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Rats of Wistar board game by Cranio Creations, Capstone Games

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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.

Mike Didymus - True
27 September 2023

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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.

Mike Didymus - True
22 September 2023
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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.

Mike Didymus - True
22 September 2023
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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.

Mike Didymus - True
21 September 2023

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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.

Mike Didymus - True
21 September 2023

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Sky Team, Nucleum lead most-wished for games in August | BGG Stats

Hachette's co-op aeroplane landing board game Sky Team soared to the top of the most-wished-for game rankings on BoardGameGeek in August, pipping Simone Luciani and Dávid Turczi's heavy euro Nucleum to the number one spot.

Mike Didymus - True
19 September 2023
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Board game maker Haba blames economic turbulence, “incorrect decisions” for slump into insolvency

Haba, the 85-year-old Germany toymaker renowned in board game circles for its family-weight games, has gone into self-administration in an attempt to save the business.

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More than 40,000 users! Thank you for supporting BoardGameWire as we head into our August break

We're overwhelmed that close to 42,000 of you have visited our site since our launch in May, to keep up to date with important board game industry news that isn't being reported elsewhere.

Mike Didymus - True
4 August 2023

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‘Mystery fan’ bails out troubled Cthulhu Wars Kickstarter, pays $143,000 shipping costs

An 'anonymous fan' has provided troubled Cthulhu Wars publisher Petersen Games with more than $140,000 to get the game into the hands of frustrated Kickstarter backers - some of whom were facing a four-and-a-half year delay in receiving their orders.

Mike Didymus - True
19 July 2023

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Kickstarter rival BackerKit follows $4m Gloomhaven campaign success with official launch from beta

BackerKit has officially launched its bid to take on crowdfunding giant Kickstarter, after capping off a year of beta testing with the huge success of Gloomhaven's Grand Festival on the platform.