It’s proving to be popular – but this blogger isn’t sure whether people are watching the Battleship trailer because friends have told them it’s good or because they’re puzzled by the idea. After all; this is a movie about the board game Battleship. What do you think? What about; is Hasbro can coordinate on a […]
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Operation: Red Retrieval – the G.I. Joe fan made movie
Operation: Red Rerieval is a 20 minute long, fan made, movie. It’s a G.I. Joe film that Hasbro has nothing to do with. The film took Mark Cheng about a year and a half of his life to complete and seems to have been very much a labour of love. He writes; Through working on […]
Star Wars Ultimate Force Tech Lightsaber to slay Christmas
Toy retailer associations get busy at this time of the year to predict what will be the most popular Christmas gifts. It’s a big money bet. If you remember trying to track down a Wii or fighting your way through crowds in shops then its easy to imagine why shops need to know what to […]
Wizards of the Coast and Atari settle legal battle: D&D digital return to WotC
In 2007 Atari signed a 10-year deal to look after the digital rights of Dungeons & Dragons. The goal was to have the computer game company do more of Dungeons & Dragons Online, Neverwinter Nights and other digital successes. It all went wrong in the last few days of 2009 with Wizards of the Coast’s […]
Star Wars: R2-D2 Operation game
Remember playing Operation? It’s one of those games we played as kids. It’s one of those games we mixed alcohol with as adults and found it was twice as fun. It seems Hasbro might be trying to up the game even further. ToyWiz will be doing brisk trade this week after the interwebs noticed they […]
Are Wizards of the Coast about to announce D&D 5e?
Update: A year after this post was written, Wizards of the Coast announced D&D 5e. It will be, in part, crowd sourced. There’s some speculation out there in interwebyland that Wizards of the Coast are working on the 5th edition of Dungeons and Dragons. Speculation kicked off with Bill Slavicsek‘s Ampersand article called Icy […]
Embarrassed Hasbro pulls the plug on “Spastic” Transformer
Hasbro has decided to withdraw sale of a Power Core Combiners Transformer called Spastic. At this point UK based readers will be amazed that Hasbro ever had a Transformer called Spastic – but they did. The term “Spastic” does not have the same context in the United States, it’s not used as a charged insult […]
How to Trap a Zombie, Track a Vampire, and Other Hands-On Activities for Monster Hunters: A Young Wizards Handbook
Wizards of the Coast issued a press release today to highlight their Dungeins & Dragons book for young readers called How to Trap a Zombie, Track a Vampire, and Other Hands-On Activities for Monster Hunters: A Young Wizards Handbook. The press release is timed for Halloween but the book itself has been out since September. […]
Hasbro brings NERF guns to Splinter Cell: Conviction
When I’m not being my geeky self here on Geek Native I get to my geeky self in a digital marketing company. Sometimes I get to hear about pretty cool digital marketing campaigns. This is such an example; Hasbro has teamed up with Xbox 360 to run an in-game treasure hunt across Splinter Cell: Conviction, […]
Hasbro, owner of Wizards of the Coast and Transformers, is forced to deny sale
Hasbro issued a press release to deny market rumours that it was for sale. However, the games company admitted it had been approached by a private equity firm about a possible deal – and that the Board of Directors had turned them down. This is interesting as a private equity company might well decide there […]
