Someone at Hasbro should stop letting their CEO talk. Also, there’s a lot of crappy news out so I decided to talk about some new games announced recently. Speaking of news, we’ve also got Rowan Zeoli on from Rascal News to talk about what its like as an independent news blog in this dumpster fire of a time.

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https://www.rascal.news/how-rpgs-get-disability-wrong/

https://www.rascal.news/the-question-of-children-in-actual-play/

https://www.rascal.news/wyrmwoods-bitter-medicine-is-proving-hard-for-audiences-to-swallow/

https://www.rascal.news/former-world-of-game-design-employees-claim-tabletop-company-exploits-workers-and-clients/

Hubworld: Aidalon from Earthborne Games

https://gamefound.com/en/projects/earthborne-games/hubworld-aidalon?ref=homepage-featured_3

Mech Skirmish game coming from Andy Chambers

https://gamefound.com/en/projects/best-hobby/zeo-genesis-scalable-smirmish-game?ref=homepage-featured_2

New "The Gamers" project looking for funding

https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/zombie-orpheus-entertainment/the-gamers-attack-of-the-pwns?ref=bk-discover-trending

Star Wars wargame coming from Days of Wonder

https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2025/04/battle-of-hoth-miniatures-game-announced-by-days-of-wonder.html

Hasbro isn't worried about the economy

https://www.rascal.news/hasbros-cautious-approach-to-tariffs-depends-on-more-licensed-magic-the-gathering-and-potential-layoffs/

https://www.wargamer.com/magic-the-gathering/economic-hardship-mtg-growth

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Remember how I said the adepticon news would be in a separate episode, and then it never came out? That's because a storm knocked out my internet, and the week got so busy we never got around to trying again. There's still some good stuff in the 20 mins that did record.

Chris Perkins isn’t at Wizards of the Coast anymore? I might not have to put decals on my minis anymore? I’m just a glass cage of emotions right now. In the meantime, we’ve got Justus and Eric from the card game Doomlings on to talk about their cute little catastrophe game.

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This D&D adventure is a rubiks cube

https://www.wargamer.com/dnd/rubiks-cube-adventure

A TCG based on a Chinese town?

https://www.rascal.news/ojisan-tcg-is-the-pinnacle-of-card-games/

Time to replace mini decals with nail art?

https://www.polygon.com/gaming/556951/paint-stampin-kit-waterslide-decal-replacement-goblin-hobbies-release-date-price

Game show based on board game coming soon

https://boardgamewire.com/index.php/2025/03/28/quacks-publisher-cmyk-is-launching-a-tv-game-show-based-on-another-wolfgang-warsch-game-this-year/

Chris Perkins no longer at WotC?

https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2025/04/dd-chris-perkins-retires-from-wotc-leaving-on-a-fairytale-ending.html

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Gamestop has decided crypto is the right investment, Stonemaier is investing in Disc Golf, and Battletech is going…Gothic? We’ve also got on Tom Lommel from Evil Hat Productions (https://evilhat.com/) to talk about all the “Evil” things they have coming up this year.

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Gamestop closing stores

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/59165/gamestop-closed-nearly-1-000-stores

CMON is losing money

https://boardgamewire.com/index.php/2025/03/25/two-weeks-after-revealing-its-2024-losses-could-exceed-2m-cmon-delays-publishing-annual-results-citing-understaffed-finance-department/

Stonemaier sponsoring disc golf?

https://www.wargamer.com/wingspan/pro-athlete-sponsorship

Meet Battletech...Gothic?

https://www.wargamer.com/battletech/gothic-warhammer-40k-style

Wizards fires most of the Sigil staff

https://www.wargamer.com/dnd/layoffs-project-sigil-virtual-tabletop

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Would you pay $87K for a pokemon shaped cheeto? What about buy a board game based on The Sims or Helldivers 2? Speaking of electronic gaming, we’ve also got Jean Simonet from Pixels on the show to talk about their electronic dice!

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Sim The Sims on your tabletop

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/58984/goliath-games-partners-the-sims

Necromunda has some really great models

https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2025/03/necromunda-prophet-of-the-redemption-coming-soon.html

A pokemon cheeto?

https://www.wargamer.com/pokemon-trading-card-game/cheeto-charizard-sells-cheetozard

Get ready for Super Democracy!

https://www.wargamer.com/helldivers-2-board-game/guide

New D&D starter set harkens back to the beginning

https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2025/03/dd-reveals-new-starter-set-heroes-of-the-borderlands.html

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Remember Decipher? Pepperidge Farm remembers. Also, that D&D Mr. Potato Head is creepy and Breeze Grigas is here from Zephyr Workshop to talk about his games like A.E.G.I.S.!

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Decipher is back?

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/58955/decipher-resurfaces-via-cryptozoic-entertainment

GTS cancels order with company over tariffs

https://boardgamewire.com/index.php/2025/02/20/retailers-step-in-to-help-dutch-publisher-splotter-after-us-distributor-gts-cancels-large-order-over-tariff-uncertainty/

The official D&D virtual tabletop is now available

https://www.polygon.com/dnd-dungeons-dragons/531824/sigil-dungeons-and-dragons-dnd-virtual-tabletop

I'm intriqued and creeped out by this Mr. Potato Head

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/58937/wizards-coast-wizkids-reveal-dungeons-dragons-mr-potato-head-crossover-miniature

Horus Heresy the TTRPG!

https://www.polygon.com/gaming/531875/horus-heresy-ttrpg-announcement-release-date-price-cubicle-7

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Thank you for being a friend…of the emperor? FFG makes their games more manageable for stores, and Kickstarter makes things more manageable for your wallet. Plus, Calvin Wong Tze Loon is on the show to talk about what it was like designing the Mass Effect Board Game along with Eric Lang!

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Golden Throne Girls?

https://www.polygon.com/warhammer-40k/520739/warhammer-40k-golden-girls-custom-sculpts-figures-tabletop

FFG rotating their LCGs

https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2025/02/fantasy-flight-games-announces-change-to-their-lcg-environments.html

Kickstarter now, pay later

https://www.polygon.com/news/521997/kickstarter-pledge-pay-over-time-2025-roadmap

Moar Gundam details!

https://www.polygon.com/gaming/524316/gundam-assemble-bandai-interview-details

Bring on the smooches!

https://www.wargamer.com/pathfinder/romance-mechanics

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Wingspan’s second sequel smells kind of fishy…ubereats now serving Pokemon cards, and you can’t make enough noise for the next Warhammer army… Plus, Bostria from Corvus Belli joins us to talk about the wargame Infinity!

More info on Infinity: https://infinityuniverse.com/games/infinity

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A RPG without dice but still feels like D&D

https://www.polygon.com/tabletop-games/508909/loot-diceless-tabletop-rpg

Are there too many TCGs?

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/58596/how-tcg-scene-ended-2024-battle-brewing-anime-ip-tcg-space

Let me ubereats some pokemon cards

https://www.wargamer.com/pokemon-trading-card-game/takeout-app-pack-deals

These children do be making lots of noise...

https://www.wargamer.com/warhammer-40k/emperors-children-preview

Wingspan gets another sequel...

https://www.polygon.com/news/505361/wingspan-sequel-finspan-release-date

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Not exactly an abundance of news stories this early in the year, but that’s okay, because there’s one Minis game that will probably stomp all over the rest… Plus! We’ve got Silvia and Fabio from Loot Studios here to talk about their upcoming game Malediction!

Malediction link: https://gamefound.com/en/projects/loot-studios/malediction

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Free RPG Day 2025 Set

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/58492/free-rpg-day-date-set

Fullmetal Alchemist set coming to Union Arena TCG

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/58549/fullmetal-alchemist-union-arena-tcg

What are you up to Mantic?

https://www.wargamer.com/board-games/assassins-creed-wargame-or-board-game

Not the licensing I intended...https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/58541/hasbro-signs-d-d-gambling-license

Ooooo shiny....

https://spruesandbrews.com/2025/01/05/gundam-assemble-miniatures-game-everything-we-know-so-far/

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Wrath and Gloooooria……in exterminius deo? We get into the Christmas spirit talking with Chris Colston about the Warhammer 40,000 tabletop RPG “Wrath and Glory”. Also, we go through the top 10 news stories of 2024 and remember what a crazy year it’s been!

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