• Imperial Steam from designer Alexander Huemer and writer Capstone Games has received the 2022 Jogo do Ano, Portugal’s sport of the yr award, beating out the opposite nominees: Ark Nova, Coffee Traders, Golem, and Messina 1347.

If you are interested in Imperial Steam, Candice Harris coated the sport in depth in December 2021.

• The worth of Hasbro inventory fell in mid-November after Bank of America analyst Jason Haas downgraded the inventory twice from “purchase” to “underperform”. From CNBC: “The transfer comes after BofA performed what it calls a ‘deep dive’ on Hasbro’s Magic: The Gathering buying and selling card sport enterprise. BofA stated Hasbro has been overprinting playing cards and destroying the long-term worth of the enterprise.”

John Ballard at The Motley Fool had an extended article on Hasbro’s standing, noting that “Magic is estimated to make up over a 3rd of the corporate’s adjusted working revenue, so if gross sales have been to fall, it could be problematic for Hasbro’s enterprise. The analyst cited suggestions from gamers and retailer house owners who stated Hasbro is over-distributing playing cards to drive up gross sales, however this might backfire in the long term if gamers develop uninterested in chasing down increasingly playing cards.”

• The 2022 CATAN World Championship takes place November 18-20 in Valletta, Malta, with 87 contestants from 48 international locations taking part within the occasion. The CATAN World Championship is generally held each two years, however the 2020 occasion was cancelled because of a worldwide sheep scarcity. The CATAN web site will livestream from the occasion beginning on November 20.

• In August 2022, Charlie Hall of Polygon interviewed Jonathan Ritter-Roderick of Lay Waste Games, who had simply been promoted inside Kickstarter to senior outreach lead for tabletop. An excerpt:

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“My purpose at Kickstarter is to cross off the data that I’ve and, if I haven’t got the data, get individuals in contact with those that do,” he stated. “My hope is to sort of guarantee that persons are as knowledgeable as humanly doable, and that can flip assist them be as profitable as doable.”

• SPIEL ’22 hosted a panel to debate varied crises within the sport trade, equivalent to uncooked materials shortages, provide chain points, power prices, and so forth. The company have been Frank Jaeger, who handles product growth for producer Ludo Fact; Udo Fischer, gross sales director for Asmodee GmbH; and Matthias Nagy of Frosted Games and Deep Print Games. (The dialogue is in German, however you possibly can most likely set subtitles to the language of your selection.)