The Diana Jones Award committee has unveiled this year's winners of its emerging designer program, who will each receive a $6,500 prize package that includes an all-expenses trip to Gen Con.
Elevated tariffs continue to threaten the board game industry despite a 90-day 'truce' between the US and China - with publishers now facing a spike in shipping prices and a battle for limited container space as businesses race to take advantage of the lower-tariff window.
War of the Ring publisher Ares Games has signed a pair of new US distribution deals, with director of production Roberto Di Meglio saying the company hopes to prove "there is still life for our industry during the trade war".
Umataka, a worker placement game centred around hunter-gatherers making traditional pottery in ancient Japan, has been named game of the year in the latest Golden Box Board Game Awards.
Arcs, the hybrid trick-taking wargame from Root and Oath designer Cole Wehrle, has won a trio of awards in this year's Golden Geek Awards, with fellow space-themed game SETI notching up a pair of wins.
As the board game industry has exploded in the last couple of decades, so too has the desire and demand from designers for ways to streamline and manage the often fragmented reality of prototyping, testing and preparing to publish their new creations. In this sponsored article, the team behind board game design toolkit Boardssey explain how they've leveraged their own experiences designing games - and the pain points they ran up against - to create a one-stop shop for supporting overwhelmed game designers.
North America’s biggest board games industry trade show, GAMA Expo, is moving to Baltimore after surging attendance numbers left the event straining at the seams again - just two years after the show shifted to Kentucky to handle growing interest.
Board game publishing major CMON slumped to a loss of more than $3m in 2024 - almost double its total profits from the previous three years combined - as falling sales for its crowdfunding campaigns led the company to its lowest annual revenue since pandemic-hit 2020.
Chaos continues to engulf the sale of one North America’s biggest tabletop gaming distributors, Alliance Game Distributors, after the winning bidder scrapped its deal and sued bankrupt AGD owner Diamond Comics for the second time in three weeks - this time claiming Diamond concealed from it that AGD had lost its biggest customer, Wizards of the Coast.
High IQ society Mensa has revealed this year's recipients of its Mensa Select seal, following its traditional four-day gaming marathon to determine the winners.
French book publishing giant Hachette has continued its expansion in the board game market by acquiring 35-year-old Dutch publisher and distributor 999 Games.
Board game crowdfunding giant CMON is laying off staff and halting new game development and campaign launches, citing the ongoing unpredictability in US tariffs.
Online board game retailer Boardlandia has become the latest tabletop-related victim of the skyrocketing US tariffs on Chinese imports, with its owners announcing they have closed down the business.
Wingspan publisher Stonemaier Games is suing US president Donald Trump over his decision to impose spiralling import tariffs on China - a situation which has already seen board game businesses shutter their operations and lay off staff.
Meredith Placko, the CEO of veteran tabletop game publisher Steve Jackson Games, has resigned from the company two years after taking over the role.
Merchants Cove and Coloma publisher Final Frontier Games is shutting down with three crowdfunding projects worth nearly $1.4m still unfulfilled - and claims that CMON failing to pay for an agreed Chinese localisation of one title was the "final nail" in its coffin.
Board game crowdfunding giant CMON's long-serving senior manager David Preti has resigned as a non-executive director of the company with immediate effect, citing "other work commitments".
Board game trade organisation GAMA has been accused of "rampant gatekeeping", "toxic leadership" and disrespecting its members in a resignation announcement from its marketing and communications manager.
The American Tabletop Awards, an awards scheme launched six years ago with the aim of being the US equivalent of Germany's Spiel des Jahres, has revealed its 2025 winners.
Few board game artistic redesigns of recent years have drawn as much polarising opinion as CMYK's recently announced reworking of Quacks of Quedlinburg, with online forums torn over the switch to the 3D clay-style imagery of Ryogo Toyoda. CMYK chief executive Alex Hague - the creative director for the redesign - spoke to BoardGameWire about the motivations behind changing up the look of the million-selling game, and CMYK's vision for breaking board games out of their 'visual and demographic monoculture'.
Board game companies across the industry are bracing for price hikes, job losses and the potential shuttering of their businesses after US President Donald Trump unveiled sweeping import tariffs targeting countries across the world yesterday.
