The Wild West themed family tabletop game has picked up the Game of the Year award in Germany. Esdevium’s popular family game Colt Express has clinched this year’s Spiel des Jahres (Game of the Year) award. Widely considered ...
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The new card ranges feature packs based on the complete saga. Playing cards and card games company Cartamundi has launched its new Star Wars playing card ranges. Aimed at ages four upwards, the range includes two specially designed card ...
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This week, ToyNews' Rob Hutchins reports from a Christmas themed Board Game Club, an emerging hot bed of inventor relations. Never let it be said that the game inventor community is a dull one. If you aren’t busy cooking up games ...
In the season 18 premiere, Zombicide, Dead of Winter and King of New York each undergo a South Park make-over. The board game renaissance appears to have hit South Park. Last week, a number of Esdevium’s popular titles were ...
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It's a common enough scenario in Nigeria and across Africa: how to get rid of pesky mosquitoes whose buzzing disturbs sleep and whose bites can carry malaria and other diseases. Two Nigerian start-ups have tapped this—and other ...
NPD figures have confirmed Drumond Park is the UK's leading independent games company. The total UK games market is led by Hasbro but Ipswich-based Drumond Park has taken second place for the third year running. NPD results also see ...
Games specialist Drumond Park is celebrating another successful year of business. According to NPD’s Top Games Manufacturers performance table, the firm remains number two in the UK, in terms of full-year percentage value. It ...
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For the past three years,Nils Puhlmann was head of security for Zynga,the social games company that created mega-hits Farmville and Words With Friends. Managing Zynga's converged security department was a challenging job that Puhlmann ...
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Technology visionaries Ian Livingstone and Martha Lane Fox have been recognised in the New Year Honours List this year. Livingstone,author of the'Fighting Fantasy'series of books,and also chairman of video games company Eidos,will be made ...
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Battle.net, the service that hosts videogames company Blizzard's massively multiplayer online game World of Warcraft, has come under attack from hackers, according to a security update on the game's website. Mike Morhaime, president and ...
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