Z-Man Games

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Z-Man Games is a former American game publisher based in Mahopac , New York . Founded in 1999, the publisher was one of the best-known publishers in the United States and focused on its own games as well as games from Europe that were translated under license. The games pandemic series are among the publisher's best-known titles , and in the United States there are also many Euro games such as the placement game Carcassonne , Catan or Agricola .

After an initial sale to Filosofia in 2011 and the transformation to F2Z Entertainment, Z-Man Games is now an independent section of Asmodée , the world's largest publisher for board games .

history

Z-Man Games was founded in 1999 by Zev Shlasinger as an independent game publisher . In the early years of his publishing company, Shlasinger focused on the trading card game Shadowfist as well as several smaller game titles such as Saboteur and other card games. He later invested in licenses for European games such as Agricola by Uwe Rosenberg and, among other things, produced his first own games with Pandemic by Matt Leacock .

In 2011, Sophie Gravel , owner and director of the Canadian game publisher and retailer Filosofia , bought Z-Man Games and transformed the publisher into F2Z Entertainment. F2Z Entertainment thus became the largest game publisher for board games in North America, Shlasinger stayed with the company until January 15, 2016. In the same year, F2Z Entertainment was taken over by Asmodée together with the publishers Z-Man Games, Plaid Hat Games and Filosofia merged under the direction of Steven Kimball with his studio Windrider Games.

Awards

Games from Z-Man Games have been nominated for numerous awards and won various titles, including:

International Gamers Award
Expert game of the year
German Games Prize

supporting documents

  1. ↑ About on the Z-Man Games website, accessed August 26, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b A New Beginning: A Discussion with Z-Man Head Steven Kimball. Interview on the Z-Man Games website, June 6, 2017.
  3. ↑ Milton Griepp: Asmodee acquiring F2Z Entertainment. ICv2, July 22, 2016; accessed on August 26, 2018.

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