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Cult of the Lamb Board Game Gets First Look at UKGE 2026
Cult of the Lamb: The Board Game, an official worker-placement adaptation of the hit video game, gets its first hands-on demo at UK Games Expo 2026.
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Magic Unbans Umezawa's Jitte in Big Modern Shake-Up
Magic: The Gathering's May 2026 Banned and Restricted update unbans Umezawa's Jitte in Modern, bans Phlage, and shakes up Pioneer and Legacy too.
Reactor Rescue Board Game Has You Build Real Circuits
Reactor Rescue is a board game where you build working electronic circuits against a timer. It is funded on Kickstarter with final days left to back.
Pipes Turns Plumbing Into a Tense Two-Player Card Duel
Wotan Games' pocket-sized card game Pipes pits two players in a tense plumbing battle, and it's crowdfunding now in BackerKit's Pocketopia 2026 collection.
Holly Black's Elfhame Card Game Heads to UK Games Expo
Bestselling Folk of the Air author Holly Black designed Enemies & Lovers: The Crown of Elfhame, a card game of faerie betrayal coming to UKGE 2026.
Final Girl Series 4 Brings Four New Films to UK Games Expo
Van Ryder Games makes its UK Games Expo debut with four new Final Girl feature films for the hit solo horror game, including a convention-only scenario.
Visions Brings Bruno Cathala's Dream Card Game to Board Game Arena
Visions, a quick dream-building card game from Spiel des Jahres winner Bruno Cathala, is now free to play on Board Game Arena, and it is a tidy game-night filler.
Bardscon 2026 Brings a Day of Tabletop Gaming to Essex
Bardscon packs 12 hours of tabletop gaming into a social club in Brentwood, Essex on 14 June 2026, with open play, RPGs, traders and a charity raffle.
Ciaphas Cain Gets His First Official Warhammer 40K Model
After a quarter-century in Black Library novels, Commissar Ciaphas Cain and his aide Jurgen are getting their first official Warhammer 40,000 miniatures.
Pirates Dragons Treasure Sails Back for a Second Edition
The pirate shipbuilding card game Pirates Dragons Treasure is back on Kickstarter for a second edition, with seven dragons to slay before your rivals do.
Threaded Turns Needlework Into a Clever Worker-Placement Game
Threaded, Ellie Dix's charming needlework worker-placement game for Osprey, arrives just as the publisher confirms it is stepping back from board games.
Flamecraft Duals Turns the Cosy Dragon Hit Into a 2-Player Game
Flamecraft Duals distils Cardboard Alchemy's award-winning cosy dragon game into a quick head-to-head pattern-builder, on show at UK Games Expo 2026.
Catvale Sends Adventuring Cats to Kickstarter on 8 August
FUdice's sandbox adventure Catvale, where rival cats explore a modular world to build, quest and brawl for prestige, opens on Kickstarter on 8 August 2026.
Aridnyk Brings Ukrainian Carpathian Myth to UKGE 2026
boardova's debut game Aridnyk turns Ukrainian Hutsul folklore into a tile-laying mountain journey, and an English edition is on its way to UKGE 2026.
Foxglove Farm Builds a Cosy Fox Town for UK Games Expo
Alley Cat Games' cosy tile-laying town-builder Foxglove Farm puts you in charge of a fox settlement, and it heads to UK Games Expo 2026 with pre-orders open.
War of the Dragon: Wheel of Time Hits Kickstarter 27 May
Dire Wolf's two-player Wheel of Time strategy game War of the Dragon launches on Kickstarter on 27 May, and its designers have shared how it came together.
Everdell Bellfaire Expansion Lands in the Digital Game
Dire Wolf's digital version of cosy worker-placement hit Everdell has added the Bellfaire expansion on Steam and mobile, with six modules to mix and match.
Moustache Brings Shifting Rules to KOSMOS Trick-Taking
KOSMOS has unveiled Moustache, a fast trick-taking card game for 3-6 players where the teams reshuffle and the rules change every round, due this autumn.
Star Trek: Lower Decks Fluxx Beams Aboard the Cerritos
Looney Labs is bringing the animated comedy's crew aboard with Star Trek: Lower Decks Fluxx, the fifth Star Trek Fluxx game, due on 20 October 2026.
Conan: Tales of Tortage and Zamora Heads to Kickstarter
Monolith is reuniting its Conan board game and roleplaying game in one Kickstarter campaign, Tales of Tortage and Zamora, heading into the Hyborian Age.