16 February 2026: Leo Colovini was interviewed by Riccardo Scaringi from ‘Il gioco in tavolo’ (The Board Game), a Italian YouTube channel dedicated to promoting board game culture. Watch the podcast video!
28 January 2026: The programme for the 2026 Italian Mental Calculation Championship and the related events, which will take place in Lucca on 10 and 11 April 2026, is now online.
January 10, 2026: Have you invented a game and would like to present it to the most important publishers for publication? The notice for Premio Archimede 2027 is now online, with all the information you need to participate in Italy's biggest competition for unpublished board games! Pay attention to the new features, read the notice carefully!
30 December 2026: Registration is now officially open for the 2026 Italian Mental Calculation Championship, which will take place on Saturday 11 April at the IMT Alti Studi di Lucca.
1 November 2025: we will be at Lucca Comics & Games to talk about mathematics and games at the Library of the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca. Don't miss it, we will have fun and play together!
October 2025: Thanks to ioGioco, the complete montage of the 2025 Archimedes Award ceremony, enriched with lively interviews and comments. Various other video interviews are also available on the same page.
1 October 2025: Once again this year, our Dario Zaccariotto, together with his colleagues Alfonso Sara and Cesare Nanti, is organising and directing the City of Jesolo Backgammon Tournament, which kicked off yesterday evening at the Atlantico Hotel and will continue until Sunday 5 October. The results and photos of the event will soon be available on this website.
21 September 2025: Apnea by Flavio and Riccardo Foches from Trentino is the winner of the Premio Archimede 2025! In second place is Magic Mushrooms by Carlo Scolari, and in third place is OilRock 1864 by Marco Piola Caselli. We will be publishing all the photos from this extraordinary event in the coming days.
26 August 2025: and this year's edition is over! A subdued edition for Italy, but for our De Toffoli, the Mind Sports Olympiad remains an unmissable event. Read his reports from the boards to find out how it went.
July 2025: In issue 40 of ioGioco, you’ll find a great review of Gloomies, the game by Filippo Landini that came second in the 2023 Archimede Award and was subsequently published by Ravensburger.
July 2025: We are delighted to announce that Australis, a game by Alex Zucchini and Leo Colovini magnificently produced by Kosmos, has won the UK Games Expo People's Choice General Award 2025! Not only that, it also won the Best Dice Game of the Judges Choice Awards!
10 July 2025: Dario De Toffoli was invited as a speaker at the Board Game Research Meeting, where he spoke about the genesis, history, evolution, impact and prospects of the Premio Archimede.
July 2025: here’s the perfect summer treat for fans of top-flight football and the best crossword puzzles! Edited by Dario Zaccariotto, three books dedicated to three Italian football teams – perfect for packing in your suitcase and playing under your beach umbrella... Available from Friday 11 July in the Italian bookshops and online.
June 2025: here's another game from the Premio Archimede! Published by Piatnik, Crazy Worms by Fabrizio Tronchin and Ghigo Maurizio Buso is a fun and colourful tile game, easy to learn and quick to play, suitable for young and old!
June 2025: Gloomies by Filippo Landini has won the top prize at Austria's Spiel der Spiele 2025! Published as a result of its participation in the Premio Archimede and beautifully produced by Ravensburger, Gloomies emerged as the game the committee liked best, for its rich mix of interaction, planning and a bit of luck.
June 2025: the board game Virtus! by Mario Quartana has arrived! It is a new game from the Premio Archimede and is published by Giochi Uniti. A deep and strategic card game, where every choice counts and can decide the fate of the game.
9 June 2025: the official weekly magazine for Reazione a catena, the Italian game show broadcast daily on the Italian channel Rai 1 and presented by Pino Insegno, is set to return to newsstands. Available from 12 June every Thursday throughout the summer, as always produced by studiogiochi!
4 May 2025: Leo Colovini guest of honour at Venezia Comics, with an exhibition of his best-loved games, which it was also possible to play. Dario De Toffoli and Andrea Angiolino also dialogue with him.