Industry archive · Historical reporting
The companies, people and events behind the games. These historical reports retain their original dates and may no longer reflect current circumstances.
AnnaMaria Jackson-Phelps spoke with Penny Arcade Director of Events Ryan Hartman about the future of Pax Unplugged. Although they don’t report attendance numbers, Hartman said the show doubled in size this year. What is PAX…
Read the reportGreater Than Games have acquired Nevermore Games, the Richmond, Va publishers of Chicken Caesar, Mars Needs Mechanics, Spires and Dark Dealings. The companies have been talking for several months. The details of the deal…
Read the reportPrivate equity firm Mason Wells, have acquired Buffalo Games, a manufacturer and marketer of jigsaw puzzles and board games, in a deal that closed in August. Mason Wells, along with Nagendra Raina, CEO of Buffalo Games,…
Read the reportPrivate equity firm Mason Wells, have acquired Buffalo Games, a manufacturer and marketer of jigsaw puzzles and board games, in a deal that closed in August. Mason Wells, along with Nagendra Raina, CEO of Buffalo Games,…
Read the reportGames Workshop announced an operating profit of about $51.6 million on sales of approximately $156 million for the first six months of the fiscal year ending December 2. It also declared a dividend of $0.38…
Read the reportFriedhelm Merz Verlag, the company responsible for the annual International Spieltage (SPIEL) in Essen, Germany, will have several meetings in early 2019 with the Messe Essen convention center to decide if security changes are needed after…
Read the reportAlley Cat Games, the publisher of Dice Hospital have announced Tuamotu by Rococo designers Louis and Stefan Malz for Q3 of 2019. The medium weight euro-style game will have a colonization theme with pick…
Read the reportPeak cargo shipping season is expected to extend past the holiday season thanks to the 90-day pause in the proposed US tariffs on China should importers continue to increase inventories during the break. Major…
Read the reportUpper Deck will be adding James Bond to Legendary, its deck-building card game system, in summer of 2019 after acquiring the IP in a multi-year deal from EON Productions. Players will recruit their favorite Bond movie…
Read the reportOneBookShelf will phase out RPGNow in February, the site will redirect to DriveThruRPG. RPGNow was founded in 2001 by James Mathe and pioneered digital PDF downloads for role-playing game publishers. In 2006 it merged with DriveThruRPG. Since then the…
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