PR: Shanghai BG Carnival and WZY 2010 Board Game Awards Ceremony

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Chinese board game industry is booming with a legendary board game called: Killers of the Three Kindoms (San Guo Sha). The standard version of this game is sold for almost 2 million copies to 30 million active players in China. Most of the people regard it a copycat from the board game Bang! But it’s undeniable that this game has made tremendous influence upon the Chinese board game market and it introduces a lot of people devoted themselves into the industry for making another hit in this brand new market.

In year 2010, there are over 50 new board games developed and published for the Chinese board game lovers. Some of them are pretty good while most of them are still copycats. To encourage people to do the right thing, together with Mass Games, Hui Jia Board Game Cafe,  WanZhuoYou.com, China’s most professional and influential board game site held WZY 2010 Board Game Awards Ceremony in Shanghai Board Game Carnival on January 16^th.

There are totally 22 board game awards announced on this ceremony and the following shows the award details:

Some of these games can be found on Boardgamegeek.com while most of them are not listed there. You can also go to WZY facebook group and facebook page for more details.

As for oversea game awards, it’s really hard for us to get the latest games so we can only judge those we have. We hope in the year of 2011, more and more oversea companies pay attention to Chinese board game industry and introduce their games to Chinese board game lovers. There are still a lot of problems need to be fixed in China, such as counterfeit games, copycat games… But if you don’t step in, your products won’t be taken care of. An official channel to purchase and protect oversea games is really a necessary in China right now. If you want to know more about Chinese board game industry, you can consult us by emailing to: media@boardgame-china.com.

We would also like to help the Chinese board game companies to go aboard. If you want to be the publisher of Chinese games, you can also contact us and we will build a bridge for you. We believe in board game industry’s future in China and all over the world!

The Board Game Carnival and WZY 2010 Board Game Awards Ceremony were widely reported in mainstream Chinese gaming medias, including Donews.com, Duowan.com, Tom Games, MSN Game Channel, Bei Qing Online, 52PK.com, Cwebgame.com etc. We would like to thank all the game portals who are willingly to promote board game industry in China.

Congratulations to all the winning designers and publishers! Let’s hope for the year of 2011.