2016 in games

This page lists board and card games, wargames, miniatures games, and tabletop role-playing games published in 2016. For video games, see 2016 in video gaming.

Games released or invented in 2016

Game awards given in 2016

Mombasa won the Spiel Portugal Jogo do Ano.{{cite web | url=https://www.spielportugal.org/jogo-do-ano | title=Jogo do Ano | publisher=Spiel Portugal | accessdate=1 September 2021}}

Significant games-related events in 2016

Deaths

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! Date

Name

Age

Notability

February 6

|Erwin Glonnegger

|90

|Game designer

February 9{{cite web|last=Mike |first=Vorthos |url=http://www.gatheringmagic.com/mikelinnemann-021016-wayne-england-passes-away/|title=Wayne England Passes Away by "Vorthos Mike," GatheringMagic.com, Magic the Gathering (MTG) |website=gatheringmagic.com |date= |accessdate=2016-02-10}}{{cite web | url=http://www.kitguru.net/gaming/development/jon-martindale/tabletop-gaming-artist-wayne-england-has-passed-away/ | first=Jon | last=Martindale | title=Tabletop gaming artist Wayne England has passed away | work=KitGuru | date=February 10, 2016 | accessdate=February 11, 2016}}

|Wayne England

|56

|Artist for Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering

February 10{{cite web |last=Cooper |first=Christopher |url=http://www.manaleak.com/mtguk/2016/02/wayne-england-and-christopher-rush-all-good-things-in-magic-the-gathering/ |title=Wayne England and Christopher Rush - All Good Things in Magic: The Gathering by Christopher Cooper, Manaleak.com, Magic the Gathering (MTG) |website=Manaleak.com |date= |accessdate=2016-02-11 |archive-date=2016-02-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160214040553/http://www.manaleak.com/mtguk/2016/02/wayne-england-and-christopher-rush-all-good-things-in-magic-the-gathering/ |url-status=dead }}

|Christopher Rush

|50

|Artist for Magic: The Gathering

March 25

|Ken Barr

|83

|Artist who contributed to Torg and other games

April 4{{cite web |url= https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/baltimoresun/obituary.aspx?n=eric-dott&pid=179626147|title= Obit |website=www.legacy.com|access-date=2021-03-25}}

|Eric Dott

|89

|Owner of Avalon Hill

June 20

|Goro Hasegawa

|83

|Designer of the board game Othello

September 24{{cite web|url=http://www.enworld.org/forum/content.php?3484-Jeff-Mackintosh-Succumbs-To-Cancer|title=Jeff Mackintosh Succumbs To Cancer|work=enworld.org|date=25 September 2016 |accessdate=22 October 2016}}

|Jeff Mackintosh

|45

|Designer with Guardians of Order

November 29

|Joe Dever

|60

|Designer of the Lone Wolf gamebooks

References

Games

Category:Games by year