Asmodée Éditions is a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 publisher of board games, card games and role-playing games (RPGs). The company was founded in 1995

1995 in games

This page lists board and card games, wargames, miniatures games, and table-top role-playing games published in 1995. For video and console games, see 1995 in video gaming....

 by former employees of the RPG publisher Siroz Productions. The company publishes its own games, as well as French language

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 editions of other publishers' games. Notable games published by Asmodée include:

• Diplomacy
  Diplomacy (game)
  Diplomacy is a strategic board game created by Allan B. Calhamer in 1954 and released commercially in 1959. Its main distinctions from most board wargames are its negotiation phases and the absence of dice or other game elements that produce random effects...
  
  
• Dungeon Twister
  Dungeon Twister
  -History:Dungeon Twister was created by Christophe Boelinger, who published other French games such asHalloween Party, A Dog's Life, and Snowboard. Dungeon Twister was originally printed in French and has gained popularity worldwide with English and German releases.The Dungeon Twister Basic Set was...
  
  
• Liar's Dice
  Liar's dice
  Liar's dice, or Liar dice, with roots originating in South America and popularized in early Spanish History, was brought to Spain by the Spanish conqueror Francisco Pizarro during the 16th century. It became extremely popular in Hong Kong and consequencially China...
  
  
• The Werewolves of Miller's Hollow

Asmodée holds the French publishing rights to the WizKids

WizKids

WizKids, Inc. is an American New Jersey-based company that first made its mark in the game industry producing collectible miniatures wargames. WizKids was purchased by and is a subsidiary of National Entertainment Collectibles Association. The company was founded in 2000 by Jordan Weisman, a...

 and Pokémon

Pokémon

is a media franchise published and owned by the video game company Nintendo and created by Satoshi Tajiri in 1996. Originally released as a pair of interlinkable Game Boy role-playing video games developed by Game Freak, Pokémon has since become the second most successful and lucrative video...

lines of games.

Asmodée is currently distributing games under the imprints Descartes Editeur and Eurogames

Eurogames (game publisher)

Eurogames is a publisher of board games, founded in 1984 as Jeux Rexton to publish the man-to-man miniature combat game, Cry Havoc and its expansions. In 1988 Duccio Vitale expanded the company to begin publishing more board games, starting with six games purchased from the bankrupt Italian gaming...

, acquired when they purchased Descartes. However, they have not used these imprints for any original publications since the purchase.

External links

• Asmodée Éditions' official website
• Asmodée USA's official website