Beasts of Balance acquired by Modern Games
Modern Games, a new games company specialising in merging physical and digital play, has acquired the tabletop stacking game Beasts of Balance.
The award-winning Beasts of Balance was created and launched by Sensible Object, but the studio was acquired last year by Niantic and become Niantic London.
According to TechCrunch, Modern Games is relaunching Beasts of Balance as well as bringing a new game to market in the form of Seven Sails, a tactical war game about pirates.
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