{"id":1552,"date":"2024-02-06T14:43:15","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T14:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/?p=1552"},"modified":"2024-02-06T14:43:15","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T14:43:15","slug":"codenames-gets-dach-region-distribution-boost-through-strengthened-asmodee-germany-heidelbar-games-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/06\/codenames-gets-dach-region-distribution-boost-through-strengthened-asmodee-germany-heidelbar-games-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"Codenames gets DACH region distribution boost through strengthened Asmodee Germany, HeidelB\u00c4R Games partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Asmodee Germany and HeidelB\u00c4R Games have expanded their distribution partnership for Vlaada Chv\u00e1til&#8217;s Codenames family of games across Germany, Switzerland and Austria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pair have been in partnership for some time, with Asmodee Germany distributing HeidelB\u00c4R Games including Codenames in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HeidelB\u00c4R CEO Heiko Eller-Bilz said, &#8220;Asmodee Germany reaches target groups and markets that HeidelB\u00c4R Games has not been able to reach so far. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This cooperation opens up new opportunities for the distribution of distribution of Codenames and strengthens our position in the market.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asmodee previously owned HeidelB\u00c4R Games from 2017 to 2019, when the company spun out as an independent entity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Codenames publisher Czech Games Edition announced in October 2019 that HeidelB\u00c4R would take care of German language localizations of its titles including Through the Ages, Galaxy Trucker, Dungeon Lords and Pictomania &#8211; but added at the time that the German edition of Codenames would continue to be distributed by Asmodee Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eller-Bilz added, &#8220;We have big plans ahead for Codenames, so fans can look forward to an exciting development of the product line.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Codenames family of games currently includes the original title as well as Codenames Duet, Codenames Pictures and Codenames Undercover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-black-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/buttondown.com\/boardgamewire\" style=\"background-color:#f6bf00\">For more stories like this direct to your email inbox, click here to sign up for BoardGameWire&#8217;s free email newsletter. \n\nAnd if you&#8217;ve found our reporting interesting or useful, please consider a paid subscription to help support our journalism!<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asmodee Germany and HeidelB\u00c4R Games have expanded their distribution partnership for Vlaada Chv\u00e1til&#8217;s Codenames family of games across Germany, Switzerland and Austria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[97,135,321,319,317,682,683,318],"class_list":["post-1552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-asmodee","tag-board-games","tag-cge","tag-codenames","tag-czech-games-edition","tag-dach","tag-heidelbar-games","tag-vlaada-chvatil"],"blocksy_meta":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=1552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1554,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions\/1554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}