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

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'.

Submissions are open for this year's Cardboard Edison Award, which aims to celebrate the best currently unpublished board game designs.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.