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Starbreeze, the developer of the Payday series of games, has announced an officially licensed Dungeons & Dragons game due out at some point in 2026.

In 2013, Hasbro sent a cease-and-desist letter to the creators of a My Little Pony fangame called Fighting is Magic (it began as a fanart project called «Marevel vs. Clopcom»). While the creators, Mane6, accepted the cease and desist, they kept the basic idea and mechanics and used them to create an original game called Them's Fightin' Herds. Lauren Faust, producer of the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic TV show, agreed to create a new cast of hoofed mammal fighters for the game and came up with the basics of a setting and story as well. Following an Indiegogo campaign that raised $586,346, Them's Fightin' Herds was released on Steam in early access.

Magic: The Gathering is having a banner year, helping Hasbro pull itself up by its bootstraps with blockbuster sets like The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth. That massive sales volume means that quite a lot of overstock is sitting around after the year’s best sets blazed a trail through your local game store. We’ve scanned all the Black Friday deals on Amazon, compared them to available price histories online, and narrowed things down to find the very best deals on Magic cards this holiday.

Scopely announced that Monopoly Go has emerged as the biggest mobile game launch of 2023, surpassing $1 billion in annual revenue.

In the late 1980s, toy company Hasbro was adding to its slew of entertainment offerings with games like Battleship. Video games were still treated with suspicion by much of the general public, but Hasbro started pursuing a different kind of interactive experience: a movie that could be influenced by audience decisions. In the process, while attempting to make a nonviolent family game that could be enjoyed by nearly everyone, Hasbro helped create some of the creepiest vampires in video games — and the star of the 1993 U.S. Senate hearings meant to address violence and video games.

The success of Baldur’s Gate 3 has done more than just boost the reputation of developer Larian Studios. Caught by TweakTown, the latest Q3 earnings figures for Hasbro—the parent company of Wizards of the Coast, which owns Dungeons & Dragons—indicates that the RPG also led to more sales of the tabletop game.

Dungeons & Dragons has a new book coming out—but you'll have to wait a while longer for the physical copy. The release of The Deck of Many Things core rulebook has been delayed thanks to a streak of bad luck (or poor manufacturing, depending on how charitable you're willing to be). On October 28, the official D&D Twitter account made the following post: 

Baldur's Gate 3 has well and truly established itself as one of the biggest surprise hits of the last decade, touted as one of the best RPGs ever made and a shoe-in to win every single award going at this year's Game Awards showcase. With that kind of reputation, and the constantly rising popularity of Dungeons & Dragons, it's safe to assume that the game has brought home the bacon for Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro.

PDP unveiled a range of controllers earlier this year with miniature versions of various characters in the handle. Sonic and other characters from the series were the first to be encased in plastic, starting with the blue blur, and pre-orders for Tails and Knuckles controllers have followed suit. Pikmin was the next series to get the Realmz treatment, a tiny red Pikmin in the handle that's probably close to actual size. Now the previously promised Transformers controller is up for pre-order.

Hasbro's The Black Series has been turning characters from Star Wars into high-quality action figures for the past decade. With new Star Wars content coming to Disney Plus all the time, there's not going to be a shortage of more characters that can be added to the collection anytime soon. There are also plenty of characters, and perhaps more importantly variations of characters, from the series' past to be added to The Black Series too, and today a big one will be made available for the first time.

The endless parade of incongruous Magic crossovers continued today with news that Marvel, the purveyor of movies, television shows, comics, videogames, and other popular media that you simply cannot get away from, is coming to Magic: The Gathering.

Comic book fans who play Magic: The Gathering will be happy to know that Wizards of the Coast and Marvel are teaming up for a collaboration that will see notable Marvel characters join the widely popular tabletop card game... but you're gonna have to wait a while.

Magic: The Gathering is gearing up for its biggest Universes Beyond crossover ever, in a multi-release partnership with Marvel due to arrive in 2025.

Marvel is coming to Magic: The Gathering, thanks to a new multi-year deal between Marvel and Hasbro. 

The Avengers will be assembling soon alongside the Planeswalkers of Magic: The Gathering. Hasbro and Marvel announced Monday a blockbuster partnership to bring collectible products and “tentpole sets” of cards based on the iconic superheroes to the leading collectible card game. Fans should expect to find them at retail beginning in 2025.

Hasbro and Marvel are teaming up in a multi-year, multi-set deal to release Marvel characters and stories in Magic: The Gathering .

David Scott Jaffe, the creator of God of War and the Twisted Metal series, has said to have heard that "sad" PlayStation news is inbound.

Magic: The Gathering’s Hasbro Pulse Con 2023 exclusive Secret Lair drops have been revealed, bringing with it not just another new series of Chibi Planeswalkers, but exclusive figures and a crossover with, of all things, Nerf.

Hasbro's annual Pulse Con is here again. An opportunity for a number of different franchises to show off new and upcoming toys and action figures for the first time with everything from Transformers to Magic: The Gathering making an appearance. Also included in the line-up was Marvel Legends, a number of new action figures coming to the collection revealed during the show, and characters from the Spider-Man corner of the Marvel universe taking a big chunk of the spotlight.

Star Wars reveals quite rightly occupied a significant chunk of Hasbro's Pulse Con on Friday, some new figures coming to The Black Series being among the bigger reveals during that particular section. The collection will be getting two new action figures in Spring 2024 but can be pre-ordered today, and both pull characters from the ongoing Disney Plus show Ahsoka into the action figure world.

Hasbro has unveiled its next auto-transforming Robosen Transformers toy as part of its 40th anniversary celebrations is now available for preorders, and it's a whopping 15 inches of the most famous of the Dinobots, Grimlock.

2023's Pulse Con is underway and Transformers kicked off proceedings. More specifically, a first proper look at Hasbro's Legacy United collection. An entirely new line of Transformers action figures that has pulled inspiration from multiple universes, the popular animated one included. The collection has been split into four classes - Core, Deluxe, Voyager, and Leader - with the size, detail, and price differing between each of them

GameStop is currently having a massive clearance sale on a lot of its inventory. Besides the regular discount, customers can also avail of a Buy 3 Get One Free offer on a wide variety of products. All you need to do is add any three eligible products into your cart, and the two cheaper items will be available for free.

Hasbro has unveiled its latest Haslab project for toy fans: a 24-inch Giant-Man action figure to honor the 60th anniversary of Marvel Comics’ Avengers.

A new G.I. Joe game based on the iconic franchise, titled, has been revealed at The MIX Next Showcase.

‘ The Infinity Saga may have come to an end with Spider-Man: Far From Home. Still, Hasbro has more sculpts from the hit films in the pipeline.

Hasbro has apologized for claiming that Activision has lost their copies of their Transformers video games.

Toy giant Hasbro has said that Activision still has the code for the Transformers games they collaborated on.

Hasbro has apologised for claiming that Activision had lost its Transformers games and that this is the reason they aren’t on Xbox Game Pass.

After one Hasbro rep suggested that Activision Blizzard had lost the hard drives that held the code for the well-loved Transformers games it published, Hasbro's PR is now saying that statement was made in error.

Hasbro wants to put its older Transformers video games on Xbox Game Pass but says it can't because Activision doesn't know where it's stored them.

Toy giant Hasbro has said that it cannot release the Transformers games it partnered with Activision for as the company cannot find the hard drive they are on.

Hasbro thinks it's time for Activision Blizzard's Transformers games to come to Xbox Game Pass. At a recent Q&A with Transformer World 2005 at San Diego Comic-Con earlier in July, a spokesperson for the toy company was asked about older games in the series being re-released for newer consoles. 

Hasbro's flying high at the moment, and is looking to get serious about Transformers and videogames. There have been multiple Transformers games in the past, of course, but these were somewhat isolated licensed titles rather than a part of any grander strategy. Now Hasbro's got a big title on the way next year from Splash Damage, has begun to sell a Gamer Edition line of toys (where the bots look like their designs in certain videogames), and as part of the latter has noticed that these games are incredibly hard to play.

Transformers owners Hasbro have said they would like to see older video games based on the beloved toy franchise to make a return - except those games are lost somewhere on a hard drive inside Activision.

Toy giant Hasbro wants Activision Blizzard to put its Transformers games back on sale, but the publisher has lost them.

Hasbro has expressed an interest in bringing back the Activision Transformers games. However, there’s a snag, and it’s not really one you would expect.

Hasbro has said that it would like to see Microsoft revive Activision‘s old Transformers games via Game Pass.

Hasbro says it would love for the Activision-published Transformers games to come to a service like PC Game Pass, when asked about the possibility of the delisted games ever coming back to storefronts. With PlatinumGames’ Transformers Devastation among the lost robot games, I’d love to see them back too.