Spiel Essen scraps using AI art to promote event after backlash last year, ongoing legal uncertainty
Plus: Record-breaking UK Games Expo preps for even bigger future after being outbid for its main hall next year
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Veteran designer Kevin Wilson on his dive into worker placement, and Asmodee writes down more than $620m
Plus: Dicebreaker owner Gamer Network bought by IGN, redundancies begin across group
Three years late, and months without an update: FunForge CEO expresses “frustration” that Monumental Kickstarter is still not ready to deliver
Plus: GAMA shifts 2025 Expo dates after ‘blowing past projections’, TTGDA aims to level playing field between designers and publishers
Asmodee’s owner loads it up with €900m debt, and BoardGameWire celebrates its first birthday
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Embracer commits to Asmodee's future as restructuring ends, plus what board game veteran Zev Shlasinger just learned from his first crowdfunding campaign
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Gen Con-style events, an extra hall: UK Games Expo mulls expansion options as it preps for its biggest, most international event yet
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Four years after leaving Asmodee, Dead of Winter creator Plaid Hat is finally free to do things its own way
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Asmodee shines amid more Embracer cost-cutting, and how The Op got 8 million TikTok views last month
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Mythic co-founder on death threats, doxxing and IP deals, Gamefound turns up heat on Kickstarter, German board game sales bounce back
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Brass: Birmingham gets a sequel, Votes for Women gets ads banned by Facebook
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Star-studded new board game publisher launches, Essen Spiel and Tokyo Game Market team up
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CoolStuffInc's founder on how Amazon pushed it out of the online board game market
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Alderac's COO on how to master board game crowdfunding, and two seasoned designers expose "dark underbelly" of the game design industry
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Pegasus Spiele’s co-founder on how it keeps winning board gaming’s biggest prize
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Essen Spiel suffers AI art backlash, German board games booming after 2022 slump
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'Mostly dumb' Lorcana lawsuit filing, Cthulhu Wars Kickstarter chaos
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Saving a Kickstarter and Spiel's 'head-scratching' changes
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Lorcana lawsuit and Dice Tower deletion
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