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Summit Award reveals 2024 contenders which have best helped draw in players, broaden scope of historical board gaming

The finalists of this year's Summit Award, which aims to recognise historical board games that have attracted new players or introduced new subjects or perspectives to the hobby, have been revealed.

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New-look Charles S Roberts Awards aims to better reflect broadening definition of ‘wargames’

One of the longest-running awards honouring conflict-focused tabletop games has shaken up its categories again, in an ongoing attempt to leave behind a traditionally narrow definition of 'wargame'.

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Here are the 12 games fighting it out for France’s biggest board gaming awards

Two games based on the life and works of Charles Darwin are in the running for awards in this year's As D'or, a French board gaming prize initially created in 1988.

Mike Didymus - True
30 January 2024

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Cardboard Edison begins the hunt for 2024’s best unpublished board game

Submissions are open for this year's Cardboard Edison Award, which aims to celebrate the best currently unpublished board game designs.

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Senet magazine co-creator Dan Jolin has won a British Society of Magazine Editors award

Dan Jolin, the co-creator of board gaming's most beautiful magazine, Senet, has won a British Society of Magazine Editors award for his work on the title.

Mike Didymus - True
22 November 2023

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Challengers adds to string of awards by taking home Italian Game of the Year prize

Challengers, a deck-management board game designed to replicate the feel of a digital auto-battler, has continued its powerful run of award wins by being named Italian Game of the Year.

Mike Didymus - True
8 November 2023

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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

The five nominees for the 2023 Jogo de Ano Portuguese board game of the year competition

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Carnegie, Weather Machine among five games battling it out for Portugal’s game of the year award

Golden Geek heavy game of the year winner Carnegie is looking to add to its titles after being nominated alongside four other games for Spiel Portugal's game of the year awards.

Mike Didymus - True
10 July 2023

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Cafe del Gatto wins Austrian game of the year prize

Café del Gatto, a family-focused drafting game about cat baristas competing to serve customers drinks, has won this year's Austrian game of the year prize.

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Making microscopic mosaics from algae is this year’s Cardboard Edison unpublished game of the year

Diatoms, a game in which players take on the role of Victorian naturalists growing microscopic mosiacs from algae, has triumphed in this year's Cardboard Edison awards for unpublished board game designs.