On Monday, Wizards of the Coast announced that D&D 5e project is live. The Hasbro owned company promised that the fanbase would be involved in product development. The news was covered by the likes of Forbes and the New York Times and the media pointed out just how divisive Dungeons and Dragons 4e had been. […]
Skyrim Monopoly
Fame for deviant artist Oddeh as their rather good Skyrim Monopoly mockup does the rounds among gamer and geek blogs. Does it make you want to play Monopoly or Skyrim though? Either way you might like to check out Tommy Filth’s Mass Effect Monopoly too. What about the BioShock Monopoly? A bit too late, I’m […]
Transformer Prime fight: Hasbro sues Asus over transforming tablet
Every day for nearly a month I’ve checked Amazon to see whether they have the latest Asus Transformer Prime ready for pre-order yet. The TF201 model looks like it’s going to be amazing. It’s a tablet that becomes a laptop. It ships with Android 3.2 but will get the Android 4.0 update soon. Two key […]
Battleship – from board game to alien invasion
It’s proving to be popular – but this blogger isn’t sure whether people are watching the Battleship trailer because friends have told them it’s good or because they’re puzzled by the idea. After all; this is a movie about the board game Battleship. What do you think? What about; is Hasbro can coordinate on a […]
Operation: Red Retrieval – the G.I. Joe fan made movie
Operation: Red Rerieval is a 20 minute long, fan made, movie. It’s a G.I. Joe film that Hasbro has nothing to do with. The film took Mark Cheng about a year and a half of his life to complete and seems to have been very much a labour of love. He writes; Through working on […]
Star Wars Ultimate Force Tech Lightsaber to slay Christmas
Toy retailer associations get busy at this time of the year to predict what will be the most popular Christmas gifts. It’s a big money bet. If you remember trying to track down a Wii or fighting your way through crowds in shops then its easy to imagine why shops need to know what to […]
Wizards of the Coast and Atari settle legal battle: D&D digital return to WotC
In 2007 Atari signed a 10-year deal to look after the digital rights of Dungeons & Dragons. The goal was to have the computer game company do more of Dungeons & Dragons Online, Neverwinter Nights and other digital successes. It all went wrong in the last few days of 2009 with Wizards of the Coast’s […]
Star Wars: R2-D2 Operation game
Remember playing Operation? It’s one of those games we played as kids. It’s one of those games we mixed alcohol with as adults and found it was twice as fun. It seems Hasbro might be trying to up the game even further. ToyWiz will be doing brisk trade this week after the interwebs noticed they […]
Are Wizards of the Coast about to announce D&D 5e?
Update: A year after this post was written, Wizards of the Coast announced D&D 5e. It will be, in part, crowd sourced. There’s some speculation out there in interwebyland that Wizards of the Coast are working on the 5th edition of Dungeons and Dragons. Speculation kicked off with Bill Slavicsek‘s Ampersand article called Icy […]
Embarrassed Hasbro pulls the plug on “Spastic” Transformer
Hasbro has decided to withdraw sale of a Power Core Combiners Transformer called Spastic. At this point UK based readers will be amazed that Hasbro ever had a Transformer called Spastic – but they did. The term “Spastic” does not have the same context in the United States, it’s not used as a charged insult […]
