Brass: Birmingham, the follow-up to Brass: Lancashire, has now claimed the number-one spot on BoardGameGeek after a hard-fought battle against the mighty Gloomhaven. 

The mighty Cyclades from Bruno Cathala, Ludovic Maublanc is going to be getting a Legendary Edition thanks to Open Sesame Games! The Kickstarter is lined up for later this year and will provide folks with a refined and streamlined version of the epic board game. 

It's OTT Weekender time! In this episode, we're having a look at the ace new Block War expansion from Warlord Games for their Judge Dredd Miniatures Game. Could this be the Sci-Fi skirmish game worth diving into if you've become disillusioned by Necromunda?

The Last Kingdom, the hit Netflix series, is going to be coming to tabletops soon from Gamelyn Games with a new board game! Destiny Is All!

Eggert Spiele are going to be expanding their Great Western Trail collection with a trip to New Zealand later this year. Instead of moving cattle, you're going to be getting sheep from point A to point B and hoping to come out on top economically!

Masters Of The Universe Battleground expands once more from the folks at Archon Studio with Wave 4 now available to snag from their webstore! More evil villains come to the lands of Eternia with The Power Of The Evil Horde.

Gamewright are expanding their Forbidden series once again with a new entry in this cooperative series, Forbidden Jungle. This joins Forbidden Island, Desert and Sky as a great family game where time is against you!

Le Scorpion Masque are working with a pretty wild team of creatives to bring the excellent video game, Dead Cells, to the tabletop. The new board game features work by designers Antoine Bauza, Corentin Lebrat, Ludovic Maublanc and Théo Rivière and allows you to dive into a 1-4 player cooperative dungeon crawler.

Devil Pig Games are leaving the battlefields of Normandy behind and instead heading off to the islands of the Pacific with their new addition to the Heroes range. Heroes Of The Pacific: Battle For Guadalcanal is going to be coming to Kickstarter soon.

Gerry and Shay move on to the second scenario of their Undaunted: Stalingrad campaign, putting together a FULL playthrough of the entire World War 2 board game from Osprey Games.

Wyrd Games has been chatting about a new expansion to their hit board game from last year, Vagrantsong. Heading out on even more journeys, your travellers will be diving into more spooky scenarios with Vagrantsong: Encore. 

Stonemaier Games are expanding its board game collection with a standalone sequel to Scythe. Take on a new adventure in Siberia with Expeditions, a new one-to-five-player game set of exploration and discovery. 

Pearl Games are offering up the chance to play as a couple of competing Jarls in their new board game, Lofoten. See who comes out on top in this head-to-head clash between two players.

It's OTT Weekender time! This week, a brand new Flames Of War Starter Set has been revealed. Dive into more World War 2 Historical wargaming on the tabletop with new 15mm German and Soviet armies battling it out for Berlin during the Late War period.

Mantic Games dropped a surprise release for Dungeon Saga this week. A new digital expansion is available for you to snap up from their webstore with Tales From The Green Oak. 

Knuckleduster Miniatures has been showcasing some of the new releases coming to Gunfighter's Ball AND Gunfight Royale for the month of February. Leading the way, we have some excellent Wild West miniatures as part of the Hollywood Cavalry range.

Following on from The Search For Planet X, the next game from Matthew O'Malley and Ben Rosset swaps space for the deepest jungles of Earth. Dive into a new deduction board game from Renegade Game Studios called The Search For Lost Species.

It's OTT Weekender time! The big LVO reveal happened this week and that means AWESOME new reveals for Warhammer 40K and Warhammer Age Of Sigmar. The BIG one was that Arbites are returning to 40K in the newest Kill Team set.

Games Workshop delved deeper into The Mortal Realms with new previews for Warhammer Age Of Sigmar: Warcry and Warhammer Underworlds. We'll start with Warcry and the new Bloodhunt boxed set which pits two new warbands against each other in the heart of the Gnarlwood.

Super Meeple has been working on a new edition of the classic 1996 board game, Expedition. Now called Expéditions, you're going to be heading out on another globetrotting adventure around the world with this Wolfgang Kramer board game.

Azul was quite the hit back when it was released in 2017 and it has spawned all manner of sequels and spin-offs. But, what if you wanted to play Azul on the move and you didn't want to try and shove that big box into your luggage? Well, that's where Azul Mini comes in!

Godtear from Steamforged Games expands with another Champion set. This time around we're going to be howling as we storm into battle behind the mighty Fenra and her companions. 

Ravensburger continues the announcement of more Middle-earth-themed board games for this year. The Lord Of The Rings: Adventure Book Game is going to be landing later this year and is aimed at families who want to play out this epic Fantasy saga without having to dive into something like War Of The Ring!

Knight Games are looking to fund their brand new Batman board game, Escape From Arkham Asylum! Take on the role of villains from Batman's rogue's gallery and see if you can "work together" to formulate an escape plan and get yourselves out of the maximum security prison before Batman turns up to ruin the fun.

The Las Vegas Open hits this week and with that, we get a new Warhammer Preview from Games Workshop. The preview is going to land on Thursday night for Americans at 10pm PST but over here in Blighty, it will be a 6am wake-up if you want all the lovely news in your eyeballs. 

Gerry is back in the sweltering jungles of the far future with more from Ulaya Chronicles and a look at the 32mm scale Hero Miniatures that you can buy from Olmec Games to upgrade your board game AND use in The Drowned Earth miniatures game.

Renegade Game Studios has announced that they are going to be re-releasing a bunch of the Axis & Allies titles from the back catalogue. In May, you're going to be able to get your hands on four entries in the series.

WizKids has now opened up orders for their new Dungeons & Dragons miniatures games. Dungeons & Dragons: Onslaught pits teams of heroes (and villains) from the Forgotten Realms against each other and a host of enemies to fight for control of the board.

Splotter Spellen is a company that by its own admission doesn't tend to create games that are for everyone. But, if you're up for a significant brain teaser of a board game then you might be tempted by their newest project, Horseless Carriage.

Join us as we dive into a Let's Play of Batman: Escape From Arkham Asylum which is coming to Gamefound on 24th January from Knight Games! Play as Batman's rogue's gallery of villains and see if you can escape before Batman gets you!

Gale Force Nine is now taking pre-orders for their first Doctor Who board game of 2023, the fascinating Doctor Who: Nemesis. Play as the bad guys and see if you can twist time and space to your own ends.

It's OTT Weekender time! We have a look at the excellent new Starter Set coming up for Mantic Games' Deadzone. This is turning out to be a perfect alternative to Warhammer 40K and their Sci-Fi skirmish game, Kill Team. 

A fascinating new board game is coming to Kickstarter soon from Perte & Fracas. Once Upon A Line is the very first "scratch-off" adventure game. Yes, you heard me right!

We have a look at an excellent diorama, some undead that are shambling into Zombicide AND a final push to get a bunch of Kingdom Death miniatures finished.

Gerry and Shay start their brand new Undaunted: Stalingrad campaign, putting together a FULL playthrough of the entire World War 2 board game from Osprey Games. 

KOSMOS are going to be taking a jaunt into the world of Middle-earth later this year with a new cooperative board game, The Lord Of The Rings: Adventure To Mount Doom. 

Join us for a new episode of Cult Of Games XLBS! In this episode, we talk about new year hobby resolutions, wiping the slate clean and doing something drastic when it comes to getting your tabletop gaming life in order!

Synapses Games have been previewing a colourful new tile-placement board game coming out later this year. With the great Pharaoh Mino passing on, his son has instructed two-to-four players to sit down and build a fantastic pyramid encrusted with jewels, a Pyramido!

Gerry, Justin, and Shay take to the mean streets of Mega City One in this Let's Play of  Ian Livingstone's legendary Judge Dredd: The Game of Crime-Fighting in Mega-City One from Rebellion Unplugged.

CMON has been teasing some of the new characters coming to their expansion for Marvel United! The Multiverse is calling and that means new heroes and new villains to battle against across all of time and space. 

The 1974 classic strategy board game of the Wars Of The Roses, Kingmaker, by Andrew McNeil is going to be coming back to the tabletop in 2023 with The Royal Re-Launch by Gibsons Games. Watch out for a titanic Medieval clash featuring a whole host of content from past iterations of the game.

Sorry We Are French (still an amazing company name) are working on bringing a new board game to the tabletop in 2023. In The Footsteps Of Darwin sees you playing as junior naturalists looking to study animals on a fantastic voyage around the world.