Salamandra Is a UK Convention's First Published Board Game

HandyCon has turned publisher. Salamandra, a worker placement game from Faraway co-designer Johannes Goupy, reaches UK shops on 19 August priced at £39.

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Tabletop Scotland Names Its 2026 Charity and Wants Helpers

Scottish Huntington's Association is Tabletop Scotland's charity of the year. Last year the convention raised £10,757.50, and volunteers are wanted again.

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Spooky Bar Puts You in Charge of a Ghost-Filled Tavern

Edition Spielwiese's new card game has you serving drinks, bottling the ghosts and flogging them as souvenirs. The English edition lands on 21 October.

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Warhammer Open Newport Opens a Busy UK Tournament Autumn

Warhammer Open Newport hits ICC Wales on 14 August, with registration closing on the 7th. UK Tournament Series dates at Epsom Downs and Telford follow.

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Isle of Cats Duel Kicks Off Board Game Arena's Cat Month

Frank West's two-player cat rescue game is now on Board Game Arena, the first cat-themed release in the Kingdom of Cats run of 31 games across 31 days.

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Echobound Adventures Passes CA$286k With Days to Go

Open Owl Studios' cooperative sandbox has raised over CA$286,000 from 1,740 backers against a CA$25,000 goal. The Kickstarter campaign closes on 10 August.

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Necromunda's House Escher Gets Matriarchs and Phyrr Cats

Games Workshop has revealed an Escher Matriarchs and Phyrr Cats kit and Underhive Journal: Escher, first of a new supplement series for Necromunda: Skirmish.

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The TCG Awards Let You Vote for Your Local Game Shop

Trading card games get their first global awards at SPIEL Essen in October. Nine of the 13 categories go to a fan vote, Local Game Store of the Year among them.

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Hatsune Miku Leads Magic's First Secret Lair Commander Deck

Magic's first Universes Beyond Secret Lair Commander deck stars Hatsune Miku, costs 149.99 dollars and can only be ordered in a 24-hour window from 10 August.

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Magic's Rulebreakers Bend Commander's Colour Identity Rule

Mystery Booster: Commander Edition debuted at Gen Con with Rulebreakers, commanders that legally bend colour identity, plus a sorcery that can lead your deck.

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Necromunda's Escher Gang Queen Arrives With Two Phyrr Cats

Games Workshop has revealed the Escher Matriarchs and Phyrr Cats kit plus Underhive Journal: Escher, adding Wyld Hunt and Chymist Cult gang lists to Necromunda.

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Warhammer's UK Tournament Series Kicks Off in September

Games Workshop's UK Tournament Series runs from Epsom Downs in September to Kempton Park in November, with lunch included and Barcelona qualification at stake.

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Echobound Adventures Ends Its Kickstarter on Monday

Open Owl Studios, the studio behind Mythwind and Stars of Akarios, closes crowdfunding for co-op sandbox adventure Echobound Adventures on Monday 10 August.

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Halo: Flashpoint's Zeta Halo Wave Ships From September

Mantic's Zeta Halo releases for Halo: Flashpoint start shipping in early September, led by a 59 pound Spartan Killers set. Web bundles close on 31 August.

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Free 40K Terrain Templates Match Your Board to Your Army

Games Workshop has put out four free Warhammer 40,000 terrain templates covering jungle, snow, Imperial and Maelstrom worlds. Print them on A3 and go.

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Magic's The Hobbit Lands 14 August With Welcome Decks

Magic: The Gathering's The Hobbit set hits shops on 14 August, with Prerelease from 7 August and five 40-card Welcome Decks built to teach brand new players.

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The Guild's Kickstarter Is Funding a Card Game and an RPG

Felicia Day's $4.2m The Guild: Ren Faire'd campaign includes Swords & Sweethearts, a fantasy dating-sim card game, and a Guild tabletop RPG. It ends 21 August.

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Gundam Assemble Puts 5cm Mobile Suits on a Hex Map

Bandai's Gundam Assemble launches in October with a $35 starter set for 3v3 games. The 5v5 Deluxe Set has slipped to November, Bandai confirmed at Gen Con.

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Diables Takes Catalonia's Fire Devils to Gamefound

Dani Garcia's mid-heavy euro about the Catalan Ball de Diables has raised over 86,000 euros from 1,219 backers. The Gamefound campaign closes on 6 August.

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No No Puppy Turns Badly Behaved Dogs Into a Bluffing Game

Dead Alive Games' No No Puppy is a 15-minute bluffing card game for two to seven players. Its Kickstarter has passed $10,000 and closes on Thursday 6 August.

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LayerUp Games Finds 3D Prints for Every Game You Own

LayerUp Games searches nine 3D printing sites at once for board game inserts, tokens and organisers, covering 179,263 games. Built by one solo developer.

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Missile Strike Destroys Ukrainian Publisher Rozum's Stock

A Russian missile destroyed around 200,000 games at Ukrainian publisher Rozum's warehouse near Kyiv on 1 August. It has opened an appeal to fund the reprint.

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Riftbound Maps Out 2027 With Legacy and The Reckoning

Riot has mapped Riftbound into 2027. Legacy lands 29 January as the card game's first draft-focused set, with The Reckoning following on 30 April.

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LEGO Ninjago Board Game Lands in UK Shops at £34.99

Asmodee's co-op LEGO Ninjago Destiny's Bounty Adventures is out now at £34.99, with an exclusive Nya minifigure in the box. Two to four players, ages 8 and up.

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Quagmire Grows the Micro Card Game BOG Into a Big Box

Perplext's Quagmire turns Chris Handy's tiny two-player card game BOG into a full-size board for two to four players. Pre-orders open, shipping September.

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Thunder Road Vendetta Gets a Campaign, Interstate of Decay

Restoration Games confirmed Interstate of Decay at Gen Con 2026, a campaign for its post-apocalyptic racer Thunder Road: Vendetta, crowdfunding later this year.

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Jason Voorhees Joins the Hellbreak Horror Card Game Roster

Friday the 13th's Jason Voorhees is joining Spin Master's Hellbreak TCG, revealed at Gen Con. The game's first set has slipped from autumn to February 2027.

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Brotherwise Wants Your RPG Setting, With Keith Baker Judging

Brotherwise is running a Plotweaver Setting Search with Keith Baker judging, 24 years after Eberron won the Wizards contest. Submissions open early 2027.

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Dead Therapist Turns The Oatmeal Loose on a Murder Mystery

Exploding Kittens' Dead Therapist is a solo-or-group murder mystery from The Oatmeal, with 127 story cards, two case files and a two to four hour investigation.

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Nobunaga's Black Castle Gets an English Edition in September

Green Ronin is crowdfunding an English edition of Yusuke Tokita's Sengoku doom metal RPG in September. It's MÖRK BORG compatible, and you start out dead.

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