Hasbro, which owns the rights to Dungeons & Dragons, decided to invest more in video games after the success of Baldur’s Gate 3 and MONOPOLY GO!. In an interview with GameSpot, Dan Ayoub, head of digital product development, mentioned that she has distributed $1 billion between her subsidiary studios working on AAA-level projects.

The release of Baldur’s Gate 3 became extremely successful: only on Steam the peak online game exceeded 875 thousand people. It is not known for sure how many people bought the game in total, but Larian Studios and Wizards of the Coast are very pleased with the results of the project.

Wizards of the Coast has confirmed that in 2023 it will change the terms of the OGL — an open license for creators of Dungeons & Dragons content.

Wizards of the Coast, which owns the rights to the Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons franchises, has launched a sixth game development studio. It is called Skeleton Key and is located in Austin.

Wizards of the Coast has announced the opening of the New Raleigh-Durham game studio. It will be headed by industry veterans. They will be engaged in the production of AAA titles for such Hasbro franchises as G.I. Joe, Transformers, Micronauts and Ouija.Action figures based on the movie “G.I. Joe: Cobra Throw.

Hasbro, which owns Wizards of the Coast, has announced the use of NFT technology to develop its brands. The company did not specify the details, but we are talking about Magic: The Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons and other franchises.Magic: The Gathering Arena

A month ago, on March 25, the global launch of the mobile version of Magic: The Gathering Arena took place. In four weeks, she earned $4.6 million. This is one of the most successful launches of CCI on mobile platforms.

The creators of the Dragonlance universe sued Wizards of the Coast, which suddenly canceled the release of their several new books. The authors want to recover over $10 million from the company and believe that the termination of the contract is connected with racist scandals around the publisher.Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weiss, 2008

The game studio created by Wizards of the Coast has a name and a purpose. The Archetype Entertainment team is working on an RPG in a sci-fi setting.

A year ago, James Ohlen announced that he was retiring. After twenty-two years at BioWare, where he was responsible for the design of Baldur’s Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Jade Empire, Dragon Age and Mass Effect: Andromeda, he wanted to work on something small for himself for a couple of years. The pension did not last long.

The authors of Magic: The Gathering have created a new development studio, Digital Games Studio, which will rethink the company’s digital products, and a digital publishing division.

The update, which will be released on November 5, will feature a new monetization model. In the previous version, the player had to invest to get access to all the features of the game. In addition, the user paid extra for certain cards. In the new version, the developers promise, there will be no hard need to invest: the player will be able to simply collect cards.

DeNA announced that she was working with two “desktop” companies at once: Wizards of the Coast, which helps her create Dungeons & Dragons: Arena of War, and Hasbro, which sold the rights of the game based on G.I. Joe to the Japanese. Read our material about the expansion of DeNA and its new games.