UK Games Expo 2024: Live Blog

We talk about the latest game coming to the Undaunted series from Osprey Games, 2200: Callisto is on the way later this year. Plus, for the sleuths we have War Stories waiting in the wings!

Bloodforged Games are here with their awesome Sci-Fi game that we’ve featured as part of Indie Of The Week. Sythopian Wars is their go at an awesome Sci-Fi game with a twist and some great mechanics for you to get your head around. It also features some gorgeous miniatures and will be coming to crowdfunding soon.

This amazing game from Hatchling Games helps you and your friends learn sign language by casting spells in your RPG adventure.  Inspirisles is not just a fantastic RPG game it also helps you and your fellow players learn a very important life skill while having a boat load of fun!  Check out Inspirisles and much more on their website.

Whether you want to draw some wacky signs warning your friends about wacky incidents or you want to battle your friends using awesome robots Wise Wizard Games has you covered!  Check out their whole range of wacky and wonderful games here.

Over at the Kosmos Games stand Ben has a quick look at Nunatak and a few of the games by Devir being played by a bunch of the lovely people at UKGE 2024.  There’s even a chance to win a cuddly little plushie if you participate in some of the games being played at the Kosmos Games stand.  Check out more of Kosmos Games here.

TTCombat are showing off the newest addition to their range in the same series as Dropfleet Commander and Dropzone Commander with Strike Team Commander.  At 32mm scale the new Strike Team Commander looks fantastic and the miniatures look like they will paint up a treat.  For anyone who already loves Dropfleet Commander or Dropzone Commander this new game at a larger scale is a fantastic addition to the series.   Check out more from TTCombat on their website.

Vynestra is a series of books adding influences of ancient rome to your DND 5E campaigns as well as a bunch of new Gods, beasts, realms, spells and items to change up your 5E campaigns.  Whether you want an entire new realm to win the favour of the Gods of that realm or just want some new spells to try out Vynestra has got everything you could possibly want.  Check out Vynestra here.

Every painter needs good lighting in order to maximise their potential and there’s nothing handier when you’re painting at home than a good desk lamp.  These amazing lamps from Daylight Company will take your painting experience to the next level and some of them even come with variable magnifying lenses so you can see even the smallest detail on your miniatures as you paint them.  Check out the product range here.

Justin heads over to the entrance of the NEC to visit the vikings.  A massive encampment has been set up this year with a bunch of different time periods of vikings living as they would have in history and putting on some amazing set piece battles.

Kraken Wargames make some of the industries greatest playing mats and they even make some incredible mouse pads for any PC gamers out there and now they’ve decided to branch out into canvas paintings of some of our favourite films, shows, animes and video games!  Check out the new canvas range on Kraken Wargames website.

We get to catch up with Shadowborne Games and what they’ve been up to since we last saw them.  Ben finds out that they’ve been busy creating and releasing their newest title Avalon The Riven Veil.  An area control game where players get to explore the realm of Avalorn and fight over legendary artifacts and beasts in order to make them even more powerful.  Become a lord worthy of Excalibur and wield it to strike down your opponents.   Check out more from Shadowborne Games here.

Gerry has a chat with Luke from Iconiq Studios about their newest game SAW The Jigsaw Trials.  You and up to five other players have been captured by Saw and are attempting to build the deadliest traps you can in order to eliminate your opponents and become Saws successor!  Check out what else Iconiq Studios have to offer here.

If you’re needing a break from all of the stalls while at UKGE 2024 why not head over to the Open Gaming Zone in hall three.  Full of awesome board games for all ages and levels of experience you can sit down at a table and play a board game with your friends or maybe even make some new ones by playing with people who have similar interests.

Gerry takes a trip over to hall two to have a chat with the team from Great Escape games about how well the new edition of Dead Mans Hand has done and what the plans for the future are as well as their newest releases since the new edition has came out.  Check out more of Great Escape Games here.

Find a perfect balance while waring with up to six other Chinese dynasties in order to win in Huang or if you prefer to crusade through the middle east in an attempt to take Jerusalem why not try out Lords Of Heaven from Phalanx Ltd.  Check out Phalanx website here.

Attempt to build a labyrinthine dungeon as a minotaur following your dark masters orders in order to slow down and trip up those horrid adventurers attempting to steal your hard earned gold!  After all those adventurers need dungeons to delve and who else better to build them than you and your friends.  Check out more from Thunderworks Games here.

Ben takes us for a trip around Hall three at UKGE 2024 to have a look at all of the different games being played at a tournament level as he gets a little bit too excited about Crokinole.

Gerry is joined by Catherine from Wayland Games as the two take a trip around Wayland Games Sizeable stand at UKGE 2024.  Whether you’re looking for family board games, Games Workshop products or a master grade Gundam kit, Wayland have it all and so much more.  Warcradle Studios are showing off demo games of Armoured Clash their mass battle game where players bring a lot of big chunky armoured vehicles along side battalions of infantry and specialists.

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