Online board game retailer Boardlandia has become the latest tabletop-related victim of the skyrocketing US tariffs on Chinese imports, with its owners announcing they have closed down the business.
A Pittsburgh tabletop game store which is still pushing new boundaries more than 45 years after being launched has picked up a pair of The Game Manufacturers Association's Power Retail Awards, including retailer of the year.
French board game publisher Super Meeple plans to step up its own direct sales this year after struggling to get individual retailers to stock more than a handful of copies of each of its heavier games through 2024.
Punishing import tariffs threatened by US president-elect Donald Trump could lead to a "great collapse" of the US board game industry, with publishers, distributors and retailers of all sizes facing the threat of going under, professionals within the industry have told BoardGameWire.
Asmodee has sold Miniature Market, the US tabletop retailer it bought three years ago, to a pair of the board game publishing giant's long-serving managers.
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.
CoolStuffInc owner Jerry Sunkin opens up on how his company - one of the biggest online board game retailers of the last decade - has been squeezed out of the market by Amazon's 800lb gorilla.
