The respected and popular designer, Monte Cook, unexpectedly announced he was quitting Wizards of the Coast and the D&D Next project this week. Cook’s return to the company, over a year ago, was one of the first signs that the next generation of the roleplaying game was on the way. Cook blames a difference of […]
Hasbro slips into the red despite growth in Magic: the Gathering
Hasbro have posted their financial results for the first quarter of 2012. There are some mixed signals but the overall performance of the company is down. To blame? Girls and bad games. The company has four product categories. Here they are along with their 2012 Q1 performance and percentage change. Boys made $302.8m in net […]
The Future of D&D panel at PAX East #dndnext
Lead Rules Editor Jeremy Crawford and D&D Senior Manager Mike Mearls held a “Future of D&D panel” at PAX East. They start by pointing out how much video gaming as grown since D&D was born and how some players now enter the roleplaying world these days via the digital front. Within seconds, however, they talk […]
SLA Industries movie on the way? Rights for TV series and film change hands
The 20-year-old SLA Industries from Nightfall games has sold the rights to a TV series and movie production to Romark Entertainment. Romark Entertainment is a full-service production company that specialises in turning high-level IP into films, television, video game and comic books. They have deals in place with Arcana Comics and Bit Fu Studios. In […]
How to play Lords of Waterdeep
Lords of Waterdeep is an official, Wizards of the Coast, Dungeons & Dragons game. Waterdeep is from the Forgotten Realms setting – sometimes called the City of Splendors and is known for political intrigue and lords wrestling for power. The game is for 2 to 5 players. It looks like a fairly complex game with […]
Who are the #DnDnext thought leaders? [infographic]
The rather useful infographic search engine and hosting platform Visual.ly has launched a beta project that lets you build your own infographics. You can access it for free at create.visual.ly and dabble with a few pre-made templates that plug into public data sources. I had to give it a go while it was still in […]
Roleplaying movie alert: Unicorn City trailer
Unicorn City is coming to the cinema screen – well, some of them. Hopefully it makes it out of America. It might as it’s won best feature at the Chicago Comedy Film Festival (oh, at GenCon – which suggests gamers like it). Forget Wizards of the Coast – action begins at Warlocks of the Beach […]
The Magic: The Gathering comic hits the shelves today
The 1st of February is the publication date for the comic book with the UPC of 82771400302400111. That’s Magic The Gathering #1 By Matt Forbeck, Aleksi Briclot and Martin Coccolo, the series follows the adventures of Dack Fayden, the greatest thief in the Multiverse, has he tracks down people who destroyed his town. Yes. I […]
D&D Virtual Table review
Wizards of the Coast have a new virtual table for their D&DI subscribers. It’s in beta. If you’re not a D&DI subscriber then a friend who is can get you a beta invite code to use for a while. This is a review of a still in beta product. Technology has been a problem for […]
Wizards of the Coast brings back AD&D
Wizards of the Coast will republished Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. The company will produce premium versions of the original AD&D rulebooks, with original art and content but with new cover designs.
