Surprised Stare Games has its first outing to Dragonmeet this year! We're in the Lower Trade Hall, C3, and hope to see you there. We will...

Warfare 2024 takes place at the Farnborough International Exhibition and Conference Centre on 16/17 November 2024. We will be there at...

SSG will be there on Saturday 10 August! Come and see our range of board games, including all our popular Pocket Campaigns series of...

We have tables at Attack! 2024 this weekend (20-21 July 2024) at Devizes in Wiltshire. This is a large wargame show, and Dave Mortimer...

I take no credit for this amazing artifact - a specially designed insert for Kingmaker: the Royal Relaunch. This add-on product (not an...

UK Games Expo 2024 June started with UK Games Expo. Well, more accurately, May ended with it, but I always think of Expo being a June...

The UK's biggest games extravaganza, UK Games Expo, takes place between 31 May and 2 June 2024 - only a week to go! Surprised Stare Games...

This post is a session report for Mission Command: Normandy, our WW2 miniatures ruleset. However, it is deliberately incomplete, as I...

Vapnartak is a wargames show held at York Racecourse on 4 February 2024 and run by the York Wargames Society. As a result of a late...

Our game, The Cousins' War by David J Mortimer has hit the big-time! We have featured as a question in Heat 10 of the Brain of Britain...

5-9 October 2023 Hall 3, 3A114 - Surprised Stare Games' stand COME AND SEE US! It's been a year already since Spiel '22, though that's...

We are about to enter the last couple of days of our Gamefound campaign for War of the 3 Sanchos. We have a bit of a sprint still to do...

Exciting news! After a long gestation period, War of the 3 Sanchos is now live on Gamefound... You can find out more about the game on...

As an acknowledgement of your extra help in supporting our project at the early stage, we are giving a Follower gift of £1 off your...

It's Expo time of year again! Surprised Stare Games will be at the UK Games Expo, 2-4 June 2023 at the NEC in Birmingham. Do come and see...

Today is the official retail launch day for Kingmaker: The Royal Re-launch. To mark this milestone, and my involvement as developer of...

I'm not an expert at making videos, as you can tell if you watch any of them. However, after making an unboxing video of the new...

A big hooray on Saturday 25 March 2023, when my long-awaiting package arrived from Gibsons. Here's a video about what happened next......

It's that time again! 10:00 today (Wednesday 22 March 2023), I'll be blethering about board game mechanics with Bez. This morning it's...

A quick resumé of our outing to AireCon '23 at the Harrogate Convention Centre Charlie and I headed north in the snow on Thursday 9th...

It's another Wednesday Bether for me with Bez Shahriari! We continue examining the different auction systems. A series inspired by...

Surprised Stare Games will be at AireCon Thursday 9 March to Sunday 12 March! To be a bit more precise, we don't have a full exhibitor...

Today (22 February 2023) at 10:00, I'll be blethering with Bez about Multi-Lot Auctions. We may touch on Keyflower, El Grande, and...