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“We have a great story to tell, we just have to get better at telling it”: GAMA hires Kevin Ronnebaum as sixth comms head in as many years

Ronnebaum’s hire marks a continuation of high turnover at the top of GAMA’s comms department, with former incumbent Eric Francis having only joined the organisation 12 months ago.

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Origins attendance falls for first time since pandemic despite rising revenue, hall space, events volume

Attendance slipped to 18,700 at this year’s event in June from a post-pandemic record of 19,171 last year – and remains below the all-time high of 20,642 posted in 2019.

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Take Time follows Swiss Gamers Award win by securing Austrian game of the year prize

Alexi Piovesan and Julien Prothière’s design fought off competition from Florian Maas’ citybuilding game Project Skyline and Hjalmar Hach and Lorenzo Silva’s Railroad Ink sequel Railroad Tiles to take the 2026 award.

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Plaid Hat pulls funded The Monolith Kickstarter after pledges ‘stagnated’ on day two, plans post-Gen Con relaunch

Plaid Hat said it had failed to give prospective backers enough reasons to pledge rather than wait for retail.

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