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“It’s crazy how it has grown globally”: unpublished designs award Cardboard Edison unveils new finalists as entries more than double since 2020

This year’s 20 finalists include a magnet-based vertical castle-building game, a medium-weight strategy title centred around wedding planning, and a Persian folklore-themed action selection design which sees players use astrolabes to read stars and hunt demons.

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Asmodee seals record quarterly net sales despite 23% US slump

That drop saw the US fall behind both France and the UK in Q3 in terms of the company’s highest-performing countries for net sales, with France surging 47% year-on-year to over €111m, and the UK growing 41% to €82.7m.

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Asmodee continues acquisition of CMON titles with Sheriff of Nottingham purchase

The latest deal comes eight months after Asmodee kicked off its reignited strategy of buying up smaller board game publishers, distributors and IPs by acquiring CMON’s flagship IP Zombicide, a series which had raised more than $40m on Kickstarter since its 2012 launch.

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Tabletop industry veteran Ryan Dancey loses Alderac COO job after saying AI can generate game ideas as good as some of his company’s designs

Dancey told BoardGameWire, “This tide is, in my opinion, only running one way, and AEG is going to have to fight hard to hold it’s [sic] position.”

News courtesy of BoardGameWire.com. Plugin developed by Meeple Mountain.

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