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 […]
Magic: The Gathering Is Unbanning Cards In a New Experiment
Over decades of competitive play, many a Magic card has either fallen out of valid use or been outright banned from official play altogether. But as Wizards of the Coast seeks to overhaul some formats of the games’ approach to potentially powerful cards, in one format it’s trying a new one entirely: unbanning cards on a […]
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 […]
Magic: The Gathering’s New Expansion Wants You to Behold Some Dragons
Magic: The Gathering loves dragons. It loves them as major players in its lore, it loves them on lavish card art, it occasionally loves them in dungeons, when dallying about with its fellow Wizards of the Coast property. But as the venerable trading card game enters its next original expansion—on the precipice on its next, […]
Magic: The Gathering’s Spider-Man Cards are Truly Spectacular
Last year, a set of Marvel-themed cards came to Magic: The Gathering—one of the card game’s many ongoing brand crossovers—and featured A-list heroes like Black Panther, Wolverine, and Captain America. But Spider-Man was missing from the illustrious lineup, because he’s getting a set all to himself. During this weekend’s New York Toy Fair, Wizards of the […]
Magic: The Gathering Lifts the Lid on Its Epic Final Fantasy Crossover
Magic: The Gathering has certainly become known for its crossovers—a way to excite new fans while re-energizing existing ones, part of a popularity-assuring strategy that also includes an in-the-works Magic movie. With Lord of the Rings and Marvel collaborations hitting shelves in recent months (to name just a few; that Doctor Who one wasn’t that […]
Dungeons & Dragons’ New Rulebook Era Is Saying Goodbye to a Cute Tradition
In the wake of Dungeons & Dragons‘ 50th anniversary last year, Wizards of the Coast prepped new versions of its core trio of rulebooks: the Players’ Handbook, the Dungeon Masters’ Guide, and the Monster Manual. While these releases aim to be, as Jeremy Crawford, D&D’s principle Rules Designer, said in 2024, “the best versions of […]