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“A soulless cash grab”: Codenames publisher CGE under fire for new Harry Potter game
The Tabletop Game Designers Association (TTGDA), a professional body established by prominent designers such as Elizabeth Hargrave (Wingspan) and Sen-Foong Lim (Mind MGMT), was swift to condemn the move. In a public statement, the organisation expressed its disappointment.
13.7 million conversations later: Luna Lovegood is fan favourite Harry Potter character
With so much conversation buzzing around the game online, eBuyer wanted to look into the most loved characters in the franchise over the years, to see those which have had a lasting impact on fans for both positive, and negative, reasons.
In London, Harry Potter competes with the horror of Saw
The interactive experience is a mix of theatre with escape rooms. If you pick Saw as your reason to visit London, your moral choices will be examined, and your mettle tested.
Stranger Things and Hellfire Club fashion top Merchoid’s 2022 sellers (as Potter wanes)
The site has tracked a boom in Stranger Things merch, up +13,126% from the year before, with Batman a distant second place in year-on-year growth, with +106%.
What did they not mess up? The most popular sci-fi and fantasy book-to-film adaptations
Superproof combined IMDB and Goodreads data to work out which sci-fi and fantasy books are popular, which have movie adaptations of which of those adaptations people actually liked!
15 Fabulous and Fun Genderswapped Cosplays from the 2022 WonderCon
Every convention has its share of cosplayers doing Rule 63 cosplays depicting characters with their genders switched.
IWD: How many of your Pops are women?
I don’t have all that many Pops, but if I buy another, everything else being equal, it should be of a female-identifying character.
Death and surprises: Fandom taps its mighty database to give us a geeky summary of 2021
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.
Visualising the biggest on-screen fantasy battle of all time (so far)
I’ve been in paintball battles, and it gets pretty intense with just a few people. So when I got an email inviting me to guess what the biggest on-screen battle of all time was, I was curious.
