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It's weird how trading card games rise and fall in popularity over the years. A name we were surprised to see make a resurgence this year was Magic: The Gathering.

While we had a lot of good tabletop RPGs come out with content this year, it was kind of hard to deny Dungeons & Dragons the top spot in 2018.

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Avalon Hill and Wizards of the Coast put together a brand new version of the game that does a lot more than have you explore a mansion and try to make it out alive This is probably the most ambitious version of the game to date in that you're not just playing in a couple[...]

But how well does it hold up as an adventure compared to the buildup and others in the series? I made a level 17 rouge with a set of friends and plunged into the depths for this review. credit//Wizards of the Coast So let's get a little backstory out of the way The gist of this adventure[...]

Magic the Gathering fans, you might have a whole new way to buy your cards! Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast just announced Magic the Gathering: Arena, a brand new E-Sports event with $10 million at stake! Check out the announcement trailer: https://youtu.be/id-1TLW0EhEVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Official Esports Announce | The World Will[...]

Hasbro was nice enough to send over the Transformers Trading Card Game Metroplex Deck for us to take a look at, and he is huge!

For many a player looking to get into Dungeons & Dragons, it might be a tad intimidating to know what to look for when it comes to rules of the game.

A couple of weeks ago in the middle of Wizards of the Coast's busy publishing schedule for D&D, the company released two children's books Granted, Dungeons & Dragons may not be the first name you think of when you ponder back to your youth and the early educational books you may have had growing up[...]

If by some miracle the campaign raises more funds than are needed for the books on our spreadsheet, the money left over will be sent to one or more disaster relief charities. It is my hope that those affected by the wildfires will be returning to their adventures as early as possible in 2019! We've reached out[...]

Wizards of the Coast will finally unlock a piece of gameplay in the Magic: The Gathering Arena beta that people have been asking for since day one Direct Challenge will officially be added to the game this Thursday, November 15th, when the developers crack it open and add in a fresh new update The way DC[...]

Earlier this week we had a chance to review Axis & Allies & Zombies from Wizards of the Coast and Avalon Hill, in which Scott Van Essen had a hand in creating Today, we got a chance to chat with Essen about the game and the work that went into recreating a classic title with[...]

Here's a little more info from VIZ Media on the book. credit//VIZ Media James Wyatt and the Wizards of the Coast team of storytellers and artists open up the archives to give fans a behind-the-scenes look at how they develop the look and feel of the characters, planes, and creatures of the world's most popular trading card[...]

Wizards of the Coast and Avalon Hill have taken the classic 10-hour standoff classic known as Axis & Allies and modified it with a tase of revisionist history to ask the question, "What if zombies were around during World War II?" What we get is probably one of the most interesting versions of the game I[...]

Magic: The Gathering Arena has caught fire with fans of the game so quickly that some changes are coming to the game sooner than you think! 

Today, we got a new wrinkle in the fabric from one of the game's Twitch streams, Spoilers & Swag, featuring senior brand director Nathan Stewart and game designer Kate Welch, who revealed that there will be two new subclasses added to the game for Clerics and Druids. credit//Wizards of the Coast For the Cleric side of things, the[...]

A while ago, Wizards of the Coast announced that they would be launching a new online game service called Magic: The Gathering Arena A brand new system that would bring the classic trading card game back to online competition with what appeared to be a streamlined system As someone who plays Magic: The Gathering, has known the[...]

We got to take a lok at the new Transformers Trading Card Game from Hasbro, which hit stores today! We really think this could be a huge hit.

Wizards of the Coast officially made the servers live and players have already started rushing into fights from North America, Europe, Australia, and South America Here's a brief quote from the company, along with a list of what players can receive in the beta No word yet as to when it will shut down, so take[...]

Wizards of the Coast has announced the Open Beta launch date for Magic: The Gathering Arena, which is their free-to-play digital version of Magic: The Gathering For the past few months, Arena has been played only in Closed Beta by select Magic: The Gathering fans, but it will finally open up to everyone on September 27, 2018[...]

The series originally ran from 1982-87, and a Second Series that ran from 1994-96, both published by TSR before the company was purchased by Wizards of the Coast Now, with a new resurgence in the game, the series has been revived as WotC and Candlewick Press have released four new books in what is unofficially[...]

This morning, Wizards of the Coast announced a new Dungeons & Dragons-themed card game on the way this November called Dungeon Mayhem The game is a fast-paced, easy-to-learn, deck fighting game between 2-4 players, where you will play as one of four characters trying to outlast the others You can play as a barbarian, paladin, rogue, or[...]

In a short amount of time she has become one of the most prominent faces for modern D&D audiences and players, helping influence the direction of the series and being one of many online personalities bringing new people in. We got a chance to chat briefly with Welch about her role at Wizards of the Coast[...]

We'll put this D&D symbol here just to give you some buffer. credit//Wizards of the Coast This morning, the Amazon leak showed a cover and a full listing for the yet-to-be-revealed book Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica Wizards of the Coast fans should instantly get excited from that, but for the uninitiated, Ravnica is the world in which[...]

Today, Wizards of the Coast announced a new set of products coming later this year for Dungeons & Dragons just in time for the holidays. Some of the awesome items included in the announcement are a coloring book called Adventures Outlined, a pair of children's books that cover the 1-2-3's and A-B-C's with a D&D touch, a[...]

Well, that's one way to engage gamers in politics and news. Magic: The Gathering just got a little more expensive up in Canada.

Some awesome news to cap off our day: Hasbro and their subsidiary Wizards of the Coast announced a new trading card game for Transformers Officially being called the Transformers Trading Card Game, the company will show off four specific cards at San Diego Comic-Con next week, where fans can snag select cards in limited quantities before it officially[...]

Today, Fantasy Flight Games made an official announcement about the ending of Android: Netrunner, which will be happening in late October.

I got the honored privilege of being at the Dungeons & Dragons livestream on Twitch this past weekend called the Stream of Many Eyes. It was a rare chance to meet the D&D team, as well as many of the players and DMs you may see on a weekly basis on their channel playing games.

Below is the full description of the Dungeons & Dragons adventure coming late this year. credit//Wizards of the Coast In the city of Waterdeep rests a tavern called the Yawning Portal, named after the gaping pit in its common room At the bottom of this crumbling shaft is a labyrinthine dungeon shunned by all but the most[...]