One of North America's biggest tabletop gaming distributors, Alliance Game Distributors, has received a $39m buyout bid from Canadian peer Universal Distribution after its long-time owner Diamond Comics filed for bankruptcy protection yesterday.
A trio of gateway hobby board games have emerged as Game of the Year contenders in the Toy Association's latest Toy of the Year awards - a prize traditionally dominated by mass-market games.
Life in Reterra, Hasbro's opening gambit for a push into the light-gateway hobby game segment, has become the first board game to win a sustainability leadership award from the Forest Stewardship Council.
Gaming giant Hasbro has named long-serving Blizzard senior exec John Hight as its new president of Wizards of the Coast and digital gaming, three months after the resignation of former incumbent Cynthia Williams.
Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons owner Hasbro has recorded a jump in profits in the first quarter of 2024, on the back of continued strength from Wizards of the Coast and Magic, and an ongoing cost-cutting programme which has so far involved the planned layoffs of nearly 2,000 people.
Cynthia Williams, the president of Hasbro's digital gaming arm and Magic: The Gathering and D&D publisher Wizards of the Coast, has resigned from the company after two years in the role.
Long-running advocacy and networking non-profit Women in Toys, Licensing & Entertainment has launched a new scholarship to forge the next generation of women looking to work in the industry.
Toy and game giant Hasbro is developing a board game with Ellie Dix, one of three winners of the company's inaugural Women Innovators of Play challenge.
Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons owner Hasbro lost more than $1bn in the final quarter of 2023, as huge expenses associated with selling its eOne film and TV business far outweighed growth from its Wizards of the Coast and digital gaming segments.
Hasbro, the toy and game giant that owns Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons and Dragons studio Wizards of the Coast, is slashing another 1,100 jobs as ongoing macroeconomic concerns eat into consumer demand.
