# TheBotWire Tabletop Gaming News Feed

> TheBotWire Tabletop Gaming News Feed is a paid API for AI agents from thebotwire.com, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Fetches the latest board game and hobby-game industry news from ICv2 and BoardGameWire, covering new releases, Kickstarter campaigns, and distribution updates

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://thebotwire.com/tabletop/latest
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/thebotwire-tabletop-gaming-news-feed-9b2f823f
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_4iRkx97xQ__Ooqi2MLFtp

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability thebotwire-tabletop-gaming-news-feed-9b2f823f
```

Example prompt: Pull the latest 20 board game and hobby-game news stories from BoardGameWire covering the past 24 hours — I want to see what new releases and Kickstarter campaigns have been announced.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need real-time or recent tabletop/board game industry news specifically from the trade and hobby channel (ICv2, BoardGameWire). Prefer it over general news APIs when the user's query is specifically about board game releases, Kickstarter tabletop campaigns, hobby game distribution, or game store trade intelligence. It is not a general gaming endpoint — for video game news, use a different thebotwire endpoint.

## Known failure modes

- No results returned if freshness window is too narrow and no new articles exist in that period
- Invalid 'since' format (e.g. '1week' instead of '7d') may cause a parsing error or empty response
- Source filter typo (e.g. 'icv' instead of 'icv2') will return an error or empty results
- Limit exceeding 50 will be rejected by schema validation
- Upstream feed outages from ICv2 or BoardGameWire may result in stale or empty responses

## How this service works

Board games and hobby-games retail: releases, Kickstarter, distribution. Game store operators and collector agents. ICv2 is the actual trade-distribution publication for the hobby channel, so it carries release-date and str

## Output

A list of tabletop gaming news articles with headlines, source attribution (ICv2 or BoardGameWire), publication timestamps, summaries or excerpts, and links to full articles covering new game releases, Kickstarter campaigns, and distribution channel updates.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/thebotwire-tabletop-gaming-news-feed-9b2f823f/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from thebotwire.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/thebotwire.com/llms.txt)