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Hasbro CEO claims AI integration is a "clear success" as Wizards of the Coast profits soar Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks reveals that AI integration has saved the company over a million work hours, even as Wizards of the Coast reports record-breaking 2025 profits.

Hasbro claims AI is saving them a million hours of work a year as Wizards of the Coast hits record profits.

If You Want Blood…: A heavy metal campaign under the blood moons Greedy Gorgon Press returns with a campaign that is metal af. If You Want Blood stitches together classic adventures under the blood moons of Gorgonia.

Turn seven lone wolf adventures into one heavy metal campaign with If You Want Blood. Greedy Gorgon Press has launched a new supplement that stitches their back catalogue into a single ear-splitting saga under the blood moons of Gorgonia.

Only 1500 of these Beast figures are being produced so you will need to be quick when pre-orders open on 17 February. www.geeknative.com/2...

Looney Tunes: The Day The Earth Blew Up Review - A hand-drawn sci-fi triumph Porky Pig and Daffy Duck return to the big screen in Looney Tunes: The Day The Earth Blew Up. Read our review of this hand-drawn sci-fi comedy.

The Looney Tunes are back in cinemas and it is a pure, hand-drawn delight.

Is Superheroic Fantasy D&D’s Future? A Complete Class Compendium Conversation Let’s look at the compendium, give my impressions, and talk to its creator about whether he wrote superheroic fantasy or the reader is reinterpreting his work. 

Egg Embry and Mike Myler's debate on the future of roleplaying games suggests a shift toward superheroic fantasy.

Tales of Argosa: Maze of Sunken Ruins Explore the West, a Tales of Argosa setting blending sword and sorcery with coastal horror. Discover island locations like Doomfang Peak, a custom moon-phase calendar featuring magical "unseasons", and a complete d20 wereshark statblock for your naval adventures.

Explore the West, a Tales of Argosa setting blending sword and sorcery with coastal horror. Discover island locations, a custom moon-phase calendar featuring magical unseasons and a complete d20 wereshark statblock for your naval adventures.

The RDA and the Na'vi are heading to your tabletop in a new asymmetric lane-battling Avatar card game. www.geeknative.com/2...

Hunt or be hunted? Kobold Press unleashes Night Hunters Kobold Press brings gothic horror to 5E and Tales of the Valiant with Night Hunters. Back the Kickstarter before Friday the 13th of February.

Don’t let the sun set on your chance to back Night Hunters. The Kickstarter for Kobold Press’s latest horror setting ends tomorrow.

Most #TTRPGs ask you to save the world, but this one asks you to escape a tin of expired legumes. You Are A Wizard Stuck In A Can Of Beans is a solo journaling game in Zine Quest. It demands zero prep and offers 20 mazes to navigate for your dignity. www.geeknative.com/2...

Technical excellence meets economic reality as White Dragon Miniatures announces closure After 16 years of high-quality production, White Dragon Miniatures founder Alan announces the company is winding down due to rising costs and US tax changes.

After sixteen years of high-end craftsmanship, White Dragon Miniatures has announced it is time to close the doors.

Leave the dreamlands behind for a waking nightmare. Empire of Bones is a new hexcrawl adventure from Agamemnon Press, featuring necromancers, mummified politicians, and a holographic Deck of Dead Things. Back the Kickstarter now. www.geeknative.com/2...

Tales of Argosa: Islands and Unseasons Explore the West, a Tales of Argosa setting blending sword and sorcery with coastal horror. Discover island locations like Doomfang Peak, a custom moon-phase calendar featuring magical "unseasons," and a complete D20 wereshark statblock for your naval adventures.

Explore the West, a Tales of Argosa setting blending sword and sorcery with coastal horror. Discover island locations, a custom moon-phase calendar featuring magical unseasons, and a complete D20 wereshark statblock for your naval adventures.

You can get the complete 1,100-page OSR campaign setting and VTT maps for $24.95... but only until the 12th! www.geeknative.com/2...

The campaign for T-Rex fossil dice ends tomorrow and the funding total suggests many tables will soon feature real dinosaur bone. Missing the deadline means sticking with plastic while others roll history. www.geeknative.com/2...

Human Gorilla Heists: The Job Is On Pull off the perfect fantasy heist with the Human Gorilla Heists Bundle. Get Ogre’s 11, Tools of the Trade, and the Unusual Suspects Omnibus for just $9.95.

Need to run a heist in your D&D or OSR campaign? The Human Gorilla Heists Bundle collects system-neutral tools and scenarios from Mark Finn to help you plan the job.

Is Superheroic Fantasy D&D’s Future? A Complete Class Compendium Conversation Let’s look at the compendium, give my impressions, and talk to its creator about whether he wrote superheroic fantasy or the reader is reinterpreting his work. 

The intersection of fantasy and superheroic elements provides a glimpse into the next generation of roleplaying games. Egg Embry and Mike Myler delve into how these choices influence the stories told in modern tabletop systems.

Audio EXP Podcast #320: Samurai, Spielberg, and Shoggoths Samurai, Spielberg, and Shoggoths! Audio EXP #320 brings you the week’s top geek news, including the Women in Games Manifesto, HBO's Baldur's Gate 3 series, and new releases for Dungeon Crawl Classics.

This week on Audio EXP, Girdy discusses the Women in Games 2026 Manifesto and the historical revelation of the Onna-musha. Plus, we dive into the HBO Baldur’s Gate 3 news and the award-winning indie RPG Oceania 2084

From the weighted Squig to the Sassy Nurgling, see which Warhammer icons survived our ranking of the new plush range. www.geeknative.com/2...

Tanya Floaker's "The Thunder Perfect Mind", "Toe Beans Magical Cat Cafe", "I Have Lived a Thousand Lives", but the headline Kickstarter goes to Nigredo Press' "Barbarian Bay"
www.geeknative.com/2... #lowprep #routinelyitemised

Mondo reveals limited edition Beast figure from X-Men: The Animated Series Mondo announces a limited 1/6 scale Beast figure inspired by X-Men: The Animated Series, featuring swappable portraits and accessories.

The brilliant blue mutant gets the Mondo treatment with a new 1/6 scale figure inspired by the classic X-Men animated series.

You’re a Wizard Stuck in a Can of Beans: It does exactly what it says on the tin Escape a tin of expired legumes in You’re a Wizard Stuck in a Can of Beans. This Zine Quest RPG by Lorena Torres Loaiza is a pocket maze zine for solo play

You are a wizard. You are seconds old. You are trapped in a can of beans. This is the premise of a new Zine Quest RPG by Lorena Torres Loaiza. It is a pocket maze zine where you must escape or face catastrophic failure. The Kickstarter campaign is live now

Empire of Bones: The nightmare sequel to The Painted Wastelands Agamemnon Press returns with Empire of Bones, a jumbo-sized hexcrawl sequel to The Painted Wastelands. Explore the Unholy City of Zeb and back the campaign before February 17th.

Agamemnon Press returns to Kickstarter with Empire of Bones. This jumbo-sized hexcrawl adventure is the nightmare sequel to The Painted Wastelands. Explore the Unholy City of Zeb and the Lands of Dust before the campaign ends on Feb 17th.

Can Craig Mazin capture the magic of Baldur’s Gate 3 without the team that wrote the game? The high-stakes gamble for HBO has begun. www.geeknative.com/2...

Can you survive nanobots turning your ship into a giant Pringles tube? Lucky for None in Space is a comedy horror solo RPG where you roll a d13 to determine your fate. Back the campaign now to get the physical zine and dice. www.geeknative.com/2...

Sleepy Hollow: Folk Horror with Year Zero The mist rises in the Pocantico River valley. Explore the Sleepy Hollow RPG bundle, a Year Zero Engine game of 1810 folk horror. Get the core rules, bestiaries, and campaigns for a bargain price.

The mist clears tomorrow. You have only 24 hours left to secure the Sleepy Hollow RPG bundle. Get the complete Year Zero Engine folk horror collection before it vanishes.

Help independent news: Pick March's RPG Publisher Spotlight The longest ever January is behind us, and we're speeding into the chocolate season of Valentine's Day (an excuse to buy chocolate) and Easter (also chocolate). In this post, our Patrons get to vote for a publisher that the blog and podcast will promote.

Indie RPG publishers often struggle for the visibility they deserve and your vote in the Spotlight poll is a direct way to help.

This week's new releases include the "Within Cold Stars", "Katana-Ra", "May I Enter" (a vampire game), Frog God's Necromancer Game expansions, but the headline goes to Horrible Guild's "Vileborn" www.geeknative.com/2... #ttrpg #routinelyitemised

Za is a 200+ page tabletop RPG about pizza and pizza gang war Jim Lampe has done just fine with Za, yes, it's quirky, but I liked it! I'm not sure I'll use it often, but I've no regrets. $10 is cheap for pizza.

It's International Pizza Day! 🍕 (hunts through archives) .. and in 2023 we reviewed the indie TTRPG Za! A game about pizza wars.

You're welcome! ~G

Audio EXP Podcast #320: Samurai, Spielberg, and Shoggoths Samurai, Spielberg, and Shoggoths! Audio EXP #320 brings you the week’s top geek news, including the Women in Games Manifesto, HBO's Baldur's Gate 3 series, and new releases for Dungeon Crawl Classics.

🎧 Explore the latest geek news in Audio EXP #320. From the shocking history of Japan’s female samurai to HBO’s Baldur’s Gate 3 series and Spielberg’s new dinosaur project, we cover the big shifts in gaming and cinema🎧