The longest-running award celebrating Dutch language board games has unveiled the nine nominees fighting it out in this year's competition.
Donald Trump's tariff policies and the restriction of liberties in the US are threatening the creation and release of new board games, the chairman of the Spiel des Jahres association told attendees at the high-profile award ceremony this year.
Five finalists have been unveiled in the latest board game designer of the year contest held by Lucca Comics & Games, one of Europe's biggest comics and tabletop gaming festivals.
Press your luck card-flipping game Flip 7 has added another award to its collection by being crowned best party game at this year's Origin Awards, one of board gaming’s longest-running prizes voted on by industry professionals.
American toy retailers from trade body ASTRA have named Finspan, The Gang and Trio as the board game winners of its latest annual Play Awards - which it says were created to highlight novel designs which are "thought provoking or groundbreaking" within the industry.
Unconscious Mind, a worker placement game themed around the psychoanalysis work of Sigmund Freund in the early 1900s, has scooped a record seven nominations in this year's Dice Tower Awards.
Dot Com, an economic strategy game which uses an app to run players' money supplies down in real time, has been crowned the winner of this year's Cardboard Edison Award for unpublished board game designs.
The nominees for this year's Spiel des Jahres, widely considered the highest profile award in board gaming, have been unveiled ahead of the grand final on July 13.
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.
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.
