Matthew Smail

Throughout the game, two to five players each compete to make movies by compiling a theme, a script and some key features like actors and studio props.

A recent release from Arcane Wonders, Critical Mass was developed in collaboration with Tom Vasel and The Dice Tower as part of an 'Essentials' range, which has a specific focus on creating accessible, exciting games.

Big Bang takes the relatively complex concept of the dawn of all life and boils it down into a straightforward, addictive tile-placement game.

Wasteland 2 is a return to the days of pre-Fallout post-apocalyptic RPGs, from the same minds and souls.

Tokyo Highway is a game for two to four players that focuses on building networks of highways that become increasingly more entangled as the game progresses.

Two or more (ideally in even numbers) players split into two teams of detectives, then split again into one intelligence officer and then a number of detectives.

Dwar7s Winter is a compact, straightforward and attractive tower defense board game set in a cartoonish fantasy world.

If you’ve ever played a mobile phone strategy game, then BarBEARians: Battlegrounds should seem instantly familiar.

Fans of classic city building board game Suburbia will be delighted to read that a new, Collectors Edition of the game is scheduled to land on Kickstarter soon.

A city-building board game which still delivers well after 6 years.