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.
21 settembre 2025: è Apnea dei trentini Flavio e Riccardo Foches il vincitore del Premio Archimede 2025! Al secondo posto Magic Mushrooms di Carlo Scolari e al terzo OilRock 1864 di Marco Piola Caselli. Nei prossimi giorni pubblicheremo tutte le foto di questo straordinario evento.
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.
April 2025: registration for the Premio Archimede 2025 has just closed and a new record has been set: 246 games have been entered, from 16 countries and 4 continents! Many games will make it to the finals to be tested by the international publishers, who have already reached 26!
Febbraio 2025: studiogiochi organizza, in collaborazione con il Comune di Marcon (VE), un laboratorio sui giochi da tavolo dedicato ai giovani. Un'opportunità per approfondire la conoscenza dei giochi da tavolo, scoprirne i diversi meccanismi e provare a progettarne uno sotto la guida di esperti. Articles available in Italian only
4 novembre 2024: è online la classifica finale del Campionato Italiano di Calcolo Mentale 2024, svoltosi sabato 2 novembre a Genova nell’ambito del Festival della Scienza. Pubblicate anche le foto del campionato e degli eventi correlati.
October 2024: the Premio Archimede 2025 is enriched with two new trophies: the QP Trophy for the most innovative physical game design, awarded by the Chinese QP Group, and the Visual Interface Trophy for the game with the best visual aspects of its components, awarded by the BoReD (Boardgame Research and Design) Laboratory of the University of Milan.
October 2024: having completed the workshop on game design in collaboration with Rete Biblioteche Venezia, we will meet for one last special event open to the public on 19 October at the Biblioteca di Carpenedo Bissuola.
24 September 2024: the program for the Italian Mental Calculation Championship 2024 and related events, which will take place in Genoa as part of the Festival of Science, is now online.
10 September 2024: registration for the Italian Mental Calculation Championship 2024, which will take place on Saturday 2 November in Genoa as part of the Festival of Science, is now officially open.
29 July 2024: it's official! The Italian Mental Calculation Championship 2024 will be held on Saturday 2 November in Genoa as part of the Festival of Science, by far Italy's largest popular science event, with over 200,000 visitors.
May 2024: the project dedicated to game design in collaboration with Rete Biblioteche Venezia continues, and now gets into full swing with a hands-on workshop. Participants will try their hand at designing a new board game, under the guidance of experts.
25 March 2024: did you design a game and would like to show it to the most important publishers and have it published? The notice of competition for Premio Archimede 2025 is now online, with all the information you need to participate to the biggest Italian contest for unpublished board games! Keep an eye for the latest changes, read the notice carefully!
January 2024: studiogiochi organizes, in collaboration with Rete Biblioteche Venezia, a workshop on the secrets of the game designer dedicated to young people. An opportunity to learn more about the multi-faceted world of board games, discover their mechanisms and try to design a prototype under the guidance of experts.
22 September 2023: photos from the event are finally online, over two hundred images documenting this fantastic edition, from the jury at work to the awards ceremony! Press review also published.
16 September 2023: Rex Cracoviae by Cielo d'Oro wins the Premio Archimede 2023! Second place for Garden Time by Filippo Landini, winner of the previous edition, and third the game Wunderkammer by Andrea and Lorenzo Martini and Alessandro Zappi. In the coming days we will publish all the photos of the event.
September 2023: the video of Premio Archimede 2023 finalist prototypes photo exhibition is online! They are the best twenty-four board games selected among the 238 participating prototypes, that will be presented to the international jury for the final evaluation.
14 August 2023: the selection phase of Premio Archimede has been completed! Between the 238 participating prototypes, the preliminary jury selected 24 finalist games: next September they will be tested and evaluated in Venice by the international jury, of more than 20 publishers from the world's leading publishing houses.
June 5, 2023: Prisma, the Italian monthly magazine of mathematics, games and ideas about the world, has published an article by Dario De Toffoli on the Italian Mental Calculation Championship. The news was also reported on Enigmistica24, the supplement of main Italian economic daily newspaper Sole 24 Ore.
9 May 2023: published the photos and the final ranking of the Italian Mental Calculation Championship, held in Udine last May 6, which saw the proclamation of not one but two Italian champions! An extraordinary event, organized by studiogiochi with the collaboration of exceptional partners.