Video games used to thrive on their iterative feedback loops: a short run, from which you’d learn new skills, then repeat to put those skills into practice and hopefully get a bit further. It’s a ...

Elden Ring is a campaign board game, meaning you and your fellow players progress through a series of scenarios, leveling up and improving your characters as you play through the story. Steamforged ...

Some strategy games focus on combat, providing constant, challenging battles for players to engage in. Mount & Blade: Warband offers a combat-focused experience with large-scale warfare and dense ...

Skeith has been a gamer for over two decades now and has decided to take pen to paper for Hardcore Gamer. Capable of playing games at incredible speeds, you can rely on them to write about them in ...

It seems like every year I’m back here, trying to find a new way to comment on how the board game release schedule is off to a slow start. That’s because, historically speaking, the tabletop industry ...

If you’re looking for something with a touch of history that’s not quite as serious or hefty as some of our other entries in ...

Callum is a seasoned gaming managing editor for a number of publications and a gamer who will always try to shine a spotlight on indie games before giving AAA titles the time of day. He loves nothing ...

Nathan is a lifelong gamer, harkening back to a misspent youth blasting Kirby Superstar and Super Mario All-Stars on his bedroom floor. Some of us are that old. This began a long-term love affair with ...

Scott Baird is a contributor with over a decade's experience writing about video games, along with board games and tabletop RPGs. Scott has previously worked for Dexerto, Cracked, Dorkly, and Gamepur.

Tickets to the world’s largest board game fair, Germany’s SPIEL Essen 2025, sold out this year, with 220,000 people attending to get first looks at more than 1,700 new board games from 948 exhibitors, ...