Games Workshop pays out £7.5m in bonuses to staff amid jump in profits; share price slumps

Games Workshop is handing out £2,500 to each staff member in December through a $7.5m bonus pot, after revealing a 12% rise in its half-year profits.

Games Workshop is handing out £2,500 to each staff member in December through a $7.5m bonus pot, after revealing a 12% rise in its half-year profits.

Woodcraft, the woodworking eurogame designed by Vladimír Suchý and Ross Arnold, has scooped the Gouden Ludo Flemish expert game of the year prize.

Wise Wizard Games, the publisher of award-winning spaceship combat deck-building game Star Realms, has launched a family-focused imprint called Wacky Wizard Games.

CoolStuffInc owner Jerry Sunkin opens up on how his company - one of the biggest online board game retailers of the last decade - has been squeezed out of the market by Amazon's 800lb gorilla.

Time is running out for game designers to submit their entries to the latest contest run by Button Shy Games, which specialises in wallet-sized board games which use just 18 cards.

Incredible Dream, one of the few board game startups to attract millions in venture capital dollars, has scrapped its second Kickstarter project just a day after launch, despite reaching almost 90% of its target amount.

Board game news website Dicebreaker is being lined up for a sale by its owner ReedPop, as the US-based events major investigates getting out of the digital journalism space it entered just five years ago.

Toy and game giant Hasbro has chosen three winners in its search for what it hopes will be the "next great woman-led mass market toy or game".

Dan Jolin, the co-creator of board gaming's most beautiful magazine, Senet, has won a British Society of Magazine Editors award for his work on the title.

Asmodee's owner Embracer Group has confirmed it has begun "restructuring" at the tabletop gaming giant, as part of a massive cost-cutting programme which has already seen Embracer shed more than 900 jobs.