Quick Links Jump straight into the action and start browsing the best cooperative board games: 1. Top 10 Amazon board game sale Walmart board game deals The best cooperative board games are perfect if you're put off by competitiveness around the table. Offering unique challenges that can only be solved together, co-op board games emphasise teamwork rather than a scramble to victory. As it turns out, games night is so much more chill when players aren't trying to screw each other over. Co-op board game deals: Save up to $30 at Amazon US But where should you start? There's plenty to choose from when it comes to the best cooperative board games, and that in itself is daunting. To give you a helping hand, we've rounded up our favorites below. You'll find suggestions from a variety of genres to suit all ages, and they're as replayable as they are fun. Co-op board games can be expensive, after all, so being able to squeeze maximum value for money out of … [Read more...] about The best cooperative board games – play nice and work together with these essential co-op picks
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Warcraft creator Chris Metzen unveils his new tabletop RPG project inspired by his childhood D&D campaigns
Chris Metzen is famous for helping to conceive Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo. But long before he joined Blizzard, Metzen was a dungeon master. And now the campaigns he used to run for his childhood friends in the '80s are being turned into a codified campaign and fantasy universe based off of Dungeons and Dragons' fifth edition ruleset. It's called Auroboros: Coils of the Serpent, and it's basically an alternative setting to the Forgotten Realms complete with new races, subclasses, and special magic systems. The Kickstarter to fund the first of what will likely be several rulebooks went live today and it's already 500 percent funded . It's easy to understand why. Metzen is a world-building icon known for his storytelling and characters (like Thrall, World of Warcraft's most famous warchief). Auroboros also sounds damn cool. The rulebook being crowdfunded is called Worldbook: Lawbrand, and it contains everything dungeon masters will need to run adventures in the world of … [Read more...] about Warcraft creator Chris Metzen unveils his new tabletop RPG project inspired by his childhood D&D campaigns
Mario Kart Tour passes $200m in 18 months
Mario Kart Tour, Nintendo's gacha-filled mobile racer which lets you tug on a warp pipe to earn a lederhosen-wearing Luigi, is doing pretty well. It has earned $200m in 18 months, and racked up 200m downloads worldwide. Store data provided to Eurogamer by Sensor Tower shows that downloads slowed last year versus the game's big launch at the end of 2019 - when Mario Kart Tour was Nintendo's fastest-downloaded smartphone game by quite some margin . Spending, however, has stayed steady. Nintendo's mobile Mario Kart spin-off officially launched back in September 2019, and is primarily monetised through a gacha-based system which unlocks new in-game items. It also has expensive fixed-price money packs and a subscription service, Gold Pass, which unlocks further cosmetic items and 200cc races for £5 per month . For the 12 months ending 31st March, Mario Kart Tour earned $93m worldwide, making it Nintendo's second-biggest mobile money spinner last year. Fire Emblem Heroes, … [Read more...] about Mario Kart Tour passes $200m in 18 months
Inside The Legend of Zelda: Second Wind – the Breath of the Wild mod that’s bringing new stories and regions to Hyrule
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has never had a shortage of player-created additions. Everywhere you look there's mods ranging from small and strange, like playable Waluigi, to expressive and expansive, like the removal of the game's cel-shaded aesthetic. Breath of the Wild's modding scene is over four years old, with hundreds upon hundreds of mods for both the Wii U and Nintendo Switch versions of the game to pick from. For something to stand out of the pack, it'd have to be truly impressive. Enter The Legend of Zelda: Second Wind - A Breath of the Wild Expansion. What originally started out as a group of smaller, individual mods for minimal changes to Nintendo's epic, such as replacing out-of-bounds chests, has ballooned into one of the biggest mods I've ever seen. In fact, it's a little unfair to call Second Wind purely a "mod" and not an unofficial expansion pack, because it's bigger than either of the two officially sanctioned DLC packs Breath of the Wild originally … [Read more...] about Inside The Legend of Zelda: Second Wind – the Breath of the Wild mod that’s bringing new stories and regions to Hyrule