Joel, Nick, and Lewis are back from UK Games Expo 2025 and are here to share their Top 5 highlights from the event — plus Sam’s thoughts via his notes! Listen in as they dive into their favourite moments, discuss the games they played, and even give a few honest hotel reviews.

This episode also features bonus interviews with three creators from the UK board game scene (and slightly beyond):

• Mark Prentice from Next Dimension Games

• Chris Priscott of Unfringed

• Jubson Cowan, game artist extraordinaire (okay, not strictly British — but we’ll claim him anyway!)

We still found time to squeeze in a bit of industry news and a roundup of some exciting crowdfunding campaigns currently live.

So, sit back, enjoy the Expo wrap-up, and get your wishlist ready!

• Fox & Hounds board game weekend – 17th – 19th October
• Hotel rooms sold out
• A few day/weekend tickets are still available.

• US Tariffs news: courts put a stop to tariffs
• CMON sells off IPs
• Roxley’s new games road map
• New expansion for Clank Catacombs announced
• Plus a train game for Nick – Lightning Train
• The next 2 Feld city games have been announced: Manila & Beijing (rethemes of Amerigo & Year of the Dragon)

• Inis: Big Box (featuring Nemed expansion)
• Catacombs Alpha
• Even more train fun, with Maglev Maps: Expansion volumes 1 & 2

• Agricola Special Edition
• Sniper Elite: Operation Kraken & Reprint

Joel: Space Junkers

Sam: Hotel

Nick: Food Trucks

Lewis: Wrath of Fire Mountain

Mark Prentice from Next Dimension Games

• Space Junkers
• Go Ahead Punk!

Devon Dice Podcast – Episode 141
Title: It’s Our UKGE 2025 Preview Episode!

Welcome back to another episode of the Devon Dice Podcast! Joel, Nick and Sam are bringing their best list of games they are looking forward to, at UKGE 2025, to try and impress Lewis on what to look out for this year.

Looking ahead, don’t forget the Fox & Hounds Board Game Weekend is coming up:
17th–19th October – mark your calendars!

• Tariffs Update: There’s a 90-day pause on tariffs, prompting a mad shipping dash from publishers. Great for getting games out… but it’s driving up shipping costs again.

• Golden Geek Awards: announced The winners have been crowned! (Insert dramatic drumroll here.)

Kickstarter Highlights:

• Age of Steam Volume 5 & 6 expansions– 16 new maps + 2 promo maps? That’s enough to derail our wallets.

• River Rats – Another co-op poker game, because bluffing with friends never gets old.

Gamefound Picks:

• AVGhost Paranormal Investigation: Second edition – another chance to go ghost hunting … .

Coming Soon:

• Paperback Adventures: Volume 2 – More wordy roguelike fun on the way!

Here’s what each of us is hyped for:

1. Goat Simulator: The Card Game

2. Distilled: Cocktails

3. Popcorn

4. Calimala

5. SETI: Space Agencies

1. Last Week of Summer

2. Transgalactica

3. Asterix & Company

Joel, Nick, and Sam are joined this week by Matt Prowes, the Torbay Full Board Gaming Weekend convention organiser. Tune in to hear about the event’s history, what goes into running it, and what exciting things are planned for the future.

Also in this episode: the gang catch up on the latest (well, slightly up-to-date!) board gaming news — including the ongoing US tariff situation, current crowdfunded campaigns, and of course, what they’ve been playing recently.

Enjoy the show!

• Fox & Hounds board game weekend – 17th – 19th October
• UKGE (game releases preview page on BGG)
• Just gone by:
  • Baycon
  • Tic-Tac-Tabletop Games Weekend in Tavistock

• MATT and the Torbay Convention Full Board Gaming!
• 2,3 or 4 nights between 29th Jan – 2nd Feb 2026 (booking here)

• Tariffs and more tariffs
  • CMON buckles down; Bordlandia shuts – CMON: pauses all future development; will focus on delivering existing promised games; laying off a lot of the creative team. CMON profit loss was recently confirmed as being over $3million loss.
  • Stonemeier (+ a number of other publishers) are suing the president over the tariffs
  • Final Frontier Games – declares bankruptcy, closes down. Cites non-payment of a large order from CMON as the final straw (CMON disputes any unpaid due payments)
  • Greater Than Games