CMON's board said it planned to transition its titles such as Massive Darkness and Super Fantasy Brawl Reborn into "high-quality digital assets", adding that it believed integrating its board games with digital and Web3 technologies "would enhance the long-term commercial value of the group’s portfolio".
Hasbro said it identified "unauthorized access" to the company's network on March 28, but believes that access has been "contained" - adding that Magic's shipments and release cadence had continued unaffected.
Alex Cutler and Peter C Hayward both saw two of their creations win the seal this year, including their co-design Critter Kitchen, Hayward's Things in Rings and Cutler's A Place for All My Books - which he co-created with Michael Mihealsick.
Other titles picking up nominations across multiple categories included Eternal Decks, Star Trek: Captain's Chair and Hot Streak, with four each, while Magical Athlete, Molly House, Luthier, Galactic Cruise, Corps of Discovery, The Old King's Crown, Speakeasy and The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era all picked up three nods.
Lucky Duck has a big hitter of its own in the Chronicles of Crime series of games, which have sold more than one million copies worldwide.
Brady, who spent two years as president of GAMA, had been a key driver of a plan for the organisation to become the "epicentre" of global tabletop gaming, underpinned by the unveiling of its first-ever 10-year plan last October.
The organisation has been rebranded as the Syndicat des Auteurices de Jeux - the Union of Game Designers - following a vote at its annual general meeting at the Festival International des Jeux in Cannes.
Flat River had laid off the vast majority of staff and suspended new projects at Spirit Island publisher Greater than Games in April last year, blaming “ongoing economic pressures resulting from the international tariff crisis”.
This year's Strategy Games prize went to Matt Leacock's pandemic spinoff The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship, while the Complex Games title went to Jo Kelly's and Cole Wehrle's design Molly House.
FFG said, "Simply put, the game is too expensive to make. Between ever-increasing manufacturing costs, lengthy and pricey app development timelines, and global economic shifts making everything more expensive to produce, it became abundantly clear that continuing to make this game is just not feasible."
