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The cancellation has also put the event’s financial stability in question. “The Executive Board is faced with a significant challenge as we readjust our resources and imaginations to remain solvent until a March 1, 2022 registration launch,” organizers said in the email. Multiple ideas are on the table, including merchandise sales, to help keep the event going. The decision to cancel the largest wargaming convention on the United States’ east coast calls into question the viability of t...

Gen Con 2021 Moves to September, Switches to a Hybrid Model Gen Con, the largest tabletop convention in the United States, is pushing back its 2021 date to September and has announced plans for a hybrid slate of concurrent in-person and online experiences. The convention announced that it will hold its next convention from September 16-19, 2021 in Indianapolis, IN. Gen Con was previously set to take place in August, but they pushed back the date by a month after consulting with public health ex...

Twilight Imperium can easily trap players at the table for six or more hours at a time. Designer Gunter Eickert thinks he might have solved that problem by combining the latest innovation in board gaming with a niche genre of PC strategy games. His next project for publisher Academy Games is called Stellaris: Infinite Legacy, and it’s one of the most ambitious new tabletop games announced this year. Polygon got the exclusive first details on how the game will work. is a PC strategy game rele...

Would you buy this $200 set of electronic dice? Share this story Image: Systemic Games The experience of playing Dungeons & Dragons could be getting an upgrade early next year with a brand new kind of die. Pixels Dice claim to be the first mass-market RPG dice fully integrated with a wireless radio. That means they can talk to your Bluetooth-enabled devices in real time, and will even be compatible with virtual tabletops like Roll20 and toolsets like D&D Beyond. Full sets with seven dice will...

Vampire: The Masquerade outdoes Gloomhaven with giant new campaign-in-a-box Developers say the game is just too big, too pricey for stores — here’s how to get it Share this story There’s a new tabletop game on the way that’s set in the universe of Vampire: The Masquerade, but if you don’t shell out money for it now, you might never get the chance to buy it at a store. Gloomhaven, a role-playing game that doesn’t require a game master to run. As with many other high-concept tabletop...

Sentinels of the Multiverse, the popular superhero themed cooperative card game, is getting a brand-new edition with completely revised art. Sentinels of the Multiverse: Definitive Edition will include newly polished and streamlined rules, plus even more heroes and villains than the original version of the base game. Best of all, the creators at Greater Than Games tell Polygon they expect it to be in retail stores by the end of 2021. Of course, that’s not stopping Greater Than Games from put...

I woke up today in Mobile, Alabama. I was excited to get a jump on my Senior Bowl week. I showed up outside of Senior Bowl headquarters, the Renaissance Hotel a little before 9 AM. I didn’t have...

TAUNTON — There are some interesting businesses located in the old Reed & Barton complex flying under the radar. One of them is Wyrmwood Gaming — a high-end tabletop gaming accessories company that focuses on woodworking.  While COVID-19 restrictions on businesses have spelled death and destruction for so many small businesses, this 5-year-old start-up defied the odds and had their best year yet.  "We kind of expected that tabletop gaming was going to be dead for who knows how long be...

One of the reasons that tabletop games have become so popular over the last two decades is that they bring people together. The ongoing pandemic made in-person gatherings nearly impossible throughout 2020, and this time apart from our friends and neighbors will have repercussions for the board game and role-playing game industries for years to come. But the coronavirus wasn’t the only hurdle that the industry encountered last year. Labor issues and the Black Lives Matter movement forced many ...

Valda: Rise of the Giants Valda is a tabletop strategy game where players take on the role of Viking war chiefs trying to “climb the steps to divinity” by performing actions and spells designed to assert their godlike status among the people. Bannan Games’ new expansion Rise of the Giants lets players discover the power of the Giants, with new spells, abilities, and tactics to grow their villages and become divine beings—it will be on Kickstarter through January 14, 2021. The minimum p...