💙 York Board Games Convention Day 1✨ Join us for: ⭐️Demos of our new releases & our giant games ⭐️Sales booth to pick up our newest titles & goodies ⭐️Tournaments for Gwent, Leaders and Quoridor: Pac-Man ⭐️Much geeky fun 👀 Tickets are still available for the show! Go to ybgc.co.uk for more information💙

Essen Spiel week is upon us! 🇩🇪 and we are excited to be releasing quite a few Essen titles this week! 🇬🇧 Kanal is the newest Uwe Rosemberg resource wheel game. 1-2 players will compete to develop industries & shape infrastructure by building pathways, streets, railways and canals.

🚨 Convention alert ‼️ Join us on Saturday, November 1st, at the MSG Board Game Day in Sharston, Manchester, to play games for charity! 100% of the proceeds will support keeping families fed across the UK, through the Community Groceries. 🎟️ Get your Tickets: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/sha...

👀 Essen Spiel is in one week!!! 🇩🇪 For those of you not going to Germany, we've got you covered! All these titles will all be available in 🇬🇧 stores next week. Which game is on your To Buy List?! 👀

In Festival, you will compete to design the most dazzling fireworks display, stacking vibrant tiles and completing objectives to wow the crowd. Combining drafting, a quick setup, and eye-catching table presence, Festival is both accessible and strategic. Is it too early to plan ahead for November?!💥

🤜💥🤛 Happy Release Day 🇬🇧 Pop into your local game store this weekend to pick up Tag Team 💥 and snag your own copy of the Alternative Mordred Board* With 12 fighters available in the box, who will you chose to enter the arena?! *limited copies available, exclusive to brick&mortar stores.

🚨 Delivery Alert 🏰 We have received something we know many of you are really excited about! 👀 Castle Combo: Out of the Oubliette! includes 12 new cards & introduces one new mechanic. The expansion is now available to pre-order in stores in the UK for those of us not travelling to Essen Spiel 🤩

🧡💚 Roughly is a trivia party game in which you are given a quantifiable question, such as: How high was the Wooden Horse of Troy said to have been? The active player must chose the unit of measurement: 1. in Shetland ponies? 2. in My Little Pony toys? 3. in Olympic pommel horses? Queue banter&fun❤️‍🔥

🚨 Convention Alert: York Board Games Convention in 3 weeks ‼️ Join us in the amazingly beautiful York on 24 - 26 October: ⭐️Demos - new releases & giant games ⭐️Sales booth - our newest titles & goodies ⭐️Tournaments - Gwent, Leaders & Quoridor: Pac-Man 👀 Tickets are available at ybgc.co.uk 💙

🥂Happy Release Day, Moonshine 🎉 Set in the Prohibition era, you will run a secret speakeasy and compete to become the most prestigious in the forest. Attract clients, fill their orders and gain permanent bonuses. Now available on stores all across the UK 🇬🇧

👑 Crack List is a party game for 2-8 players of all ages and of all levels of gaming experience. Easy to learn, fun to play, endlessly replayable, it is the perfect game for a bank holiday, Sunday brunch, date night, family gatherings, pumpkin carving afternoons and overall any social activity🎃

Official trailer just dropped for Gwent: The Legendary Card Game. 🔥⚔️ The iconic card game from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt comes to life in this officially licensed physical edition, created in collaboration with @cdprojektred.com. 💚 Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpmn...

A Trivia Game like No Other CDSK is a trivia game that asks you to be honest with yourself. How well do you know this subject?! What categories do you think you will do better in?! CDSK is a trivia game in which you don't need to know everything, but you need to be confident of what you know!

🥂Moonshine is releasing next week 🇬🇧 Set in the Prohibition era, you will run a secret speakeasy and compete to become the most prestigious in the forest. Attract clients, fill their orders and gain permanent bonuses.

🐍 Wriggle Roulette is a push-your-luck game releasing in October! Pull eels out of the bag, but try to avoid snakes! If too many snakes are revealed, the player who pulled the most tokens will lose all their points. Players score for each eel tokens. 🥇First player to get to 20 points wins the game!

The Secret Relics of Wizards is a 2-4 player strategic game set in the magical world of Arunea, a world in which 4 factions of wizards, each with unique abilities and skills, will compete to capture secret relics. 🤩 the wizard cards are beautiful foil cardboard tokens ✨

🦙 Sierra is a beautiful, serene tableau-building game, in which 1-8 players will explore the Andes & record the landscape and fauna they have seen. Play solo, cooperative or competitive. Draft cards & add them to your colourful mountain landscape. After 8 turns, compare your travel experiences!

🗓️ The 365 Adventure Collection is now available in stores! We have not 1, but 2 gaming calendars for 2026 👀 🏰 Help Mira defeat the Shackled Undead in The Dungeon 🐉 🐙 Investigate a series of mysterious disappearances & face the Great Old Ones in Cthulhu 1926 🌟 Which one will you choose?! 🏰v🐙

⭐️Hero Slam has been named Waterstones Children's Game of the Season 🌳 A brand new card game for 1-4 players, aimed at kids 8-11, but fun for the whole family, Hero Slam is the first card game designed by renowned comic artist Jamie Smart Hero Slam will be available in UK stores in September 2025 🇬🇧

Canterbury Gaming Convention is here! You will have the chance to be among the first to pick up our new releases: Strange World Above the Clouds & Temple Code! There will be 2 Gwent tournaments on the Saturday, as well as limited copies of Gwent for sale, before its official release on 1 SEP ⚔️

👌 Wednesday: Creatures & Outcasts is a 2-6 player card shedding game, in which players play cards 1-by-1 in ascending order OR sets of special cards (3x 6s or 4x 10s) Choose carefully when to play your higher cards, as characters from the Netflix hit series may come into play & change the rules!

🚨Awards alert 🏆 The @festival.jeux.flip have announced the winners of their annual awards and not one, but two of our games have won their respective categories! 🔎 MicroMacro: Crazy City Park - @spielwiese_berlin won Best Children's Game 🥇 🏰Castle Combo - @catch_up_games won Best Strategy Game 🧠

We got the excellent news that some of our games received the Imagination Gaming Awards Seal of Approval or were Shortlisted for awards. We are so proud to represent such creative publishers and to be bringing these exceptional games into the UK. Have you tried any of these out yet? 👀

🥝 Kiwizou Office Visit and new releases Flav got to visit the Kiwizou office today and chat all things games with David. Perfect timing, as tomorrow we have 2 new Kiwizou releases 🇬🇧 Castel Boom and Bidibirdy They bring the Kiwizou line to 8 lovely illustrated and sustainably produced family games.

✈️🎁🇮🇹 Have you ever found yourself rushing to pick up souvenirs for family and friends on your very last day on holiday?! Souvenirs from Venice is a 2-5 player game in which you are trying to pick up sets of identical souvenirs and make it to the airport without bumping into the pigeon man 🐽🎲🐦

⛰️🪲 Solstis: Firefly is now in stores 🐐❤️   The expansion adds variety to Solstis, with 4 new Spirit Tiles, and a new way to score. Create more than one 2x2 group in your panorama to collect Fireflies. If a player collects 4, they win the game. If not, they will score 1 victory point per firefly.

🔥🦊 Tulikko, from @studio_h_games is a 20 minutes tile placement game for 2-4 players. Explore the mystical forest to uncover the secrets of the animal spirits. Create the best tile combinations to be the first to use all your tokens.

The team went to Hachette HQ in London to discuss very exciting future plans. Since we were together, we couldn't resist playing a few games in Badger Badger, a local board game cafe 🤩 👀You'll recognise Strange World Above the Clouds, but we played a few more 🔥 games that we have yet to announce 🤫

CODO Berlin 63 is a 2-player bluffing & deduction game Players take turns moving their secret agents, claiming special abilities & trying to knock out their opponent's agents. Only you'll know who your agents are. Spoiler alert, you can bluff 🎭💣🤫 Do you have what it takes to survive the Cold War? 6️⃣3️⃣

Counting down to Canterbury Gaming Convention 😎 2 new releases: Temple Code & Strange World Above the Clouds Gwent: the Legendary Card Game will be available for limited pre-orders & as a tournament (Saturday) Giant Demoes: Spy Guy, Qwale, Quriodor Pac-Man, Leaders Join us for a weekend of gaming 💙

👑🗡️🎭🛡️Courtisans is a 2-5 player game of subterfuge and backstabbing. Players will try to manipulate the fate of six noble houses, based on their (secret) personal objectives. Play assassins, guards, nobles or spies to further sway a family's status from neutral to esteemed or fallen from grace.

🌊 We are bringing games to the Leeds Waterfront Festival this weekend 🎪 Come to our demo area at Leeds Studio on the Dockside 🎲 We will have giant versions of Stomp the Plank 🐘 Spy Guy 🐉 Rafter Five 🐽 the classic wooden abstracts and many more, as well as a selection of games available for sale 💰

Strange World Above the Clouds is a new small box card game from GRRRE Games in which 1-4 players draft cards to a 4x4 tableau. Score points for smart card placement and set collection BUT avoid breaking world building rules OR world eaters will devour your card. 🔜📦 Now available for pre-order 💙

🏖️What better game to actually play on a beach holiday than Seaside from Randolph Games?! Corina (that's me 😇) recently went on holiday to sunny Greece and took with her many games, but Seaside got a little photoshoot on every beach! Here is Seaside's seaside tour of Kefalonia, Greece 🇬🇷

🦑🎲 Excited about Squid Game season 3? Curious what the newly released Squid Game: Ultimate Battle game is?! Today we are spoiling 3 cards so you can see what sort of challenges await when playing this high tension game. 〇△□

🐽 Deep Sea Adventure Boost is the new version of the classic push your luck @oinkgames.bsky.social game. You are divers in search of sunken treasure, but will you be fast enough to get away with the most treasure, before your communal oxygen tank is depleted?!

🏆 Looot, from Gigamic and designers Charles Chevalier & Laurent Escoffier, is nominated for the Kennerspiel des Jahres. 🎉 It's a fast double tile placement game where you play as Vikings; on the common board you'll be conquering new territory, while building your own village on your personal board.

Releasing at Canterbury Gaming Con (9–10 Aug), Temple Code is a clever code-breaking game where you will race to deduce your combinations. Get clues directly from your opponents' cards (i.e. incorrect info is all yours 😆)! Correctly guess two codes to get the medallion to win the game🏆. #deductions

Have you heard of our Gaming calendars?! Is cosmic horror your thing? Maybe fantasy RPGs? For 2026, we have "Cthulhu 1926" and "The Dungeon" available from your favourite stores. Because rolling dice is the best way to start your day, every day! @sorrywearefrench.bsky.social #cthulhu #dungeoncrawl

〇△□ Excited about Squid Game season 3 coming out next week?🦑🎮🟥 "Squid Game: Ultimate Battle", "One Piece: Treasure Hunt Escape Game", and "One Piece: Become King of the Pirates" are now available in stores! Test your knowledge of the two franchises and explore the East Blue in the escape game. 🏴‍☠️☠️👒

In time for summer road trips☀️, hikes⛰️ and holidays🏖️, the MINI version of our beloved classic abstract game, Quoridor, is back in stock in the UK! Pick up its bigger brothers: Quoridor, Quoridor PAC-MAN, as well as many other wooden abstract Gigamic games if you still have some luggage space🧳.

Faraway and its expansion, Faraway: People from Below are both back in stock 🎉 Faraway has been extremely popular since its release and has been nominated and won several awards! Including a nomination for the Origins Light Strategy Game of the Year, which will be announced later this week 👀

💥 What is your favourite Asterix adventure? 🐗🐟🧪 Asterix & Co. was one of our most popular UKGE releases! Published by @noloadinggames.bsky.social, Asterix & Co. will delight any fan of the brave gaul with its art, characters and comic book cover albums. #asterix #obelix #theadventuresofasterix

Did you know that Studio H is posting weekly puzzles on the @leadersthegame.bsky.social page and that you can also play the game on BGA 🫅 Leaders from Studio H, @hugofrenoy.bsky.social and @naiiadee.bsky.social is due to release in September and is now available to preorder from stores in the UK 👑

🎶Toss a coin to your Kit-cher 😸 Releasing in September, Gwent: the Legendary Card Game from @noloadinggames.bsky.social and @cdprojektred.com was one of our most popular games at UKGE. Did you get to play a round of Gwent? #gwent #cardgames #thewitcher #ukge #tabletopgames #tabletop #preorder

👋 A goodbye from Rob. An update about the future of Hachette’s social media.

That's a wrap at UKGE! Thank you to everybody who stopped by the stand. Gwent, Tag Team, MicroMacro and more were absolute stars of the show, and we hope you loved playing 'em all!

Let's hear it... which is the best suit?

🏛 Cyclades: Legendary Edition has arrived with backers, and the retail edition is now available in all great game stores.⁠ ⁠ Wield the favour of the gods, summon mythological beasts, and battle for dominance across the Aegean.⁠ ⁠ A huge thanks to @gingerbeardgeekdad.bsky.social for these photos.

🍐 In some news, Shackleton Base secures a coveted Shut Up & Sit Down Recommends!⁠ ⁠ In other news, based on their feedback, it has promptly been renamed to Space Cowboys Must Die: You're On The Moon Already.⁠ ⁠ This one will be back in stock NEXT MONTH so get your preorders ready.