• Spiel des Jahres nominees announced:
  • KennerSdJ:
    • Boss Fighters QR
    • Rebirth
    • Moon Colony Bloodbath
  • SdJ:
    • Dito! (JinxO)
    • Cozy Stickerville
    • Morty Sorty Magic Shop
• Whose Turn Is It Anyway – rebrands / relaunches as Just Play Podcast, hosted just by JP

Crowdfunders

• Concordia Special Edition
• Altera – the new game from IV Studios
• Shug – the UKGE party game winner for a whole 10-minutes 😀
• ROKR Dinosaur Lab Pinball

Coming Soon

• Isle of Penguins
• Thunder Road: Ignition

• Hotels
• Parking
• Interesting stands
  • Nice art stalls
  • Socks stand
  • Pin collection
  • Bring and Buy
  • Press Event
  • Attendance: 51,196 unique attendees, 87,837 turnstile attendees
• Events
  • Nick: How was: Discworld: All That is Gold Is Not Butter
• Games demoed/played
  • Joel:
    • Space Junkers
    • Flip Pick Towers

• Spiel des Jahres Winners: JinxO, Rebirth
• After 10 years, Mechs vs Minions gets its first expansion – Bandle City
• CGE: Kingdom Come: Deliverance: The Boardgame
• CGE: Surprise Shipment expansion for Lost Ruins of Arnak
• Small Batch, a Distilled spin-off game from Paverson Games (coming ‘27)
• Dominant Species, new print from AllPlay, with Ian O’Toole artwork & graphic design. And yes, solo mode from Dávid Turczi & team (including Nick!)
• Crash Landed from AllPlay is designed by Robert Hovakimyan and Sen-Foong Lim with artwork by Jake Morrison, and puts players in the role of survivors after their ship crashes on a mysterious alien planet.
• Restoration Games blueprints panel was a little underwhelming; nothing much too exciting unless you like Unmatched, Study in Terror and collab with Slay the Spire
• Rain ends play at GenCon
• Tag Team: SNK Arcade Legends. A seventh character, Iori Yagami, is available as an exclusive pre-order promo.
• Clank! 10th anniversary big box edition coming to Kickstarter.

• HOXFALL
• Space Junkers
• The Lord of the Rings: Ascension
• STAG
• The Guild: Ren Faire’d
• Children of Time: The Roleplaying Game

What we played

• Joel

The gang are back to preview the UK Games Expo 2026 at NEC Birmingham, 29th to 31st May.

• Clank! Master Thief Edition announced
• Bloomsbury want to offload Osprey Games
• Golden Geek Awards announced
• Dungeon Crawler Carl RPG + Unstoppable on Backerkit
• UKGE Judges Choice Awards announced

• Quick overview of changes to the expo
• Only Nick has tickets for an event – though Sam just found out the original Treyguard from Knightmare the TV show is guesting Knightmare Live on Saturday night!
• We run down a very loose top ten games we’re excited for

Joel and Nick are back with a very late episode, recorded at the end of March and only just released now.

Yes, the news and crowdfunding sections are now wildly out of date, but somehow it is still entertaining. We hope you enjoy the episode, and stay tuned, as our UKGE preview show is coming up next.

• The Torquay Full Board Gaming weekend – available to book now for Jan 2027
• Fox and Hound’s Boardgaming Weekend – last weekend, podcast to follow
• Baycon: 8th-12th April, in Kennford

• Star Wars: The Queen’s Gambit gets a Restoration Games restoration as The Lord of the Rings: The King’s Gambit.
• Asmodee acquires Japon Brand.
• Awaken Realms makes a statement about their use (or not) of AI in their games’ artwork.
• Smaller Games are the new ‘thing’ in gaming for 2026.
• Dicetower review of Roborover: 2077 Last Hope, but Grimcoven gets some great reviews

• Brass: Pittsburgh
• Apex Carnivore
• Here to Slay DUNGEONS
• The Official Cyberpunk Trading Card Game
• Slay the Spire: Downfall
• Fight! Mortal Kombat Deckbuilding Game – based on Cyptozoic’s Cerebus deck-building engine
• Capitals of Tactoria

• Joel
  • Koi
  • Festival
• Nick
  • Western Legends
  • Rummy

• The Torquay Full Board Gaming weekend: Just happened this past weekend
• Fox and Hound’s Boardgaming Weekend: 20th-22nd March
• Baycon: 8th-12th April, in Kennford

• As reported a few podcast episodes ago, W Eric Martin has now left BGG to run his own independent news site, Board Game Beat. No clue as to if anyone will take over BGG’s News blog.
• Sam Healey leaves the Dice Tower amidst a bit of controversy
• A new Forest Shuffle stand-alone game: Smoky Mountains, plus a Forest Shuffle Dartmoor expansion, Exmoor, announced.
• Two new King of Tokyo spinoff games announced: King of Tokyo Duel: Tokyo Bay, and King of Tokyo: Godzilla.
• Clank! 10 years old
• Labyrinth + Carcassonne crossover

• The next Scott Almes’ game: Tiny Epic Invincible
• Pampero reprint + new expansion
• A triple KS of Trick Takers from Portland Game Collective
• Knizia’s next rebranding is for his older game, Spectaculum, as Gold Country
• Mythwind – new expansions
• Stellar Ventures – described as “cube rails in space”

In this episode of the Devon Dice Podcast, Joel is joined by Nick to dive into a nostalgic showdown of their best games of 2016 and 2021, comparing favourites, surprises, and all-time table hits from two great gaming years. The duo also cover upcoming conventions, including Torquay Gaming Weekend, AndyCon, and the Fox & Hounds Board Gaming Weekend. Along the way, they tackle the latest news—such as Cole Wehrle leaving Leder Games and the cancellation of the TAKE crowdfunder—plus a stack of crowdfunding highlights before counting down their Top 5 lists and honourable mentions from both 2016 and 2021.

• Torquay gaming weekend (Full Board Gaming) at the end of January
• AndyCon
• Fox and Hound’s 20th-22nd March Boardgaming Weekend

• Cole Wehrle leaves Leder Games, causing the planned forthcoming TAKE crowdfunder to be scrapped.

• Colt Express: Complete Collection
• Mountain Goats Legacy + Enchanted Ivy
• Old King’s Crown: 2nd printing + new expansion
• Arboria: Reprint, + new Corruption & Rewild expansions

(games in orange are on other lists)

• Merchants Cove
• Mechs vs. Minions
• Red Rising
• Ark Nova
• Clank!: A Deck-Building Adventure
• Terraforming Mars
• Imperial Steam
• Descent: Le
• Great Western Trail
• Junk Art
• The Hunger
• Golem
• Vast: The Crystal Caverns
• Excavation Earth
• The Crew: Mission Deep Sea
• Crisis

In this episode of the Devon Dice Podcast, Joel is joined by Nick and Claire to round up the best games they’ve played in 2025—all new-to-them discoveries that have really hit the table this year. With Lewis struck down by the lurgy, Sam lost to board gaming winter blues, and Honey enjoying a well-earned nap, the trio also dive into the latest news, including the Fox & Hounds Board Gaming Weekend, a huge Stonemaier Games announcement dump, AllPlay reveals, Dice Tower crowdfunding, and some fresh GenCon breaking news. Then it’s time to celebrate the standout games that made 2025 a great year for gaming at Devon Dice HQ.

• Torquay gaming weekend (Full Board Gaming) at the end of January
• AndyCon
• Fox and Hound’s 20th-22nd March Boardgaming Weekend

• News
  • Fox and Hound’s 20th-22nd March Boardgaming Weekend
  • Stonemeier’s big news dump:
    • Wingspan expansion #4 is South & Central America and Caribbean, and includes smaller Hummingbird cards and a new card action. Coming Jan 21st.
    • Euphoria new “revised edition”, which will include the expansion.
    • New Scythe vs Expeditions 2p battling game, which can use factions from each of the other games.
    • Viticulture new expansion.
    • Next Finspan expansion due Q2.
    • Namiji, in the new Stonemeier edition, due Q4
    • New unnamed Wingspan spinoff game which is meant to be a quick (20min) and smaller-table-hog version, more suitable for introducing to players new to boardgaming.
  • AllPlay announces Mountain Goats Legacy, and Enchanted Ivy, solo only!
  • Dice Tower Gamefound campaign
  • Breaking news (just put on BGG), for GenCon releases:
    • New sequel to The Crew: The Crew: Journey to the Ends of the Earth
    • New Deluxe edition of The Gang
  Best played games of 2025, new games to us.

  The Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle-earth

• Harmonies
• Light Speed: Arena