Illustration of five fantasy characters leaping towards the viewer, on abackground of grassy rocks, flora and waterfalls. The characters are a mix of human and other humanoids, including a large humanoid owl. The words Magic: The Gathering is in smallish writing above, and Secrets of Strixhaven in larger green writing below. Image for Secrets of Strixhaven, the latest set release for collectible card game Magic: The Gathering.

Hasbro delays Q1 results after cyber attack, but expects revenue rise from ongoing Magic strength:

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Speaking of sustainable board games, the Green Games Guide just opened applications for the 2026 Sustainable Game Production Award at Origins.

We're highlighting games that are doing remarkable work in sustainable production. Apply until May 15! greengamesguide.com/2026/04/23/a...

Creating a Culture of Sustainability in Tabletop Games Creators in the tabletop industry hold the keys to reducing the carbon footprint of board games. Learn how board games negatively impact the climate crisis and what designers, publishers, and manufact...

If you’re a tabletop designer, publisher, retailer, or player and you’ve wondered how you can help inspire a culture of sustainability in tabletop games, you’re in luck — my recent talk on creating more sustainable board games is now up for free on the GDC vault! gdcvault.com/play/1035803...

Cartoon-like illustration of anthropomorphic animals in a city, some working as food sellers and cooks, others sitting at tables waiting for meals. Box cover art for Critter Kitchen from Cardboard Alchemy, designed by Peter C Hayward and Alex Cutler.

A circular board game shaped like a rotating cheese board. The quadrant closest depicts France split into multiple coloured segments, with various cheese wedges printed on the board. Fromage, designed by Matthew O'Malley and Ben Rosset.

High-IQ society Mensa reveals its top board games after annual four-day judging marathon:

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Ah, exciting!

Illustrations showing four fantasy-style adventurers, three looking into the distance and a fourth pointing the way. They are in a green land with a blue river running through, and a tall tower is visible on a rocky mountain in the distance. Cover image for board game Arydia: The Paths we Dare Tread.

Characters from the Lord of the Rings novel on the front of a board game box, with a surprised-looking Frodo at the centre looking into a bowl supported by a white tree. Box cover for Matt Leacock's board game design Lord of the Rings Fate of the Fellowshop, from Z-Man Games / Asmodee.

Illustration of a varied landscape, featuring a green-sided volcano, lakes and rivers, and rocky land and mountains in the distance. Box cover for board game Vantage.

A table arrayed with cards and components from the board game Eternal Decks. The cards are arranged into a grid, and are of several different colours - green, red, blue, yellow, purple and cream, each with a single black image in the centre.

Arydia: The Paths We Dare Tread leads Golden Geek Awards nominations with nods in six categories, Vantage and Fate of the Fellowship up for five each:

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Cartoon-like illustration of anthropomorphic animals in a city, some working as food sellers and cooks, others sitting at tables waiting for meals. Box cover art for Critter Kitchen from Cardboard Alchemy, designed by Peter C Hayward and Alex Cutler.

A circular board game shaped like a rotating cheese board. The quadrant closest depicts France split into multiple coloured segments, with various cheese wedges printed on the board. Fromage, designed by Matthew O'Malley and Ben Rosset.

High-IQ society Mensa reveals its top board games after annual four-day judging marathon:

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Illustrations showing four fantasy-style adventurers, three looking into the distance and a fourth pointing the way. They are in a green land with a blue river running through, and a tall tower is visible on a rocky mountain in the distance. Cover image for board game Arydia: The Paths we Dare Tread.

Characters from the Lord of the Rings novel on the front of a board game box, with a surprised-looking Frodo at the centre looking into a bowl supported by a white tree. Box cover for Matt Leacock's board game design Lord of the Rings Fate of the Fellowshop, from Z-Man Games / Asmodee.

Illustration of a varied landscape, featuring a green-sided volcano, lakes and rivers, and rocky land and mountains in the distance. Box cover for board game Vantage.

A table arrayed with cards and components from the board game Eternal Decks. The cards are arranged into a grid, and are of several different colours - green, red, blue, yellow, purple and cream, each with a single black image in the centre.

Arydia: The Paths We Dare Tread leads Golden Geek Awards nominations with nods in six categories, Vantage and Fate of the Fellowship up for five each:

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Silhouette of an angular, thin cartoon duck with white eyes. Lucky Duck Games is printed underneath, all on an orange background. Logo for board game publisher Lucky Duck Games.

Three board games boxes side by side, each with Chronicles of Crime printed on and showing a different pair of characters. The one of the left says Cryptid Cases, the centre one Eldritch Secrets, and the right one Courtroom Justice. Below the games are boards, cards and other components from one of the titles. Three games from the Chronicles of Crime board game series, from Lucky Duck Games.

Lucky Duck Games, the board game publisher behind European localisations of major hits such as Dune Imperium and Cascadia, is scaling back that side of its operations to prioritise development of its own designs:

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Thanks to @critshappen.bsky.social for his answers!

Silhouette of an angular, thin cartoon duck with white eyes. Lucky Duck Games is printed underneath, all on an orange background. Logo for board game publisher Lucky Duck Games.

Three board games boxes side by side, each with Chronicles of Crime printed on and showing a different pair of characters. The one of the left says Cryptid Cases, the centre one Eldritch Secrets, and the right one Courtroom Justice. Below the games are boards, cards and other components from one of the titles. Three games from the Chronicles of Crime board game series, from Lucky Duck Games.

Lucky Duck Games, the board game publisher behind European localisations of major hits such as Dune Imperium and Cascadia, is scaling back that side of its operations to prioritise development of its own designs:

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Thanks to @critshappen.bsky.social for his answers!

Welcome to Tabletop Battles! We've rebranded! Goonhammer is now Tabletop Battles. Come read about what's changing and why.

We've rebranded! Goonhammer is now Tabletop Battles. Come read about what's changing and why.

I'm looking for some extra work and would be very interested in any part-time or contract gigs that could make use of my writing, editing, and project management experience. Creative work, research and reporting, consulting; I am happy to do it all.
Email: chasewritesthing [at] gmail
DMs open here!

Yes, I did consider this! These were the images I had on file / submitted to me, but I concur the difference in image quality doesn't seem quite right to me. Will update.

Gen AI and Tabletop - UK Games Expo Panel Questionnaire This informal questionnaire is to gather grassroots information on how AI interacts with the creation and use of material within tabletop across different perspectives - creators, artists, and consume...

I'm chairing a panel on the impact of generative AI on the tabletop industry this year at UKGE. One of the panelists, an academic working in AI ethics, has put together a short survey about it. If folks could fill it out that would be incredible. Thank you!

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Head and shoulders photo of a woman with long blonde hair smiling at the camera. She wears a dark-coloured shirt with orange and green plants and flowers on. Behind her the symbol for board game trade organisation GAMA is visible. Nicole Brady, former president of board game hobby trade association GAMA.

Head and shoulders photo of a serious-looking woman looking into the camera. She has long blond hair and is wearing a black top which leaves her shoulders bare. New GAMA president Meredith Placko.

The president of hobby games trade organisation GAMA, Nicole Brady, has failed in her bid to be re-elected to the role, with vice president Meredith Placko instead being voted in by the board of directors:

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Head and shoulders photo of a woman with long blonde hair smiling at the camera. She wears a dark-coloured shirt with orange and green plants and flowers on. Behind her the symbol for board game trade organisation GAMA is visible. Nicole Brady, former president of board game hobby trade association GAMA.

Head and shoulders photo of a serious-looking woman looking into the camera. She has long blond hair and is wearing a black top which leaves her shoulders bare. New GAMA president Meredith Placko.

The president of hobby games trade organisation GAMA, Nicole Brady, has failed in her bid to be re-elected to the role, with vice president Meredith Placko instead being voted in by the board of directors:

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The words SYNIDICAT DES AUTERICES DE JEUX in black, except JEUX which is in blue. To their left, a blue cube with a white top, with the letters SAJ in joined up lowercase handwriting. Logo for French board game designer union SAJ.

Head and shoulders photo of a woman with pink and white hair, wearing pale pink headphones and a blue and white scarf. Behind her are giant pink artificial flowers in a garden. Audrey Bondurand, president of French board game designers union SAJ.

French board game designer association SAJ has renamed itself to make its title more inclusive to women and non-binary people, as well as to better underscore its status as a union:

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I'm so sorry Mollie, I really hope you feel better soon. And yeah, that difficulty in drawing the line between work and hobby is a constant challenge, I hope you find a balance that works for you.

The trade association for the tabletop game industry is hiring!

The Game Manufacturers Association - GAMA is looking to hire for a Membership Services Manager, Marketing & Communications Director and Graphic Designer & Web Administrator.

Job Listings: www.indeed.com/cmp/Gama-the...

the human made icon

I want to be a better steward for the Human Made icon. If you have any ideas on how I can get the word out for it more please let me know. Do you think game retailers would be interested in stickers they could pass out? folks interested in pins? What can I do to support you using this icon? a zine?

Two moonlets, apparently! The Didymus part of my surname means twin in Greek (or an alternative spelling does, anyway), so you see it pop up in strange places now and again

It me! (Almost)

Yeah - I get why a sudden influx of cash might seem attractive, but the bill always come due eventually

Five superheroes face off against a purple-clad villian in a robotic suit with a flaming hand. Above them are the words Sentinels of the Multiverse, and Definitive Edition. Box cover for the Sentinels of the Multiverse board game from Greater than Games, created by Christopher Badell, Paul Bender and Adam Rebottaro.

Almost a year of uncertainty over the future of board game publisher Greater than Games has been partially resolved, with Flat River Group selling the brand name, and the rights for the Sentinels of the Multiverse titles, to Handelabra Games:

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Golden Luddite 2025 Please nominate, using BGG ID (the number in the URL of a game on BGG), your three favourite historical boardgames of 2025.

It is time to vote for the best historical game of 2025. Last year Golden Luddite winners were: 1812 Napoleon's Fateful March from @vucasimulations.bsky.social, Pax Penning from @mildamatildagames.bsky.social and A Gest of Robin Hood from @gmtgames.bsky.social
Vote here : forms.gle/xjS2YW9c7xMZ...

A hand reaches down to move one of four plahing pieces on a green board shaped like a running track. The four pieces represent people in mascot suits - a hot dog, a queen, a bear and a fish. Jon Perry's board game design Hot Streak from CMYK Games.

Six wooden playing pieces with images of various characters on, including a banana wearing a hat and an aardvark on a unicycle. They are on a track-style board composed of different coloured squares, some with numbers on. Takashi Ishida and Richard Garfield's board game design Magical Athlete from CMYK Games.

Characters from the Lord of the Rings novel on the front of a board game box, with a surprised-looking Frodo at the centre looking into a bowl supported by a white tree. Box cover for Matt Leacock's board game design Lord of the Rings Fate of the Fellowshop, from Z-Man Games / Asmodee.

A pink board game box with black line drawings of dozens of people in 18th century high society dress, with the words Molly House in the centre in a lighter pink. Board game box cover for Jo Kelly and Cole Wehrle's design Molly House

CMYK's Hot Streak and Magical Athlete race to wins in this year’s American Tabletop Awards, Fate of the Fellowship and Molly House also triumph:

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Huge congrats to @cmyk.games @perryjon.bsky.social @mattleacock.bsky.social @miasmacorp.bsky.social @alex.cmyk.games!

This change not only makes it easier for members to share our work with friends, internet circles, and play groups, but also reduces the paywall's influence on editorial decisions. It was a simple and no-brainer switch, but it does come with risks.

Readers, we're experimenting with the paywall More access for all.

We've updated to a metered paywall. Readers without an account can read any two stories per month, and free members can read another two. Details here:

(Nothing is changing for paying members!)

...and @colewehrle.bsky.social ! 😅

A hand reaches down to move one of four plahing pieces on a green board shaped like a running track. The four pieces represent people in mascot suits - a hot dog, a queen, a bear and a fish. Jon Perry's board game design Hot Streak from CMYK Games.

Six wooden playing pieces with images of various characters on, including a banana wearing a hat and an aardvark on a unicycle. They are on a track-style board composed of different coloured squares, some with numbers on. Takashi Ishida and Richard Garfield's board game design Magical Athlete from CMYK Games.

Characters from the Lord of the Rings novel on the front of a board game box, with a surprised-looking Frodo at the centre looking into a bowl supported by a white tree. Box cover for Matt Leacock's board game design Lord of the Rings Fate of the Fellowshop, from Z-Man Games / Asmodee.

A pink board game box with black line drawings of dozens of people in 18th century high society dress, with the words Molly House in the centre in a lighter pink. Board game box cover for Jo Kelly and Cole Wehrle's design Molly House

CMYK's Hot Streak and Magical Athlete race to wins in this year’s American Tabletop Awards, Fate of the Fellowship and Molly House also triumph:

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Huge congrats to @cmyk.games @perryjon.bsky.social @mattleacock.bsky.social @miasmacorp.bsky.social @alex.cmyk.games!