BackerKit's bid to take on crowdfunding giant Kickstarter has scored a major success after Gloomhaven publisher Cephalofair passed $2m for its first campaign on the platform.
Board game giant Asmodee has launched a new distribution business aimed at supplying "new, niche and hard-to-get" English-language titles to European retailers.
When Darwin’s Journey launched onto Kickstarter at the beginning of 2021, the world was beginning to show small signs of optimism that the Covid-19 pandemic that had gripped the globe for the previous 12 months was starting to lose ground.
Root and John Company designer Cole Wehrle has been nominated for the long-running Diana Jones Award for Excellence in Gaming, for "some of the finest work that’s ever been done in board game design".
Tomb Raider and Borderlands developer Embracer Group is planning a slew of video games based on Asmodee's board game range, as the company tries to leverage its intellectual property amid plans to slash its $1.45bn of debt.
Antoine Bauza, the veteran designer of games including 7 Wonders and Takenoko, has launched board game publishing company PlayPunk alongside Repos Productions co-founder Thomas Provoost.
Board game reviews giant The Dice Tower has upped its scores for Kickstarter success Darwin’s Journey in a reshot video, two weeks after deleting its original review of the game due to a “pretty big rules mistake”.
Inventions: Evolution of Ideas, the latest heavy eurogame from On Mars and Kanban EV creator Vital Lacerda, has soared past $550,000 for its Kickstarter campaign after just four days of fundraising.
Board game publisher Cryptozoic Entertainment has gone months without paying some of its artists, saying the shock death of CEO John Sepenuk in February "significantly disrupted" its operations, emails seen by BoardGameWire show.
Fort Circle Games has followed up its critically acclaimed card-driven wargame Votes for Women by passing the funding goal for its latest offering on Kickstarter - The Halls of Montezuma.
