May 2012: Kalimambo (Zoch) by Antonio Scrittore (finalist at the Premio Archimede 2010) has been selected among the adviced games (Empfehlungsliste) of the Spiel des Jahres 2012.
April 2012: the Deutsches Spielarchiv, today part of the museums circuit of Nürnberg celebrates Alex Randolph's 90th Birthday with an exhibition about the great master's boardgames and creations.
April 2012: for the first time, Mensa Switzerland awards the game prize "Mensa Preference" for the best game released in the last year. The six finalists will compete for the prize on April 21st 2012 at the Fête du Jeu in Saxon. Among the chosen games Aquileiaby Cielo d'Oro.
29 marzo 2012: in memory of the great writer Antonio Tabucchi, recently deceased, a headword from the Enciclopedia dei Giochi, ispired to his La testa perduta di Damasceno Monteiro.
25 March 2012: today started Dario De Toffoli's Blog on the newspaper Fatto Quotidiano website. The first post is about an often and very discussed issue: the gamble.
22 December 2011: in the "Culture & Society" section of the newspaper Gazzettino today there was an article about games, studiogiochi and di Dario De Toffoli.
October 2011: the SAZ (Spiel Autoren Zunft) is the international association for game authors. It recently launched a campaign for the recognition of the role of game authors.
Genova, 21 October-2 November 2011: Quantum Race, the game by Fabio Chiarello, winner of the Special Prize Focus Brain Trainer at the Premio Archimede 2010 is presented in a "live" version at the Sciences Festival.
16 August 2011: the Wiener Spiele Akademie announced the winners of the Spiel der Spiele 2011. Among the "Hit" family games Mord im Arosa by Alex Zucchini, published by Zoch.
May 2011: the new number of Tangram, the ludic culture magazine, contains an intervention by Dario De Toffoli about the interpretation of a game, recently presented in Modena during Play 2011.