Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, and hate leads to... this week's episode of Back of the Shelf. Ben rages, David rants and Gerald... wears a bow-tie as we pontificate on the games we dislike. Especially David! Boy, does David dislike these games. And we weren't kidding about the bow-tie; Gerald does love a bow-tie.

For our 25th episode, we answer some listener questions. Plus some terrible accents - and that's just our normal voices!

Dice, dungeons and damn fine-looking games are discussed this week! Plus, we talk about being a board game ambassador and why you shouldn't. Stop it!

David recommends a game that is going cheep, Ben takes a gamble with his choice and Gerry can't work out what's blocking the way for his game being more popular. Plus - game titles! What's up with those?

Have plans? Cancel them, because we're back! It's all trading beans, historic battles and dark tales this week, followed by a controversial chat about playing card design practices. 3 nerds, 3 games - you're welcome.

As the tabletop hobby world collectively holds its breath awaiting the return of conventions, we take a breath to talk to Richard Denning - the man behind the UK Games Expo - about his gaming history and organising the largest gaming expo in the UK as well as his choices for Back of the Shelf and Shelf Spaced!

It's time to put the board games back on the shelf and take out some of our other geeky passions. Comics, novels, films and video games are just some of the surprise features. And shock! Even Star Wars comes up!

From stocks and trades to blocks and evades! This second part of our board game terms explanation has us talking about everything from what makes an economic game to why Halflings are far better at football than Elves. And let's not mention those Beastmen!

This week, we're joined by the wonderful Bez of @stuffbybez fame! We talk about clever craftiness from the creator of Catan, less crawling and more sprinting through dungeons and winning WW2 before you can say, 'then Godzilla showed up to help with the invasion effort.' Just another BotS episode, then.

Dragons, ravens and... sunny days? It can only be the next episode of Back of the Shelf! And speaking of 'back', Gerry is once again on hosting duties and this time brings the topic of overly competitive gamers to the table!