{"id":2,"date":"2023-04-24T08:49:20","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T07:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-09-17T21:17:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T20:17:59","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Welcome to BoardGameWire, the world\u2019s leading source of industry news and analysis for board game professionals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BoardGameWire provides news and features focused on the needs of board game designers, publishers, retailers and marketers, as well as investment professionals and consumers with an interest in the business side of the industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 730,000 people have read BoardGameWire since our launch at the end of April 2023 &#8211; underlining just how large and significant the modern board game industry has become.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As well as our in-depth news articles and interview pieces, we&#8217;re always keen to receive opinion and guest editorials from board game industry professionals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"583\" height=\"688\" src=\"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/mike-headshot-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1099\" style=\"width:104px;height:123px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/mike-headshot-2.jpg 583w, https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/mike-headshot-2-254x300.jpg 254w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 583px) 100vw, 583px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have a press release, article idea or opinion column you think would be a good fit for the site, please contact the editor, Mike Didymus-True, via mike@boardgamewire.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mike is a veteran editor with close to 20 years of experience across B2B publishing and newspapers, who has also spent over a decade falling deeper and deeper into the rabbit hole of modern board games:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mike-didymus-true-3a8ba439\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mike-didymus-true-3a8ba439\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The BoardGameWire team<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Editor:<\/strong> Mike Didymus-True<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Events Support:<\/strong> Ewan Newton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to BoardGameWire, the world\u2019s leading source of industry news and analysis for board game professionals. BoardGameWire provides news and features focused on the needs of board game designers, publishers, retailers and marketers, as well as investment professionals and consumers with an interest in the business side of the industry. More than 730,000 people have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5066,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/5066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}