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Hachette takes over Super Meeple US distribution rights from Asmodee USA
Sky Team and Decrypto publisher Hachette has agreed a deal to distribute Parisian board game company Super Meeple's games in the US, taking over from Asmodee USA. Mike Didymus-True 7 February 2024 Feature“BGG has been very much hit or miss, especially lately”: Mindclash Games’ CEO on effective marketing, crowdfunding’s rocky patch and the ‘smoke and mirrors’ of stretch goals
Mindclash Games has made a name for itself as a Kickstarter-focused heavy board games expert since the launch of debut title Trickerion on the crowdfunding service in 2015. BoardGameWire spoke to CEO Viktor Peter about the company's changing approach, its recent use of Gamefound rather than Kickstarter, and how some avenues for marketing its games are not proving as lucrative as in the past. Mike Didymus-True 7 February 2024 NewsCodenames gets DACH region distribution boost through strengthened Asmodee Germany, HeidelBÄR Games partnership
Asmodee Germany and HeidelBÄR Games have expanded their distribution partnership for Vlaada Chvátil's Codenames family of games across Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Mike Didymus-True 6 February 2024 FeatureDeath threats, doxxing and IP deals: Mythic Games’ co-founder on the fallout from its CMON deal, and where it all went wrong for the company
Mythic Games' fall from being one of the most successful crowdfunding-focused board game publishers of all time to one beset by financial woes has been swift. Company co-founder Leonidas Vesperini spoke to BoardGameWire about the decision behind the CMON deal, the death threats he has received since, and where the future lies for Mythic's two remaining projects. Mike Didymus-True 31 January 2024 29 Comments NewsHere are the 12 games fighting it out for France’s biggest board gaming awards
Two games based on the life and works of Charles Darwin are in the running for awards in this year's As D'or, a French board gaming prize initially created in 1988. Mike Didymus-True 30 January 2024 NewsArcane Wonders, Spin Master to publish Marvel comics collecting board game after Tom Vasel recommendation
Arcane Wonders has teamed with toy major Spin Master to publish a board game about collecting Marvel comics, after Dice Tower creator Tom Vasel brought it to them as a recommendation. Mike Didymus-True 29 January 2024 1 Comment NewsSea Cove Games scraps Gamefound campaign for debut game Carolingi, says platform is “not the right fit”
Sea Cove Games, the new board game publisher launched by the founders of Eggertspiele and Spielworxx, has scrapped its debut crowdfunding campaign on Gamefound two weeks after launch. Mike Didymus-True 29 January 2024 NewsGerman board game sales have bounced back dramatically after a tricky 2022
Board game sales in Germany, one of the world’s biggest tabletop markets, returned to growth last year to shake off a difficult 2022 rocked by Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the global energy crisis. Mike Didymus-True 29 January 2024 NewsMythic Games fails to deliver on two Kickstarter projects worth $3.2m, sells IP to CMON
Mythic Games, formerly one of the most successful crowdfunding-focused board game publishers of all time, has given up producing two of its outstanding Kickstarter projects worth $3.2m in favour of selling the intellectual property rights to CMON. Mike Didymus-True 27 January 2024 8 Comments NewsVotes for Women shrugs off Facebook ad ban to raise almost $200,000 after huge show of support
Votes for Women, the critically acclaimed card-driven wargame about the fight for women’s suffrage in the US, has raised almost $200,000 for its second edition Kickstarter campaign as backers turned up in droves after the game's adverts were banned by Facebook. Mike Didymus-True 26 January 2024 1 2 3 4 … 15 Next Help keep BoardGameWire producing high-quality news and features focused on the business of board gamesIf each of our readers from last year supported us with just £1, no matter how many articles they read, we could hire two full-time reporters and fund travel and accommodation to every major board game convention.
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