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- Jaeger Basger
- October 2, 2020
The Walking Dead invades Magic: The Gathering
The new Secret Lair cards represent the second major crossover of the year for the storied card game. Wizards of the Coast have announced the next major crossover for Magic: The Gathering and it ushers
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- Sam Kendall
- September 17, 2020
What Signs of the Sojourner’s cards can teach us about conversation
A good conversation might be in the cards. The vast majority of card games use their mechanics to simulate combat. Your hand serves as your 2-dimensional army, or a suite of magic attacks, and placing
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- Larissa Jones
- August 19, 2020
Tim Hortons Barbie promotes women’s hockey but one model faces delays
Double double hockey trouble. Canadians love hockey and they love swinging by their neighbourhood Tim’s for coffee — at least, that’s what stereotypes might have you believe. Tim Hortons, Mattel, and Toys ‘R Us Canada
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- Evan McIntosh
- August 18, 2020
MTG’s next Secret Lair drop is TODAY and it sure is slimy
Oozing with anticipation. The ever fun and completely out there Secret Lair drops in Magic: The Gathering are known for two things: bold designs and a hyper-limited release window. In this case, the designs come
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- Evan McIntosh
- July 17, 2020
Super Mario gets a board game birthday with Hasbro crossovers
Monotonous Monopoly. The legendary plumber turns 35 this year and while the world waits with bated breath for news of a rumoured re-release of the greatest Mario games, Nintendo has instead been preparing cross-branded collaborations
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- Evan McIntosh
- July 14, 2020
LEGO NES interacts with LEGO Mario, out next month
Prestige branding. LEGO and Nintendo are coming together to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Nintendo Entertainment System with a massive LEGO set building the console, life-size controller, a Game Pak, and a ‘playable’ tube
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- Evan McIntosh
- July 10, 2020
‘Home Alone’ headlines fan created LEGO sets turned official releases
Sorry, Link. Three new sets of LEGO infused with nostalgia will be released based on fan designs with the house at the centre of the movie Home Alone leading the pack. A mechanical typewriter and
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- Evan McIntosh
- July 10, 2020
Scrabble association bans more than 200 words from North American play
G-O-O-D-B-Y-E Farewell, adieu, and goodbye to some 230 odd words deemed offensive, with the bulk of the words constituting hate language aimed at particular groups, though it has created discord among members of the players’
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- Evan McIntosh
- June 29, 2020
New Marble League records set on the Halfpipe
O’Rangers win week 2. Marble League 2020 presented by Last Week Tonight is off to a great start and the second week featured not one but two records being set. The halfpipe event isn’t about
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- Evan McIntosh
- June 12, 2020
Wizards of the Coast ban racist cards from Magic: The Gathering
Response to #BlackLivesMatter protest and beyond. Following a wave of global protests and awareness to the injustices faced by people of colour, Wizards of the Coast are removing the images and text descriptions of a










