Zombicide and Blood Rage publisher CMON has bought Japon Brand, the collective launched almost 20 years ago to promote Japanese board games around the world.
I launched BoardGameWire exactly one year and a day ago, on a hunch that the industry had grown so large that there was a market for professionally written, business-focused news and features that just wasn’t being filled by other outlets. Hand on heart, I couldn’t have dreamed of the response. A trickle of readers in those first days and weeks grew to reach more than 278,000 unique users in the last 12 months - that’s about the attendance of four Gen Cons.
Wingspan and Scythe publisher Stonemaier Games has come out strongly against using AI in creative work, with co-founder Jamey Stegmaier telling BoardGameWire his company wants "nothing to do with it".
Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons owner Hasbro has recorded a jump in profits in the first quarter of 2024, on the back of continued strength from Wizards of the Coast and Magic, and an ongoing cost-cutting programme which has so far involved the planned layoffs of nearly 2,000 people.
One of the longest-running awards honouring conflict-focused tabletop games has shaken up its categories again, in an ongoing attempt to leave behind a traditionally narrow definition of 'wargame'.
Goliath, the veteran game company behind Rummikub and other child and family-weight games, is making a further push into the hobby games market by buying tabletop publisher Lucky Duck Games.
Asmodee's troubled corporate owner Embracer Group has revealed plans to spin off the tabletop gaming giant, which will see the business take on the vast majority of its parent company's hefty debt pile.
Cynthia Williams, the president of Hasbro's digital gaming arm and Magic: The Gathering and D&D publisher Wizards of the Coast, has resigned from the company after two years in the role.
CMON, the crowdfunded board game specialist which left Kickstarter for rival Gamefound earlier this year, saw its profits soar to over $23m in 2023 amid a hefty drop in its sales-associated costs.
Long-running advocacy and networking non-profit Women in Toys, Licensing & Entertainment has launched a new scholarship to forge the next generation of women looking to work in the industry.
The CEO of Asmodee’s troubled corporate owner Embracer Group has praised the tabletop giant as "one of the absolute most important businesses we have", as the parent company prepares to end a severe restructuring process which has seen it lay off about 1,400 people.
Few people in the modern board game industry can boast a career as long and storied as Zev Shlasinger. After launching Z-Man Games 25 years ago, he found huge success bringing games such as Agricola to the US market - as well as signing one of the biggest board games of all time in 2008's Pandemic. After leaving his seven-year role as director of board games at Wizkids last June, Shlasinger wasted no time launching a new publishing house, Play to Z Games, and the company launched its first offering onto Kickstarter at the end of February - marking the first time Shlasinger had dipped his toes into crowdfunding. He tells BoardGameWire how he approached the campaign, lessons learned and what he plans to do next.
Toy and game giant Hasbro is developing a board game with Ellie Dix, one of three winners of the company's inaugural Women Innovators of Play challenge.
Veteran wargame designer Dean Essig has died, leading to an outpouring of tributes from fans and industry friends across social media.
Perepau Llistosella, the co-founder of Spanish board game publisher Looping Games, has left the company to launch his new business Kokorin Games.
Asmodee has sold Miniature Market, the US tabletop retailer it bought three years ago, to a pair of the board game publishing giant's long-serving managers.
Czech Games Edition, the publisher of titles including Codenames and Lost Ruins of Arnak, has expanded into board game manufacturing by buying the factory it has used almost since its inception 17 years ago.
A new academic survey aimed at digging into the motivations of hobby board gamers has been launched by strategy and wargaming blog and podcast The Armchair Dragoons.
Wingspan and Scythe publisher Stonemaier Games saw its profits rise last year despite a continued fall in revenue, which is down almost a third from the record $24.7m the company reached in 2021.
HABA, the 85-year-old Germany toymaker famous for its family-weight board games, has exited insolvency proceedings in the wake of a plans to shed over 650 jobs - about 40% of its workforce.
UK Games Expo director Richard Denning has been organising the show since its foundation in 2007, when 900 gamers converged on a Birmingham conference centre. After a record 32,000 attendance last year, the event is now considering its future expansion - with Denning citing Gen Con's vast swathe of live entertainment as a key inspiration.
