Asmodée Éditions

"Asmodée" redirects here. For the demon, see Asmodai.

Asmodée Éditions is a French publisher of board games, card games and role-playing games (RPGs). The company was founded in 1995 by former employees of the RPG publisher Siroz Productions. The company publishes its own games, as well as French language editions of other publishers' games. Notable games published by Asmodée include:

Asmodée holds the French publishing rights to the WizKids and Pokémon lines of games.

Asmodée is currently distributing games under the imprints Descartes Editeur and Eurogames, acquired when they purchased Descartes. However, they have not used these imprints for any original publications since the purchase.

On August 25, 2014 and November 17, 2014 it was announced that Asmodée had agreed on a mergers with American board game publishers Days of Wonder[1] and Fantasy Flight Games.[2] On January 7, 2016 it was announced[3] that Asmodée had acquired the English language rights to the Catan™ games from Mayfair Games, creating a new company Catan Studio, Inc.. Following Asmodee's acquisition of these major board game publishers, along with the Spot-It! casual games series in 2015,[4] this means "one company now controls the rights to critical darlings Ticket to Ride, Dixit, Citadels, Talisman, Small World, 7 Wonders, and the monster that is Catan's ever-expanding presence in English-speaking countries. In Catan terms, that means the company is pretty much steeped in a figurative surplus of wood, sheep, ore, brick, and grain."[5]

References

  1. ↑ W. Eric Martin (2014-08-25). "Asmodee Buys Days of Wonder". Retrieved 2016-01-29.
  2. ↑ Forbes Magazine (2014-11-17). "Fantasy Flight Games Merging With Asmodee". Retrieved 2014-11-20.
  3. ↑ Charles Rice (2016-01-07). "Asmodee Acquires Catan™ from Mayfair Games". Retrieved 2016-01-29.
  4. ↑ Asmodee (2015-07-02). "Asmodee acquires the rights to Spot It! Game". Retrieved 2016-01-29.
  5. ↑ Sam Machkovech (2016-01-08). "Asmodee becomes board gaming’s new monster, acquires English rights to Catan". Retrieved 2016-01-29.

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