What a year for Magic: The Gathering. I kept trying to formulate my thoughts on this last year for Magic and eventually, I found myself rereading my own words from an editorial I wrote about the loss of draft boosters. In it, I wrote this: “Good, bad, or ugly 2024
Need some last minute ideas for that tabletop gamer in your life? Look no further, these are some things we have been excited about this year:
Party Games
Dadada
A game where everyone at the table is collaboratively making a new language?? Yes, it sounds crazy, but amazingly it works,
Pennsylvania’s Bodhana Group is one of the first and only organizations to examine the clinical impacts of tabletop RPGs. Even before reading their literature and research on the topic, you’ll find a lot of parallels between running tabletop RPGs and modern talk therapy. Both contain innumerable soft skills
Convention season was very intense in 2024, with GamingTrend attending more tabletop cons than any other year prior. In fact, we went to so many conventions this year we still have content to publish on our Youtube channel from Origins and Gen Con (so keep your eyes peeled!). Needless to
It’s been nearly four years since we ran an actual play mini campaign on Roll20 (“Return to the Glory”); the height of the pandemic, when we were all huddled in our houses, trying to figure out how to play games that usually required everyone to be in the same
Take a journey with me, it’s October 16th, 2023 and you’ve just read an article on Wizards of the Coast’s website about the death of Draft Boosters. Draft (and Set) Boosters will be no more shortly into 2024. Shocked, you spit your Mountain Dew all over your
Editor’s note: This editorial is intended to be a satirical response to recent comments made by Travis Worthington in an interview with Polygon’s Charlie Hall about the use of AI generated art as disclosed in the new Terraforming Mars crowdfunding campaign. GamingTrend recently announced that it will not
There’s quite a few things you could say about Gen Con this year, but the one thing everyone can agree on was that it was the biggest it’s ever been. Over 70,000 people attended this year, just edging out the attendance of 2019. Gen Con is BACK
