
Star Realms publisher Wise Wizard launches family-weight imprint with trio of games
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.

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.

Alderac's veteran COO Ryan Dancey has managed more than 20 crowdfunding campaigns during his long career - and is currently overseeing another Kickstarter success with Wingspan designer Elizabeth Hargrave's latest offering, Undergrove. In this in-depth guide he picks out every aspect of the crowdfunding process designers and publishers need to nail in order to run a successful campaign.

No Rolls Barred, a group of board game entertainment video makers with more than 300,000 YouTube subscribers, has scrapped its three month-old Twitch channel after failing to pull enough fans across from its other outlets.

Workers at New York City board game cafe chain Hex & Company have won their fight to unionise after securing a landslide election victory.

Board game designer Joe Slack taps knowledge acquired through his four successful Kickstarters to provide some guidance on running a strong crowdfunding campaign. He talks knowing your numbers, how to spend a marketing budget and why building an audience before…

Edo-period Japan worker placement game The White Castle has surged to the top of the new owner charts on BoardGameGeek after a much-hyped appearance at this year's Essen Spiel board game fair.

Senet, a quarterly magazine celebrating the beauty of board games, has been nominated for a pair of British Society of Magazine Editors Awards.

Challengers, a deck-management board game designed to replicate the feel of a digital auto-battler, has continued its powerful run of award wins by being named Italian Game of the Year.

Two board game designers describe a horror-show of interactions with publishers around contract law, overwork and unprofessional communication and attitudes - and underscore just how badly something like the TTGDA is needed in the modern tabletop games industry.

The high-profile designers of Wingspan, Space Cadets and Mind MGMT have teamed up to launch a professional organisation to fight on behalf of tabletop game designers.

New York board game cafe the Brooklyn Strategist has refused to recognise a workers' union despite more than 75% of staff signing a petition to unionise.

The designers of WW2 skirmish board game Heroes of Normandie have slammed publisher Pig From Hell Games' owners after being informed over email that the business was being liquidated.

Pegasus Spiele's co-founder talks Dorfromantik, economic uncertainty and how it keeps winning board gaming's biggest prize

Successful crowdfunding deliveries dominated the top of the new owner charts on BoardGameGeek in September with the arrival of The Castles of Burgundy: Special Edition and Voidfall to people's doors.