Tabletop Growth Partners will primarily target the TTRPG and wargaming sectors with marketing, digital growth and business development services.
The awards, one of tabletop gaming’s longest-running prizes voted on by industry professionals, has crowned its latest group of winners after whittling them down from 120 nominees.
Wyld has added the Arizona-based business to a portfolio that already includes Wayland Games, miniatures game publisher Warcradle Studios, Occam Distribution, gaming mat maker Kraken Wargames and media outlet OnTableTop.
The award aims to celebrates "everything that’s the best about gaming", with previous winners across the award’s 26-year run having included Blood Rage designer Eric Lang, Nigerian games industry publisher and evangelist NIBCARD, and the entire ‘actual play’ movement of people livestreaming and podcasting roleplaying games.
The Tabletop Game Designers Association, a professional organisation launched in 2024 to advocate for creators in North America, said it requested that year that GAMA begin including designer names in its Origins Award announcements - and reiterated the plea when designer names were left out again in 2025.
Company CEO Kevin Rountree said the £6bn business was strongly committed to protecting its IP and respecting its human creators.
CMON's sale of Cthulhu: Death May Die is the latest move in its drive to battle the huge losses the business has chalked up in the past couple of years - and comes alongside the company announcing a new share sale worth 20% of its existing share capital in an attempt to raise money for the company.
Board game and collectable miniatures specialist WizKids has rehired former marketing associate Vee Mus'e as a senior marketing and communications manager at the company.
Veteran miniatures wargaming convention Adepticon is moving out of Illinois next year after a hefty rise in attendance saw it outgrow its long-time home.
Tabletop gaming publisher Modiphius has seen sales of its Fallout-related products more than double month-on-month amid the huge popularity of Amazon Prime's new Fallout TV show, which attracted 65 million viewers in just over two weeks.
