Embracer Group has provided an update on some of its immediate plans, with the financially embattled company exploring further synergies with its large publishing arm, Asmodee. In its “Year in Brief 22/23,” Embracer Group had a section entitled “Realizing Transmedia Opportunities for Asmodee and Dark Horse,” which is essentially an acknowledgement for the further exploration of video game products...

Antoine Bauza and Thomas Provoost, two of the board games industry’s biggest names in design, have launched a new studio focused on the tabletop hobby with the arrival of PlayPunk. The pair has been collaborating for some time now, and the two people will further seek to strengthen their collaboration by working closely together under the same publishing company. PlayPunk...

NorthStar Game Studio has signed a new partnership with ICE Makes, a Hong Kong-based board game publisher focused on fun and innovative games. Through this tie-up, NorthStar will seek to expand the geographical reach of its titles, among which are acclaimed options such as Paint the Roses, Oceans, and Evolution, and particularly forthcoming releases. NorthStar Game Studio Set to Expand with Bigger Audiences  Now, ICE Makes...

Artists have been furious with board games publisher Cryptozoic Entertainment and for good reason. Allegedly, the publisher has not paid some of their artists for months on end. The issue has reached a boiling point for some of them, like Brazilian artist Marco Tamura, who published an open letter to Cryptozoic Entertainment on June 12 via Twitter, originally reported...

Hasbro and Winning Moves, the publishers and owners of the Monopoly and Scrabble IPs respectively, have banded together to create a new Frankenstein crossover, Monopoly Scrabble. The game comes as a bit of an oddball at first, combining the core concept of securing the finest plots of real estate and competing in producing the highest-scoring words.  Two of the Best Classic Board Games...

Fort Circle Games, a company that designs historically accurate and playable games, has been able to reach the funding goal for its latest board game, The Halls of Montezuma, following the success of its first Kickstarter campaign, Votes for Women.   This is the latest game by the designers and the fast up-and-coming studio that now focuses on a 1-2-player experience...

Monopoly’s favor with Gen Z consumers has inched downwards, a new survey by Cribbage, an online website that shows interest in all things old and nostalgic, has revealed. According to a recent survey, which focused on what the most fun classic board games are, and general board game consumer habits, Gen Z respondents said that they did not care...

You may know Friedmann Friese or, as is the curse of our hobby, you may be better familiar with his excellent games, among which Power Grid, Famiglia, Fabled Fruit, and Friday, among many others. Now, Friese is going back to basics with a new version of the 2010 classic Black Friday, a game about stock market manipulation and trading...

Heroscape may be making a return after all with Renegade Game Studios picking up the baton from Hasbro and seeking to reproduce the popular miniatures games that has not seen any new iterations, bar fan-made ones, since 2010. A recent attempt to reintroduce the game in 2022 by Avalon Hill fell utterly short, with the $2 million campaign missing the...

This year’s UK Games Expo did not go without controversy, as a tabletop RPG was blocked from appearing due to themes of sexuality and queerness. As previously predicted, 2023 was a major success for the UK Games Expo, smashing the attendance record and cementing a successful post-COVID recovery. However, this latest controversy caused a lot of negative reactions, which...