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BoardGameGeek’s support drive numbers fall for third year running

BoardGameGeek's annual end-of-year support drive has fallen short of its target again, with the number of supporters pledging payment to the site during the event dropping for the third year in a row.

  • Mike Didymus-True
  • 9 January 2024
  • 1 Comment
  • News

Halo tabletop miniatures game coming this year after Mantic Games inks deal with 343 Industries

Halo, the multibillion dollar-selling video games franchise, is getting a tabletop miniatures combat game this year thanks to UK developer Mantic Games.

  • Mike Didymus-True
  • 5 January 2024
  • News

“It’s frustrating all that work can be wiped away”: board game YouTuber Grant Lyon still waiting for answers two weeks after his channel was permanently deleted

Board game video content maker Grant Lyon says he is still in the dark about why his popular YouTube channel was deleted two weeks ago amid accusations of 'spam, scams and deceptive practices'.

  • Mike Didymus-True
  • 3 January 2024
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Cardboard Edison begins the hunt for 2024’s best unpublished board game

Submissions are open for this year's Cardboard Edison Award, which aims to celebrate the best currently unpublished board game designs.

  • Mike Didymus-True
  • 2 January 2024
  • 3 Comments
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More than 80,000 readers! Thanks to you all, as BoardGameWire signs off for the Christmas holidays

More than 80,000 readers have visited BoardGameWire since launch - CEOs, publishers, game designers, artists, marketing professionals and hordes of interested consumers - keen to check in on our breaking news, in-depth features and what I hope is insightful, thoughtful reporting.

  • Mike Didymus-True
  • 21 December 2023
  • News

Gamescom, the world’s biggest video games event, is launching a tabletop games section

Gamescom, the world's biggest video gaming event which attracted 320,000 visitors last year, is branching out into tabletop gaming with a dedicated area at the 2024 show.

  • Mike Didymus-True
  • 20 December 2023
  • 2 Comments
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Third New York board game cafe in a month wins fight to establish union

Workers at New York City board game cafe The Brooklyn Strategist have scored a landslide election victory to establish a union - the third NYC game store to do so within the last month.

  • Mike Didymus-True
  • 14 December 2023
  • 5 Comments
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Essen Spiel, Tokyo Game Market are looking to team up to promote each other’s events

Essen Spiel, the world’s biggest board game fair, hopes to launch a co-promotion partnership with Japan's largest tabletop convention Tokyo Game Market to help boost awareness of both events.

  • Mike Didymus-True
  • 13 December 2023
  • 3 Comments
  • News

Z-Man, Stronghold Games founders lead star-studded launch of new board game publisher Play to Z

Z-Man Games founder Zev Shlasinger has teamed with fellow board game industry veterans including Stronghold Games founder Stephen Buonocore to launch a new publishing house called Play to Z.

  • Mike Didymus-True
  • 13 December 2023
  • 3 Comments
  • News

Votes for Women follows critical acclaim by triumphing in 2023 Summit Award

Votes for Women, the critically acclaimed card-driven wargame from designer Tory Brown, has scooped this year's Summit Award celebrating the historical board game which best succeeded in broadened the hobby.

  • Mike Didymus-True
  • 12 December 2023
  • 4 Comments
  • News

Magic: The Gathering, Dungeons and Dragons maker Hasbro is laying off another 1,100 staff amid weak holiday-season demand

Hasbro, the toy and game giant that owns Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons and Dragons studio Wizards of the Coast, is slashing another 1,100 jobs as ongoing macroeconomic concerns eat into consumer demand.

  • Mike Didymus-True
  • 12 December 2023
  • 1 Comment
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The White Castle continues to dominate new owners charts, fights off Ticket to Ride Legacy challenge | BGG Stats

Edo-period Japan worker placement game The White Castle has scored the most new owners on BoardGameGeek for the second month running, heading off a strong challenge from the much-hyped arrival of Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West.

  • Mike Didymus-True
  • 11 December 2023
  • 2 Comments
  • News

Games Workshop pays out £7.5m in bonuses to staff amid jump in profits; share price slumps

Games Workshop is handing out £2,500 to each staff member in December through a $7.5m bonus pot, after revealing a 12% rise in its half-year profits.

  • Mike Didymus-True
  • 8 December 2023
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Woodcraft, Wandering Towers take home Flemish game of the year prizes

Woodcraft, the woodworking eurogame designed by Vladimír Suchý and Ross Arnold, has scooped the Gouden Ludo Flemish expert game of the year prize.

  • Mike Didymus-True
  • 6 December 2023
  • 1 Comment
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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.

  • Mike Didymus-True
  • 6 December 2023
  • 1 Comment
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“It’s too late for us”: CoolStuffInc founder on how Amazon pushed it out of the online board game market

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.

  • Mike Didymus-True
  • 5 December 2023
  • 8 Comments
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Last chance to sign up for Button Shy’s latest 18 Card Challenge game design competition

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.

  • Mike Didymus-True
  • 4 December 2023
  • News

Incredible Dream scraps new Kickstarter after just a day, despite reaching almost 90% of target

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.

  • Mike Didymus-True
  • 1 December 2023
  • News

Dicebreaker’s owner investigates putting site up for sale alongside video game stablemates

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.

  • Mike Didymus-True
  • 30 November 2023
  • 2 Comments
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Hasbro picks trio of winners in hunt for ‘next great woman-led mass market game’

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".

  • Mike Didymus-True
  • 22 November 2023
  • 2 Comments
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Senet magazine co-creator Dan Jolin has won a British Society of Magazine Editors award

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.

  • Mike Didymus-True
  • 22 November 2023
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