The Festival in Bratislava
1st December 2023: personalized trophy for De Toffoli in Bratislava for his victory in the H.O.R.S.E. tournament (5 poker variants that alternate continuously at the table).
News
Il manuale dei giochi di tavoliere (The handbook of board games)
November 2023: Marino Carpignano published the book Il manuale dei giochi di tavoliere - storie, regole, varianti (the handbook of board games - stories, rules, variants), with a preface by Dario De Toffoli.
Broad Lines
October 2023: here is the long-awaited cooperative party game designed by Piero Modolo and already published in 2 languages (6 more are coming) by Cranio Creations! An all-drawing game, simple but not trivial, that line after line will drag everyone into a spiral of pure fun!
Premio Archimede 2023: the photos
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.
Rex Cracoviae by Cielo d’Oro wins the Premio Archimede 2023
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.
On the Road
September 2023: from an idea by Gabriele Bubola presented at the Archimedes Prize 2021 and then developed with Leo Colovini, was born On the Road, a new game published by Helvetiq. Music bands travel to conquer new fans, to impose themselves at the Sunshine Festival, the world's biggest music event!
Premio Archimede 2023: finalist prototypes photo exhibition
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.
XXVII Mind Sports Olympiad, a great edition!
29 August 2023: De Toffoli wins the Senior Pentamind for the 7th time, Zaccariotto finally participates, Italy is second in the medal table, and there's even a hug from Demis Hassabis!
Il Gioco di Carletto
August 2023: the cute Findus mascot turns 25 and celebrates with a cooperative game by Leo Colovini, developed and produced by studiogiochi! Find out more about Carletto's Game and try to win it too!
Premio Archimede: selection phase completed
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.
XXVII Mind Sports Olympiad
August 2023: all set for the 27th Mind Sports Olympiad, scheduled to take place in London from 20th to 28th August. More than 80 tournaments in nine days, a feast of mind games and disciplines in which the ever-present Dario De Toffoli will participate and, for the first time, also our Dario Zaccariotto!
Allena-mente 2.0
July 2023: a book designed as a gym for the brain. Word, number and general culture games to keep various areas in shape, stimulating memory, creativity, logic and more.
Un’estate geniale (A smart summer)
8 July 2023: the Italian business newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore offers its readers this activity book on newsstands to train the mind in a fun way during the holidays, with games, puzzles, quizzes and curiosities, all by Dario De Toffoli and Dario Zaccariotto. Also available in Italian bookstores.
Reazione a catena 2023
June 2023: the official weekly magazine of Reazione a catena, the game show hosted by Marco Liorni and broadcasted every day on Rai 1 Italian Television, makes a comeback throughout the summer. You can find it on newsstands every Thursday, fully designed by studiogiochi.
7 books for 7 playful summers
7 June 2023: seven puzzle books with seven different themes, designed for the summer and all created by studiogiochi for Demetra, are released in Italian bookshops today. Puzzles and brainteasers for every taste and preference!
On Prisma the Italian Mental Calculation Championship 2023
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.
KuZOOka recommended by Spiel des Jahres 2023
22 May 2023: we are very happy to announce that KuZOOka, the cooperative boardgame by Leo Colovini published by Pegasus Spiele, is one of the recommended games of Spiel des Jahres 2023!
Art Gallery
May 2023: and here's one more! Games published from the last Premio Archimede do not stop! It is the time of the runner-up Art Gallery by Francesco Frittelli, published by Piatnik. A fascinating challenge between tour guides in an art gallery.
Crazy Pilot
May 2023: one more funny board game from the 2021 Archimede Prize has found a publisher! It is Crazy Pilot by Chiara Zanchetta, Matteo Cimenti and Carlo Rigon, 2nd place of the last edition, published by Helvetiq.
Designing board games
May 2023: Enrico Feresin published on Amazon Progettare giochi da tavolo (Designing board games); there are two volumes, one with introduction by Leo Colovini and one by Dario De Toffoli.