lens through which

BOX OF ADVENTURE: COAST OF DREAD

Designer: Loke Battlemats | Publisher: Loke Battlemats

MIRU

Can you kill a god? Is it worth

DUNGEONS DROP -DROP 1

There’s a certain subset of RPG gamers who

TEARS OF A GODDESS

The Graphic Novel Adventure series of books by

ULTRAVIOLET GRASSLANDS AND THE BLACK CITY

I’ve long held it to be true that