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Welcome to Episode 142 of the Devon Dice Podcast!

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!

Conventions

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

News

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)

Crowdfunding

Kickstarter

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

Gamefound

Top 5 UKGE highlights?

Highlight Number 5

Joel: Space Junkers

Sam: Hotel

Nick: Food Trucks

Lewis: Wrath of Fire Mountain

1st Interview

Mark Prentice from Next Dimension Games

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Highlight Number 4

Joel: more stands and US companies

Sam: Size of the show

Nick: The new hall layout

Lewis: Daybreak

Highlight Number 3

Joel: Lost Ruins of Arnak, Big box and expansion

Sam: Open gaming availability

Nick: An actually nice hotel

Lewis: Sky Team

2nd Interview

Chris Priscott from Unfringed Games

Highlight Number 2

Joel: Paint pens

Sam: In The Footsteps of Marie Curie

Nick: Slambo! & Bus & Stop

Lewis: Arcs

Highlight Number 1

Joel: Fire Tower

Sam: Last Week of Summer

Nick: ito with 13 players

Lewis: Chaos Cards

3rd Interview

Judson Cowan from tettixgames.com

Deep Regrets and Even Deeper Regrets – Kickstarter link
Shallow regrets
Personal Demons
His white whale game, Fright House

Plus Other bits from the UKGE 25 before we finished up.

Thank you for listening

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