Both Fantasy Flight Games and Z-Man Games are publishers belonging to the Asmodee Group.Ĭolby Dauch, Founder of Plaid Hat Games, commented: “These past years within the Asmodee Group have been amazing and I am excited to continue to lead Plaid Hat Games into the future. Mice and Mystics, Stuffed Fables, Aftermath, and Battlelands will be published and supported by Z-Man games. Going forward, Dead of Winter and Raxxon will be published and supported by Fantasy Flight Games. Asmodee has also retained the rights to the Adventure Book Games brand. On the 19th of February 2020 Plaid Hat Games’ Head of Studio and Founder – Colby Dauch and the Asmodee Group reached an agreement wherein Dauch reacquired the independent rights to the Plaid Hat Games brand and the publication rights to many, but not all, of Plaid Hat's current and past titles.Īsmodee retains the rights to publish the following game titles: Dead of Winter, Raxxon, Mice and Mystics, Stuffed Fables, Aftermath, and Battlelands. Notable titles from Plaid Hat Games during that time include Stuffed Fables and Aftermath, which are both members of the Adventure Book Games line. Since that time Plaid Hat Games has continued to create and develop new game titles for publication and distribution by Asmodee. In 2015 the Asmodee Group acquired Plaid Hat Games along with Z-Man games as part of the F2Z acquisition, an acquisition that brought with it the rights to publish key titles in Plaid Hat’s catalog, including Mice and Mystics and Dead of Winter. The Asmodee Group is a leading international games publisher and distributor with operations located in Europe, North America, and China. Plaid Hat Games is a US-based tabletop games publisher, founded in 2009. Z-Man Games is getting Mice and Mystics, Stuffed Fables, and Aftermath. For example, Dead of Winter is going to Fantasy Flight. The Asmodee Group retains the rights to different games and has moved them to some of its companies. Plaid Hat Games has once more become independant, the deal being negotiated by Colby Dauch to once more take over control of the company. of a shuffle going on when it comes to where you can find some of your favorite games. I'm so thankful my #Raxxon evacuation kit has arrived. With next month’s Gen Con just around the corner, expect to hear more about the new Dead of Winter game – whatever it turns out to be – sooner rather than later.
There's further easter eggs if you dig into the files or leave the unlocked command line to idle again – we'll leave you to explore for yourself.
The password bloodymunchies then accesses a directory of files, none of which appear to grant more details on the mysterious new game. A link at the bottom of the site links to a fake command line interface, which requests a password and displays Bloody Munchies, the cereal from the Dead of Winter when left to idle. The boxes are accompanied by a letter from the fictional Raxxon Pharmaceuticals company, saying “Raxxon invites you to partner with us and save the human race”.Ī website for Raxxon has also appeared, teasing team members and making reference to a zombie outbreak. Curiously, Specter Ops also features a fiction company called Raxxon, though there’s no indication the new game will be linked to the spy series. Arthus Ellis manages the playtesting for Dead of Winter publisher Plaid Hat Games, as well as serving on a producer on games including the original Dead of Winter and its expansion Warring Colonies and the Specter Ops spin-off Crossfire.