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Sony is in talks to buy Kadokawa, the owner of Japanese board game publisher and Tokyo Game Market organiser Arclight

Video game and electronics giant Sony is in talks to buy the $2.7bn parent business of Arclight, one of Japan’s biggest board game publishers and the organiser of Tokyo Game Market.

Mike Didymus - True
19 November 2024

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Hackers attack website of Japan’s biggest board game fair, ‘years of irreplacable information’ lost

Hackers have broken into the website server for Game Market, the organiser of Japan's biggest board games events, causing tens of thousands of images to be deleted from the site.

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Elden Ring maker FromSoftware’s $2bn corporate owner just bought Japanese board game publisher, Tokyo Game Market organiser Arclight

Arclight, one of Japan's biggest board game publishers and the organiser of Tokyo Game Market, has been bought by multibillion-dollar Japanese entertainment conglomerate Kadokawa Group.