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AEW wrestlers will take their fight to Warhammer by battling live in new Age of Sigmar mode Spearhead
Do the Mortal Realms uphold kayfabe?
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GameStop will extend its trade-in program to graded Pokémon TCG cards
The struggling video game retail chain takes a page from local hobby shops’ books.
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Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast, a slice-of-life RPG from the makers of Wanderhome, gets an official release date
Warm stories for warmer weather.
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Behold(er): Dungeons & Dragons invades horror video game sensation Dead By Daylight
Keep your eye on this Killer.
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The Legend of Vox Machina’s third season will deliver more animated Critical Role this fall
No, there’s no official trailer, yet.
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Critical Role’s new subscription service includes two exclusive shows and live event presale access
Beacon corrals all the Critters into one membership-based barn.
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Star Wars miniatures game Shatterpoint is adding Luke, Leia and Han from A New Hope
Rebels’ main crew also join Atomic Mass Games’ mini skirmisher.
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Over 40 years later, the warrior on Dungeons & Dragons' iconic Red Box has been given a face
Red Box Warrior gets the Samus Aran treatment.
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After Kids on Bikes and Kids on Brooms, the beginner-friendly RPG series puts Kids in Capes
The youth will inherit the world, but first they must save it.
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Lost Cities designer will pack epic Greek classic The Iliad into a half-hour board game for two players
Ichor and Iliad are the first two in a new line of 2-player board games in the Mythos Collection.
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Ashes is basically an indie Dark Souls tabletop RPG for a single Chosen Undead
Rise, Fall, Rekindle, all with a deck of playing cards.
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Almost two years later, Cyberpunk Edgerunners' starter set for tabletop RPG Red will finally see a release
Explore Night City in the wake of Edgerunners' anime conclusion.
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Warhammer price increase brings the Imperium against its most hated foe - inflation
Expect miniature boxes to increase in price between 3% and 5% starting June.
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Dungeons & Dragons will release its 2024 ruleset under a Creative Commons licence
Fears of a future OGL are DOA.
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Dungeons & Dragons maker says it doesn’t publicly address every AI allegation to protect artist privacy
“Our preference is to handle the issue and the artist relation internally where possible.”
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Kinfire Council is an asymmetrical political bout full of cultists, political schemes and hidden knives
Protect the city, but also your own neck.
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Japanese Magic: The Gathering manga about rivals-to-friendship gets an official English release
The first volume of “Destroy All Humans. They Can't Be Regenerated.” will contain an exclusive card.
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$3m Black Lotus overtakes 1/1 One Ring to claim Magic: The Gathering's most expensive card record
Sold at private auction, the graded Pristine 10 Black Lotus reclaims the pricey throne for an MTG legend.
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Magic: The Gathering dips another toe into Arena cross-pollination with month-long paper draft promotion
Paying for three drafts just to earn one digital draft is hardly an appetising deal.
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Demon Loop is Slay the Spire via Loop Hero from the designer of Great Western Trail
Beloved board game designer Alexander Pfister tries his hand at a digital deckbuilder.
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Magic: The Gathering’s Comic Sans-laden Secret Lair misses the humour mark by miles
Fantastic art yoked by cringe-worthy font and flavour text.
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Fallout TV show's popularity doubled sales of the series' tabletop games, sold out the official RPG
Tabletop catches a big dose of radiation from Amazon’s post-nuclear wasteland adaptation.
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Mörk Borg’s official action figure is a skeletal tribute to the Swedish doom-metal RPG
No bones about it. Well, all bones actually.
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Magic: The Gathering responds to significant Modern Horizon 3 leaks with a cheeky article instead of Pinkertons
Wizards of the Coast shares their own card images that aren’t “distorted potato camera photos”.
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Cult card game Warlord: Saga of the Storms plans a grand return of “the game you already know how to play”
There’s a new warlord in town.
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Yu-Gi-Oh! just broke two world records for the biggest-ever trading card game tournament
Konami’s massive TCG breaks one of its own records and clinches a new one at Championship Series Japan TOKYO 2024.
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Virtual pop star Hatsune Miku is coming to Magic: The Gathering
Four drops throughout 2024 constitute a “year-long celebration” of the vocaloid sensation.
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Disney Lorcana’s new Sing Together mechanic encourages duet performances
Plus, the rest of the Madrigal family show up just in time for their musical number.
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Eighties board game classic Tales of the Arabian Nights is getting a sequel set in the times of King Arthur
Will you be a saviour, a villain or a lovelorn tragedy? It’s all in the cards.
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Elden Ring maker buys one of Japan's biggest board game companies
Arclight, a major importer and localiser of Western board games, has a new corporate owner.
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This pocket-sized set is like Game Pass for board games, giving you something new to play every week
One pocket, 100 components, a whole year of games.
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Roll20’s beta app will allow you to play Dungeons & Dragons and other RPGs within Discord calls
Everyone’s favourite community server platform just built a digital gaming den for users.
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Magic: The Gathering's Fallout decks are probably its most successful Commander release yet, says Wizards
Fallout’s here to do some business with four big decks on its hip.
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TTRPGs For Trans Rights bundle sells over 500 works for $5 to support LGBTQ+ advocacy in West Virginia
Proceeds benefit Project Rainbow, the only shelter of its kind in the entire state.
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Critical Role’s investigative horror RPG Candela Obscura will perform live on stage for the first time in LA
VIP ticket holders will watch the crew create characters and for their occult Circle.
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Dungeons & Dragons’ new Player’s Handbook is nearing completion, will contain four psionic subclasses
Mind bullets, that’s telekinesis!
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Wingspan maker’s new cooperative, roguelike board game was inspired by Breath of the Wild and will contain over 1,700 unique cards
Explore your way back to friends, or die trying.
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Magic: The Gathering maker sees “killer” future for tabletop with “multiple” Marvel sets, while Arena languishes on the vine
Final Fantasy set expected to “dwarf what we did with Lord of the Rings” in Japan.
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D&D maker continues to lean on MTG and Baldur’s Gate 3 during 2024's “turnaround” phase
Monopoly Go! surpassing $2 billion in revenue doesn’t hurt, either.
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Warhammer 40k’s co-op shooter Darktide returns to the land of plastic and resin in a new skirmisher
A pox on your pixels!
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Mutant Year Zero’s chaotic miniature skirmish game from the designer of Necromunda gets a summer release date
By tusk, feather and scavenged sniper rifle.
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Snag hundreds of tabletop RPGs from these two bundle raising money for Palestine Children’s Relief Funds
All proceeds will benefit a humanitarian program offering medical aid, food and water in the midst of a genocide.
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Chronicles of Crime maker snagged by same Dutch publisher that now owns Funko Games brand
Goliath adds the digital hybrid board game publisher to its growing portfolio
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Ticket to Ride and Catan maker granted freedom from Embracer along with €900m of former owner’s debt
Embracer becomes Divider.
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This gorgeous Japanese tabletop RPG lets the characters’ scars do the talking
Aionia: Without Mercy wants its dark, high fantasy world to be eminently approachable.
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A new edition of Risk 2210 A.D., a gritty offshoot of the classic board game, is now available to preorder
Mechs, moons, and mega-continents.
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MTG Outlaws of Thunder Junction’s crossover with Cowboy Bebop is perfect, inspired, no notes.
A faithful reproduction of the anime's opening segment manages to find space for a wild west wagon and Oko's elk mount.
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MÖRK BORG meets church orthodoxy wars in folk horror RPG Black Powder and Brimstone
Those Puritans are armed and dangerous.
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Munchkin and GURPS maker called 2023 a “golden age for gamers” amid second year of sales loss
The longstanding industry player openly wrestles with tough times.
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D&D’s massive Vecna adventure gets a new trailer voiced by Astarion’s actor in Baldur’s Gate 3
Neil Newbon really lays on the evil pedal.
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Pathfinder plans to kill its god of war in a major upcoming tabletop RPG sourcebook
Gorum? More like gottem.
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Armless hero Rayman and friends head to an official board game from the designer of Earth
Globox, Barbara and a whole lot of Teensies join in the fun.
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Wizards of the Coast president Cynthia Williams departs D&D and Magic: The Gathering's maker
An SEC filing confirms that Hasbro is searching “both internal and external” for her replacement
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Disney Lorcana’s publisher says its runaway success has only “grown the size of the TCG pie”
Ravensburger CEO talks reprints, organised play and the tabletop company’s stellar 2023
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Stewpot’s melancholy RPG about finding calm after a life of adventure gets a hardcover book
Swords to plowshares…and ladles, mugs and brooms.
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Adventure Time RPG’s original ‘Yes And’ system still in the works, will be released after D&D 5E version
Cryptozoic claims the new system “needed more development time and licensor approvals.”
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Dimension 20 addresses Madison Square Garden “nonsense”, won’t use dynamic pricing at future live shows
One plan includes a “Dimensioneer ticket” lottery where select fans can purchase fixed-cost tickets.
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The Laundry RPG’s second edition imagines nightmares just slightly more horrific than office work
Mondays, am I right?
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Planet of the Apes’ very real tabletop RPG adaptation will stretch across all five monkey movies
Apes together strong.
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Putty-smashing wargame Necromolds reforges its battle box with a new 4-player expansion
Skirmish role-clay.
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Monopoly will head to theatres as a live-action film courtesy of Barbie, Harley Quinn actor Margot Robbie
Robbie’s production company might just give Rich Uncle Pennybags the Ken treatment.
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Critical Role maker’s Daggerheart cuts back on stress and fear in latest RPG playtest update
The first prerelease update focuses on “Rulings over Rules”.
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MTG’s not-quite-Equinox Secret Lair is full of Fallout, dioramas and celestial tarot cards
Another astronomical event eclipsed this limited art treatment series.
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Lycanthropic social deduction game Werewolves of Miller's Hollow is being turned into a Netflix series
Audience, close your eyes.
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Thunder Road: Vendetta and Sea Salt & Paper take home American Tabletop Award wins
Other winners at the biggest board game award in the US include The White Castle and Blob Party.
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Blair Witch Project creators are making a "forgotten" board game supposedly played by fairies
Emerald Anvil's other projects unfortunately include an NFT-powered digital land ownership game.
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Pokémon’s first US World Championship in five years announces August dates for Hawai‘i tournament
Trainers will hit up the Aloha state to battle with cards, consoles and mobile devices.
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Dimension 20 will bring The Unsleeping City’s fantasy NYC to Madison Square Garden
Ticket presales for the live one-shot adventure are planned for April 12th.
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Old-school RPG adventure The Gardens of Ynn takes a roguelike, Annihilation approach to Alice in Wonderland
“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense.”
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D&D and Monopoly maker will publish last year’s winning card game from the Women Innovators of Play
The second annual event makes good on Hasbro’s promise to invest in one of 2023’s winners.
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Disney Lorcana doubles player attendance for its competitive TCG challenge events
Illumineers who missed the first round will have another shot to clinch a ticket.
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Battle cosmic horrors as Roman legionaries in co-op miniatures game Cohors Cthulhu
Et tu, Shoggoth?
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Marvel United board game spinoff tackles the DC Comics universe with Batman, Wonder Woman and Superman
Clown thugs to the left of me, Joker cards to the right.
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Starfinder makers are selling physical copies of the sci-fi RPG’s April Fools prank
The Gap is ostensibly full of material that links Pathfinder to the futuristic setting. In reality, well…
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Dungeons & Dragons’ free LEGO-themed adventure is full of evil wizards and hot wings
The perfect combination of goofy and thrilling.
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Star Wars: Unlimited's second set brings bounty hunters and Baby Yoda to the TCG's Outer Rim this July
Wretched hives of scum and villainy.
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Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel hits 60m downloads, offers up free gems and hot new cards in celebration
That's a lot of activated Trap cards.
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Yu-Gi-Oh! bans non-Japanese players from the TCG's Japan tournaments, even if they live in the country
Rule change would deny non-native duelists from even competing at local store-level qualifiers.
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Bugsnax card game brings the bizarrely charming video game of edible critters to the table
Kinda bug, kinda snack, all cardstock.
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A certain coyote and roadrunner from Looney Tunes race across a pair of new MTG cards
Tap to Meep, Meep!
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Magic: The Gathering plagiarism allegations might cause Trouble (in Pairs) for card artist
Donato Giancola has threatened legal action over allegedly illegal use of Cyberpunk 2020 art in recent MTG card.
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Catan, Exploding Kittens maker called “one of the absolute most important businesses” by Embracer CEO
Sale of video game publisher Gearbox brings a close to the holding company’s sweeping layoffs, for now.
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Sci-fi RPG Substratum Protocol channels the “deep delving mystery” of Subnautica and In Other Waters
Pandion’s latest title supports both subterranean solo play and group delving.
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Don’t Starve’s board game adaptation takes roguelike survival from the wilderness to the kitchen table
Better craft plenty of torches.
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D&D 5E shrinks down to a Borrowers and Arrietty-like world in Adventures in the Household RPG
Diminutive & Dangerous.
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Takenoko and Mind MGMT maker’s new board game follows tiny cats in a bustling Japanese city
A night meow-t on the town.
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Railroad Tiles takes the roll-and-write train game on a trip to a Carcassonne-like sequel
One of the best travel board games shakes up its winning formula.
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Avatar Legends, Root RPG, Bluebeard’s Bride and more offered cheap in Magpie Games’ charity bundle
Proceeds will benefit Child's Play Charity.
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Rapscallion wants to be One Piece and Our Flag Means Death fans’ favourite tabletop RPG
A “strange pirate” RPG five years in the making.
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Super-lightweight RPG Cairn dives back into the forest with a more fleshed out second edition
Putting the “Oh, sh–” in OSR.
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Troika! knocks down price of several weird-fantasy RPG books to benefit charity
Proceeds from all books will be donated to Doctors Without Borders.
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Pathfinder’s latest tabletop RPG Humble Bundle is a $5 ticket to the Wild West
Rootin’ and tootin’ and rolling dice.
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D&D’s Quests from the Infinite Staircase adventure anthology is chockablock with beloved crawls
One mustachioed genie, six classic adventures.
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Star Wars: Unlimited publisher says stock problems, due to “unprecedented success”, will be solved in waves.
Fantasy Flight claims their licensed TCG has already become the best selling release in the studio’s history.
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Disney Lorcana’s next set, Ursula’s Return, brings Encanto characters and a new cooperative game to the TCG
Deep Trouble sends players against a souped-up Ursula, while the Madrigal family arrives in the core game.