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Naked mole rats, living room murder parties and robot chefs are up for best unpublished board game award

Fourteen worthy tabletop designs advance to a final round of judging for the Cardboard Edison, including titles about comic book sales and fusion reactors.

Feb. 28, 2024 Chase Carter

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Women are Werewolves and Cloud Empress creators honoured at 2024 Nonbinary Tabletop Awards

Board game content creator Matthew Makak of Room 51 also clinches an award.

Feb. 7, 2024 Chase Carter

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Teatime Adventures studio introduces awards for nonbinary representation in RPGs and board games

"We hope that this program gives more folks in the industry the recognition that they deserve, because there is so much amazing work in tabletop that is going underappreciated right now."

Oct. 18, 2023 Chase Carter

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Planet Unknown and Mysterium Kids clinch wins at German Deutscher Spiele Preis board game awards

Dorfromantik and Heat: Pedal to the Medal take second and thorp place, respectively.

Oct. 10, 2023 Chase Carter

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Zenobia Award returns to highlight more underrepresented creators in historical tabletop design

The annual award and mentorship programme was founded in 2020 by Root creator Cole Wehrle and a team of historians and game designers.

Oct. 2, 2023 Chase Carter

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Indigenous RPG Coyote & Crow wins 2023 Diana Jones Award

Tabletop's oddest-looking award honours this year's "excellence in gaming" and emerging designers with a new resin pyramid.

Aug. 3, 2023 Chase Carter

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IGDN’s 2023 Groundbreaker winners include a 90-pound butter heist, reality-spanning stickers and dinos in cars

Who's selling automobiles to these dinosaurs, anyway?

Aug. 1, 2023 Chase Carter

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Fabula Ultima, Pasión de las Pasiones and Trophy make 2023 ENnie Awards best RPG shortlist

Avatar Legends and Blade Runner swamped by a sea of smaller tabletop titles in this year’s nomination round.

July 18, 2023 Chase Carter

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Chill village-building board game Dorfromantik takes home Spiel des Jahres 2023

Mysterium Kids and Challengers! among other winners at one of tabletop’s biggest awards

July 17, 2023 Chase Carter

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Pathfinder, Cyberpunk and Boop win big at 2023 Origins Awards

The people love cat hijinks on a bed.

June 27, 2023 Chase Carter

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Root creator Cole Wehrle, indigenous RPG Coyote & Crow among finalists for 2023 Diana Jones Award

The pyramid-shaped award for “excellence in gaming” also includes a journalist for the first time.

June 21, 2023 Chase Carter

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Cardboard Edison 2023 winner is a puzzly board game about microscopes, mosaics and algae

Plankton can be beautiful, too.

May 23, 2023 Chase Carter

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Boop. and Turing Machine among big winners at 2023 American Tabletop Awards

The US’ largest tabletop awards also honoured Carnegie and Planet Unknown

April 18, 2023 Chase Carter

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Cooperative Luddite Rebellion and asymmetric food poisoning among the year’s best unpublished board games

Finalists for the 2023 Cardboard Edison showcase what may become tabletop’s next big hits.

Feb. 28, 2023 Chase Carter

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ENnie Awards 2022 winners: Thirsty Sword Lesbians sweeps top TRPG categories amid tough competition

Call of Cthulhu and Wanderhome among other big winners.

Aug. 8, 2022 Chase Carter

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IGDN's 2022 Groundbreakers include games where one player is a gun and a JRPG-inspired, post-fantasy Brazil

Small games, huge impact.

Aug. 1, 2022 Chase Carter

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Thirsty Sword Lesbians, Uncaged: Goddesses and Colostle clinch major noms in the 2022 ENnie Awards

Uncaged: Goddesses, Wanderhome and Jianghsi among other top contenders.

July 8, 2022 Chase Carter

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Sapphic and sharp tabletop RPG Thirsty Sword Lesbians wins Nebula Award for best game writing

This one’s for the girls bearing steel.

May 23, 2022 Chase Carter

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Lost Ruins of Arnak and Cascadia clinch wins at 2022 American Tabletop Awards

Dicebreaker editorial revolts over Oath snubbing.

April 12, 2022 Chase Carter

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Coyote & Crow and Wanderhome among four TRPGs in the running for a 2022 Nebula Award

Words good.

March 10, 2022 Chase Carter

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Nigerian board game company Nibcard has won the Diana Jones 2021 award

The committee says it chose Nibcard for its efforts to steward a growing tabletop movement in West Africa.

Sept. 17, 2021 Chase Carter

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Inaugural Zenobia Award nominees include Haitian revolution, Indonesian independence as historical board games

Winners will be announced October 15th.

Aug. 17, 2021 Chase Carter

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Heart: The City Beneath, Alice is Missing and Slayers all nab multiple 2021 ENnie Awards nominations

The dark delving RPG from Rowan, Rook and Deckard place top of the list with noms in eight categories.

Aug. 13, 2021 Chase Carter

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Indie Game Developer Network announces nominees for 2021 Groundbreakers Award

The awards are "designed to shine a spotlight on excellence in the indie game design community".

Aug. 11, 2021 Chase Carter

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Field Guide to Memory co-creator Jeeyon Shim wins 2021 Diana Jones Emerging Designer Program

The committee awarded the "groundbreaking game designer" for her work and emerging influence in the hobby.

Aug. 4, 2021 Chase Carter

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Nibcraft, Elizabeth Hargrave, Session Zero among finalists for the 2021 Diana Jones Award

Diana Jones and the Temple of Doing Great Work.

July 16, 2021 Chase Carter

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The Crew: Quest for Planet Nine among big winners at the 2021 American Tabletop Awards

Deep-space decorations.

April 7, 2021 Chase Carter

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