Hey board game designers! Just SIX DAYS left until submissions for next year's Cardboard Edison Award open! Get your pitches and prototypes ready! cardboardedison.com/award

In my last review of the year I look at the resurgent pandemic system in Fate of the Fellowship giantbrain.co.uk/2025/12/26/2...

💼 I’m looking for work as a board game designer. 🌎 I’m open to in-person, hybrid or remote work. ⭐ I’ve previously worked at the Uzzle and made Abandon All Artichokes, Starry Night Sky, and other board games.

In 2025, I reviewed these 45 games: 1860, Ayar, The Bears and the Bees, Biathlon Blast, Boitas, boop, Booted, Cat in the Box, Club of Cthulhu, Creature Caravan, Crimson Keep, Death Valley: Highs & Lows, Disney Villainous, Doomlings: Imaginary Ends, Doomlings: Legends of Enderas, D.O.T, …

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My first video looking back at 2025 - this one focussed on the state of the board game industry and what it means for designers. A very happy holiday season to everyone! youtu.be/XH4o2alaNoA 🎲✂️

Happy holidays to our amazing backers 🎄✨ If you believe in this project, now’s the perfect moment to support and share the campaign: gamefound.com/es/projects/...

I would like to wish everyone a Merry #Christmas. I hope you have a wonderfully relaxing time. Thank you for following, reading my articles, listening to the podcast, sharing my posts, supporting the blog and generally being a great person. 🎅👍

As my board game collection grows, the chances of the same game being played regularly decrease. So in this article, I look at the benefits of playing a small handful of games regularly. tabletopgamesblog.com/2025/12/23/r... #boardgames #thoughts #RegularGames #hobby #friends #family

Don't forget: you can also listen to the reviews and other articles on Tabletop Games Blog on your favourite #podcast platform. - Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/49Yps9z... - Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... - Amazon Music: music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/eb0... #boardgames

it's crazy to use AI in CONCEPT ART bcuz it will never be able to CREATE its own CONCEPTS. so not only are you saying you're too lazy to pay someone or to do the work yourself, you're also saying your okay with building all of your shit on unoriginal ideas and almagamation of existing work.

1) Bald ist Weihnachten...🎄 Ein Geschenk könnt ihr ganz einfach und kostenlos machen:🎁 Schreibt euren Medienschaffenden, die ihr lest, hört oder schaut, einen Kommentar. Egal ob öffentlich oder per PM, lasst eine gute Bewertung da oder bedankt euch persönlich.😘 #Brettspiel #BlueLZ #Gaming

Are there any solo game events? I mean, board game events where people come to play together - but everyone plays a solo game? 🤔

www.werenotwizards.com/e/s10-e558-w... Game of the Year episode is now live. This is not a drill. REPEAT. Not a drill. 20 of the games you should think about getting to the table...

❤️ Ein Ort der Hoffnung: Die Nachsorgeklinik Tannheim ❤️ In den vergangenen 20 Jahren hat sich die Klinik Tannheim deutschlandweit als eine erste Adresse der Familienorientierten Nachsorge für Familien mit krebs-, herz- und mukoviszidosekranken Kindern etabliert.

Lantern lifted, I stepped into the cave and the three dragons allowed me to go about my dracologist business and measure their Wyrmspan by Connie Vogelmann from @stonemaiergames.com with art by Clémentine Campardou. tabletopgamesblog.com/2025/12/20/w... #boardgames #reviews #dragons

Game designers who "can't draw" but want art for prototypes... beyond the wealth of public domain stuff available (there's lots) there are artists who make stuff that's VERY affordable and Itch has a ton on sale right now. #NoGenAI itch.io/game-assets/...

Shelves of Stories – how games and books reflect who we are - a great article by Oliver Kinne https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2025/11/04/shelves-of-stories-how-games-and-books-reflect-who-we-are-topic-discussion/

I've got a copy of this book and, while I am usually a slow reader, I swallowed this one down whole. It's such a great read - and would a great Christmas present for the board game fan in your life. 😊👍

www.werenotwizards.com/e/seppyyoond... Joined by @fightinabox.bsky.social again to chat about their games, AI being bollocks, And Stranger things being Grease.

We're coming into the last few days for The Six of VIII kickstarter! 👑 $10 for backers. Order with your friends to split the shipping. Plus there are two Knizia reprints and 7 import games to make a custom bundle. www.kickstarter.com/projects/cha... #boardgames @25thcentury.games

What a special surprise. Thank you for the wonderful #Christmas card, @hachettebguk.bsky.social. It's in pride of place on our mantlepiece. 😊👍

(This is a guest post by Glenn Ford from Man O Kent Games.) I’d like to explain exactly what I think is so special about miniatures games for anyone who doesn’t necessarily play, or even consider them. tabletopgamesblog.com/2025/12/16/m... (Photo by Samuel Fortin on Unsplash) #boardgames #topics

I hate that we need to keep repeating it, but tools that steal copyrighted work are ethically atrocious and should not be allowed to thrive. Generative AI tools that steal copyrighted work are wrong on every level. Pam Walls' video explains this perfectly: youtu.be/Ci5pOjyJknI?...

It was a great honour, a fair amount of work, but also a lot of fun to be a co-host of the best (I'm biased!) #boardgame #news #podcast in the world, Brainwaves. Here is a link to the very last episode: giantbrain.co.uk/2025/12/15/b... PS: Thanks to @giantbrain.co.uk for making it all happen.

A last hurrah! Download it now - and save it forever!! 😊👍

Ein paar Neuigkeiten: www.spielworxx.de/2025/12/15/r...

www.werenotwizards.co.uk/kinfire-coun... Some light Monday administration duties AKA Kinfire Council.

Today's video is about pitching to multiple publishers at the same time, and what to do if you get an offer from one of them. 🎲✂️ youtu.be/KVqfMec6YCM

Tomorrow the last episode of Brainwaves will grace the podwaves. We plan to do a retrospective in the new year, looking back on the cast, talking to hosts new and old, with a special guest running the show. It's been a privilege to do this cast with some fantastic folk. Love to them and to you all.

You will be visited by 3 spirits

Long ago, spirits and demons stirred in the land. As an Onmyoji, a practitioner of ancient cosmology, you must ensnare the seven spirits, the Yokai Septet by Muneyuki Yokouchi from @ninjastargames.bsky.social with art by U. tabletopgamesblog.com/2025/12/13/y... #boardgames #reviews #TrickTaking

LAST DAY to have a chance of winning great board games and also support UK #foodbanks that support people in need as the weather is getting colder. More info and enter here: raffall.com/403887/enter... Also, please reshare. 🙂👍 #boardgames #charity

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

Have you got a TTRPG project coming out in Feb 2026 or beyond? Let me know about it! I am always on the lookout for new games to feature in my forthcoming and indie round-up columns for TTGM. DM me, reply here, email me, however you would like to get in touch.

In the latest episode of But Why Vikings? @ava.foxfort.net and I answer a question from @marcelineleiman.bsky.social on the stigma of the phrase 'Gateway Games' and discuss how to teach games on BGA as posed to us by @ivanbrett.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/2run...

2 DAYS LEFT to have a chance of winning great board games and also support UK #foodbanks that support people in need as the weather is getting colder. More info and enter here: raffall.com/403887/enter... Also, please reshare. 🙂👍 #boardgames #charity

The next Bristol daytime playtesting event is on 19 December! Sign up on the Meetup page: www.meetup.com/playtest/eve... @playtestuk.bsky.social

2 DAYS LEFT to have a chance of winning great board games and also support UK #foodbanks that support people in need as the weather is getting colder. More info and enter here: raffall.com/403887/enter... Also, please reshare. 🙂👍 #boardgames #charity

Okay but Daniel has SO MANY great limited-run games. Once they’re gone, that’s it! Go support him: www.newmillindustries.com

4 DAYS LEFT to have a chance of winning great board games and also support UK #foodbanks that support people in need as the weather is getting colder. More info and enter here: raffall.com/403887/enter... Also, please reshare. 🙂👍 #boardgames #charity

4 DAYS LEFT to have a chance of winning great board games and also support UK #foodbanks that support people in need as the weather is getting colder. More info and enter here: raffall.com/403887/enter... Also, please reshare. 🙂👍 #boardgames #charity

But Why Vikings? is the ludological agony aunt podcast I do with @ava.foxfort.net and @timclare.bsky.social. The cast should be available everywhere. Ratings and reviews really help so if you've enjoyed the first 3 please do give the cast a share and rating. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

We have some bundle offers in the webstore: www.spielworxx.de/shop/produkt...

I'd like to say a couple of things about UKGE and their silence in regards to the whole AI debacle. I'll start with a disclaimer: I know UKGE is a HUGE opportunity for many small businesses and publishers, and in the current unstable financial situation we're all in, skipping it because of ethical>

Then they died.

In the end, I found money to support this campaign. I just had to get my first game designed by @beyondsolitaire.bsky.social and @djackthompson.bsky.social. Can't wait!! 😃👍

There’s still time to have a chance of winning great board games and also support UK #foodbanks as the weather is getting colder. Answer a simple question and get yourself some #raffle tickets. More info and enter here: raffall.com/403887/enter... Also, please reshare. 🙂👍 #boardgames #charity

A great article... on so many levels. 😊👍

Winning games *and* supporting a good cause? Sounds like a sweet deal. #Boardgames #UK "UK mainland postage is included, but postage to other locations has to be paid by the winner of the prize."