Fantasy Flight Games shut down its interactive division and laid off employees in its roleplaying game division, but continues to publish RPGs.

Spotty supply on some of the most popular board games slowed sales during the Summer season.

Sam Mendes’ period war drama 1917 easily took the weekend box office crown with a far-better-than-expected $36.5 million 3-day total as it expanded from 11 theaters to almost 3,500 on the weekend after the film had won two key awards (“Best Motion Picture” & “Best Director”) at the Golden Globes.

Fantasy Flight Games unveiled three expansions for Star Wars: X-Wing 2E, Xi-class Light Shuttle, LAAT/i Gunship, and HMP Droid Gunship, for release in Q2.

The first volume, which will street in the run-up to the movie, will get a 100,000 copy print run.

The 2020 box office started out the way 2019 finished with “geek” titles dominating the domestic market, accounting for 5 out of the top six spots led by Star Wars: Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker.

There were two major launches among the top five RPGs in the hobby channel in the Summer 2019 season, but neither threatened #1.

The Games Workshop lines and unpainted miniatures tied to Dungeons & Dragons continued to dominate the non-collectible portion of the miniatures market in Summer 2019.

Despite slipping 59.7%, Star Wars: Episode IX—The Rise of Skywalker easily took the weekend box office crown with an estimated $72 million, while Greta Gerwig’s adaptation of Little Women was a surprise third place finisher.

IDW Publishing will release Marvel Art of the Brothers Hildebrandt, a collection of Greg and Tim Hildebrandt's Marvel Comics work, on June 23, 2020.