Perepau Llistosella, the co-founder of Spanish board game publisher Looping Games, has left the company to launch his new business Kokorin Games.
Board game publishers in Germany are short-changing designers when it comes to paying out royalties by using opaque payment structures, the country's tabletop game designers association SAZ has said.
When Rummikub owner Goliath bought Funko’s board game and puzzles assets last month, there was no place in the deal for most of the 30-plus team that had created some of its most lauded designs of recent years.
In an industry where selling several thousand copies of a game can often be considered a success, getting eight million people to look at your products is something most publishers would bite your hand off to achieve. Board game media and marketing specialist Ray Billings, who has years of experience under her belt with companies including Czech Games Edition and Resonym, told BoardGameWire how her foray into TikTok since joining The Op five months ago has led to eye-watering engagement figures for the company - and explains how other publishers should be following suit.
German board game publisher Schmidt Spiele reported flat year-on-year sales for its family and children-focused division - albeit at a level it said has been on a high since 2020.
Z-Man Games founder Zev Shlasinger has teamed with fellow board game industry veterans including Stronghold Games founder Stephen Buonocore to launch a new publishing house called Play to Z.
Two board game designers describe a horror-show of interactions with publishers around contract law, overwork and unprofessional communication and attitudes - and underscore just how badly something like the TTGDA is needed in the modern tabletop games industry.
The high-profile designers of Wingspan, Space Cadets and Mind MGMT have teamed up to launch a professional organisation to fight on behalf of tabletop game designers.
Board games trade organisation GAMA is offering $1,000 grants and peer mentoring to new board game publishers and retailers from under-represented communities.
Board game giant Asmodee has launched a new distribution business aimed at supplying "new, niche and hard-to-get" English-language titles to European retailers.
