Not exactly an abundance of news stories this early in the year, but that’s okay, because there’s one Minis game that will probably stomp all over the rest… Plus! We’ve got Silvia and Fabio from Loot Studios here to talk about their upcoming game Malediction!

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News

Free RPG Day 2025 Set

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/58492/free-rpg-day-date-set

Fullmetal Alchemist set coming to Union Arena TCG

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/58549/fullmetal-alchemist-union-arena-tcg

What are you up to Mantic?

https://www.wargamer.com/board-games/assassins-creed-wargame-or-board-game

Not the licensing I intended...https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/58541/hasbro-signs-d-d-gambling-license

Ooooo shiny....

https://spruesandbrews.com/2025/01/05/gundam-assemble-miniatures-game-everything-we-know-so-far/

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Wrath and Gloooooria……in exterminius deo? We get into the Christmas spirit talking with Chris Colston about the Warhammer 40,000 tabletop RPG “Wrath and Glory”. Also, we go through the top 10 news stories of 2024 and remember what a crazy year it’s been!

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Unlike my electric car, I like my Pax’es “Unplugged”. Both of us went this year, so what did we see & do? Also, Wyrmwood is still a crappy company, somehow Funko took down itch.io, and Vallejo workers are on strike? All this and more!

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News

Wyrmwood not getting any better

https://www.rascal.news/wyrmwoods-bitter-medicine-is-proving-hard-for-audiences-to-swallow/

Funko takes down indie site

https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2024/12/indie-rpg-gaming-site-itch-io-taken-down-by-funko-and-ai-brand-protection-software.html

"Impossible?" classes coming to Pathfinder

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/58433/paizo-puts-two-new-classes-playtest

Vallejo workers on strike

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/58408/acrylicos-vallejo-workers-hit-picket-lines

Warhammer updates....again...

https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2024/12/warhammer-40k-december-2024-balance-update-what-you-need-to-know.html

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Hopefully it wont be “Lore”-ded over me, but we’re talking about a new website to keep track of your tabletop roleplaying games: Lore Link (https://lorelink.com). Mark Della-Croce, one of the founders is on the show to show off this resource and how you can utilize it in your games. Plus, apparently no more Hasbro movies, and some UPS drivers made off with some MTG cards. All that and much more!

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News

Have you been in a Gamestop recently?

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/58306/psa-parent-companys-ceo-added-gamestop-board

Asmodee not going to be as bad off by itself

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/58298/asmodee-get-400-million-cash-before-spin-off

Dimension 20 Hack of Kids on Bikes RPG now Free

https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2024/11/want-to-never-stop-blowing-up-dimension-20s-custom-rpg-is-free-at-dropout.html

UPS workers didn't learn from Gen Con thieves

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/58324/ups-workers-allegedly-pilfer-25-000-magic-the-gathering-cards-other-inventory

Hasbro is done with movies

https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2024/11/hasbro-is-no-longer-in-the-toy-powered-movie-business.html

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I feel like I should write something snap-py here, because we’ve got Scott Pease from Snap Ship Tactics here. Want to play an X-Wing style game with ships you build yourself? Then you’re going to want to listen up! Plus, Funko is worried about some trends, there’s some fancy baggage to carry around your board games here, and did anyone need poolside versions of board games?

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News

Better not check this luggage...

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/58209/fashionable-gaming-luggage-discerning-player

Is this a new board game trend?

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/58154/taco-cat-goat-cheese-pizza-goes-poolside

Speaking of Cats...

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/58211/city-games-reveals-the-isle-cats-duel

Funko issues warning

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/58216/funko-sees-warning-signs-consumer-behavior

Miniatures Kickstarter does really well out of the gate

https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2024/11/trench-crusade-kickstarter-breaks-1-7m-and-continues-to-grow.html

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Torn between playing D&D and not supporting a company that’s constantly in the news for its bad business ideas? We’ve got Wolfgang Baur on from Kobold Press to talk about “Tales of the Valiant”, a D&D5e alternative game that’s still compatible with all the books you already have. Plus, we’ve got MTG news for 2025, super cool squat models for Necromunda, and a 2 player version of Azul??

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News

Azul duel??

https://boardgamegeek.com/blog/1/blogpost/166647/michael-kiesling-transforms-azul-into-azul-duel-an

New Edition of Mission: Red Planet coming soon

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/58076/matagot-heads-back-mission-red-planet

OMG Lots of cool squat stuff coming for Necromunda!!

https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2024/10/necromunda-ironhead-squat-prospectors-are-bringing-all-the-old-school-units.html

A look in the new Kill Team Starter Set

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/58043/games-workshop-unveils-warhammer-40-000-kill-team-starter-set

Here's what's coming in 2025 for Magic

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/58118/magic-the-gathering-2025

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It was mentioned briefly last time, but that MTG Commander Committee fired itself? Between that, Essen, Warhammer Day, there’s a ton of News to go around and we are guest-less so we take these stories on. Plus, Philip’s got a review of Heroes of Barcadia and Chris talks about Halo: Flashpoint.

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News

Follow up: Commander Committee fires itself

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/57919/magic-the-gathering-commander-rules-committee-fires-itself

I figured out why One Piece is selling so much

https://icv2.com/articles/markets/view/57945/tcgplayer-top-25-sealed-products-chart-september-2024

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide: The Video Game: The Card Game

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/57940/cubicle-7-reveals-warhammer-40-000-card-game

More Halo Flashpoint stuff coming

https://www.beastsofwar.com/news/pre-order-wave-2-mantic-games-halo-flashpoint/

Dungeon Crawler is a word now. Two actually...

https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2024/10/dungeon-crawler-officially-enters-the-lexicon-now-your-rpg-adventures-are-linguistically-correct.html

New Kill Team models look super cool

https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2024/10/warhammer-day-kill-team-brutal-and-cunning-expansion-coming.html

Christmas boxes for Warhammer

https://frontlinegaming.org/2024/10/06/40k-christmas-battleforces-announced/

New Star Wars Unlimited set

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/57969/new-star-wars-unlimited-set-incoming

Dinosaurs coming to Conquest

https://www.beastsofwar.com/fantasy/cool-dinosaurs-para-bellum-games-conquest/

Extra Life 2024 Magic the Gathering Cards

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/57997/wizards-coast-announces-extra-life-2024-magic-the-gathering-drop-set

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A Lord of the Rings trick taking game? A Gundam TCG - has someone been listening to our bonus bits?? Regardless, we’ve got Sam Nolton here from Eldritch Foundry to talk about printing custom miniatures…in COLOR!

Also, Eldritch Foundry (https://eldritch-foundry.com/) has hooked us up with a discount code good for $10 – equal to 2 free STL downloads of any custom mini!

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News

New Space Marine 2 intro set for Warhammer

https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2024/09/warhammer-40k-snag-lt-titus-mini-in-space-marine-2-recruit-edition.html

Middle Earth....the trick taking game?

https://boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/165540/can-you-deal-with-the-challenges-of-middle-earth-i

A new Gundam TCG?

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/57951/bandai-unveils-gundam-tcg-edition-beta

Play as the old D&D cartoon characters

https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2024/09/the-dd-cartoon-characters-star-in-5-5es-first-adventure-uni-and-the-hunt-for-the-lost-horn.html

Drama in the MTG Commander Community

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/57874/magic-the-gathering-fans-launch-petition-fire-commander-rules-committee

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/57885/popular-magic-the-gathering-commander-advisory-group-community-leader-resigns

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Hasbro doesn’t know when to read the room, Netflix is “gathering” a new animated show, and Slimer is coming to Magic the Gathering. Plus, we’ve got Whistler, creator of the Rapscallion RPG here to talk rowdy pirates, ghost ships, and running away from “The Law”

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News

Asmodee to release Flatiron

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/57754/asmodee-will-release-flatiron

Daggerheart coming soon from Darrington Press

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/57849/darringtons-daggerheart-revealed

Netflix getting Magic animated show

https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2024/09/magic-the-gathering-animated-series-headed-to-netflix.html

Magic the Gathering & Ghostbusters??

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/57799/slimer-haunts-magic-the-gathering

Another week, another stupid quote from Hasbro

https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2024/09/hasbro-ceo-says-ai-is-something-youre-going-to-see-more-of-in-dd.html

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Chris went to the GW reveal and all he got was COVID-19! There was also this little con called Nova Open 2024 happening too. Also, there’s too many Cyberpunk games, Wizards messed up again with D&D, and Warhammer decided to try out this rotation thing Magic The Gathering keeps talking about.

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News

Cyberpunk doing really well

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/57730/new-cyberpunk-2077-the-board-game-passes-2-million-day

Three new board game items from Capstone

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/57685/capstone-games-announces-three

Magic still on top and strong

https://icv2.com/articles/markets/view/57722/tcgplayer-top-25-sealed-products-chart-august-2024

Wizards already regretting D&D Beyond decision

https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2024/08/dd-beyond-walks-back-2024-changes.html

Kill Team going the Magic route...

https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2024/09/warhammer-40k-kill-teams-get-classified-for-competitive-play.html

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What were the ups & downs of Gen Con? Pretty standard, but I doubt you really want to hear about Chris’ elevator rides. Instead, we go through the highlights of Gen Con 2024 and all the cool stuff that was there.

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News

The best thing about HeroQuest...

https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2024/08/heroquest-becomes-a-pvp-arena-battler-with-against-the-ogre-horde-quest-pack.html

Power Grid...IN SPAAAAACE

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/57540/colonize-new-planet-next-power-grid-game

D&D + Influencers = um what??

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/57441/xcrawl-classics-rpg-hits-preorder

Unmatched: TMNT is coming

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/57520/gen-con-2024-news-unmatched-adventures-tmnt-heads-kickstarter

Union wins Diana Jones award

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/57489/gen-con-2024-news-diana-jones-award-winner-announced

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