If there was a Wizards of the Coast press event on Friday, no one is leaking and isn’t that unusual? Also, this week, Modiphius has been talking to Embracer Group people, and that’s given us at least two Asmodee USA deals. These and other Geek Native nerdy highlights.

Dark Sun is coming back as a host of old D&D games return via Steam, tabletop RPG lawyers get busy, and the original Essence RPG rule system is now free.

A look at the various platforms in the RPG and tabletop space, from electronic gaming boards, to virtual tabletops, because those things are different now. Oh, and $23 million for the Mistborn author.

Roll20 gets a new boss, Hasbro cuts the plastic, and gamers bicker about cowboys and Doctors. All this on a week when tanks rolled across borders. Does that seem right?

Last week we had debates about NFTs and lots of new RPGs. This week, those debates about NFTs reach some conclusions as more and more publishers back out. The new RPGs keep coming, though, even new D&D.

Lots of new RPGs were announced this week and plenty of debate around whether NFTs are an excellent or terrible fit for the digital creativity of the tabletop hobby space.

A look at titles swirling around D&D, DrivethruRPG helping indie RPGs get noticed, and both the Homeworld and Runescape computer games head to the tabletop.

Mystery rooms mustn’t encourage the mystic, Dracula’s descendants will Kickstart later this season, and there’s a dice rolling skull on Kickstarter.

Visibility rows at Tabletop Simulator, Games Workshop losing money to British political whims and reasons why WotC might need to worry about someone close to the D&D team.