Umataka, a worker placement game centred around hunter-gatherers making traditional pottery in ancient Japan, has been named game of the year in the latest Golden Box Board Game Awards.
A 17-year-old German children's game has won this year's Japan Boardgame Prize, almost two decades after it picked up a recommendation in the kids segment of the much lauded Spiel des Jahres competition.
Capstone Games, the Ohio board game publisher which made a name for itself bringing complex eurogames to the US from Germany, has inked its first partnership with a Japanese publisher.
Video game and electronics giant Sony is in talks to buy the $2.7bn parent business of Arclight, one of Japan’s biggest board game publishers and the organiser of Tokyo Game Market.
Japanese board game publisher Oink Games has revealed its submarine treasure-hunting game Deep Sea Adventure has now been printed more than 300,000 times - and a new edition is coming later this year.
Hackers have broken into the website server for Game Market, the organiser of Japan's biggest board games events, causing tens of thousands of images to be deleted from the site.
Arclight, one of Japan's biggest board game publishers and the organiser of Tokyo Game Market, has been bought by multibillion-dollar Japanese entertainment conglomerate Kadokawa Group.
Zombicide and Blood Rage publisher CMON has bought Japon Brand, the collective launched almost 20 years ago to promote Japanese board games around the world.
Essen Spiel, the world’s biggest board game fair, hopes to launch a co-promotion partnership with Japan's largest tabletop convention Tokyo Game Market to help boost awareness of both events.
Uchibacoya, the Japanese developer of Aqua Garden and Ostia, has soared past its crowdfunding goal for medium-weight eurogame BioHack - but is holding off launching retail distribution for the game after suffering delays to its previous Kickstarter campaign.
