Sky Team has won the coveted Spiel des Jahres for 2024, pipping fellow nominees Captain Flip and In the Footsteps of Darwin to the German game of the year prize.
Financially-troubled French board game publisher FunForge is understood to be within weeks of signing a contract which will give it the funding to get its heavily-delayed Monumental Kickstarter to backers within the next two months.
Kickstarter has named Exploding Kittens Inc's senior sales manager Maggie Clayton as its new head of games, as the crowdfunding giant continues its battle against tabletop-focused competitors Gamefound and BackerKit.
Gaming giant Hasbro has named long-serving Blizzard senior exec John Hight as its new president of Wizards of the Coast and digital gaming, three months after the resignation of former incumbent Cynthia Williams.
Africa's longest-running board games convention has returned to Kickstarter after two years of self-financing, as soaring inflation in its home country of Nigeria weighs heavily on the event's finances.
Academic researchers planning board game-related projects are being offered up to €20,000 in grant money through this year's programme from Game in Lab, which was co-created by Asmodee in 2018.
GAMA’s annual tabletop gaming convention Origins has sealed a record post-Covid attendance, with visitor numbers up 10% compared to last year's event.
Petersen Games, the Cthulhu Wars publisher left struggling to fulfill more than $2m of Kickstarter projects after hitting severe financial issues during the coronavirus pandemic, has been bailed out by fledgling board game publisher and manufacturer Quimbley's Toys and Games.
Scammers impersonating a Facebook group and community with tens of thousands of members have managed to con multiple tabletop publishers into sending them review copies of their latest games.
Applications for board games trade organisation GAMA's annual diversity programme are now open for this year, offering $1,000 grants, convention support and mentorship to new board game publishers and retailers from under-represented communities.
