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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.”

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Asmodee unveils Ticket to Ride Netflix deal in ongoing push to get its best-selling games onto the big screen

Asmodee said a feature film based on Ticket to Ride is already in development, written by Ben Mekler and Chris Amick – the Kung Fu Panda animated series writers who previously prepared a movie pitch for Leder Games’ breakout title Root.

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Kosmos takes full ownership of distribution arm Thames & Kosmos UK amid retirement of latter’s founding directors

Kosmos managing director Matthias Kienzle said, “With the new ownership structure and the newly formed management team, we aim to further scale and continuously expand our international sales activities.”

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

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