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Two games, two Deutscher Spiele Preis wins: Ark Nova designer Mathias Wigge takes second title with Sanctuary

German board game designer Mathias Wigge has pulled off an impressive feat at the Deutscher Spiele Preis – Germany’s biggest community-voted board game award – by winning with both of his first two standalone games, Ark Nova and Sanctuary.

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“I wouldn’t expect this to become the norm”: backers overwhelmingly choose King’s Gambit most expensive tiers, power crowdfund past $2.3m

King’s Gambit is currently averaging almost $319 across its backers to date – despite almost 1,000 people having committed just $5 for access to the pledge manager.

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Osprey Games lets entire board and card game development team go, cancels Essen booth

Osprey revealed in May that multinational book giant Bloomsbury had made the “difficult decision” to sell the board and card game line as part of a wider “strategic refocusing” on book publishing, which would see Osprey concentrate on its wargames and RPGs.

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Spiel Essen 2026: This year’s best talks and panels for board game industry professionals

This year’s SPIEL.talks programme of panel discussions will be on the main show floor for the second year running, with sessions in Hall 4 covering everything from artificial intelligence and game localisation to emerging tabletop markets, careers in the industry and the process of bringing a board game from prototype to store shelves around the world.

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