Coronavirus, anche il mondo dei giochi fa la sua parte – De Toffoli su Il Fatto Quotidiano
3 aprile 2020: il gioco al tempo del virus; beneficenza, gioco online e precedenze culturali. E le sale slot chiuse!
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Premio Archimede 2020 confirmed
9 March 2020: in spite of the present difficulties, the Premio Archimede 2020 goes on regularly. All the dates and the rules of competition are confirmed, at the moment the date of October 3 for the award ceremony is confirmed as well.
Musée Suisse du Jeu – Premio Archimede
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.
Leo won the “5 Seasons 2019” award
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".
Gaetano Cozzi Price
February 2020: the Benetton Foundation announces the Gaetano Cozzi 2020 Prize for unpublished essays on the history of game.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.
Spielwarenmesse 2020
Norimberga, gennaio 2020: ben 6 giochi targati studiogiochi sono stati presentati alla Spielwarenmesse 2020... e naturalmente la solita esagerazione di meeting, incontri, presentazioni e naturalmente di festeggiamenti.
Kangourou takes mathematical games to Venice
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.
Il campione mondiale di memoria è italiano – De Toffoli su Il Fatto Quotidiano
12 December 2019: the incredible undertakings of the new World Memory Champion. Andrea Muzii is 20 years old and started with Rubik's Cube.
Premio Archimede is becoming increasingly international!
October 2019: we welcome three new publishers have become Premio Archimede partners, and their editors that will be part of the final jury: CMON (Singapore) with Andrea Chiarvesio, MANDOO (Corea del Sud) with Kevin Kichan Kim, RIO GRANDE (Usa) with Jay Tummelson.
Games, as always Essen is the Makkah of boardgames – De Toffoli on Il Fatto Quotidiano
31 October 2019: this year more than 200,000 visitors at the Spiel fair of Essen, 1,500 new games presented, 1,200 exhibitors. A lot of gaming and a lot of Italy too!
Essen 2019
Ottobre 2019: studiogiochi non poteva mancare alla Mecca dei giochi, la mitica Spiel di Essen, quest'anno più grande di sempre!
ISOP 2019-2020: De Toffoli Omaha Main’s triumph
26 October 2019: Dario De Toffoli wins the ISOP 2019-2020 Omaha Main tournament held in Nova Gorica!
From Premio Archimede to the stores
October 2019: already 48 games presented at the Premio Archimede and published... and 10 more are under contract with international publishers: they are coming in stores in the next months. Let's find out which ones...
Board games, Italian creativity gets more and more appreciated – De Toffoli on Il Fatto Quotidiano
2 October 2019: at the largest board game trade fair, which is held every year in Essen at the end of October, Italy is one of the more present country, second only to Germany. Let's find out why.
Mind Sports Olympiad – De Toffoli on Il Fatto Quotidiano
30 August 2019: Mind Sports Olympiad take place in London since 1997. A unique event, but still niche, that deserve a quality leap.
Mind Sports Olympiad 2019
13 August 2019: it's August, and as always in London there will take place the Mind Sports Olympiad, the best chance in the world to play in a competitive (but still friendly) way a plethora of games. Follow our “Chronicles from the boards”!
Gambling, once upon a time there was the advertising ban – De Toffoli su Il Fatto Quotidiano
6 August 2019: it seems that the Italian government has thrown the towel on the advertising ban for gambing, let's make things clear.
Superenalotto: game or fraud? – De Toffoli on Il Fatto Quotidiano
2 August 2019: even with the highest jackpot ever, the chance to win is still the same - one in over 622 millions.
Poker, Sammartino is the vice-champion of the world – De Toffoli on Il Fatto Quotidiano
24 July 2019: the 32 years-old from Naples Daio Sammartino finished in second place the World Series of Poker, and here luck doesn't matter.
Fanpage interviews De Toffoli
28 June 2019: even if the jackpot is high, the probability to win at Superenalotto is almost none, one in 622 millions. Flash interview by Fanpage.