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Chase Taylor-Carter @chasecarter.bsky.social · 9h

I spoke with two members of @uwotc-official.bsky.social's newest unions just after the publisher declined voluntary recognition. The workers are confident in the election's outcome but describe a culture of crunch and empty promises where those billions in revenue are never reinvested in people.

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Chase Taylor-Carter @chasecarter.bsky.social · 21h

Howdy! Any union experts (preferably with tabletop knowledge as well) willing to pinch hit for a podcast recording today or tomorrow about the Wizards of the Coast unions? Shares appreciated! DM me or email: chase@rascal.news

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Nick Ferris @nickferris.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I've updated my list of designers selling their games at the Indie Games Night Market at PAX Unplugged with the new folks of 2026 including @practicalpeng.bsky.social @tricktaking.bsky.social @jamiesabriel.bsky.social @nnoa.bsky.social @mandashafer.bsky.social and more! If I missed you, let me know.

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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Spiel Essen 2026: This year’s talks and panels for board game industry professionals cover everything from AI and game localisation to emerging tabletop markets, careers in the industry and the process of bringing a board game from prototype to store shelves: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

A room of people sitting in chairs facing a stage, which includes big screens showing footage of the two people on the stage talking. Spiel.Talks panel discussion from Spiel Essen 2025.

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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Yesterday, Wizards informed us that it doesn’t intend to voluntarily recognize the D&D or Studio X units of our union ahead of a vote. We remain committed to creating a workplace focused on wellness, transparency, and collaboration by winning our coming election.

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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

At the risk of spending all day just posting about games I think look and sound excellent - I think this game looks and sounds excellent:

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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Brits abroad! Would love to catch up, I'll drop you a DM.

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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

This sounds absolutely fascinating, and a cracking game - very excited for release:

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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Final BoardGameWire newsletter before the madness of Spiel Essen. If you're heading to the show and want to chat, please drop me a message! In the meantime, here's all the board game industry news worth catching up on, as well as design advice and the latest jobs: buttondown.com/boardgamewir...

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Steamforged crowdfunding concerns grow as updates dry up, refund requests go unresolved

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Rascal News @rascal.news · 13/10/2026

EN World remains calm amidst a plague of AI bot swarms www.rascal.news/en-world-rem...

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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Cheers Oliver! Probably just an issue with their firewall or similar.

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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Thanks! Unfortunately I have a lot more power over the former than the latter, but I really hope they get their act together and deliver your games

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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

...(and is anyone having trouble loading the links? I've had someone email to say they're not working for them, but seems ok to me?)

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Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press · 13/10/2026

There are 237 posts in the Skeleton Code Machine archive. All for free. Nothing paywalled. Enjoy! Make weird games! www.skeletoncodemachine.com

You know, I'm something of a GAME DESIGNER myself.

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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Of course it was! I completely missed that, thanks Bryan.

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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Asmodee scores Dutch game of the year double as Take Time, Lord of the Rings trick-taking titles triumph: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

Four board game boxes - for Take Time, River of Gold and the two Lord of the Rings: Trick-Taking Game titles. In front of them are three large wooden awards shaped like pawns, with windmill arms attached. The three awards from the Nederlandse Spellenprijs, the Dutch game of the year award.

A woman with long blond hair and a man with very short hair and a short beard hold up an orange award with a wooden pawn on top made to look like a windmill, and copies of the two Lord of the Rings: Trick-Taking Games from Asmodee and designer Bryan Bornmueller. Asmodee’s Yke Rietveld and Hidde van Maurik. Photo Credit: Henk Rolleman

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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Peer this sounds amazing, and I absolutely could not bring myself to play it. Still too raw 😅

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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Huge congrats on the launch Chris! Been following your work for ages, and it's great to see a new trade site working the beat. Wishing you huge good fortune getting together the subscriptions you need, and looking forward to reading! 😊

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Domhnall Hegarty @domhnallh.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Fantastic to see the thought behind the graphic design get some airing.

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tuomaspirinen.bsky.social @tuomaspirinen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Friends, are you or do you know any graphic designers who are free to take freelance gig on a short notice? Experience in tabletop games is a huge plus! If so, please contact me!

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Chase Taylor-Carter @chasecarter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Spoke with two members of @uwotc-official.bsky.social's MTG Arena team who told me what supporting the D&D and MTG unions will look like: education, collaboration, and innoculation against propaganda. Also, apparently the union-avoidant messaging within WotC never really stopped.

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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Steamforged Games is facing mounting criticism from crowdfunding backers over unresolved refunds and dwindling updates across its undelivered projects, after it cut about a third of its workforce and refocused towards its Warmachine miniatures earlier this year: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

Two very white board game boxes, with several plastic miniatures in front representing large monster-like creatures and several heroes. Crowdfunding image for Monster Hunter Iceborne: The Board Game from Steamforged Games.

A board game box which has several world war two military leaders on, above the words Hearts of Iron The Board Game. The box is on a red table near a board which has a map of Europe on, and several other cardboard reference sheets, other board and playing cards. Small plastic miniatures representing ships, troops and tanks are also visible coloured red and blue. Hearts of Iron The Board Game crowdfunding image.

Two board game boxes in a green/blue and gold colour scheme, with the words Terra Mystic on the front inside a golden circle. Below are multiple game boards and a colourful hex map, covered in different coloured wooden components. Boards and pieces from the Terra Mystica Special Edition crowdfunding campaign - Gamefound image.

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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Tim I think this might be the slickest joke I’ve seen on this site, pure magic

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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Once again - Dan is a blazing beacon when it comes to thoughtful board game discussion and reviews. Go read his stuff, enjoy, and then support his Patreon to help keep the good stuff coming.

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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

@ithayla.bsky.social Hello mate! My friend Alex is keen to chat to you about Priority Hagalaz for a feature he's writing, if you're interested? DM me a good email address to get you on if so, and I'll connect you both up :)

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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

D&D, Magic workers move to unionise, citing crunch and job insecurity despite record Wizards of the Coast profits: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

D&D, Magic workers move to unionise, citing crunch and job insecurity despite record Wizards of the Coast profits: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 06/10/2026

Dungeons & Dragons, Duel Masters, and Magic: The Gathering teams unionize at Hasbro aftermath.site/magic-the-gath...

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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...

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Dungeons & Dragons and Studio X Join United Wizards of the Coast - CWA

Today, October 6, 2026, the designers, artists, writers, producers, and workers behind Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Duel Masters, D&D Beyond, and countless other games are uniting in soli...

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KC from NIBCARD Games @nibcard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hi, we failed to reach our KS goal to host AB Con this year. But we are not giving up. Our team have been planning and we have made a part payment for venue Please if you’d still want to support us, here is a link: remoteworkready.selar.com/06lc7z888a Please also share to your community.

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Buy AB Con X Campaign by African Boardgames Convention on Selar

AB Con X: Help Us Make 10 Years HappenAB Con is turning 10.For the past decade, AB Con has brought gamers, designers, publishers, creators and communities together to play, learn, connect and grow Afr...

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Chase Taylor-Carter @chasecarter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Very lovely to have fellow tabletop reporter @newsnerd.bsky.social on this week's podcast episode to discuss, among other things, the end of Renegade's stewardship of V:TM and whether a Houston-based PAX Unplugged expansion makes sense.

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Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

great, interesting thread

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

MyMiniFactory marketing and brand head Anjuli Smith has left the 3D-printing marketplace to launch her own tabletop agency, whose work will include helping smaller board game publishers find distributors and expand internationally: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It certainly looks that way to me, but CGE are on the record in the article categorically denying that AI was used

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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Codenames makes Netflix debut after streaming giant approached CGE for licence - then hired it to develop the game instead: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20... @czechgames.com

Illustration of a woman in a brown trenchcoat, holding some Top Secret files, and a man in a dark suit, holding a magnifying glass and a small piece of card. Between them is a dog wearing a tuxedo sitting on a pile of papers in a fancy leather armchair. They are in a room with blinds on the window, suffused with an orange glow. Image from Netflix adaptation of the Codenames board game, Codenames Party.

Digital board game showing a 4x4 grid of rectangles, each with a single word. Most are red but two - Diamond and Cave - are light green. Digital image from Codenames Party, the Netflix adaptation of Czech Games Edition board game Codenames.

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Armchair Dragoons @armchairdragoons.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Mentioned In Dispatches S17 E4 — The Tabletop Game Designers Association We're joined by Elizabeth Hargrave & David Thompson to talk about the TTGDA & what it can do for game designers & publishers Incl discussions of contracts/shenanigans, AI, prof dev & more… armchairdragoons.com...

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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Codenames makes Netflix debut after streaming giant approached CGE for licence - then hired it to develop the game instead: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20... @czechgames.com

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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Game Store Day, GAMA's annual initiative aimed at getting more people into local game stores to play, shop and take part in events, is growing for its second year after retailers and publishers were given substantially more time to prepare than for its debut: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

Photo of people filling a board game store. Two large bulb lights hang from the ceiling and a large plastic skeleton is visible to the left of the picture. Gamers taking part in Game Store Day 2025 at Games Unlimited in Pittsburgh.

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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A TV show based directly on the gameplay of 25-year-old social deduction board game The Werewolves of Miller’s Hollow has landed an International Emmy award nomination: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

An illustration of 13 huts all facing each other in a circle around a campfire, where contestants in a game show are sat. Some have normal shadows cast by the fire, while some have shadows which look like the clawed hand of a werewolf. Poster for French TV show Loups-Garous, which has just been nominated for an International Emmy award.

Box cover for The Werewolves of Miller's Hollow board game, showing a stylised wolf head and four claws surrounding it attached to a black shadowy body.

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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Luxembourg’s hospitality industry has named trick-taker Pili Pili as its board game of the year, continuing an eight-year initiative aimed at getting modern hobby games onto the tables of cafés, bars and restaurants: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

A dozen or so people sitting at tables in a Luxembourg bistro, all playing games on the tables.

Board game cards and other components from five games - Pili Pili, Sneaky, Auf Die Eier, Oh My Socks! and dnup, scattered together on a white background.

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