Business Briefs

Asmodee USA are launching a new game studio spearheaded by renowned game designer Corey Konieczka. ‘Unexpected Games’ focus on innovative design and idea incubation. Konieczka will leave his role as VP of Research & Design at Fantasy Flight Games, an Asmodee company, to found the studio. “Our goal is to create games that are novel, fun, and …

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Tru Kids Brands, the new owners of Toys’R’Us, will re-launch the storied retailer this year with two stores located in in Houston and New Jersey. The stores will open before the holiday season. The companies plan to open additional U.S. locations in high-traffic retail markets in 2020. Tru Kids have partnered with b8ta, an experiential retailer, to …

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CMON have partnered with Xplored, an Italian game development company, to release a hybrid gaming console, Teburu. The system will launch on Kickstarter in 2020. The system senses the placement of figures on the board, and rolls of wireless dice, transmitting the information to a central application installed on a computer or tablet. Companion apps running on …

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The Dots RPG Project, an organization dedicated to making role-playing games accessible, have been recognized as a non-profit and have been granted a 501(c)(3) tax status. Dots was founded in 2017 by Jack Berberette to help his blind friend have better access to gaming. Berberette created a set of braille dice for use in role-playing games. …

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Nominations for the 2019 ENnie Awards have been announced. Winners will be announced August 2 at Gen Con. The awards will be broadcast live on YouTube. Voting will be open from July 10 to July 21. Nominations in twenty two categories and Judge’s Picks included sixty eight unique publishers/creators. There were 432 submissions from 241 applicants. The ENnies …

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The US will put on hold plans to impose additional tariffs on the $300 billion “List 4” goods from China, which included toys and tabletop gaming products. President Trump announced the suspension after a meeting this weekend with Chinese President Xi Jimping. Both parties have agreed to continue to talk, but no dates have been …

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Propagate Content and Asmodee Entertainment will develop a television series based on Alan R. Moon’s best-selling adventure board game, Ticket To Ride. The board game, published by Days of Wonder and Asmodee Studios, has sold over six million copies in more than 40 countries. The television adaptation will be a winner-take-all travel competition series in which …

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The Toy Association testified yesterday that new tariffs would devastate the toy industry and cause a 10 percent reduction in the U.S. toy workforce.  Rebecca Mond, the Association’s vice president of federal government affairs said a 25 percent tariff applied to toys and games would cause 68,000 lost jobs and $3.4 billion in lost wages.  …

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The 45th annual Origins Awards were presented June 15 at the Origins Game Fair in Columbus, Ohio. Nominees were announced in March. The winners were voted on by the members of The Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design. Fan Favorite awards were selected by Origins Game Fair attendees. The Academy also inducted several people and …

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Top Shelf Gamer have acquired the Stonemaier Games line of realistic resources tokens. Top Shelf announced the acquisition this weekend, but Jamey Stegmaier said in a blog post that the transition happen a few months ago.  Top Shelf had been the distributor for the game pieces. Stegmaier said conversations at Gen Con 2018 led to him selling the …

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