Haba, the 85-year-old Germany toymaker famous for its family-weight board games, is planning to shed about 40% of its workforce after entering self-administration.
Planet Unknown, the tile-laying planetary development and colonisation game from Ryan Lambert and Adam Rehberg, has triumphed in this year's Deutscher Spiele Preis - Germany’s biggest board gaming award.
The board game adaptation of classic video game Worms remains on track for its delivery to Kickstarter backers next year despite the announced restructuring of development partner Team17.
Essen Spiel, the world's biggest board game fair, has admitted using controversial AI-generated art on its tickets, posters and app for this year's event, which kicks off in three days.
Cranio Creations, the Italian board game publisher famous for Simone Luciani games Barrage and Golem, has signed a localisation deal with US-based Capstone Games.
Online tabletop retail major CoolStuffInc is quitting the board game and RPG markets in favour of more profitable CCGs such as Magic, Pokemon and Lorcana.
Renegade Game Studios has re-established its partnership with GTS Distribution, three years after dropping the company as one of its distributors.
Lucky Duck Games has agreed a deal with Food Chain Magnate creator Splotter Spellen to launch a Gamefound campaign for a special edition of the brain-burning fast food restaurant management game.
Civilization rebuilding eurogame Revive and Uwe Rosenberg's Oranienburger Kanal have triumphed in this year's International Gamers Awards, a global board game award series which has been running since 1999.
Carol Rapp, a long-time Asmodee and Kosmos senior marketing executive, only joined the Essen Spiel team in November last year - and quickly found herself in charge of managing its biggest event yet.
Hachette's co-op aeroplane landing board game Sky Team soared to the top of the most-wished-for game rankings on BoardGameGeek in August, pipping Simone Luciani and Dávid Turczi's heavy euro Nucleum to the number one spot.
Haba, the 85-year-old Germany toymaker renowned in board game circles for its family-weight games, has gone into self-administration in an attempt to save the business.
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