I got the opportunity to play my first games of The Dealer (2026) and Ink (2025) at the weekend, and enjoyed both. Here’s how things went… The Dealer (2026) I briefly covered this last month in another TSM Blog —New Arrivals… Tulip Season (2026) and The Dealer (2026)— and at the time suggested that it looked very promising, so I’m very pleased to say that it proved a lot more than just promising when we finally got an opportunity to play it… And the artwork remains just another positive for the game as a whole.

Japanese-inspired hand-drawn art that hides a deck of playing cards, that weaves a journey, and becomes a table-top game.

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Rest and Recovery As predicted last month, my broken wrist recovery has meant I’ve had all of September off work as well as most of August. Thankfully, things are looking better, healing well, and the days are going a lot quicker, so I’m hopeful of returning to work (and finally earning money again!) in the next few weeks. What this means for the…

CMYK is on a hot streak. Get it? Hot streak? Fine, I’ll just tell you about this other board game. Grabble is a remake of Naoki Fukuda’s Nuts a GoGo!, which probably doesn’t tell …

UK-based publisher Hachette Partworks has just unveiled its new Dungeons & Dragons Novels Collection, which features over 100 classic books from D&D history.

I originally planned to do an Unboxing of this, but to be frank there’s not really much in the box to warrant doing so — there are 100 cards (6 different types), a selection of Gold and Glory token…

I originally planned to do an Unboxing of this, but to be frank there’s not really much in the box to warrant doing so — there are 100 cards (6 different types), a selection of Gold and Glory tokens, 4 x Player Aid cards, a small wooden sword representing the first player, and a 16-page rulebook. I received Pendragon: Glory of the Round Table…

A visually stunning 3D tiling strategy game.

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Why more people in Japan are forsaking YouTube and TikTok videos and crafting their own magazines by hand.

Have you heard the news? The high necromancer is dead and the gems and treasures of his dungeon are up for grabs! A good wizard doesn’t do the dirty work themselves, of course, so you’l…

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