After the success of Baldur’s Gate 3, there’s been talk of Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast releasing more games based on Dungeons & Dragons. Bad news for fans looking forward to that: one of them, a title codenamed “Project Baxter,” has been fully canceled. The title was in development over at Swedish developer Starbreeze, best […]
Watch This ‘Stranger Things’ Video and and See Just How Much These Kids Have Aged
Talk about a blast from the past. Just look at how much the Stranger Things cast has aged since 1983. Kidding, just kidding. No, but really, there’s some sort of time warp happening because Netflix had Finn Wolfhard, Caleb McLaughlin, and Gaten Matarazzo, along with Cara Buono (who plays Wolfhard’s mom, Karen Wheeler), react to […]
‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Is Trying a ‘Stranger Things’ Collab Game Again
Fans of Eddie Munson are having a moment right now between actor Joseph Quinn launching into a marvelous blaze of glory and now a new Stranger Things collab with Dungeons & Dragons. The timing couldn’t be more perfect for more Hellfire Club adventures, and this release promises enough of them to last you at least […]
Wizkids Apologizes After Its Dodgy ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Miniatures Hit With Vicious Mockery
After pictures of in-hand copies of Wizkids’ new pre-painted Baldur’s Gate 3 miniatures emerged and were promptly ridiculed last week, the toymaker has announced plans to offer complete refunds to players disappointed by the horrifying paint jobs that turned Faerun’s finest into eldritch abominations. The controversy around Wizkids’ new $50 Icons of the Realms: Baldur’s Gate 3 went […]
Hasbro Wants Tariff-Exempt Toys as Magic: The Gathering Cards Keep Selling
It’s been nearly a full month after the Trump administration’s tariffs went into effect (then semi-reversed), and several companies have been impacted. For the most part, Hasbro isn’t one of them. In the company’s recent investor call, CEO Chris Cocks said it was “well positioned” within the current global trade situation. Its games business is […]
Universal Studios Fan Fest Nights Unleashes an Incredible, Massive Dungeons & Dragons Puppet
Beginning this Friday, Dungeons & Dragons fans can experience the realms of the tabletop RPG in a new way with Universal Studios Hollywood Fan Fest Nights. The fandom celebration will showcase new participatory entertainment at an after-dark theme park event that will give guests the opportunity to experience their own D&D adventure. Think Halloween Horror […]
Dungeons & Dragons’ Chris Perkins Exits Wizards of the Coast
After 28 years, longtime Dungeons & Dragons designer Chris Perkins revealed he’s exited the company and retired from Wizards of the Coast. Perkins said on Friday he was leaving with a “perfect fairytale ending…I can’t wait to enjoy D&D purely as a fan again, knowing the game is in good hands.” His retirement comes in the […]
Report: Hasbro Is Scrapping Dungeons & Dragons’s Ambitious Virtual Tabletop
Hasbro’s Sigil 3D virtual tabletop tool—which recently launched in a messy, unfinished state as an early public playtest—is reportedly being shuttered after years of development and being folded into, in some capacity, existing D&D Beyond virtual tabletop system, Maps. Rascal News reports that, in an internal message sent to Wizards of the Coast employees, the studio […]
Dungeons & Dragons’ First Adventures for the New Edition Are Literally Dragons in Dungeons
This past weekend at MagicCon: Chicago, Dungeons & Dragons fans got their first look artwork for Dragon Delves, a new book arriving this summer. A new book full of, well… dragons. Also, dungeons! It’s a back-to-basics approach, for sure, but also one that should excite longtime fans of the series. According to a press release, […]
Shawn Levy Is Bringing Dungeons & Dragons to Netflix
After failing a saving throw at Paramount+, Hasbro is trying to make a live-action Dungeons & Dragons TV series work again–and one of the increasingly busiest men in Hollywood is helping them to do so. Deadline reports that Shawn Levy–still hot off the blockbuster success of Deadpool & Wolverine last year, and recent rumors that his long-in-limbo Star […]