Voting opens for Germany’s biggest board gaming award
Voting is open for the Deutsche Spiele Preis, Germany's biggest board gaming award, with winners set to be announced at the Essen Game Fair in October.
PAX Unplugged tabletop gaming event returns this December
PAX Unplugged, one of the largest tabletop gaming events in the world, has announced it will take place between December 1 and December 3 this year.
The 2023 Spiel des Jahres nominees are being announced on this livestream
Nominees for the board game industry's biggest award, the Spiel des Jahres, are being revealed on a livestream next week.
Interview: FryxGames’ Jonathan Fryxelius talks Prelude 2
The surprise reveal of a second Prelude expansion for Terraforming Mars last week was met with widespread excitement online, with the as-yet-unreleased box soaring to the top of BoardGameGeek’s Hotness tracker of the most popular trending games. FryxGames said the…
Pax Renaissance publisher Ion Game Design set to reveal new game involving dinosaurs
Ion Game Design, the Swedish publisher of games including Pax Renaissance and High Frontier 4 All, has shared a dinosaur-based teaser for a new game.
Heat: Pedal to the Metal reprint should hit US shelves by end of May
One of last year's biggest board game hits, motor racing game Heat: Pedal to the Metal, should finally be back in stock in the US by the end of May after surprising its publisher with the speed it sold out.
French publisher Funforge inks North American distrubution deal with Flat River Group
Funforge, the France-based publisher of games including Tokaido and Monumental, has signed an exclusive distribution deal with Flat River Group to cover the US and Canadian markets.
Ark Nova expansion named as Marine Worlds, will be available at Essen
Ark Nova's first big box expansion has been revealed as Marine Worlds, and will be available at the Essen games fair in October this year.
Exclusive: Troubled Rainbow Six board game receives enough extra cash from backers to go into production
The financially troubled Kickstarter for the officially-licensed Rainbow Six: Siege board game is set to go into production for some of its backers after developer Mythic Games successfully persuaded them to part with significant amounts of extra cash to fund the game.
Heat: Pedal to the Metal, Cat in the Box lead BoardGameGeek Golden Geek Award winners
Heat: Pedal to the Metal the deluxe version of Cat in the Box both came away with a pair of winners trophies at BoardGameGeek's 17th annual Golden Geek Awards, which are voted on by users of the site.
Terraforming Mars is getting a second Prelude expansion
Terraforming Mars is getting a sequel to its best-regarded expansion, with publisher FryxGames confirming a Kickstarter campaign for Prelude 2 will launch "soon".
Exclusive: Root movie pitch delayed by US writers strike
Plans are afoot for a movie based on woodland warfare board game Root, BoardGameWire can reveal - but the process is on hold amid the mass walk-out of Writers Guild of America members this week.