Dungeons & Dragons Daggerdale will be a multiplayer action-RPG for PSN, PC and Xbox Live. Atari have the honours. There are three pages up at Atari for the game (here’s the Xbox one) and they’re all pretty similar in terms of spec. We’ll get solo and co-op page, questing and multiple game modes. The game […]
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Wizards employee charged with $45,000 Magic: the Gathering theft
Donald J. Henry, 26 year-old and once employed by Wizards of the Cost, has had felony theft charges filed against him by King County prosecutors. It is alleged that Henry stole hundreds of rare Magic: the Gathering cards worth over $45,000 from Wizard’s Renton headquarters. A report in Seattle PI says that the theft was […]
Is D&D Insider’s move to Silverlight for Character Builder too little, too late?
Yesterday Wizards announced that their software for building 4e Dungeons and Dragons (cleverly known as ‘Character Builder’) would no longer be supported in its current format and would be moving to Silverlight. The current format is an executable program. You download software from Wizards of the Coast as if you were downloading a game, music […]
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. […]
Wizards gamble with new D&D Gamma World
The new Gamma World is due out in the UK very soon. Wizards of the Coast are taking a gamble with it but it is an understandable gamble. Firstly, they’re strongly connecting the D&D brand to it this time. There’s not that familiar d20 logo to act as the outstretched hand to new players this […]
The Magic: The Gathering dress
This is an interesting and geeky fashion statement – a Magic: The Gathering Dress. Here are the jokes I’ve heard about this already; “I’d like to tap her mana pool” and “I’d like to check out her booster pack”. Yeah. I just take from those jokes that our lovely lady here is a hit. Have […]
Vampire: The Eternal Struggle to cease production
White Wolf have pulled the plug on their vampire trading card game Vampire: The Eternal Struggle. The game had been published since 1994 and White Wolf had been publishing the game since 2000. In a short statement to press White Wolf said that they had sought out someone to pick up the franchise but had […]
The 2010 Ennies nominations have been announced
The Ennies may well be the most significant of the RPG industry awards. Certainly, everyone who’s made it through to this round should be very happy with themselves and will hopefully see a rise in sales just because they’re a nominee. You’ll see some of the products marked with HM – these are honourable mentions […]
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 […]
Unintentionally funny adventures from D&D Tiny Adventures
I had started to collect some of the worst text from Wizards of the Coast’s Dungeons and Dragons: Tiny Adventures. It’s not a huge list but I wanted to share. It must have been hard writing all that conditional text for the game in the first place. I wonder how many words some poor writer? […]
