In the wake of widespread state and local lockdown or “safer-at-home” orders, we’ve been receiving notices from a number of game companies that have suspended shipments.

Game designer Matt Leacock has penned an opinion piece for the Times on the origins and relevance to our present day situation of the game he designed.

While the hobby games channel had a solid holiday season overall, tough comps in TCGs and fewer hits in board games made it tougher to beat 2018 numbers in 2019.

The Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design (AAGAD) announced the list of games nominated for 2020 Origins Awards.

This chart of the Top 10 Board Games (hobby channel) reflects sales in Fall 2019.

Sales of hit board game Wingspan were the biggest factor in a 33% increase in sales for Stonemaier Games to $12.8 million for 2019.

A clerical error in an order to the Chinese manufacturer of Wingspan led to most distributors in the U.S. and Canada receiving no copies from a recent 21,520-copy print run.

Stonemaier Games revealed that Wingspan: Oceania , the next expansion to the popular Wingspan board game, will be about the birds of Australia and New Zealand and is projected to release in late 2020.

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

Alderac Entertainment Group announced Mariposas, a butterfly collecting board game, for release into trade on July 31, 2020.