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 associations. The associations will be sharing with Congress the impact of tariff policy on members. Members are encouraged to contact GAMA …
Polish 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 perform audio interactions. Players will solve the crime in using voice commands and the integrated application. “In Portal Games we strongly …
Flying 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, founded Flying Buffalo in 1970. The company publishes Nuclear War, a card game about blowing up the world, and the Grimtooth’s Traps …
Essen 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 to our backers, then on the site under the category Essen Edition. SPONSORS PRODUCERS Scott GaetaBronson ShippDave Taylor MiniaturesRandal LloydNick MedingerKevin …
Darwin 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 moved to the Chicago area to attend school. He studied mathematics at Marshall University and obtained his law degree in 1975 …
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Toronto-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 and puzzles. Mattel had owned the license previously. In an email to Tabletop Wire, Spin Master confirmed the license would include …
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Friedhelm 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 several exhibitors were again robbed during the 2018 show. “There will be several meetings in early 2019 in cooperation with Messe …
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Peak 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 US ports have already seen record volumes this year. The Port of Los Angeles set a record in October for the …
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OneBookShelf 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 websites have been run as two different brands with the same content, products and users. The company said the growth of …
While 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 sealed decks, certain decks with powerful cards and/or combinations are being listed on popular websites like ebay. A deck with two …