Fantasy Flight and Asmodee merge

www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_news.asp?eidn=5212

Interesting. Short term, doesn't sound like much will change. Sounds like its more about combining some back of the house stuff and leveraging each brands local market strength. Long term, who knows.

Fortress: FrancoTrash

Hmm...First Z-Man and now FFG?
I think I overestimated the size of the US publishers in relation to other companies.

So...Who is ready for Claustrophobia - Terrinoth?
Dungeon Terrinoth Twist anyone?

Crap! I hope this doesn't mean I'm off the Asmodee press list!

Probably a smart move for Asmodee in particular...they are right on the cusp of breaking through to a new level in the US. Not only because they are just killing it lately with top notch titles, but they are also getting things into mainstream stores. I just saw Tokaido and Hotel Tycoon at TRU.

Next up- Gale Force 9 buys Mayfair, produces Masters of Sex Catan.

Giving new mileage to the tired joke "wood for sheep." And that show it set in the 1960's so it really is a wooly, wooly sheep.

@eric_lang on Twitter: "I'll still be happily making games for FFG, so read into that what you will."

The statement was actually that ffg merged into asmodee. I'm not sure what that tricky wording means, but eric w's news post translates it as asmodee acquiring ffg. Either way I doubt this will be a problem for consumers, where I think the acquisition of DoW is bad for them because they're such a small and focused studio, ffg is much larger.

Christian T. Peterson:

Charles nails it...CTP has cashed his retirement check.

Wow...Asmodee FY 2013 revenues: $140mil Euros ($175mil).
Kinda keeps those $1mil Kickstarters that are supposed to break the hobby into perspective.

Shit! Good on CTP! Awesome.

I hope FFG keeps doing what they're doing, though I'd like to see a few more of those risky originals.