The Italy-based War of the Ring publisher said thousands of fake requests repeatedly saturated its server bandwidth and CPU earlier this week, temporarily preventing some customers from reaching its main website and e-commerce site, which is also used for preorders and crowdfunding pledge management.
Plaid Hat Games launched its Kickstarter for The Monolith in June with a trio of successful crowdfunding campaigns under its belt - only to pull the project three days after launch when pledges unexpectedly ground to a halt. In this first-person piece for BoardGameWire, Plaid Hat founder and CEO Colby Dauch explains why The Monolith exposed flaws that Plaid Hat’s previous campaigns had masked, what the publisher believes it got wrong, and why the changes made for its rapid relaunch appear to be working.
Leading the new studio continues a rapid rise for Leiman, a 2025 Diana Jones Emerging Designer Program winner whose published designs include High Tide, Wildberries and Dino Racer - the latter of which picked up significant buzz at Gen Con this year, and is currently ranked at number two in the BoardGameGeek Hotness.
arsEdition launched a dedicated games programme last September focused on family-weight games for ages 6, 8, and 10 and up, with an opening slate of seven titles including Reiner Knizia designs Oshiya Tokio and Guardian of the Treasure.
The November 27 and 28 event in Abuja will include prototype playtesting, workshops, industry discussions, networking and a marketplace alongside its consumer-facing game demonstrations and tournaments, according to organiser NIBCARD Games.
The profit surge for Esdevium Games - which officially re-registered as Asmodee UK Limited last month - came on the back of an almost 60% rise in turnover to £224m according to its latest annual accounts.
Allplay is making its biggest strategic shift since its predecessor Boardgametables.com entered publishing in 2018 - launching a trio of new product lines aimed at markets well beyond the accessible, smaller-box strategy games that have defined it to date.
The hire puts a familiar face from board game media in charge of planning and delivering one of the tabletop industry's largest event programmes.
The Tabletop Game Designers Association has begun scoring and comparing the standard contracts board game publishers offer to designers, with the aim of improving how game creators are treated and paid.
Pax Aus has featured tabletop games since the Melbourne-based con was launched in 2013, with the segment having grown over the years to take up a significant share of the show's floor space.
Galactic Cruise also picked up gongs for best strategy game and best game from a new designer, while Luthier from Paverson Games won best theme, best production and best game from a small publisher.
Hues and Cues designer Scott Brady, Sagrada co-creator Daryl Andrews and Friendly Skeleton CEO Jacob Way said Best in Play will offer everything from interim executive leadership and designer representation to publisher submission management and crowdfunding strategy.
Few people in the hobby game industry have have seen as many sides of the business as Scott Morris - from leading global strategy at Lucky Duck Games, building publishing partnerships at GTS Distribution and running sales, marketing and social media at Arcane Wonders. Now Morris is applying that experience to his own venture as founder of Steelwing Games, whose debut title Rainbow Blvd. has been nearly a decade in the making.
The convention, which has sold out before opening for three consecutive years, is currently operating at a hard capacity ceiling at the Indiana Convention Centre.
TCG distribution remains the engine behind Asmodee's ongoing growth, with trading card games responsible for more than two-thirds of that quarterly revenue, according to the company's latest financial report.
Rozum has been devastated by the strike, with parent business Factor Group estimating the losses at up to $670,000 - a situation which has prompted Rozum to launch a fundraising appeal to help it reprint its lost inventory.
"So many new games are being released today that the market has become saturated", Atalia said. "Shops no longer have the space, the time or the cash flow to stock all the games arriving each week."
CMON’s board had planned to transition the company's titles such as Massive Darkness and Super Fantasy Brawl Reborn into “high-quality digital assets” through the investment, saying the move was necessary for it to "continue to be relevant in the games industry and to expand the group’s revenue stream".
Scott Brady believes many outstanding games never reach players not because they lack quality, but because publishers must plan their release schedules years in advance - and with only so many publishing slots available each year, excellent games are often left waiting for an opportunity that may never come.
The veteran card game has been on a tear over the past four years, evolving from parent company Hasbro's first $1bn-brand into the toy and entertainment giant's primary source of growth.
Solo play ranked as the third most prevalent component in games released between 2020 and 2025, behind only dice rolling and hand management.
