We’re used to seeing tech companies suing tech companies in the States. It’s a strange system worth billions of dollars. A company called Wildcat Intellectual Property Holdings filed a case against Nintendo, Sony, EA, Konami, Zynga and Wizards of the Coast last year in a patent battle. The name ‘Intellectual Property Holdings’ suggests that Wildcat […]
The live action Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013 ad
I think it’s safe to say that it can be pretty hard to create TV worthy ads for any roleplaying (or related) game. Even the best attempts can come across as cheesy. Computer game companies, I think, have had the most success and they’ve done this by simply tapping into the games themselves and letting […]
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 […]
Your PAX East coverage #paxeast
This blogger wasn’t at PAX East. Sniff. The good news is that a legion of social media adepts covered the event through their Twitter, Google, Flickr, YouTube and other platforms. We can use all that rich media sharing to compile a visual summary of the convention. The geeks who couldn’t make it can still sample […]
The Magic: The Gathering comic hits the shelves today
The 1st of February is the publication date for the comic book with the UPC of 82771400302400111. That’s Magic The Gathering #1 By Matt Forbeck, Aleksi Briclot and Martin Coccolo, the series follows the adventures of Dack Fayden, the greatest thief in the Multiverse, has he tracks down people who destroyed his town. Yes. I […]
Magic: The Gathering mobile app will come to Android
Wizards of the Coast have announced an iOS application for Magic: The Gathering. The good news is that they’ve also said an Android app is in production.
Pathfinder tops summer RPG sales
ICv2’s quarterly chart of the best selling RPGs is out and, as expected, Pathfinder tops the chart. There’s a different publisher on each of the top five positions with old favourites and newer entries like Green Ronin’s Dragon Age making the cut. IVc2 reports that games had a great summer – with CCGs and especially […]
Magic the Gathering with Googly Eyes
Perhaps you find yourself with a small truckload of Magic the Gathering cards you know you’ll never use again and don’t imagine are worth selling. It might also be the case that you can’t bring yourself to throw these loyal Magic: tG cards out and into the trash too. So, what can you do about […]
Magic the Gathering intro video becomes YouTube smash
I work in digital marketing so I get to do stuff like monitor which of all the thousands of videos uploaded to YouTube each and every day have been the most successful. There are a lot of gaming videos; Call of Duty, zombies and recently Minecraft. Imagine my surprise, though, when I saw one og […]
Dungeon Master Gurls
I missed this last year. I’ve two theories as to how that managed to happen. Theory 1: I reached California Gurls parody overload. In a defensive move my brain developed a way to ignore anything that mentioned Katy Perry, California Gurls and perhaps even the word “parody” on Youtube. Theory 2: I was distracted by […]
