March 2020: the game Overmatch, created by the Portuguese author Ricardo Jorge Gomes, was selected in the long-list of Premio Archimede 2016 and is now published by Pythagoras. Ricardo is a great "tabletop games" player and in 2018 won the Eurogames World Championship in London at the Mind Sports Olympiad. Well done, Ricardo!
5 March 2020: also this year the Musée Suisse du Jeu (Suiss Museum of games) organized an exhibition dedicated to the Premio Archimede’s games. The awarded prototypes are shown as well as some games of the previous editions which in the meantime have been published.
February 2020: at the casino tables the stakes increase from round to round, with intuition and bluffs... A new amazing edition of Vabanque is coming soon!
10 February 2020: Playing Season awards the best board games of the last year in Portugal. Sixteen categories with votes from the public and from expert jurors. Between the international titles there is Leo goes to the barber by Leo Colovini, winner in the "Kids" category and distributed in Portugal by Devir, that won also the prize "Game distributor of the year".
February 2020: the Benetton Foundation announces the Gaetano Cozzi 2020 Prize for unpublished essays on the history of game. The competition is dedicated to young scholars born after 1984. All the essays have to be submitted to the Foundation within March 15, 2020, and the winning works will be published in the specialized magazine Ludica. Annali di storia e civiltà del gioco.
February 2020: previewed in Nuremberg also the new game by Gabriele Bubola, coming from the last edition of Premio Archimede and published by Mandoo Games. Expected release in April.
February 2020: Haba released the new game of Cielo d'Oro, based on the ingenious internal design of the board. Players must help animals to recover their treasures, hidden on the treetops, developing eye memory and strategic movement.
February 2020: moses. Verlag released Die Verlassene Bibliothek, a new game by Leo Colovini. A pocket escape room, where players must solve many puzzles while into an abandoned library to unlock the exit door.
Nuremberg, January 2020: 6 games by studiogiochi have been presented at Spielwarenmesse 2020... and of course the usual exaggeration of meetings, presentations and, of course, celebrations.
28 January 2020: Kangourou Italia, together with studiogiochi, the City of Venice and local Hard Rock Cafe,
took mathematical games to Venice. Kangourou mathematic contest involved 12 teams of students from high schools of the Veneto Region.
25 January 2020: De Toffoli's column on Enigmistica24 (Sole24Ore's bi-weekly supplement) deals today
with the problems of our lagoon, which can be seen as an example of the reckless way the entire world is ruled. Click on title to see all the issues.
Udine, 16 January 2020: registration is now open for the next Mental Calculation Italian Championship, that will be held in Udine at high school A. Malignani Saturday 5th September 2020 at 1:30 p.m.
16 December 2019: Cohors Arcana is coming! The Italian PDF versions of the Base Manual and the Encyclopaedia Arcana have been distributed to the bakers of the Quickstarter, before receiving the physical copy of the new edition of the most successful italian tabletop role-playing game of all time. Let the adventure begin!
9 December 2019: Kosmos announces the spring release of Aqualin by Marcello Bertocchi, a new game set in the deep of the ocean that come from the last edition of Premio Archimede, where it finished in second place.
Udine, 9 December 2019: inauguration of the Scienza in gioco exhibition and presentation of the national contest for Italian high school students Fotonica in gioco organized by IFN – CNR.
30 November 2019: with new size and new contents, the fortnightly supplement to Sole 24 Ore fully designed by studiogiochi is coming to newsstands. 32 pages of economy and culture games to not miss!
Udine, 5 December 2019: third meeting of the Teacher Training series. The spanish Juan Francisco García de la Banda will show the relation between math and strategy games.