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Asmodee Digital updates digital board game release dates: Pandemic, Munchkin, Gloom, and more
https://www.pcgamer.com/asmodee-digital-updates-digital-board-game-release-dates-pandemic-munchkin-gloom-and-more/
Asmodee Digital has updated their Steam release schedule for the coming months, giving updated times on delayed digital board game releases and announcing some new ones.
Among the new is Gloomhaven, which we’d previous covered, and a dungeon crawler inspired by long-lived, love it or leave it card game Munchkin. Coming in Q3 are The Lord of The Rings: Living Card Game, Terraforming Mars, Pandemic, and Bang!. In Q4 comes Five Tribes, while an adaptation of Gloom releases on Halloween. In 2019, expect to see Mansions of Madness: Mother’s Embrace, Munchkin, and Gloomhaven. Only a handful of the games have a precise release date.

 

As an avid boardgamer, I'd be really interested to see what type of money these digital conversions are bringing them in. Boardgames are very social and tactile thing, I can't really imagine playing much of digital recreations - well, except maybe for those who originally have solo mode, like Gloomhaven or Mansions of Madness.

Anyway, Asmodee is killing it, not sure how well known this fact is, but after acquiring Mayfair earlier this year, they became by far the largest publisher in hobby boardgame business (not counting Hasbro of course, which owns some of mass market IPs, like Monopoly and Clue, plus other IPs like Magic the Gathering, Pokemon TCG and D&D). Luckily, there are still plenty of small companies in the business with great games getting released all the time.