Please support Game Informer. Print magazine subscriptions are less than $2 per issue
Tabletop Publisher Asmodee In Talks To Acquire Pandemic, Carcassonne Publisher F2Z
Imagine if EA or Activision woke up one day and decided to swallow whole two other enormous publishers. The tabletop equivalent is going on right now, with French tabletop giant Asmodee getting ready for to acquire a second company in the space.
In 2014, Asmodee merged with Fantasy Flight Games, to become a tabletop megapublisher. The latter is responsible for countless fantastic Star Wars, Lovecraft, and Warhammer board and card games. In short, it was a megaton deal in the tabletop world.
Today, Asmodee announced it’s in talks to purchase F2Z, which owns a number of subsidiary board game studios. The company controls Z-Man (Pandemic) and Plaid Hat Games (Summoner Wars, Dead of Winter).
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 also handles distribution in parts of Europe for Magic: The Gathering, Pokémon Trading Card Game, and Yu-Gi-Oh.
F2Z was founded 15 years ago in Quebec, Montreal. The companies have worked together for many years. “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 acquisition is expected to take place in the months ahead.
I’d like to ask you to support Game Informer’s continued coverage of games with a subscription. For less than two dollars per issue, we mail you a full year of 10 print magazines, each with cover stories and preview features filled with exclusive details about the most exciting upcoming games. We profile and interview game creators. We look back on the rich history of gaming, and we celebrate what’s next.
Here on the website, we offer much of our content for free, including game reviews, daily news, videos, event coverage, and more – all with minimal ads.
We do so with a small editorial team, alongside contributing paid writers from around the world – over 65 individuals from 9 countries around the world, just in the last couple of years.
It’s not possible without support.
In a time when game makers and games coverage have faced hard struggles and layoffs, the future of this 30+ year magazine and community is at risk. Our new standalone magazine subscription is the number one way you can keep us alive – and we believe you’ll get a pretty fantastic gaming magazine in your mailbox every few weeks for your trouble.
Thank you.
