This marks the second consecutive year HABA has taken home the prize, having won for Dragon's Breath in 2018.

News of a new publishing company, its first release, and an 8-page preview.

This week, Scott Thorne shares his observations on Free RPG Day, the first under new ownership.

The week's home entertainment offerings include Tim Burton's stylish adaptation of Dumbo, a drama that turns on a scheme to lay fiber optic cable, a penetrating look at the refugee crisis in Germany, a true crime drama starring Martin Clunes, and a futuristic boxing anime that aired on Toonami.

Last week it was suggested here that the debut of Pixar's Toy Story 4 would be something of a defining moment in diagnosing the virulence of the case of "sequelitis" that is affecting the 2019 box office, but the Pixar film's $118 million opening, though well below expectations, didn't really prove to be definitive.

DC announced a raft of new middle-grade and young adult graphic novels today at the American Library Association Annual Conference.

IDW Publications has announced the April 2020 publication of a graphic novel adaptation of The Mueller Report by New Yorker cartoonist Shannon Wheeler and journalist Steve Duin ( The Oregonian ).

Bushiroad will release BanG Dream! Girls Band Party! Vol. 2 for the Weiss Schwarz Trading Card Game on October 18.

S7 Games has revealed its plans for Conan: Savage Legends, an arena-style combat miniatures game.

Catan Studios will release a new edition of Starfarers of Catan as Catan Starfarers this fall.

DC will consolidate all of its own publishing under three brands: DC Kids, DC, and DC Black Label.

U.K.-based miniatures game company Warlord Games and New Jersey-based Mythicos Studios will join to open co-branded retail locations.