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Hotshots Second Edition Lights Up Kickstarter With LED Flames
Fireside Games' co-op wildfire fighter returns with literal LED flame tokens, magnetic tile frames and full miniature sculpts. Kickstarter closes 4 June.
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Dungeon Crawler Carl RPG Heads Past $6.6M Before Friday Close
Renegade's BackerKit for the bestselling LitRPG passes $6.6M from over 27,000 pledges as the campaign closes on Friday 15 May.
Hot Streak Doubles Up at Golden Geeks for Light and Party
CMYK's mascot-betting screamer Hot Streak scoops both Light Game of the Year and Party Game of the Year at the 20th Golden Geek Awards.
UKGE 2026 Judges Choice Winners Land Across 20 Categories
UK Games Expo's 20th-anniversary Judges Choice Awards have crowned their winners, with Luthier, Vantage and Pondscape taking top honours ahead of 29-31 May.
Fate of the Fellowship Sweeps Three Golden Geek Wins
Matt Leacock's Lord of the Rings cooperative game lifts Medium, Thematic and Cooperative Game of the Year at the 20th Golden Geek Awards.
Vantage Wins Innovative and Solo Game at Golden Geeks
Jamey Stegmaier's planet-exploring co-op Vantage scoops Innovative Game and Solo Game of the Year at the 20th Golden Geek Awards.
Galactic Cruise Wins Heavy Game GOTY at Golden Geeks
Kinson Key Games' debut heavy euro Galactic Cruise lifts the 2025 Golden Geek Heavy Game of the Year crown over a packed strategy field.
Pathfinder Beginner Box Lands With Solo Play and Four Classes
Paizo's revamped Beginner Box hits shops with a 72-page Hero's Handbook, four classes, and a brand new solo adventure mode for Pathfinder 2E newcomers.
Tabletop Scotland Drops Panels to Add More RPG Tables in 2026
Scotland's biggest tabletop con scraps live panels for 5-7 extra RPG tables per slot at September's Royal Highland Centre show, with under-16s now free.
Kenshi Fans Drop a Free 41-Page Tabletop RPG on Itch.io
A Reddit user has turned cult survival sandbox Kenshi into a free 41-page TTRPG, complete with thirst, infection and rusty mechanical limb replacement rules.
Reality Fracture Reveals 4-Colour Jace Commander for 2 October
Wizards unveils six Reality Fracture Commander decks led by Multiverse Reforged, a four-colour Jace deck packed with alternate-reality Magic creatures.
John Blanche and Mordheim Designer Reunite for En Garde Minis
John Blanche and Mordheim's Tuomas Pirinen have launched En Garde on Kickstarter, a 54mm fantasy dueling game set in Blanche's own faux-Venetian world.
Rune Marked Brings Officially Licensed RuneQuest Minis to KS
Rune Marked Miniatures is launching an officially licensed RuneQuest mini line on Kickstarter this May, starting with heroes from the Starter Set.
GW Slims 40K's Big Fat Rulebook for 11th Edition
Games Workshop is replacing the iconic 40K doorstopper with a pocket-sized core book and a separate 184-page Combat Patrol Compendium.
SETI Rockets Past 100,000 Sales for Czech Games Edition
Tomáš Holek's heavy euro SETI has cracked 100,000 copies sold, with CGE crediting last year's Golden Geek and Dice Tower awards sweep for the surge.
Bolt Action Goes Digital With Order Dice and a Built-In Army Painter
Slitherine and Frag Games detail their Bolt Action PC adaptation: D-Day campaign, US/UK/Germany at launch, the famous Order Dice activation, and a full digital Army Painter mode.
WizKids Cthulhu Mini Lands at $79.99 on a 100mm D&D Base
WizKids opens pre-orders for a $79.99 painted Cthulhu mini on a 100mm gargantuan base, the boss centrepiece for Ravenloft: The Horrors Within launching 16 June.
Conquest 2026 Starter Sets Land for Every Para Bellum Faction
Para Bellum rolls out Conquest 2026 Supercharged Starter Sets for Spires, Dweghom, W'adrhun and Yoroni, single-player starters with €70+ savings versus buying the contents separately.
Army Painter Crusade Se7ens Target Trench Crusade Naval Raiders
The Army Painter's Trench Crusade paint sets expand from Prussian Stosstruppen to Heretic Naval Raiders and Pilgrims of the Sacred Affliction, lining up with the Drowned Chorister reveal.
Morrus Steels Up D&D 5E With 120-Page Fighter Field Guide
EN Publishing's Morrus heads to Kickstarter with Steel & Skill, a 120-page complete fighter handbook for D&D 2024 packing 50 new subclasses, 20+ feats and the class reprinted.