Daily tabletop gaming news from TabletopIntel: new releases, rules reveals, industry moves and what they mean for the people at the table.
If you were hoping to get into Magic: The Gathering’s upcoming Star Trek crossover on the cheap, Wizards of the Coast has some bad news for you. If you were instead hoping to drop $55 on a single die with a tiny painted starship suspended in resin, good news: that part of the crossover is…
Something happened this month that doesn’t happen often in the trading card world: the scalpers lost. When Pokémon TCG’s 30th Celebration set launched worldwide on September 16th, secondary-market sellers were bracing for a windfall. Pre-release listings for the set’s flashiest chase card — a Mew rendered in a rainbow “RGB” foil treatment — were pulling…
Ask a room full of aspiring game designers what’s standing between them and a published title, and most of them will tell you it’s the idea — the hook, the mechanism, the thing nobody’s done yet. Javon Frazier thinks they’ve got it exactly backwards. “The hardest part of this industry has never been the ideas,”…
Games Workshop is usually the tightest ship in the hobby when it comes to guarding its own reveals — leaks tend to come from factory workers, freight manifests, or an over-eager retailer, not the company itself. So it was a little funny to watch GW do the leaking this time. On September 13th, the Irish…
Here’s a piece of news that could easily read as a routine org-chart shuffle, but we don’t think it is: Steve Jackson, the guy whose name is literally on the building, just stepped down as CEO of Steve Jackson Games. He’s not going anywhere — he keeps his titles of founder and President, and by…
Somewhere between “settle an island” and “check the boards,” Catan has apparently decided its next expansion isn’t a card set — it’s a hockey rink. The Ottawa Senators just announced a season-long partnership with the board game, complete with arena advertising, concourse activations, social media giveaways, and a full “Catan Night” on November 23rd when…
Here’s a fun one to chew on: Wizards of the Coast, the company behind both Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons, doesn’t have a president, and now it has lost one of the executives who ran its business day to day. John Hight, who’d held the job since 2024, walked away on September 1st….
The Current State of Tabletop Gaming Tabletop gaming remains one of the fastest-growing corners of the hobby industry, with board games, trading card games, and tabletop RPGs all seeing steady new releases through the back half of 2026. Rather than chase every headline, here’s a grounded look at what’s actually shipping and what’s actually on…