Wizards of the Coast began a week of announcements concerning the future of Magic: The Gathering with the news it will be changing the game’s block format again in the spring of 2018.

Major new video games have been announced this week tied to both of the two largest TCGs: Pokemon and Magic: The Gathering .

Hasbro has announced the first programming and activations for HASCON, its new in-house convention

MAGE Company has announced plans to produce 12 Realms: Dungeonland, a stand-alone dungeon crawl game set in the fairy tale world of 12 Realms .

Wizards of the Coast and Avalon Hill will release a mash-up of fan favorite horror board game Betrayal at House on the Hill and Dungeons & Dragons this fall.

TCGplayer has added support for automatic card scanning for its new e-commerce service for brick-and-mortar retailers, and will add three new TCGs to its database in June.

Wizards of the Coast has shared the official artwork and more details on the upcoming Commander Anthology for Magic: The Gathering.

The list of games nominated for 2017 Origins Awards has been released.

This week, Thorne looks at ways publishers use packaging or POP materials to stimulate sales.

ICv2 caught up with VIZ Media Vice President – Publishing Leyla Aker to talk about what Viz is seeing in the kids’ market, what’s selling, and what’s coming.