ProtoSpiel NorthEast is a game design convention to be held on July 19th at the NYU Game Center. Tickets are $15 now or $20 at the door. This is a charity event: after paying expenses, all profits will be donated to the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative, an award winning disease treatment charity.

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We are proud to announce the public launch of our new company, titled “The Shenandoah Studio.” We are a new game company, and a new kind of game company to boot. We are focused on finding the best games by top game designers and then publishing them on the iPad.

National Public Radio's Colin McEnroe explores the boardgaming renaissance.

You can listen to it here: http://www.yourpublicmedia.org/node/15955

A new, stand-alone game inspired by Terraforming Mars featuring faster gameplay and over 200 beautifully illustrated cards!

Just for you fellow Arkham fatties that have been eagerly awaiting their release (like I have).  You can finally order the miniatures for Arkham Horror at Fantasy Flight Game's website: http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_minisite_sec.asp?eidm=126&esem=2

We shall swim out to that brooding reef in the sea and dive down through black abysses to Cyclopean and many-columned Y’ha-nthlei, and in that lair of the Deep Ones we shall dwell amidst wonder and glory for ever.  –H.P. Lovecraft, The Shadow over Innsmouth

The Arkham Horror Toolkit includes:

Investigator Tool - tracks your investigator stats

Dice Roller - Rolls up to 15 dice; clearly displays successes; can be adjusted for blessed or cursed; allows you to spend clue tokens (the clue token you have are tracked by the toolkit)

Location Deck - Choose an Arkham or Other Worlds location and the tool will display a random card. You can choose to included or exclude expansions. (Expansions must be downloaded separately)

Map - Use as a quick reference, or zoom and tap a location to draw a location card.

Price: $2.99

Compatible with: iPhone, iPod, and iPad

More Information can be found at: The Arkham Horror Toolkit Website and the iTunes App Store

(GUYANCOURT, FRANCE) FEBRUARY 11, 2021 - Asmodee announces the acquisition of Board Game Arena (BGA), the digital multiplayer board game platform, to provide BGA with high visibility among the consumer market and accelerate the release of Asmodee’s long-awaited successes by players. 

Asmodee North America is excited to announce an exclusive distribution partnership with Alliance Game Distributors in the United States.

Asmodee Entertainment are delighted to announce the creation of their own fiction imprint. Called Aconyte, it will be publishing novels based on many of Asmodee’s best game properties. Aconyte are also actively pursuing licenses for third-party tie-in fiction, with the first of these at the contract stage. Aconyte will start a monthly publication schedule from early summer 2020, producing paperbacks and ebooks for the US, UK and export trade.

Become the most fearsome Gangster in Birmingham!

PAI Partners, a private equity group, has entered exclusive discussions to acquire Asnodee €1.2bn. A formal announcement of the purchase is expected soon.

Asmodee USA Distribution announced it entered into a distribution deal with Funforge, a Paris-based board game publisher known for its high-quality titles. Asmodee USA customers will have access to Funforge’s line of English language games through this deal.

From Prospero Hall, the inventors who designed Disney Villainous, Bob Ross: Art of Chill, Choose Your Own Adventure, Horrified: Universal Monsters, and more, comes a new thrilling adaptation: Back to the Future – Back in Time!

It's sink or swim in Sunk Costs, the latest expansion for Bargain Quest that brings the game to the Seven Seas!

Cyanide Studio has upgraded its Blood Bowl video game site from teaser site to a fully operational battlestation! I mean Web site loaded with content of the trailer video, screen shots and info variety.

Free Copy of the new Summoner Wars Master Set

Four new board games from Russia: Potion-making. Practice, Evolution. The Origin of species, The Enigma of Leonardo, The Kingdoms of Crusaders.