Columnist Rob Salkowitz's annual retrospective of the stories that shaped our industry in the past year.

This week, columnist Scott Thorne comments on the email CEO Chris Cocks sent out announcing layoffs of Hasbro employees.

Gamescom, the world's largest video game trade show held in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, announced that it is adding a tabletop games area to its convention. In the meantime, Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), a North American video game trade show, announced that they were shutting down.

The publishers had more than a decade to try to fix this.

This week, columnist Scott Thorne, in the spirit of Thanksgiving, offers up thanks to various companies, products, and offers in the games industry.

In this column by ICv2 CEO Milton Griepp, he looks at predictions of doom with the long view, and some numbers.

The publisher also announced new series by the creators of One-Punch Man and Sweat and Soap.

Steve Geppi didn't intend to become a comics distributor.

U and I, written by J. Michael Straczynski, is the newest Resistance Universe title from AWA.

Landau talks about the rise of the graphic novel and his part in the Thunderbirds: FAB stage play.