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We’ve got so much news! First, Hex & Co.—a board game cafe and after-school program with three locations in New York City, is unionizing!

On August 17, there was an update on the Gen Con Card Heist.

I’m a Grant Howitt stan, so when Rowan, Rook & Decard announced their newest endeavor,

It’s the first real day of Gen Con and I’m meeting up with Ned Donovan and Brian David Judkins in the labyrinthine upper suites of Lukas Oil Stadium.

Wilds of Eldraine, the newest set from Magic: The Gathering, invokes a storybook feel alongside fantasy villainy.

Magic: The Gathering cards worth an estimated $300,000 were stolen from Pastimes, an Indiana gaming company, last week during Gen Con in Indianapolis—one of the largest gaming conventions in the world.

So... Gen Con happened. To like, all of us. The annual gaming con held in Indianapolis brought “record breaking” numbers of fans through the convention center. Also, a few awards.

Corporations all around the world are getting into AI, and you can now count Hasbro among them.

There are some incredible games in this week’s issue, and I’d like to point out a couple of my favorites.

San Diego Comic-Con 2023 is officially in the books and it was a weird one. For the first time in years, Hollywood’s presence didn’t dominate the event, thanks to studios failing to meet the demands of striking writers and actors.