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Woman in green dress with a pentacle headcrest staggers out of the mouth of a massive bear with red, glowing eyes.

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EXCLUSIVE: DIE returns to the table with Loaded comic run and RPG quickstart

Another roll of the bones.

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Horus-scopes

Boo! Tomatoes for Thomas!

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Rascal Subscriber Drive: History Week

News blasts about the past.

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White Wolf denies using Generative AI in tabletop RPGs

A recent spate of job postings fuelled concerns that the revamped tabletop publisher would pursue AI usage in new books.

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The Results of the Diana Jones Award Are...

Can’t wait to tell my mom that we’re now an [award-winning/award-losing] website!

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Renegade Games secures tabletop game rights to Dungeon Crawler Carl, promising an RPG and board games

Welcome to the Dungeon, we’ve got fun and games… and a talking cat.

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Saying nothing is free

An object lesson in bad PR from Czech Games Edition.

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EXCLUSIVE: Fight for your name on the Streets of Jade

James Mendez Hodes and Fonda Lee discuss the nuances of adapting the bestselling Green Bone Saga for a tabletop RPG.

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The house that crossovers built rests on a shaky foundation

Universe Beyond go brrrrrrrrrr.

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Yard goats to throat GOATs

They got orange.

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Itch.io delists games under pressure from payment processors and an Australian anti-porn group [Updated]

Collective Shout’s campaign puts the digital platform against the proverbial wall.

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Hobby Hole: Pink Bony Club

Cae, what have you done?

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Draughts workers celebrated a unanimous strike vote with a rally and a police visit [Update]

"I’m ready to do whatever it takes to make sure we raise the industry standards and get treated fairly."

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A franchise by any other name

Episode 17 of the Rascal Radio Hour is all about licensed games and this week's dirty word: franchise. The pair discuss the cancelled Tomb Raider RPG and what kind of IP-scrubbed game might rise from its ashes, along with the continually disastrous Diamond Comic Distributors bankruptcy leaving some

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Workers at a London-based board game bar allege recent firing is anti-union retaliation

Strike votes and cries of retaliation has brought Draughts management to the negotiation table

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UPDATED: Wargame Pillage allegedly features undisclosed AI-generated images

Making a game about Viking raids doesn’t mean you have to steal art.