More than 650 HABA staff to lose jobs in wake of company’s self-administration
Haba, the 85-year-old Germany toymaker famous for its family-weight board games, is planning to shed about 40% of its workforce after entering self-administration.
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Planet Unknown beats Dorfromantik, Heat to win Germany’s biggest board game prize
Planet Unknown, the tile-laying planetary development and colonisation game from Ryan Lambert and Adam Rehberg, has triumphed in this year's Deutscher Spiele Preis - Germany’s biggest board gaming award.
Worms board game still on schedule despite Team17 restructuring, Mantic Games CEO says
The board game adaptation of classic video game Worms remains on track for its delivery to Kickstarter backers next year despite the announced restructuring of development partner Team17.
The world’s biggest board game fair is using AI art on its tickets, posters and app
Essen Spiel, the world's biggest board game fair, has admitted using controversial AI-generated art on its tickets, posters and app for this year's event, which kicks off in three days.
Capstone inks deal with Barrage publisher Cranio Creations to produce English language editions of new games
Cranio Creations, the Italian board game publisher famous for Simone Luciani games Barrage and Golem, has signed a localisation deal with US-based Capstone Games.
Veteran tabletop retailer CoolStuffInc to stop selling board games, RPGs
Online tabletop retail major CoolStuffInc is quitting the board game and RPG markets in favour of more profitable CCGs such as Magic, Pokemon and Lorcana.
New Heroscape publisher Renegade reignites GTS Distribution partnership
Renegade Game Studios has re-established its partnership with GTS Distribution, three years after dropping the company as one of its distributors.
Lucky Duck Games to launch visually redesigned Food Chain Magnate special edition on Gamefound
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.
International Gamers Awards picks Revive, Oranienburger Kanal as 2023 winners
Civilization rebuilding eurogame Revive and Uwe Rosenberg's Oranienburger Kanal have triumphed in this year's International Gamers Awards, a global board game award series which has been running since 1999.
Essen Spiel’s new head on how the world’s biggest board game fair is reinventing itself for its 40th year and beyond
Carol Rapp, a long-time Asmodee and Kosmos senior marketing executive, only joined the Essen Spiel team in November last year - and quickly found herself in charge of managing its biggest event yet.