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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen 2025 @boardgamewire.bsky.social · May 22
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Rascal News @rascal.news · 6h
Day one of @kickstarterunited.org's ongoing strike saw elected officials and union leaders show up in the streets of NYC to support workers.
Kickstarter United strikes in New York City for fairer contract
The workers were joined on day one by elected officials and various union leaders.
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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen 2025 @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 6h
Financially-troubled board game publisher CMON has sold its global headquarters after suffering a $12m H1 revenue slump - and is charging some pre-order customers extra to cover tariffs it says it "cannot absorb given our current financial position”:

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The letters C, M, O and N in a yellow square on a purple background. Logo for board game publisher CMON.
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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen 2025 @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 6h
Financially-troubled board game publisher CMON has sold its global headquarters after suffering a $12m H1 revenue slump - and is charging some pre-order customers extra to cover tariffs it says it "cannot absorb given our current financial position”:

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The letters C, M, O and N in a yellow square on a purple background. Logo for board game publisher CMON.
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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen 2025 @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 12h
This is a great video Matthew, appreciate you stepping up and discussing it. Hope you're doing ok, and enjoying Prague!
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Matthew Dunstan @matthewdunstan.bsky.social · 13h
Today's video was a hard one for me to make - I wanted to talk about my experiences going through burnout in the last year or so as a game designer, and aspects of the wider tabletop industry that contribute to that.

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The reality of being a full time game designer
YouTube video by Matthew Dunstan
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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen 2025 @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 1d
BREAKING NEWS: Hobby games trade organisation GAMA is losing executive director John Stacy after seven "transformative" years - just three weeks after it unveiled ambitious plans to become the "epicenter” of the global tabletop gaming industry:

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A man with short white hair and a short white beard smiles at the camera. He wears thin rimmed black glasses, and is wearing a light blue shirt and a red bow tie with tiny white and black dots. GAMA executive director John Stacy. GAMA in black, with smaller words to the right which read THE TABLETOP GAME ASSOCIATION. To the left is a red cube surrounded by orange, green and blue segments. The logo of board game trade organisation GAMA.
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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen 2025 @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 1d
“The board game sector is fragile, especially at the moment”: Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood of Venice publisher Triton Noir closes down after failure of last crowdfunding campaign:

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Five plastic miniatures - four humans and a statue of a plinth, with a winged lion standing on an open book. The four humans are clothed in assassin's robes and hoods and armed with swords and other weapons, in the style of the Assassin's Creed II video game. Miniatures from Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood of Venice by Triton Noir. Headshot of a man with short shaved hair and short stubble smiles at the camera. He can just about be seen to be wearing a brownish-purple jumper and black t shirt underneath. Behind him is a tree and some foliage. Thibaud de la Touanne, founder of board game publisher Triton Noir. Plastic miniatures and cardboard boards and components, including coloured plastic dice, from the Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood of Venice board game.
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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen 2025 @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 1d
“The board game sector is fragile, especially at the moment”: Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood of Venice publisher Triton Noir closes down after failure of last crowdfunding campaign:

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Five plastic miniatures - four humans and a statue of a plinth, with a winged lion standing on an open book. The four humans are clothed in assassin's robes and hoods and armed with swords and other weapons, in the style of the Assassin's Creed II video game. Miniatures from Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood of Venice by Triton Noir. Headshot of a man with short shaved hair and short stubble smiles at the camera. He can just about be seen to be wearing a brownish-purple jumper and black t shirt underneath. Behind him is a tree and some foliage. Thibaud de la Touanne, founder of board game publisher Triton Noir. Plastic miniatures and cardboard boards and components, including coloured plastic dice, from the Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood of Venice board game.
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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen 2025 @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 1d
I’m in this image and I don’t like it
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Semi Co-op @semicoop.bsky.social · 2d
New comic! Bringing loads of games to game night and only ending up playing one or two small ones... Who else does this? 😂

👀 You can read this week's blog post (it's a long one!) at
semicoop.com/comic/beast-of-burden/ #gamenight #boardgames
Two panels. Above the left, it says: "Games I brought to game night". We see Heinze carrying a very big and heavy backpack holding at least 15 games (it shows the outlines of the boxes through the bag). Above the right panel it says: "Games we played at game night". We see the same image of Heinze carrying the back pack with only one small game highlighted in the entire backpack.
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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen 2025 @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 1d
BREAKING NEWS: Hobby games trade organisation GAMA is losing executive director John Stacy after seven "transformative" years - just three weeks after it unveiled ambitious plans to become the "epicenter” of the global tabletop gaming industry:

boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...
A man with short white hair and a short white beard smiles at the camera. He wears thin rimmed black glasses, and is wearing a light blue shirt and a red bow tie with tiny white and black dots. GAMA executive director John Stacy. GAMA in black, with smaller words to the right which read THE TABLETOP GAME ASSOCIATION. To the left is a red cube surrounded by orange, green and blue segments. The logo of board game trade organisation GAMA.
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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen 2025 @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 2d
“We know how important brick-and-mortar retail is”: Asmodee Germany expands retail, hobby store-focused sales teams with new hires:

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the word asmodee, with with a thick black shadow. In the shadow underneath is the text 'Inspired by Players', also in white. The logo for board game publisher and distributor Asmodee. A man with short brown hair and a short brown beard looks at the camera, smiling slightly. He is wearing a dark blue shirt, open at the collar. Benjamin Pilz, sales at Asmodee Germany. A man with short brown hair and very short chin beard and stubble looks at the camera. He wears thin framed glasses. He is wearing a deep blue jumper and with shirt underneath. Jakob Stachelhaus from Asmodee Germany.
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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen 2025 @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 2d
“We know how important brick-and-mortar retail is”: Asmodee Germany expands retail, hobby store-focused sales teams with new hires:

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the word asmodee, with with a thick black shadow. In the shadow underneath is the text 'Inspired by Players', also in white. The logo for board game publisher and distributor Asmodee. A man with short brown hair and a short brown beard looks at the camera, smiling slightly. He is wearing a dark blue shirt, open at the collar. Benjamin Pilz, sales at Asmodee Germany. A man with short brown hair and very short chin beard and stubble looks at the camera. He wears thin framed glasses. He is wearing a deep blue jumper and with shirt underneath. Jakob Stachelhaus from Asmodee Germany.
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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 2d
New (and old) on Old Men: We talked to @johnpower.bsky.social, the man behind @wyrdscience.bsky.social, about the latest issue. (We also reposted a much longer interview about how he came to hold this particular chalice, and the games that made him into the Magazine Wizard he is today.) #ttrpg
What Powers The Man Behind Wyrd Science? - Old Men Running The World
There is some superb coverage of tabletop in the nowadays, and some of our favourite stuff comes from Mr John Power Jr. If you have encountered Wyrd Science
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Protospiel Online 🔜 Jan 16-18 @protospielo.bsky.social · 4d
Hasbro’s 3rd annual Women Innovators of Play virtual event is this Thurs Oct 9, kicking off this year’s design challenge!

They’re accepting submissions for the next woman-led mass market toy or game Oct 9-Nov 13 2025

Top 3 will receive cash prizes & mentorship🎲✂️

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Gameosity @gameosity.bsky.social · 5d
Ready to level up your career? The October edition of the tabletop game jobs list is here! Dive into a fresh batch of exciting opportunities that could lead you to your dream role in the gaming industry.⁠
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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen 2025 @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 5d
Thanks Johannes! I'll likely either link to your piece in the next newsletter, or have a chat with some publishers about the rise in 2-player games (if I have time!😅) for an article. So yes, definitely the 2-player game chart please! The ones showing falling average price are interesting too.
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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen 2025 @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 5d
Yes! Two-player games make up about 10% of games this year, about three percentage points above 2017, which checks out given the spate of duel games. And the general price of games has actually been falling for a few years, although I suspect that's down to increased numbers of smaller box games.
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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen 2025 @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 5d
Some good data here covering the last few years of Spiel Essen, looking at whether there’s been a significant rise in 2-player games at the show, and if theres been any improvement in gender representation among designers in that time:
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Ministerium für Brettspielspaß @brettministerium.bsky.social · 5d
*Trends der SPIEL, 2017 bis 2025 – eine Datenanalyse*

In meinem Blog-Beitrag habe ich die Neuheiten der SPIEL von 2017 bis 2025 analysiert – und einige Mythen widerlegt.

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Trends der SPIEL, 2017 bis 2025 – eine Datenanalyse
Datenanalyse zu Trends auf dem Brettspielmarkt 2017–2025 auf Basis der Daten zur SPIEL
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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen 2025 @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 6d
GAMA unveils 10-year plan to become “epicenter” of global tabletop gaming industry, renames itself after almost 50 years.

Read this and all the rest of the week's board game industry happenings, design notes and jobs in the latest BoardGameWire newsletter!

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GAMA in black, with smaller words to the right which read THE TABLETOP GAME ASSOCIATION. To the left is a red cube surrounded by orange, green and blue segments. The logo of board game trade organisation GAMA.
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Kickstarter United @kickstarterunited.org · 6d
‼️🚨KICKSTARTER WORKERS ARE ON STRIKE🚨‼️

As of 8am this morning, the workers of Kickstarter United/OPEIU Local 153 are on strike.

WE ARE NOT ASKING FOR A BOYCOTT! Creators and allies, please continue using and supporting the platform.
Kickstarter United is on strike! We are not asking for a boycott! Creators & Allies: Please continue to support & use the platform swipe for ways to show your solidarity Why We're Striking A codified 4-day work week. We simply want to protect the way we've been working for over 3.5 years. The 4dww has proven benefits, such as increased productivity and improved employee satisfaction. It's part of what makes Kickstarter a special, innovative place to work. Fair pay for our lowest-paid workers. We're fighting for livable minimum salaries for roles that are undervalued by the market but crucial to keeping Kickstarter running. We believe none of our workers should struggle to make ends meet. Creators Show your solidarity by: Continue using the platform like normal When something breaks, complain loudly that it is management's fault for causing the strike Include our logo and strike info on your project Send a letter to KSR leadership urging them to meet our demands & end the strike bit.ly/KSRUletter Community Allies Show your solidarity by: Support your favorite creators on the platform like normal Send a letter to KSR leadership urging them to meet our demands & end the strike: Creators Show your solidarity by: Continue using the platform like normal When something breaks, complain loudly that it is management's fault for causing the strike Include our logo and strike info on your project Send a letter to KSR leadership urging them to meet our demands & end the strike bit.ly/KSRUletter Donate to our solidarity fund: bit.ly/KSRUdonate Attend a rally or picket either in-person near you (NYC and Seattle) or virtual
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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen 2025 @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 6d
GAMA unveils 10-year plan to become “epicenter” of global tabletop gaming industry, renames itself after almost 50 years.

Read this and all the rest of the week's board game industry happenings, design notes and jobs in the latest BoardGameWire newsletter!

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GAMA in black, with smaller words to the right which read THE TABLETOP GAME ASSOCIATION. To the left is a red cube surrounded by orange, green and blue segments. The logo of board game trade organisation GAMA.
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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen 2025 @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 6d
I -wish- I could say mine was addressed to NPI to make this nice and circular, but alas.
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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen 2025 @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 7d
“Flashy ads don’t convert nearly as well as genuine conversation” - Don’t Starve: The Board Game guns for biggest Kickstarter tabletop raise of the year after topping $1m within hours of launch:

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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen 2025 @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 7d
Kickstarter workers set to strike tomorrow over minimum salary proposals, four-day work week protection:

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A black and white circular image, which shows the writing KICKSTARTER UNITED and two hands shaking, above the letters OPIEU 153. The Logo for Kickstarter employees union Kickstarter United.
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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen 2025 @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 7d
Kickstarter workers set to strike tomorrow over minimum salary proposals, four-day work week protection:

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A black and white circular image, which shows the writing KICKSTARTER UNITED and two hands shaking, above the letters OPIEU 153. The Logo for Kickstarter employees union Kickstarter United.
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