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Geeky retailer turns 12: Zavvi birthday sale (that might pay you)
The internet and ecommerce changed the high street forever. Waterstones retreated, was saved a few times, and Virgin Megastores was bought out, rebranded and became online only. That brand? Zavvi.
Audio EXP: #162 – One D&D announced as WotC takes Dungeons & Dragons after computer games and out of edition wars
Learning from computer games about avoiding edition wars and moving to subscription models, Wizards of the Coast may have ditched D&D 6 or 7 forever. But was that this week’s biggest news? I don’t think so.
D&D Beyond deny price rise and leaked slides
Squinting at the fuzzy photograph, you can see that the price of D&D Beyond, bought by WotC for nearly $150m in April, would rise to $30 a month.
Canon and Takara Tomy to release realistic Transformer DSLRs
Would you expect a multi-thousand-dollar camera to transform into a robot?
Renegade Game Studios gets two RPGs into the Spring’s best sellers
This issue includes: Spring 2022 market reports and top seller lists for games and comics/graphic novels. Also features the full year 2021 market size analysis and breakdown for hobby games and comics.
Kyubi: Keep your coffee Nine-Tailed Fox warm
And rest assured this mug will save your favourite hot beverages from going cold, because his ears are the lid which will keep it toasty to drink!
Audio EXP: #161 – Wizards of the Coast promise monster news
Wizards of the Coast promise some big D&D news, so we can speculate on what it could be. We talk lust and mature RPGs, mental health stigma of yore and Stranger Things, and what Luke Gygax thinks of the RPG community.
RPG Publisher Spotlight: Izegrim Creations
The August 2022 winner of the Patreon-voted RPG Publisher Spotlight is Izegrim Creations.
A closer (dangerous) look: WizKids’ premium Vecna statue
Vecna might turn out not to be the villain in the forthcoming D&D movie, but the lich was the namesake and inspiration for the baddie in Stranger Things.
