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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Victorian naturalists growing microscopic mosiacs from algae, has triumphed in this year's Cardboard Edison awards for unpublished board game designs.
Fun Facts, Next Station London and Dorfromantik: The Board Game will go head to head in this year's Spiel des Jahres prize, widely considered the biggest award in board gaming.
Voting is open for the Deutsche Spiele Preis, Germany's biggest board gaming award, with winners set to be announced at the Essen Game Fair in October.
Heat: Pedal to the Metal the deluxe version of Cat in the Box both came away with a pair of winners trophies at BoardGameGeek's 17th annual Golden Geek Awards, which are voted on by users of the site.