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Worms board game still on schedule despite Team17 restructuring, Mantic Games CEO says

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.

  • Mike Didymus-True
  • 3 October 2023
  • News

The world’s biggest board game fair is using AI art on its tickets, posters and app

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.

  • Mike Didymus-True
  • 2 October 2023
  • 10 Comments
Rats of Wistar board game by Cranio Creations, Capstone Games
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Capstone inks deal with Barrage publisher Cranio Creations to produce English language editions of new games

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.

  • Mike Didymus-True
  • 27 September 2023
  • News

Veteran tabletop retailer CoolStuffInc to stop selling board games, RPGs

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.

  • Mike Didymus-True
  • 22 September 2023
  • 1 Comment
  • News

New Heroscape publisher Renegade reignites GTS Distribution partnership

Renegade Game Studios has re-established its partnership with GTS Distribution, three years after dropping the company as one of its distributors.

  • Mike Didymus-True
  • 22 September 2023
  • 2 Comments
  • News

Lucky Duck Games to launch visually redesigned Food Chain Magnate special edition on Gamefound

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.

  • Mike Didymus-True
  • 21 September 2023
  • News

International Gamers Awards picks Revive, Oranienburger Kanal as 2023 winners

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.

  • Mike Didymus-True
  • 21 September 2023
  • Feature

Essen Spiel’s new head on how the world’s biggest board game fair is reinventing itself for its 40th year and beyond

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.

  • Mike Didymus-True
  • 20 September 2023
  • 4 Comments
  • News

Sky Team, Nucleum lead most-wished for games in August | BGG Stats

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.

  • Mike Didymus-True
  • 19 September 2023
  • 1 Comment
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Board game maker Haba blames economic turbulence, “incorrect decisions” for slump into insolvency

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.

  • Mike Didymus-True
  • 18 September 2023
  • 3 Comments
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More than 40,000 users! Thank you for supporting BoardGameWire as we head into our August break

We're overwhelmed that close to 42,000 of you have visited our site since our launch in May, to keep up to date with important board game industry news that isn't being reported elsewhere.

  • Mike Didymus-True
  • 4 August 2023
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“I began to be a little bored by designing games”: Why launching a board game publishing house has renewed 7 Wonders creator Antoine Bauza’s spark

Do any job for 15 years, and it can end up feeling a little stale. That even goes for board game design royalty - and was the position 7 Wonders and Hanabi creator Antoine Bauza found himself in last year.

  • Mike Didymus-True
  • 19 July 2023
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