UK Games Expo 2025 ended June 1 — that is, yesterday from when I’m writing this note — and Origins Game Fair 2025 runs June 18-22…which means Gen Con 2025 is poking its head over the horizon, so BGG’s Gen Con 2025 Preview has now been launched.
We already have more than 150 titles on the preview, about a quarter of what ended up being on the Gen Con 2024 Preview. My thanks to Stephen Cordell, who has processed most of the information that publishers have submitted, with me adding a few titles based on press releases and what’s been spotted in the BGG database.
Publishers, if your games aren’t listed, please head here to learn how to submit information for both the Origins Game Fair 2025 Preview and Gen Con 2025 Preview — and how to be added to BGG’s publisher mailing list so that you receive such surveys automatically in the future. (The SPIEL Essen 25 survey will be going out soon, with that preview going live on Monday, July 7.)
Also, publishers, if your listing shows the image at left, then the linked version listing lacks a representative image. For a convention preview, we must link to a specific version listing so that the preview shows your company name, the release date of this edition, the cover of this edition, etc., with the info shared across all editions being pulled from the game page itself.
To see how to upload images, please head to this image submission guidance page, and to propose an image in the game’s gallery as the primary image for a version listing, please refer to this section lower on that same page.
To check out all convention previews, click BROWSE in the dark blue browsing bar, then PREVIEWS.
As in years past, BGG will host a Hot Games Room at Gen Con 2025, and you can purchase tickets in advance on the Gen Con website. These games will then be transported to Dallas, Texas for use at BGG.CON 2025 in November.
Finally, note that prices on the listed games might change between now and when Gen Con 2025 opens. Some publishers have not submitted prices because they’re still trying to figure out what makes sense based on unexpected U.S. tariff costs on goods produced in China, tariffs that have been reduced for now but threaten to bear trap anyone at any moment.
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