Goliath, the veteran game company behind Rummikub and other child and family-weight games, is making a further push into the hobby games market by buying tabletop publisher Lucky Duck Games.
Lucky Duck Games has agreed a deal with Food Chain Magnate creator Splotter Spellen to launch a Gamefound campaign for a special edition of the brain-burning fast food restaurant management game.
Lucky Duck has a big hitter of its own in the Chronicles of Crime series of games, which have sold more than one million copies worldwide.
Lucky Duck Games has brought in Quartermaster Logistics sales director Matt Goldrick as senior partner for its Global Publishing Network, the B2B localisation and licensing arm it launched two years ago.
Two more significant hires in the board game industry across the marketing side of the hobby. If you have news of a new role, hire or job change within the hobby that you’d like mentioned on BoardGameWire, please send an email with the details to the editor, Mike Didymus-True, on:
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Zenith picked up the intermediate award ahead of First Rat and Take Time, while the children’s category was won by Mooki Island in a contest with Archeo and The Twisted Spooky Night.
Cardboard Alchemy has taken the next step in its rapid expansion by shifting to distribute its own games into retail, powered by the evergreen success of its dragon-themed design Flamecraft.
A former airline pilot who has spent the last decade building a board game distribution business and chain of retailers in the Middle East is hoping to create the region's equivalent of Gen Con with the launch of a Dubai-based convention this November.
The American Tabletop Awards, an awards scheme launched six years ago with the aim of being the US equivalent of Germany's Spiel des Jahres, has revealed its 2025 winners.
Another record attendance at North America's biggest board games industry trade show, GAMA Expo, has left the event pressed for space once again - just a year after the show was transported to Louisville in an attempt to handle surging interest.
