North America's giant tabletop gaming convention Gen Con has broken new ground again after a record 71,000 people flocked to Indianapolis for this year's event.
New York Toy Fair owner The Toy Association has bought Chicago Toy and Game Fair operator People of Play, bringing two of North America's largest toy and game industry events under the same umbrella.
The organisers of the Spiel des Jahres - widely considered the biggest award in board gaming - have banned one of this year's prize-winning designers from future events after he wore a watermelon sticker to show his support of Palestine at this year's award ceremony.
Economic class warfare simulator Hegemony: Lead Your Class to Victory has triumphed in this year's Meeple's Choice awards, which are voted on by members of Board Game Revolution's hefty Facebook groups.
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.
