Asmodee continues their digital push, making the most of their highest profile games and have brought Settlers of Catan (aka CATAN) to Nintendo’s popular Switch.
Uncommonly Itemised: E3
This is Geek Native’s wrap up of E3 2019 and the inaugural article of the Routinely Itemised column, sister to the very Irregular Reconnaissance. Here you’ll find a summary of E3 news on and off the blog.
Asmodee Digital announces The Lord of the Rings: Adventure Card Game
The game will use boosters. Players collect these to build their own Fellowships to better explore the J. R. R. Tolkien’s quintessential fantasy world.
Asmodee have a secret video project, and they’re recruiting
The distributor is looking for a video production intern. The position will last for three months, and all going well, the job may become full-time.
Asmodee launch Gamegenic – a gaming accessories studio
Gamegenic will make gaming accessories.
Brace yourself for impact: The remarkable Degenesis RPG is coming
SIXMOREVODKA is a conceptual art studio in Berlin. They’re sought after by movie companies, game makers and comic book publishers, and they have a roleplaying game called Degenesis. You can read more about Degenesis the Rebirth Edition over at SIXMOREVODKA’s website, and there’s a short introduction to the game below. Degenesis is set in the […]
Christian T. Petersen steps down from Fantasy Flight and Asmodee
Christian T. Petersen is perhaps best well known as the founder of Fantasy Flight Games. He wrote the Nocturnum set of adventures of Call of Cthulhu with Darrell Hardy, co-designed the Game of Thrones wargame and worked on Doom: The Boardgame. In 2014 Petersen became the CEO of Asmodee North America. Asmodee is a well […]
Mayfair Games stops game publishing; sells to Asmodee North America
The iconic Mayfair Games has been sold to Asmodee North America. The company said; As of today, the management team at Mayfair Games, Inc. announces we will wind down game publishing. After 36 years, this was not an easy decision or one we took lightly, but it was necessary. Once we had come to this […]
WizKids to make Warhammer 40K games – Games Workshop share price surges
It isn’t April 1st. On the WizKids’ website is a press release that announces a multi-year partnership between Games Workshop and WizKids. WizKids will make Warhammer 40 Dice Building Games, board games and other undisclosed games. Games like Relic and Fury of Dracula will be republished. It’s great for fans that these two companies are […]
Settlers of Catan sold, Mayfair Games to continue
Settlers of Catan is one of those board games that’s made it out of the geek world fame and earned more mainstream status. There may well be people at your work or university who’ve never heard of Pathfinder but who know what Settlers of Catan is. Have you heard of Asmodee? They’ve just bought the […]
