American toy retailers from trade body ASTRA have named Finspan, The Gang and Trio as the board game winners of its latest annual Play Awards - which it says were created to highlight novel designs which are "thought provoking or groundbreaking" within the industry.
Unconscious Mind, a worker placement game themed around the psychoanalysis work of Sigmund Freund in the early 1900s, has scooped a record seven nominations in this year's Dice Tower Awards.
Dot Com, an economic strategy game which uses an app to run players' money supplies down in real time, has been crowned the winner of this year's Cardboard Edison Award for unpublished board game designs.
The nominees for this year's Spiel des Jahres, widely considered the highest profile award in board gaming, have been unveiled ahead of the grand final on July 13.
Umataka, a worker placement game centred around hunter-gatherers making traditional pottery in ancient Japan, has been named game of the year in the latest Golden Box Board Game Awards.
High IQ society Mensa has revealed this year's recipients of its Mensa Select seal, following its traditional four-day gaming marathon to determine the winners.
A 17-year-old German children's game has won this year's Japan Boardgame Prize, almost two decades after it picked up a recommendation in the kids segment of the much lauded Spiel des Jahres competition.
The Origins Awards, one of board gaming's longest-running prizes voted on by industry professionals, has picked out a huge slate of 120 nominees for its 2024 competition - which coincides with the 50th anniversary of its namesake gaming convention.
The long-running Cardboard Edison Award is celebrating a decade of highlighting the best currently unpublished board games, as it unveils the finalists for this year's competition.
A Pittsburgh tabletop game store which is still pushing new boundaries more than 45 years after being launched has picked up a pair of The Game Manufacturers Association's Power Retail Awards, including retailer of the year.
