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 and how did it get started?PAX was started by Mike Krahuik and Jerry Holkins as Penny Arcade Expo back in 2004. …
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Greater 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 were not disclosed. Greater Than Games will support Nevermore’s products, and will complete the Kickstarter fulfillment of Dark Dealings: Dwarven Delve, …
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Private 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, and other members of the management team, acquired the business from founders, Paul and Eden Dedrick. Financial terms of the transaction …
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Private 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, and other members of the management team, acquired the business from founders, Paul and Eden Dedrick. Financial terms of the transaction …
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Games 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 per share to be paid in January. The company said the results were in line with expectations for the year ending …
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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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Alley 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 up and deliver mechanics. The company provided a photo of the prototype.
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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Upper 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 characters to unravel the schemes of classic villains. Upper Deck will also release a James Bond trading card set in early 2019. …
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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 …