Tabletop Growth Partners will primarily target the TTRPG and wargaming sectors with marketing, digital growth and business development services.
The deal provides a new source of players for a game which is already closing in on 20 million physical copies sold, a CGE spokesperson told BoardGameWire, adding that "the branding benefits and opportunity to reach a new audience" were important to the publisher.
CMON’s board had planned to transition the company's titles such as Massive Darkness and Super Fantasy Brawl Reborn into “high-quality digital assets” through the investment, saying the move was necessary for it to "continue to be relevant in the games industry and to expand the group’s revenue stream".
Board said it would unveil an AI platform later this year which will allow users to build their own games using natural language prompts, saying taking a game from idea to playable prototype can be done in less than an hour.
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”.
Goliath, the veteran game company behind Rummikub and other child and family-weight games, is making a further push into the hobby games market by buying tabletop publisher Lucky Duck Games.
Cynthia Williams, the president of Hasbro's digital gaming arm and Magic: The Gathering and D&D publisher Wizards of the Coast, has resigned from the company after two years in the role.
Interactive tabletop gaming console maker The Last Gameboard has kicked off its showcase at this year's Game Manufacturer's Association (GAMA) Expo by announcing a clutch of new publishers being added to its 100-strong gaming library.
