Monopoly Go! made $3 billion in just over a year
I can’t say I even knew that there was a Monopoly Go! game: On Hasbro’s second-quarter earnings call Thursday, the toymaker revealed that the mobile video game has grossed more than $3 billion in...
View ArticlePlay life like a game
In 2021, Walter Isaacson explains (in his biography of Elon), Musk became obsessed with a new multiplayer strategy game on his iPhone, Polytopia: In it, players choose to be one of sixteen characters,...
View ArticleTaiwan’s presidential office runs first ‘tabletop’ simulation of Chinese...
Taiwan’s presidential office Recently ran a war game, or tabletop simulation, of Chinese military escalation: Unlike traditional war games by the military, the tabletop exercise was aimed at testing...
View ArticleBoth “Elton” and “van” were added much later
I recently went back and read “Black Destroyer,” a science fiction short story by Canadian-American writer A. E. van Vogt, first published in Astounding SF in July 1939 and later combined with several...
View ArticleThe VR game was designed to give the eye muscles a workout
Researchers at Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan developed a VR game that aims to improve players’ eyesight: It’s a relatively simple target shooting game developed in Unity for Meta Quest 2. The game...
View ArticleDungeons & Dragons enters its stadium era
Dungeons & Dragons started with small groups of friends playing at home, but now it is entering its stadium era: But in the past decade or so, D&D has emerged as a popular form of spectator...
View ArticleThe modern battlefield requires split-second decision-making, seamless...
The modern battlefield requires split-second decision-making, seamless coordination among distributed teams, and processing vast amounts of information, all under extreme pressure: As I have learned...
View ArticleWhat can be seen can be destroyed, so don’t be seen
As NATO prepares for a potential Russian invasion of the Baltic region, planners wonder how drones, hypersonic missiles, and modern kill chains might play out there. A new tabletop game, Littoral...
View ArticleThe RPG industry is like a water pipe
Ken “Whit” Whitman explains how he learned TSR was dying: A lot of people ask me: “If you were just the Gen Con coordinator, how do you know so much about TSR’s internal strategy?” Fair question....
View ArticleHasbro is being sued by its own shareholders for printing too many Magic cards
Hasbro is being sued by its own shareholders for printing too many Magic cards: In a 76-page lawsuit filed in the US District Court of Rhode Island last week (via GoLocalProv), a group of investors...
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