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A Peek At Theros, The Newest Magic: The Gathering Set

The latest set for the venerable card game “Magic: The Gathering” will be released September 27. Titled “Theros”, this set takes place in a plane with the feel of Greek Mythology and interesting new...

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How Two Game Designers Built ‘Waterdeep’

In the last few years, gaming behemoth Wizards of the Coast has expanded its “Dungeons and Dragons” product line with several board games. Last year’s “Lords of Waterdeep” drew critical praise and...

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Actual Gathering Is The Magic Behind “Magic: The Gathering”

For 20 years, the card game has enabled fantastic duels between friends offline. Mark Purvis, Magic‘s brand director, and Aaron Forsythe, R&D director, explain the game’s power: It’s all in the...

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The Charm of Making Worlds in The Strange

Designers Monte Cook and Bruce Cordell want to take you places in their new game “The Strange”—their worlds, your own, and those of your favorite films, books, and video games. There is this alien...

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Like The Room? Try It In Real Life

Inside one man’s quest to make room escape games real The cluemaster Victor finishes his countdown to 0. Our hour is up. My group, eight of us in total, did not solve all the puzzles. We remain locked...

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The Doom That Came To Atlantic City Updates Monopoly With Harried Results

Cthulhu destroys your nostalgia The dice come to a stop with eight pips showing. I move past Go and collect additional resources. But then I end on a property owned by an opponent and I have to pay him...

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How Dungeons And Dragons Could Master Its Next Retailing Adventure

With the launch of a new version of the venerable role-playing game, D&D is on a quest to dominate your leisure time with digital weapons. A party of adventurers sneak their way through Cragmaw...

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A Story In the Cards: The Collaborative Wizardry Behind Making “Magic: The...

The massive collaboration and years-long process behind creating the new edition of venerable card game, Magic: the Gathering. A hunter stalks his prey through a forest. Both are planeswalkers, wizards...

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Why a new edition of Dungeons and Dragons matters

The first step in evaluating a new era of roleplaying games. The fifth edition of Dungeons and Dragons was just released. Why does that matter? Well, to start with, it’s supposed to. This edition is...

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Here Be Monsters

How Dungeons and Dragons lets you map the fantastic places in the corners of your mind. Every game is a space you explore, a foreign country that you spend time visiting. It could be a single screen...

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Embracing The Weird: How One RPG Publisher Changed The Game With Kickstarter

Dungeons and Dragons can be odd, with rust monsters and mimics. But it doesn’t have creatures that contain black holes in their chests, weather that mutates people, or living machines. Monte Cook Games...

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‘Medium’ Review: Digital Art at Your Fingertips With Oculus Touch

There is a child-like wonder in creating something out of nothing. Where there was empty air is now a kitty cat. It may be lumpy, with a mouth that looks like a bubble, but you made it. And that is the...

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