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The companies, people and events behind the games. These historical reports retain their original dates and may no longer reflect current circumstances.
GAMA Executive Director John Stacy will be joining the Tariffs Hurt The Heartland coalition in Washington DC February 5-7 to lobby against tariffs on toys and games. The group is comprised of more than 200 trade…
Read the reportPolish publisher Portal Games will bring their new Detective Game to Amazon Alexa. Case 6, Suburbia of Detective: A Modern Crime Board will be narrated by Alexa, a virtual assistant created by Amazon to…
Read the reportFlying Buffalo CEO and founding GAMA President Rick Loomis has announced he has cancer. Loomis said, “I’m told it is very treatable. However I expect to be somewhat distracted for the next few months.” Loomis, 71,…
Read the reportEssen Edition 2019 Tabletop Wire successfully launched a Kickstarter to provide coverage from Spiel in Essen, Germany. These are the sponsors and producers that made that coverage happen. The stories will first be published…
Read the reportDarwin P Bromley, attorney, game designer and co-founder of Mayfair Games, has passed away at 68. He is survived by his wife, Trella and their four children. Bromley was born in West Virginia, but…
Read the reportToronto-based Spin Master Corp have inked a three-year global agreement with Warner Bros. Consumer Products beginning in 2020 to be the new toy licensee for DC for boy’s action figures, remote control and robotic vehicles, water toys, games…
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 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 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…
Read the reportWhile KeyForge, the new card game by Magic the Gathering designer Richard Garfield, may have just been released, it is already commanding top dollar on the secondary market. With the card contents visible from…
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