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Heat: Pedal to the Metal is a race car board game

July 1, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

When we first started working on Heat: Pedal to the Metal in 2018 our motivation was to make a Formula One racing game that could reach a wide family audience, while remaining interesting to gamers.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Asmodee, board games, Days of Wonder, Heat: Pedal to the Metal

Access+ is a new accessible tabletop game studio from giant Asmodee

May 10, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Access+ is launched because, at Asmodee, we believe board games are universal.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Asmodee, board games

Competition: Ticket to Ride London

May 6, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood 37 Comments

Good news for readers in the UK as Geek Native has a copy of Ticket to Ride London. At least Asmodee UK is sending me one to send to you.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Asmodee, board games, competitions, Days of Wonder, Ticket to Ride

Modiphius and Asmodee USA partner up on Skyrim and James Bond deal

March 15, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Asmodee USA will get exclusive English language worldwide rights to distribute SPECTRE, the new James Bond game from Modiphius and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim – The Adventure Game.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Asmodee, board games, Modiphius Entertainment, Skyrim, spectre

No Slave Leia in sight: Star Wars Jabba Palace is a Love Letter variant

February 13, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Princess Leia does appear but looking badass in her Boushh bounty hunter armour.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Asmodee, card games, Love Letter, star wars, star wars jabba's palace, z-man games

Tabletop gaming superstore Miniature Market slyly bought by Asmodee

December 26, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Asmodee bought Miniature Market some time ago. It’s taken a mention in a presentation about something else for the world to notice.

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: Asmodee, board game arena, embracer, miniature market

Dark Horse bought by Asmodee’s new owners, the Embracer Group

December 21, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Embracer Group has bought the comic book company Dark Horse. The comic book publisher owns more than 300 titles which now join the parent company’s impressive library.

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: Asmodee, dark horse, embracer

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #131

December 17, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A look at which games published this year have sold the best and other RPG news!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: adventure presents, age of sigmar, ascendant, Asmodee, Autarch, axian spice, beastheart and monstrous companions, brian fitzpatrick, carbon 2185, Catalyst Game Labs, Clement Sector, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, dark raptor press, darrington press, demiplane, dragon turtle games, dungeon sage, everway, fandom tabletop, Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, foundry vtt, free league nexus, Free League Publishing, fspace publications, gallant knight games, gaudreau steve, global daily, Green Ronin Publishing, Highmoon Press, hopeless maine, Independence Games, invisible sun, jeremy hart illos, lands of legends, Legacy of the Soul Flame, lightspress media, Loke BattleMats, magpie games, mcdm, moebius adventures, nectar of the gods, northern realms, Outland Entertainment, pathfinder, rebellion unplugged, ripley caldwell, roll20, root, routinely itemised, salvage union, seffner games, shadowrun: anarchy 2050, sine nomine publishing, starfinder, Steve Jackson Games, strixhaven, sword noir, sword's edge publishing, the between, the dungeon dozen, the eldritch tome games, the expanse rpg, the isle of dread, the merciless merchants, the well, this defiant earth, TSR, warehouse 23, warhammer, wise women, wizards of the coast, World Anvil, wrath & glory

Asmodee will sell for €2.75bn to the video game owner of Gearbox, Koch and THQ Nordic

December 15, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Embracer Group is lined up to buy the board game powerhouse for €2.75bn. The sale was expected but it looks like they got €0.75bn more than initially thought.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Asmodee, Borderlands, Catan, catan studio, darksiders, embracer, fantasy flight games, Gearbox, money

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #119

September 24, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Games company expelled from Origins, another up for sale at an eyewatering price, and so many tempting new games. A busy week of RPG news!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Achtung! Cthulhu, adam hancock, archives of the empire, Asmodee, awfully queer heroes, batman, batman: gotham City Chronicles, black and white media, blade runner, blade runner rpg, bloody theater, blueshift nine, brambleberry, Bully Pulpit Games, Call of Cthulhu, Catalyst Game Labs, chamomile has adventures, champions of death, children of midnight, city of cats, cubicle 7, decuma, delver, demiverse, dms guild, Double Fine Productions, Dungeons & Dragons, edge, eidol, ENnies, fallout, far away land rpg, Flabbergasted!, Free League Publishing, gama, genesys, harlequin's guide to cities and poison, index card rpg, inferno, iron kingdoms, ironsworn, Kalymba, knock!, kobold guide to gamemastering, Legend of the Five Rings, mew-tants, midgard, mighty narwhal productions, monolith, Monte Cook Games, moonmares games, morra, mutant crawl classics, night land, one gold piece, orc+bone, Origins Award, Paizo Publishing, planebreaker, Privateer Press, Punkapocalyptic, Ravenloft, Robert J. Schwalb, roll20, routinely itemised, runehammer games, savage worlds, sean owen roberson, shadowrun: the kechibi code, Simian Circle Games, Skeletonkey games, soulbound: champions of death, splinterverse media, Star City Savages, star wars: the mandalorian, starry forest books, stormbringer, strixhaven, the children of fear, the drowned war, the scumbag's guide to scrapbridge, The Wild Beyond the Witchlight: A Feywild Adventure, this is the way, tombpunk, total party skills, Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, viking death squad, vivid worlds, wanderhome, wizkids

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