Plaid Hat was previously owned by board game behemoth Asmodee, under which it published titles such as family board game Stuffed Fables. The acquisition is expected to take place in the months ahead.Newly independent publisher Plaid Hat has teased an upcoming board game from Mice and Mystics designer Jerry Hawthorne, announced a second edition of Summoner Wars and revealed the potential return of Ashes: Rise of the Phoenixborn.
“This deal is in the direct continuation of our close business partnership and will provide the best environment for our iconic games to reach their full potential and help our studios to continue publishing amazing games,“ said F2Z CEO Sophie Gravel in a jointly-released press announcement. The companies have worked together for many years. The company also handles distribution in parts of Europe for Magic: The Gathering, Pokémon Trading Card Game, and Yu-Gi-Oh.į2Z was founded 15 years ago in Quebec, Montreal. If the deal goes through, Asmodee would be control some of the biggest licensed games and original properties ever to grace a tabletop. The company controls Z-Man (Pandemic) and Plaid Hat Games (Summoner Wars, Dead of Winter). Today, Asmodee announced it’s in talks to purchase F2Z, which owns a number of subsidiary board game studios.
In short, it was a megaton deal in the tabletop world. The latter is responsible for countless fantastic Star Wars, Lovecraft, and Warhammer board and card games. In 2014, Asmodee merged with Fantasy Flight Games, to become a tabletop megapublisher.
The tabletop equivalent is going on right now, with French tabletop giant Asmodee getting ready for to acquire a second company in the space.
Imagine if EA or Activision woke up one day and decided to swallow whole two other enormous publishers.
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