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🎲 Bringing the best games from Europe, North America and Japan to the UK.
💙 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💙
October 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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.
October 21, 2025 at 6:44 PM
🚨 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:
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October 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
👀 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?! 👀
October 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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?!💥
October 13, 2025 at 6:12 PM
🤜💥🤛 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.
October 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
🚨 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 🤩
October 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM
🧡💚 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❤️‍🔥
October 3, 2025 at 6:13 PM
🚨 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 💙
October 2, 2025 at 5:45 PM
🥂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 🇬🇧
October 1, 2025 at 5:35 PM
👑 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🎃
September 30, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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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...
Gwent - The Legendary Card Game (The Witcher 3) - Official Trailer En
YouTube video by NoLoadingGames
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September 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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!
September 25, 2025 at 6:15 PM
🥂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.
September 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM
🐍 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!
September 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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 ✨
September 18, 2025 at 6:13 PM
🦙 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!
September 18, 2025 at 6:09 PM
🗓️ 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🐙
September 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
⭐️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 🇬🇧
August 20, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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 ⚔️
August 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
👌 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!
July 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
🚨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 🧠
July 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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? 👀
July 25, 2025 at 7:27 PM
🥝 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.
July 22, 2025 at 7:32 PM
✈️🎁🇮🇹 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 🐽🎲🐦
July 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM