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Board game giant Asmodee shakes up UK leadership structure to kick off 2025:

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Co-operative card game The Fellowship of the Ring: Trick-Taking Game has surged to the top of the new owner charts on BoardGameGeek just a few days after release, unseating 2024 Spiel des Jahres winner Sky Team after its latest spell at the top:

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Board game distribution major Alliance gets $39m buyout bid as owner Diamond Comics files for bankruptcy protection

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Space exploration eurogame SETI has picked up its first major award by scooping this year’s Diamant d’Or, a prize launched a decade ago to celebrate complex eurogames being overlooked by more mainstream board game awards:

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French board game publisher Super Meeple to shake up distribution amid retailer “reluctance” to stock expert games:

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Finspan reveal briefly crashes Stonemaier Games website as players flock to check out final game in Wingspan trilogy:

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The long-running Cardboard Edison Award, which aims to highlight the best in currently unpublished board games, is revamping its judging process for 2025 after admitting a ‘blind spot’ over last year’s colonialism-themed winner:

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The Diamant d’Or, a prize launched almost a decade ago to celebrate complex eurogames being overlooked by more mainstream board game awards, has unveiled its eight finalists for 2025:

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Capstone Games, the Ohio board game publisher which made a name for itself bringing complex eurogames to the US from Germany, has inked its first partnership with a Japanese publisher:

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Liz Davidson’s Beyond Solitaire podcast wins debut Bobby Nunes Memorial Award, celebrating exceptional media coverage of historical gaming cultural issues:

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Board game trade organisation GAMA hunts for tabletop gaming’s best brick-and-mortar stores in latest Power Retail Awards:

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The tabletop arm of UK video game and comics major Rebellion has defended its hit racing game Joyride, after being accused of copying the design from a title it was previously in negotiations about publishing:

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Anti-fascist Spanish Civil War semi co-op Land and Freedom wins 2024 Summit Award, which aims to celebrate historical board games that have successfully broadened the hobby:

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Ex-Elf Creek Games designer tries to save one of the floundering company’s Kickstarter projects, as publisher’s months-long silence continues:

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Facebook has banned ads for a Kickstarter from Votes for Women publisher Fort Circle Games for the second time this year – this time claiming its game about the history of the US Supreme Court is a “sensitive social issue”:

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Polish board game publisher Portal Games has ended its almost decade-long US distribution partnership with GTS, saying it will focus on partners it believes can best inform retailers about its games:

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