Whilst we’ll be doing Christmas very differently in many ways this year, games will be played and drinks will be drunk and last year 80% of folk sat down with family and friends to play a game. In a market that is set to be worth £9bn by 2023 and …
Read More »Spiel Des Jahres – Recommendations and Nominations in full
Previous winners of this prestigious award include Azul, Camel Up and a bunch of others in our stash, this years line-up for the three awards, the biggie “Game of the Year” and the other two “Kids game of the year” and the “Expert game of the year” have been announced. …
Read More »We’re all playing more now – indoors and out
Number crunchers a Global information outfit The NPD Group have been looking at the board game and toy playing habits of Brits and our European neighbours during lockdown confinement. According to their latest consumer research, 31% said they had played with games and toys more since the start of lockdown. …
Read More »Some of the best board games we’ve played in 2019
Another stonking year for the board and party game market, a raft of new titles, the emergence of new categories, sales still on the increase and the promise of even more gaming goodness in 2020 – For now here are some of our favourite (not-too-intense) lighter weight games for some …
Read More »Board Games for Boxing Day boredom busting
Take a moment before you enter those dark corners of your cupboards and dust off those dog eared “bored” games. They needn’t make their annual pilgrimage this year, there are so very many new titles in town. We’ve rated all our games on three criteria: Snigger score – It’ll rate …
Read More »Brilliance of board games celebrated with a trio of awards
Heads are likely pounding today post the celebrations at the HQ of Pegasus Spiel were awarded the most prestigious “Spiel des Jahres 2017- Game of the year that is, quite an achievement, huge congratulations. The game of Kingdomino takes the classic elements of dominoes, puts beautiful countryside themed art onto …
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