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Essen Spiel, the world’s largest board game convention, has admitted to using art and copy generated by AIs in its marketing material for 2023. Merz Verlag, Essen Spiel’s parent company, says that the images were supplied by a partner design agency. Merz Verlag does not know which AI and LLM tools were used. Perplexingly, Merz…
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Evil Genius games, publishers of licensed RPG games such as The Crow, Escape from New York, Pacific Rim, and Rambo, is suing Netflix for breach of contract over a tie-in tabletop RPG for the upcoming Netflix film, Rebel Moon. According to Evil Genius, the game is complete and ready to release, but Netflix canceled the…
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Mayfair Games has entered into an agreement to distribute games by Pythagorus Games in North America. Pythagorus is a Portuguese publisher whose titles include Garum, Pessoa, and 6 Castles. Games coming to the U.S. in October, via Mayfair distribution, include Gods of Rome, Celtae, Lata, and Lunaris 45.
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The latest Kickstarter for the extremely popular Terraforming Mars board game line has, per Kickstarter rules, disclosed that it uses AI art. Kickstarter campaigns which make such a disclosure also must list answers to two questions within the Kickstarter page. Stronghold’s answers to the second question in particular seem evasive, although the line is so…
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A prominent competition judge and organizer for Magic: The Gathering passed away yesterday, September 7th, after a seven year battle with cancer. Menery was a level 5 judge and a co-creator of the highly popular Commander game format. He was also a founding member of the Commander Rules Committee and the format’s best-known advocate and…
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On Tuesday, the Marion County, Indiana, Prosecutor’s office filed charges against the two suspects in the theft of Magic: The Gathering cards at this year’s Gen Con. Thomas Dunbar and Andrew Giaume are now facing charges of felony theft, Level 5, for taking a palette-load of card boxes from event company Pastimes, Inc. The cards…
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Indianapolis police have announced that the palette of Magic: The Gathering cards, stolen earlier this month at Gen Con 2023, have been recovered. They were found in New York City on August 25th. The cards are now being returned to Indianapolis to be held as evidence in the prosecution of the crime. The suspects, identified…
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Earlier this month at Gen Con, a palette of Magic : The Gathering cards worth an estimated $300,000 was stolen from the Indianapolis Convention Center by two thieves who apparently just nabbed it and wheeled it out with no resistance. Images from security cameras have been shared in order to get help identifying the thieves,…
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Games maker CMON has hired two venerable gaming artists, Paolo Parente and Paul Dainton. They’ll both be joining with the title, Senior Artist. Paolo Parente Parente has been a professional artist in the gaming industry since the 1990s. He worked on the Italian edition of The Middle-earth Role Playing Game and then became art director…
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Long-running, often-massive tabletop gaming convention Gen Con, this year broke attendance records, bouncing back in an epic way from the COVIC downturn. Gen Con is a four day affair annually held in Indianapolis. It’s often a hotbed for companies debuting new products, and this year saw one such massive release, in the form of the…
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