Have you seen Battleship the movie? It’s actually based of Hasbro’s Battleship game. The good news is that the surge in sales for Battleship game actually helped with the Wizards of the Coast owner’s finances this year. The question – if they can make a movie out of Battleship what other family game could they […]
Hasbro slips into the red despite growth in Magic: the Gathering
Hasbro have posted their financial results for the first quarter of 2012. There are some mixed signals but the overall performance of the company is down. To blame? Girls and bad games. The company has four product categories. Here they are along with their 2012 Q1 performance and percentage change. Boys made $302.8m in net […]
Wizards of the Coast launch Kaijudo
Kaijudo is a new Duel Masters franchise from Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast. Wizards of the Coast, of course, being Hasbro’s brand not just for Dungeons and Dragons but for trading card games too. Kaijudo is described as a multimedia franchise. This means expect computer games, toys as well as the trading card game […]
D&D Virtual Table review
Wizards of the Coast have a new virtual table for their D&DI subscribers. It’s in beta. If you’re not a D&DI subscriber then a friend who is can get you a beta invite code to use for a while. This is a review of a still in beta product. Technology has been a problem for […]
RPG publishers react to D&D Next
On Monday, Wizards of the Coast announced that D&D 5e project is live. The Hasbro owned company promised that the fanbase would be involved in product development. The news was covered by the likes of Forbes and the New York Times and the media pointed out just how divisive Dungeons and Dragons 4e had been. […]
Skyrim Monopoly
Fame for deviant artist Oddeh as their rather good Skyrim Monopoly mockup does the rounds among gamer and geek blogs. Does it make you want to play Monopoly or Skyrim though? Either way you might like to check out Tommy Filth’s Mass Effect Monopoly too. What about the BioShock Monopoly? A bit too late, I’m […]
Transformer Prime fight: Hasbro sues Asus over transforming tablet
Every day for nearly a month I’ve checked Amazon to see whether they have the latest Asus Transformer Prime ready for pre-order yet. The TF201 model looks like it’s going to be amazing. It’s a tablet that becomes a laptop. It ships with Android 3.2 but will get the Android 4.0 update soon. Two key […]
Battleship – from board game to alien invasion
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 […]
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 […]
