Welcome to BoardGameWire! A new website designed specifically to cover the business of board games.
BoardGameWire provides news and features focused on the needs of board game designers, publishers, retailers and marketers, as well as investment professionals and consumers with an interest in the business side of the industry.
Board games have exploded in popularity over the past couple of decades, but despite hordes of websites offering reviews, Kickstarter previews and unboxing videos, the industry remains woefully underserved in terms of reliable, well-sourced news and features that go beyond which new games are being launched.
BoardGameWire aims to be the first - and best - dedicated provider of board game industry news and features, read by everyone from studio CEOs and marketers to game store owners and would-be designers, as well as interested members of the general board game playing community.
Who am I? I'm a veteran editor with more than 15 years of experience across B2B publishing and newspapers, who has also spent over a decade falling deeper and deeper into the rabbit hole of modern board games: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-didymus-true-3a8ba439/
I truly believe in this project, and have already committed investment to registering and launching the website, as well as many hours tracking down leads, interviewing board game industry members and writing and publishing stories.
But this website will need outside backing if it is going to continue long term, and that's where you come in. If you've enjoyed reading something on the website and think this is the sort of board games coverage you'd like to see survive and thrive, committing just a few dollars or pounds per month, or whatever you can afford, will help keep the lights on and expand what we're able to achieve in terms of reporting on the industry.