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Fandom’s state of gaming: Gamers hate NFTs, but Fandom suggests gamers don’t know what they’re talking about

September 14, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

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Fandom has published its annual state of gaming report, which looks at trends and issues facing games.

Filed Under: Games Tagged With: fandom, state of gaming, stats

Cortex sold, Legends of Grayskull shuttered, and Dragon Prince RPG transferred as Fandom exits tabletop roleplaying

August 30, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

Fandom has left the tabletop roleplaying business before completing the Cortex marketplace; however, the RPG line will continue in part.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cam banks, cortex, dire wolf digital, fandom, legends of grayskull, the dragon prince

Fandom rollout interactive maps and other creator tools

June 3, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

While the public is hearing about the maps just this week, creators in the system have been testing them, and Trivia, for about a year. Development, it seems, is slow but sure at Fandom.

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: cartography, fanatical, fandom

Festival of Video Games: Warhammer Skulls deals

June 2, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Fandom might have sold D&D Beyond to Wizards of the Coast, and are still working on their Cortex marketplace but do still have Fanatical as a marketplace.

Filed Under: PC Tagged With: bundles, fanatical, fandom, talisman, warhammer

Death and surprises: Fandom taps its mighty database to give us a geeky summary of 2021

December 21, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Fandom, which has generally has a job role open for data people, analysed billions of its own data points over 40 million pages of content to uncover some geeky facts.

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: army of the dead, fandom, harry potter, how to train your dragon, jurassic park, Loki, lord of the rings, lucifer, shadow and bone, squid game, stats, Suicide Squad, the falcon and the winter soldier, wandavision

Cortex RPG’s fan creator license released to dissent and distrust

December 3, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Our initial plan for Cortex Prime licensing was to offer the Cortex Creator Studio, a distribution channel, marketplace, gaming hub, and design tool.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cortex, Cortex Creator Studio, cortex prime, fandom, legal

Fandom sells advertising to Kickstarter campaigns and RPG studios

September 28, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

To compete against other self-serve ad solutions, Fandom highlights its first-party data and insights from the gaming and entertainment sectors.

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: fandom, fandomatic, gamerati

Most D&D fans can’t correctly answer “Who owns D&D Beyond?”

June 21, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

When this post first went live, the data says that most D&D fans can’t correctly answer “Who owns D&D Beyond?”. Does it matter?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dndbeyond, Dungeons & Dragons, fandom, stats, virtual tabletop, wizards of the coast

Revenge of the Fifth: Lightsaber competition

May 5, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Fanatical has teamed up with Galactic Sabers, Numskull Designs and Wookipeedia for three sets of prices.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: fanatical, fandom, lightsaber, star wars

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #89

February 26, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Keep up with RPG news, Wizards of the Coast’s new promotion with Hasbro, the many D&D TV shows, an Altered Carbon RPG review and interviews from around the web.

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