Meredith Placko, the CEO of veteran tabletop game publisher Steve Jackson Games, has resigned from the company two years after taking over the role.
Merchants Cove and Coloma publisher Final Frontier Games is shutting down with three crowdfunding projects worth nearly $1.4m still unfulfilled - and claims that CMON failing to pay for an agreed Chinese localisation of one title was the "final nail" in its coffin.
Board game crowdfunding giant CMON's long-serving senior manager David Preti has resigned as a non-executive director of the company with immediate effect, citing "other work commitments".
Board game trade organisation GAMA has been accused of "rampant gatekeeping", "toxic leadership" and disrespecting its members in a resignation announcement from its marketing and communications manager.
The American Tabletop Awards, an awards scheme launched six years ago with the aim of being the US equivalent of Germany's Spiel des Jahres, has revealed its 2025 winners.
Few board game artistic redesigns of recent years have drawn as much polarising opinion as CMYK's recently announced reworking of Quacks of Quedlinburg, with online forums torn over the switch to the 3D clay-style imagery of Ryogo Toyoda. CMYK chief executive Alex Hague - the creative director for the redesign - spoke to BoardGameWire about the motivations behind changing up the look of the million-selling game, and CMYK's vision for breaking board games out of their 'visual and demographic monoculture'.
Board game companies across the industry are bracing for price hikes, job losses and the potential shuttering of their businesses after US President Donald Trump unveiled sweeping import tariffs targeting countries across the world yesterday.
Modern board gaming's boom over the past 20 years has been accompanied by an avalanche of creatives reviewing, discussing and celebrating the growing hobby. That media continues to be dominated by video reviews and previews - but five years ago long-time film magazine editor Dan Jolin and art director James Hunter took a chance that there was room in the industry for a beautiful, high-quality magazine "celebrating the craft, creativity and community" of tabletop gaming. That hunch has proven well judged, with the magazine's readership having grown five-fold compared to its original Kickstarter campaign thanks to its beautiful presentation, thoughtful reviews and articles, and interviews with the biggest names in board gaming. Editor Dan Jolin spoke to BoardGameWire about the magazine's journey so far, how the industry has changed and what the future holds for Senet.
CMYK, the US publisher of Quacks of Quedlinberg and Wavelength, is making the jump to television with the launch of a game show on CBS based on another Wolfgang Warsch design.
One of North America’s biggest tabletop gaming distributors, Alliance Game Distributors, has been bought by its namesake but unrelated company Alliance Entertainment Holdings as part of the bankruptcy auction for its fallen owner Diamond Comics.
Board game crowdfunding major CMON has followed its profit warning from earlier this month by revealing it is likely to miss its stock exchange deadline for publishing its annual financial results, saying its finance department is currently understaffed.
Board game trade organisation GAMA has revealed the results of its latest board of directors elections, with Steve Jackson Games CEO Meredith Placko and Southern Hobby Distribution marketing head Tiffany Reid among the newly-elected members.
Co-operative card game The Fellowship of the Ring: Trick-Taking Game has claimed the most new owners adding it to their collections on BoardGameGeek for February, supplanting 2024 Spiel des Jahres winner Sky Team just a few weeks after its release.
A 17-year-old German children's game has won this year's Japan Boardgame Prize, almost two decades after it picked up a recommendation in the kids segment of the much lauded Spiel des Jahres competition.
Crowdfunded board game heavyweight CMON has warned it could face losses of more than $2m for its business activity last year, saying the rising cost of living had eaten into its revenues from tabletop game sales.
The Origins Awards, one of board gaming's longest-running prizes voted on by industry professionals, has picked out a huge slate of 120 nominees for its 2024 competition - which coincides with the 50th anniversary of its namesake gaming convention.
Wingspan publisher Stonemaier Games' revenue soared more than 40% to $23.7m last year, after a gamble on a hefty initial print run for new release Wyrmspan led to the game having the best first year for sales in the company's 13-year history.
Another record attendance at North America's biggest board games industry trade show, GAMA Expo, has left the event pressed for space once again - just a year after the show was transported to Louisville in an attempt to handle surging interest.
Board game publishers already battling the financial fallout of Donald Trump's trade war are now facing an even more volatile future, after the US President doubled the country's tariffs on Chinese imports to 20% and brought in 25% tariffs for goods from Canada and Mexico.
Heiko Windfelder, the Kosmos board game lead who played a key role building up brands including Catan and the Exit family of games, is retiring after 30 years at the company.
The long-running Cardboard Edison Award is celebrating a decade of highlighting the best currently unpublished board games, as it unveils the finalists for this year's competition.
