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“We’ve been ready for this step!”: Allplay’s Joe Wiggins on its striking push into heavier games, bigger productions and new audiences

Allplay is making its biggest strategic shift since its predecessor Boardgametables.com entered publishing in 2018 – launching a trio of new product lines aimed at markets well beyond the accessible, smaller-box strategy games that have defined it to date.

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Gen Con hires The Dice Tower’s Camilla Cleghorn as head of events as show looks to scale beyond record attendance

The hire puts a familiar face from board game media in charge of planning and delivering one of the tabletop industry’s largest event programmes.

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Who has the fairest contracts in board games? TTGDA launches publisher benchmark to improve treatment of designers

The Tabletop Game Designers Association has begun scoring and comparing the standard contracts board game publishers offer to designers, with the aim of improving how game creators are treated and paid.

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TCGs drive PAX Aus tabletop expansion as organisers grow segment’s exhibition space by 7%

Pax Aus has featured tabletop games since the Melbourne-based con was launched in 2013, with the segment having grown over the years to take up a significant share of the show’s floor space.

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

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