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."
Julia Marcelin, who has been with Asmodee for almost seven years, becomes head of five studios as part of the shake-up, taking on responsibility for Days of Wonder, Space Cowboys, Repos Production, Libellud and Next Move.
Gigot hopes newly launched platform BoardGameCommerce will give publishers of higher complexity games with smaller print runs - of between 500 and 1,000 units - a more sustainable financial option than the traditional board game industry distribution model.
Mensa in Deutschland has run the awards contest since 2009, and has operated a ‘shorter games’ category for more than a decade and lighter two-player games prize since 2019.
CMON's $23m losses across 2024 and 2025 are now almost 5.5-times larger than its profits from the preceding nine years combined - and have led an independent auditor hired by the company to question whether it has the resources to stay in business for the foreseeable future.
