• The Ocean City Games Convention – 31st Oct – 1st Nov
• Full Board Gaming, Torbay – 29th Jan – 1st Feb 2027
• Devon Dice Con ???…

• Mark Cooke, of AireCon fame, joins UKGE team as Ops Director
• The new Stonemaier game announced & soon released: Braided Skies
• Moon Colony Bloodbath expansion announced: Aliens from Space
• New Garphill Games available direct from them:
  • Crest – Q2 2027 from their webstore
  • Spirited expansions (African & Scandinavian) – available from their webstore this month (Oct)
• Nucleum Duel announced, coming 2027
• Too Many Bones sequel announced: Too Little Time
• Western Legends Stories (from KS last year) delivering soon

• Lord of the Rings: The King’s Gambit – already at £1.2million, almost 5,000 backers.
• Thessaloniki & Windmill Valley: Duel – the new Tascini “T” game, plus a 2 player only spinoff of Windmill Valley
• Electrify
• Personal Demons
• Catvale

• Clank! 10th Anniversary Big Box

• Zoo Tycoon – Dinosaur Digs
• New Garphill Games announced for future crowdfunding:
  • Wallguards of the East Empire – KS in November
  • P...

• Essen Spiel this week (22nd – 25th Oct)!
• The Ocean City Games Convention – 31st Oct – 1st Nov
• Gridcon 7 – 20th – 22nd November (obviously no tickets left)
• Full Board Gaming, Torbay – 29th Jan – 1st Feb 2027
• Devon Gaming weekend @ the Fox & Hounds: 19th – 21st Feb 27

• The sequel to Through the Desert coming from Allplay: Through the Mountains, on Kickstarter October 27th.
• Rebirth II announced from Mighty Boards, due on KS in February. Kicked off a lot of conversations on BGG about whether a spin-off/sequel game should be an expansion vs a whole new game.
• New expansion for Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle Earth to be released in Feb: “Journeys”.
• Osprey Games lays off all board/card game staff, and cancels Essen booth.

• Bride of Spooktacular
• Excursions — a Galactic Cruise Game
• DECKO: Pistachio
• Lorenzo il Magnifico 10th Anniversary edition(s)
• Nemesis Legacy
• Satisfactory: The Board Game

• Light Speed: Arena – The Space Banana

• The Devon Gaming Weekend @ Fox & Hounds in Autumn has been cancelled
• The Ocean City Games Convention – 31st Oct – 1st Nov
• Devon Dice Con might have a date
• Torbay – Full Board Gaming – Jan 28th – Feb 1st
• AireCon 2027 will be its last

• Deutscher Spiele Preis
• Asmodee purchases Welcome To… line
• Wyrmspan Pocket hinted at by Jamey Stegmeier
• Timespan
• Magical Athlete: Second Wind announced
• 5th HEAT expansion – Narrow Streets – announced, incl. 2 new maps (Canada & Australia)

• Cola Wars
• The Monolith
• Space King
• Clank! 10th Anniversary Big Box

• Joel
  • Toy Battle
  • Lairs
  • The Game Makers
• Nick
  • Wingspan @ 7 players
  • Wingspan Pocket
  • Upland & Prairie
  • Endeavor: Deep Sea

(for next show):

• 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

• 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

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”