Board Game News

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Below you’ll find news and announcements from the world of tabletop gaming as well as hyperlocal information from Nashville, the birthplace of Meeple Mountain.

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JinxO wins 2026 Spiel des Jahres, Rebirth secures historic triple for Reiner Knizia

JinxO designer Martin Ang’s victory underscores the growing internationality of the venerable German board games award, which until last year’s success for Hishashi Hayashi’s Bomb Busters had never been won by an Asian designer.

Devir hires longtime The Op hobby games director Pat Marino to lead North American sales and marketing

Marino joins Devir in the newly-created role after nine years at The Op, including the last four as director of hobby games, where he helped oversee releases such as runaway hit Flip 7, Gnome Hollow and Tacta.

Brotherwise bets hobby games have become brands, recruits 20 publishers for miniature board game box collectibles line

The publisher will debut ‘Season One’ of Shelfy at Gen Con later this month, featuring 28 miniature recreations of board game boxes for titles including Gloomhaven, Dune Imperium and Boop.

Indie publisher Eurydice Games hits almost £400,000 in revenue while hand-making every copy of its game in a garage

While many indie game designers and small publishers view moving to overseas manufacturing as an inevitable step once demand grows, Eurydice believes its experience demonstrates that remaining in-house can make commercial sense for certain types of games.

Tabletop Junkie aims to make it easier to buy, sell, and trade board games

February 8, 2026

Andy Matthews

How can modern web tech smooth out the rough patches in buying and selling used board games? UK based Tabletop Junkie has a plan. Read on for the...

Tilt 5: The Much-Anticipated Arrival of AR Glasses for Board Games

November 22, 2023

Guest Contributor

Tilt5 has designed a system that’s perfectly fused traditional board gameplay with 3D, stereoscopic visuals and ultra-realistic holograms. Here’s how...