It would be easy to dismiss tabletop gaming as a "geeky" hobby played by young boys in the basements of their homes. For those who have never enjoyed the rush of playing a miniature wargame, it may come as a surprise that it is in fact a multi-billion-pound industry loved by people from all walks of life and is continuing to boom across the country.
Tabletop gaming covers quite a lot of different things, including board games, card games, dice games, miniature war games, role-playing games and tile-based games. In this golden age of video games and comic book movies, experts say tabletop gaming has been "pulled along" into the mainstream and is currently enjoying a "renaissance" in the UK.
Games Workshop has been transformed into a billion-pound company thanks to the likes of Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000. The firm, which was founded in 1975 by three friends, was originally a manufacturer of wooden boards for games including backgammon, mancala, nine men's morris, and go.
It later became an importer of the US role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, before going on to publish war games and role-playing games in its own right. Illegal casinos targeting children shut down 'permanently' following Sky News investigation. Illegal casinos are using Roblox to draw children into online gambling.
The rise of 'forever games' - and why Gen Z is paying for them. The company opened its first shop in Hammersmith, west London, in 1978 in a chain that would later spread across the world. The now Nottingham-headquartered company was worth about £4.7bn at the beginning of December.
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