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Wingspan maker’s sales decline for second consecutive year, but the board game company isn’t worried
Infinite growth is for the birds.
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Belgian McDonald’s mixes Yu-Gi-Oh! and Hello Kitty in latest Happy Meal offering
Keroppi dressed as Kuriboh is inspired, no notes.
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LEGO’s official Dungeons & Dragons set will launch with an actual play one-shot featuring the designer
The fantasy-themed inn will include an adventure booklet starring its heroic patrons.
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Early D&D designer and co-author of Deities & Demigods James M. Ward has passed away
Ward sat at Gary Gygax’s Greyhawk table and created sci-fi and fantasy tabletop RPGs at TSR for 20 years.
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Blade Runner RPG’s first expansion evokes the original film’s ethical dilemmas and empathy for replicants
Study up for your Voight-Kampff test.
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Grant boons or bane to humans who beseech your monstrous aid in dark fairytale RPG Kedamono Opera
Beauty is in the eye of the legendary beast.
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Beloved Gundam-meets-D&D RPG Wares Blade gets first English translation after nearly 40 years
Sword and sorcery and super big mechs.
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Cyberpunk: Edgerunners official miniatures game sends you skirmishing through the streets of Night City
Fast is what these Edgerunners do best.
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Pokémon TCG's Twilight Masquerade expansion brings Scarlet & Violet DLC to the card game
Ogerpon’s four masks each get their own ex card, alongside Okidogi, Munkidori and Fezandipiti.
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D&D and MTG have "compelling use cases for AI", says Hasbro CEO
Chris Cocks envisions “mining” tabletop adventures and TCG cards for the toy company’s AI-powered future.
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Dungeons & Dragons survival sim video game on the way from studio behind Disney Dreamlight Valley
Plowshares to swords.
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Fall of Rome maker and Undaunted studio set sights on accessible wargames with Battalion: War of the Ancients
Roman wars on a Gaul budget.
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Shin Megami Tensei tabletop RPG, based on Persona's video game series, gets an English release after 20 years
D&D, but it stands for Demons and Demi-fiends
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One of the oldest board games in existence seeks crowdfunding for a brand new version
The Royal Game of Ur wants a facelift.
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Monster Hunter World board game maker to publish D&D alternative Tales of the Valiant’s starter set
New RPG rules, same ol’ fantasy.
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Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG’s biggest competition returns to the US for the first time in eight years.
Land of the free, home of the Pendulum Summoned.
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Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG brings back one its most iconic monsters as a 5-card Fusion Summon
Those two words everyone wants to hear: “Exodia, obliterate!”
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Heroscape’s second miraculous revival is everything the failed Hasbro relaunch should have been
A timely rescue pivots away from expensive boxes and towards organised play and a traditional look.
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Call of Cthulhu maker offers $10,000 worth of cash prizes to aspiring tabletop RPG designer
Chaosium’s inaugural BRP Design Challenge will spotlight “new and upcoming” talent.
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Arkham Horror RPG will introduce new investigators to a world of miskatonic mysteries this summer
Adventures in Rokugan studio translates the popular LCG into dice pool-driven roleplay.
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Balance cats on electricity cables in cute dexterity board game Nekojima
Hanging on by a whisker and a prayer.
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NASA (yes, that NASA) has released its first D&D-compatible tabletop RPG adventure
Science and magic meet to solve the mystery of the missing Hubble Telescope
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Puerto Rico 1897 publisher promises no AI art in final release after deluxe edition backlash
"Generative AI cannot be used in any part of the art process for this Ravensburger game."
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First look at Halo: Flashpoint miniature game revels in the video game's intense multiplayer
All that’s missing is a Warthog and a flag.
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Dune RPG bundle lets you continue your Adventures in the Imperium for under £15 after you watch Part Two
A spicy proposition.
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Dying Light’s parkour-loving zombie killers will roam an entire modular city block in the official board game
Roll dice for both combat and wall jumping across a city with a vicious day/night cycle and UV components.
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Naked mole rats, living room murder parties and robot chefs are up for best unpublished board game award
Fourteen worthy tabletop designs advance to a final round of judging for the Cardboard Edison, including titles about comic book sales and fusion reactors.
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Van Gogh Pikachu, Shining Mew and a whole load of Charizard Pokemon cards go under the hammer for Pokémon Day
eBay’s one-day auction shows collectors have eyes for only a few elite critters
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Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket looks like a serious mobile option for casual collectors
Pocket’s emphasis on trading highly detailed cards will exist alongside the existing Pokémon TCG Live app.
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Commit crimes and reunite with your deadbeat dad in Magic: The Gathering’s Outlaws of Thunder Junction set
Plus, Modern Horizons 3 promises an Eldrazi Commander deck (maybe) worth the premium price tag.
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Magic: The Gathering's Bloomburrow set will turn planeswalkers into furries
Jace Beleren and Ral Zarek get the fursona treatment in an upcoming set dripping with Redwall flavour.
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Villainous, Jurassic World and Jaws board game designers form new studio after Funko Games layoffs
Based in Seattle, Tempest Workshop's designers say they will embody "being human, creating together, and having moxie."
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Satirical fireteam RPG Planet Fist is essentially Helldivers 2 on the tabletop
Orbital Strikes: the not-so-silent killer.
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Official Lara Croft tabletop RPG Shadows of Truth pits your team against would-be tomb raiders
Will directly adapt and expand Crystal Dynamics’ take on the classic video game character.
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Inject some Elden Ring into your D&D 5E campaigns with Kobold Press’ Soulslike Roleplaying
Souls, bonfires, and rude invaders - this book does exactly what it says on the tin.
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Blister Critters is a Gamma World-meets-Ren & Stimpy RPG where mutated animals rule the world
You can’t spell ‘saturday morning cartoon’ without radiation!
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Critical Role celebrates Candela Obscura’s first anniversary with a fourth chapter and three new cast members.
Aimee Carrero, Imari Williams and Alexander Ward join the Circle of investigators fighting back a magical blight.
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HOME is a Pacific Rim and Godzilla-inspired RPG where kaiju battles are fought from a bird’s-eye view
Metal meets mettle in this collaborative struggle to protect everything you hold dear.
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MTG’s Fallout Commander decks revive the post-apocalyptic video game series’ greatest villains
Power armour, ghoul mayors and The Master show up in the latest preview for Fallout Universes Beyond release.
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The Walking Dead RPG studio’s dark reimagining of Coriolis is “The Terror meets Deadwood in space”
They better have deep-space archaeologist Timothy Olyphant.
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Guide a massive sci-fi caravan with a bag of dominoes in artbook-meets-RPG The Details of Our Escape
Developed as a digital residency in partnership with artist Linnea Sterte and and author Renee Gladman.
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Pathfinder RPG partners with fantasy music studio to publish official adventure path soundtracks
Lo-Fi beats to loot to.
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After making $100m on Kickstarter, Zombicide studio CMON takes future board games exclusively to Gamefound
CMON breaking up with the crowdfunding behemoth is a clear sign of change on the horizon.
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ARC designer’s hit solo RPG The Magus gets an English print release about power, ambition and sacrifice
Momatoes' meditation on "the infinite loneliness of power" comes with a 78-card, fully illustrated Oracle deck.
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Community megadungeon honouring late D&D designer Jennell Jaquays seeks an expanded physical book
Proceeds from Return to Perinthos will first benefit Jaquays family to offset medical bills and funeral costs.
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Dungeons & Dragons’ first stage show mixes improv, adventuring and Jackbox-style audience participation
Producer Curious Hedgehog promises trivia, charades and fantasy beer pong amongst high fantasy hijinks.
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Warpath’s epic miniature wargame want to woo you away from Warhammer 40,000
No Space Marines, no Emperor of Man, but all the same large-scale sci-fi battles.
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FÄNGELSEHÅLA transforms an IKEA instruction manual into a minimalist tabletop RPG
Flatpack adventures, assembly required.
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Solo RPG From Midgard to Eternity borrows from God of War and Banner Saga in showing the end of a Viking life
Are you impressed, ye gods?
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D&D and MTG owner’s $1.06 billion loss dwarfs strong performance from Wizards of the Coast
Layoffs, inventory shedding and the sale of its entertainment branch still leave Hasbro leaning hard on its golden geese.
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Magic: The Gathering plans to release two Tale of Middle-earth sized crossover sets per year starting in 2025
The success of last year's Lord of the Rings set has paved the way for more premiere-sized Universes Beyond crossovers.
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D&D models its digital future on MTG’s Universes Beyond pop culture crossovers
More dolls in the fantasy sandbox.
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Dungeons & Dragons teases an official LEGO set, Converse shoes and Pop-Tarts
The breakfast of champion-subclassed Fighters.
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Dungeons & Dragons’ next official adventure Thanos-ifiies Vecna in a multiverse-spanning campaign
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: all worlds are in peril!
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Dungeons & Dragons’ 2024 core rulebooks get official release dates
D&D 2024's three core books strangely stagger their releases months apart.
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Studio developing Dungeons & Dragons RPG video game lays off 44 workers, shelves project
Hidden Path sought additional funding for six months amidst a “challenging environment”.
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Dungeons & Dragons maker kills Dragonlance live-action series, according to Joe Manganiello and series author
Margaret Weis and Manganiello say Wizards of the Coast is not interested in producing anything set in Krynn, at present.
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A Gentle Rain, Arkham Horror co-designer's short, 15-minute board game, returns with a remastered edition
Bloomin’ heck, those flowers are pretty.
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Women are Werewolves and Cloud Empress creators honoured at 2024 Nonbinary Tabletop Awards
Board game content creator Matthew Makak of Room 51 also clinches an award.
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Make real-life masks to explore an enchanted forest as werewolves in folklore RPG Little Wolves
Fae queens and furballs.
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Game of Thrones' next tabletop game is Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team in Westeros
A Song of Ice and Fire: Tactics will retell the Battle of the Trident and other momentous clashes.
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New Fallout 4 miniatures game, from Necromunda designer, releases free quickstart rules for narrative bouts
War never changes, but it does get smaller.
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Next Pathfinder RPG core rulebook joins Starfinder 2E playtest at Gen Con 2024
Paizo will serve fans a feast of new adventures and updated rules at annual Indy convention.
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No Warhammer Fest in 2024, Games Workshop confirms, as Warhammer World Championships return for a second year
After a disappointing 2023, Warhammer Fest is recalled from the front.
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Roguelike RPG Children of Morta gets a cooperative board game where strength is thick as blood
The family that slays together stays together.
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Dune RPG's next campaign book will let you play through new movie Dune: Part Two
Paul of the Imperium.
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How to draft Magic: The Gathering’s Murders at Karlov Manor
A beginner’s guide to Ravnican detective work across 10 dual-colour archetypes.
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Deckbuilding board game Dominion is now free to play on PC and mobile
A kingdom in your pocket.
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February’s month-long celebration of tabletop RPG zines returns - here’s how you can join in
Zine Month, ZineQuest, it’s all A4 to me.
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D&D head designer says 2024 books won’t release before summer: “we will still be working on the books in May”
Jeremy Crawford breaks down the very last Unearthed Arcana playtest and kills early 2024 launch wishes.
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Dungeons & Dragons maker reportedly looks at Tencent to sell future video games like Baldur’s Gate 3
UPDATE: Wizards denies rumours of IP sale
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Printer-friendly Altered TCG finds immediate crowdfunding success for alternative collection model
Former Dixit studio head raises over €1,000,000 on Kickstarter’s first day.
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Another copy of Pokémon TCG’s most expensive card is back under the hammer
A not-quite-mint Illustrator Pikachu is joined by a holo Charizard and special Family Event Kangaskhan.
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The first-ever copy of Dungeons & Dragons was bought by another RPG industry legend
RuneQuest co-creator Greg Stafford still remembers the one that got away.
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Zombicide maker will complete two flailing Kickstarter projects from Darkest Dungeon board game studio
Mythic Games told backers the projects would be "excessively difficult, if not impossible, to complete" without asking for more money.
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Pokémon TCG Scarlet & Violet - Paldean Fates is out now
The return of shiny cards includes Tera Charizard ex alongside more ancient and future Pokémon ex.
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Sci-fi MMO EVE Online warps to the tabletop with massive 4X strategy board game
Can CCP Games translate its spacefaring subterfuge and spreadsheet-keeping to an analogue format?
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Rebel Moon tabletop RPG studio resolves Netflix lawsuit 'amicably'
Evil Genius Games will soon begin issuing pre-order refunds on the tie-in RPG for Snyder's sci-fi flick.
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Blood Bowl's soccer cousin Guild Ball returns with print-on-demand miniatures, releases starter set for free
Steamforged brings its first miniatures game out of forced retirement.
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Yu-Gi-Oh!'s next set is apparently packed with Dark Souls references
References to the Fire Keeper, Dragon God and more notable FromSoftware characters abound in Phantom Nightmare expansion.
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Crime heist RPG Swyvers sounds like an even down-and-dirtier Blades in the Dark
“A grotty system for running a grotty game.”
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Dungeons & Dragons is adventuring into its first virtual reality video game
I cast Ray of Motion Sickness!
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Mausritter’s community created a 250-room megadungeon for the mouse-and-magic RPG
Tomb of a Thousand Doors combines an entire game jam into a sprawling, deadly dungeon crawl.
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The most popular D&D character is a human fighter called Bob, according to the RPG's makers
No love for smallfolk, but y’all really appreciate the ‘magic’ of a sharp stick.
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Ghibli-esque Mothership setting Cloud Empress gets an expansion inspired by Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Land of the Living and Land of the Dead explore two more grand slices of Cloud Empress’ unique post-apocalyptic world.
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Warhammer Fantasy reboot The Old World is getting a tabletop RPG
Age of Sigmar: Soulbound and Wrath & Glory publisher Cubicle 7 adds a third fantasy Warhammer RPG to its roster.
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Dungeoneering wizard gang RPG Ars Magica returns with a definitive fifth edition
We will deal with you, me and my wizard crew.
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Brass: Birmingham designer says next sequel aiming for Kickstarter in late 2024
Roxley designer Gavan Brown says the as-yet-unnamed board game is their “current top priority”.
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Funko has sold its board game studio to a Dutch family game publisher
Prospero Hall staff allegedly not part of Funko's abrupt exit from the industry.
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Former D&D designer brings Elden Ring's most iconic (and difficult) boss fight to 5E tabletop RPGs
Roll the dice against the Goddess of Rot.
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Disney Lorcana's official tournaments kick off this spring ahead of 2025 World Championship
US and European championships will award invites to the global competition, while in-store set championships promise exclusive promo cards.
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MTG's Murders at Karlov Manor mechanics: suspects, disguises and evidence explained
Morph gets a glow-up and investigations return in this magical whodunnit TCG set.