24 September 2024: the program for the Italian Mental Calculation Championship 2024 and related events, which will take place in Genoa as part of the Festival of Science, is now online.
3-6 October 2024: as many as 40 prototypes, many of them from the Premio Archimede, were presented by studiogiochi to international publishers during this year's Essen fair, which saw more than 200,000 visitors.
21 September 2024: the prestigious Gradara Ludens Prize was awarded, as every year, to four personalities who have distinguished themselves in the field of gaming. Among this year's awardees is our Dario De Toffoli.
10 September 2024: registration for the Italian Mental Calculation Championship 2024, which will take place on Saturday 2 November in Genoa as part of the Festival of Science, is now officially open.
7 September 2024: tonight at 9 p.m., Dario De Toffoli will be the guest speaker at the "Chiacchierata ludica" organised by the Tana dei Goblin of Vittorio Veneto as part of Ludica, the board game festival taking place in Cappella Maggiore (TV) - Italy.
12 August 2024: the 28th Mind Sports Olympiad is about to start in London, and our De Toffoli and Zaccariotto will not miss it! Nine days of competitions, with over 80 different events and disciplines for all tastes.
29 July 2024: it's official! The Italian Mental Calculation Championship 2024 will be held on Saturday 2 November in Genoa as part of the Festival of Science, by far Italy's largest popular science event, with over 200,000 visitors.
22 May 2024: Dario wins the Italian Omaha 8-Max Hi-Lo Championship, earning his 6th bracelet at ISOP Nova Gorica! Here his chronicles from the blue tables.
18 May 2024: the Giampaolo Dossena Prize for Game Culture this year was awarded to our Dario De Toffoli, on the occasion of Play, the Modena Game Festival. A great honour for Dario, who considers his close friendship with Dossena one of the best things that has happened to him in life.
May 2024: the project dedicated to game design in collaboration with Rete Biblioteche Venezia continues, and now gets into full swing with a hands-on workshop. Participants will try their hand at designing a new board game, under the guidance of experts.
25 March 2024: did you design a game and would like to show it to the most important publishers and have it published? The notice of competition for Premio Archimede 2025 is now online, with all the information you need to participate to the biggest Italian contest for unpublished board games! Keep an eye for the latest changes, read the notice carefully!
March 2024: Andrea Storchi, as part of his research on the "future" within a Master's program in Social Forecasting at the University of Trento, proposed to Dario De Toffoli a series of original and completely unexpected questions, which generated a number of interesting reflections.
March 2024: Mojo Nation, the British site celebrating the creativity of games and designers, published a long interview with our Leo Colovini, who explained how his profession as an author began and how some of his best games came to be.
February 2024: the Mind Sports Olympiad Grand Prix 2024, which contains more than 100 tournaments bringing together the world's best players in online competition, has begun.
January 2024: Leo Colovini received the PETAKids (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) "Heroes to Animals" award for KuZOOka, published by Pegasus, for his important contribution to animal rights education.
29 January 2024: La Nuova Venezia published an article by Massimo Tonizzo dedicated to the presentation of the "Masters in Games" class held on Jan. 20 with guest of honor Spartaco Albertarelli.
January 2024: studiogiochi organizes, in collaboration with Rete Biblioteche Venezia, a workshop on the secrets of the game designer dedicated to young people. An opportunity to learn more about the multi-faceted world of board games, discover their mechanisms and try to design a prototype under the guidance of experts.
December 2023: for the end-of-year celebrations, we had some Barilla executives and employees play by involving them in a purely fun team-building activity. The much-appreciated event took place in the prestigious Academia Barilla Gastronomic Library in Parma.
December 2023: Art Gallery, a game by Francesco Frittelli from Premio Archimede and published by Piatnik, distinguished itself at the Zabawka Roku 2023 award, where it received an honorable mention in the Polish Game of the Year competition.
December 2023: Dario De Toffoli will talk with author Marino Carpignano at the presentation of the book Il manuale dei giochi di tavoliere (The Handbook of Board Games), to be held at the V. Joppi Library in Udine on Dec. 14.