games
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Paizo President Jim Butler Reveals Plans for a Universal RPG Licence
While Wizards of the Coast was still assembling its party, other leaders in the tabletop roleplaying games industry were studying the blade. As fans waited for the Hasbro-owned company to respond to the ongoing controversy over the Dungeons & Dragons Open Game Licence, Paizo announced it would be financially supporting an initiative to establish a…
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Dungeons & Dragons’ New Licence Tightens Its Grip On Competition
The new Dungeons & Dragons Open Gaming Licence, a document which allows a vast group of independent publishers to use the basic game rules created by D&D owner Wizards of the Coast, significantly restricts the kind of content allowed and requires anyone making money under the licence to report their products to Wizards of the…
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10 of the Biggest Video Game Adaptations Coming in 2023
I predict 2023 will be the year video game adaptations get good. Narratives based on games have been on a rocky road since the first major film based on a game, 1993’s Super Mario Bros., was released, and there have been way more misses than hits along the way. But as video games have become…
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Mega-Popular Board Game Gloomhaven Polymorphs Into an RPG
If you’re one of the nearly 5,000 backers of the 2017 smash-hit board game Gloomhaven — or one of the more than 83,000 backers of its sequel, Frosthaven — you should probably be aware that the tabletop board game is moving to, uh, a different table, I guess. Game designer Isaac Childres has announced Gloomhaven…