France-based board game publisher Asmodee Digital has announced that it had acquired Board Game Arena. The details of the deal are yet to be revealed.
The merger will expedite Asmodee’s online board game development and enable Asmodee games to be available on the platform—starting with Skull and Splendor. Furthermore, the acquisition will also increase awareness of Asmodee’s games to Board Game Arena members.
“Our growth is based on one crucial commitment: offer the best gaming experience to consumers and bring our brands to the widest audience,” Thomas Koegler, Head of Strategy at Asmodee, said. “An online platform that allows players from all over the world to meet play their favorite games together, or discover new games dovetails naturally with our impressive catalog of physical board games. ‘Skull and Splendor’ will be the first of a long list of Asmodee releases on the platform in the coming weeks: we hope that players enjoy them!”
Grégory Isabelli and Emmanuel Colin founded Board Game Arena in 2010, and since then, established itself as a pioneer in online board games. The digital gaming platform has online versions of 250 tabletop games under its belt supported in 40 major languages with over five million users globally. Board Game Arena also jointly developed Asmodee games like the Carcassonne and 7 Wonders.
According to the agreement, Board Game Arena will operate independently with no changes of the management team and staff like any other Asmodee entity.
Co-founders Isabelli and Colin said, “Working with Asmodee allows us to continue our growth with a partner that shares our love and passion for board gaming. Asmodee fulfills a sine qua non-criteria for us: that BGA is always run by board game fans, whose core business is board gaming.”
Tabletop games have been increasingly growing popular alongside mainstream video games in recent years, attracting the attention of major publishers like Epic Games, which opened its own tabletop division last year. Niantic, the Pokémon Go maker, also acquired a tabletop game developer in 2019, while Rebellion also established its own tabletop division the same year.
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