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BlackRock Inc, a global asset management company, took a 5% stake in Games Workshop according to filings posted April 2. Neither company responded to our request for more information. The shareholders who hold over 3% of the…
Read the reportForesight Group, a UK private equity company, have made a $6.5 million investment into Steamforged Games. Rich Loxam and Mat Hart founded Steamforged games in 2014 to publish their sports-based miniature game, Guild Ball. Since…
Read the reportAsmodee Entertainment, formed in 2018 to bring the game company’s intellectual property into TV, films, and more, have launched Aconyte, a fiction publishing imprint. The division will publish novels based on Asmodee’s game properties. It…
Read the reportKickstarter, the crowdfunding website, have suspended Hunt the Ravager from Kolossal Games and Folding Space from Maple Games. Both projects launched this week. Kickstarter’s Integrity Team told Tabletop Wire the projects were suspended for one or more of the following, but…
Read the reportDaryl Andrews, founder and president of Maple Games, was let go from the company on April 16. Andrews announced the news in a public Facebook post. “All journeys must come to an end. I am…
Read the reportGame designer Martin Wallace and Eagle-Gryphon Games have agreed to terms to settle a long-standing dispute over the rights to Age of Steam. Eagle recently Kickstarted a new deluxe edition of the classic game. In a statement Wallace…
Read the reportPandasaurus Games have announced Mental Blocks, a cooperative puzzle game by Micah Sawyer and Jonathan Gilmour. Using oversized foam blocks, players complete a puzzle where they can only see one perspective of the design.…
Read the reportCMON have announced at the GAMA Trade Show that Asmodee will be their exclusive English language distributor for global markets including North America.
Read the reportGrowling Door Games, founded by Matthew McFarland and Michelle Lyons-McFarland in 2012 is shutting down. The husband and wife owners are long time producers in the role-playing game industry. The couple have also announced…
Read the reportHasbro’s fourth-quarter gaming revenue declined 12% from the previous period to $788 million. The total category was down 4% for the full-year 2018 versus 2017. Dungeons and Dragons, Don’t Step in it, Connect 4 and Jenga…
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