Alex Evans

4 days ago | wargamer.com | Alex Evans

Of the few new board games I had time to sit and play at UK Games Expo 2025, Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship stands out as my most memorable experience. That's partly because it's a surprisingly story powered, well executed transition of the Pandemic system into Middle-earth that'll give Tolkien fans extremely good eatin' – and partly because I got to play it with Pandemic creator himself, Matt Leacock.

6 days ago | wargamer.com | Alex Evans

As a lifelong Star Wars lover and wargamer, I hyperventilated a little bit when Days of Wonder announced it was turning Memoir '44 – one of the most popular war board games ever to hit a table – into Star Wars: Battle of Hoth, a proper tactical wargame about The Empire Strikes Back's iconic opening barney. Well, now I've played it – and I have two main takeaways: it's unsurprising, and it's excellent. Why were those my conclusions after a speedy 30-minute demo game at UK Games Expo last weekend?

1 week ago | wargamer.com | Alex Evans

The biggest surprise mega-hit in modern wargaming, Tuomas Pirinen, Mike Franchina, and James Sherriff's ultra-dark, religious horror game Trench Crusade has made serious waves in a pool normally dominated by Games Workshop's Warhammer 40k. With the game's rusty torture wheels now copiously lubricated with cash, we spoke to Trench Crusade founder and loremaster Tuomas Pirinen at UK Games Expo, to see what the next phase looks like. And boy, did he drop a few hell-bombs.

1 week ago | bristolpost.co.uk | Alex Evans |Alex Evans

Fresh to the scene of Clarkson's Farm, Harriet Cowan has made an appeal to Amazon Prime Video viewers and enthusiasts of Jeremy Clarkson’s hit farm show as new instalments premiere. The latest season of Clarkson's Farm is arriving in a phased release pattern with its eight-episode sequence rolling out over three weeks.

2 weeks ago | wargamer.com | Alex Evans

For Warhammer PC game fans, there's no better time to add to your collection than Games Workshop's annual Skulls event, with teasers for upcoming releases, plus a week-long fiesta of chonky discounts on legions of PC games set in the grim darkness of Warhammer 40,000; the high fantasy of The Old World; or the technicolor battlefields of Age of Sigmar.