Milton Bradley Company
American board game company established by Milton Bradley in Springfield
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2025 | Hasbro signs an agreement with Just Play Products to produce Playskool products. |
2025 | Introduction of Axis & Allies: Stalingrad, a local theater game focused on the critical 1942 battle, including specialized units like snipers, assault guns, and rocket launchers. |
February 2025 | Rising Tide expansion released, including Army Expansions for Knight Primus Adelbern & Ordo Borealis, Sonlen & Halushia, and Hellforge Mandukor. |
February 2025 | The Swamps of Valhalla and The Snow Fields of Valhalla expansions released. |
October 2024 | Renegade Game Studios released Revna's Rebuke, including Kyrie Warriors Army Expansion and Iron Lich Viscerot and Necrotech Wraithriders Army Expansion. |
October 7 2024 | Hungry Hungry Hippos referenced during Monday Night Football broadcast. |
August 2024 | Axis and Allies: North Africa was released in August, focusing on the North African theater of World War II. |
August 2024 | Upcoming Axis & Allies: North Africa version announced, set in 1941/42, promising new units like mechanized infantry, anti-tank guns, and specialized tanks. |
August 2024 | Battle for the Wellspring Battle Box released by Renegade Game Studios, featuring new figures and terrain. |
August 2024 | The Grove at Laur's End Terrain Expansion released by Renegade Game Studios, including Laur Jungle Trees and Bushes. |
August 2024 | Start of Age of Annihilation release, featuring promotional figures Sgt. Drake Alexander, Shiori, Cornelius Breech, Thyraxis Dragoon, and Major Q11. |
June 14 2024 | A new starter box called First Light was announced, aimed at providing a more affordable entry point for new players. |
March 2024 | Renegade Game Studios revealed the first wave of new Heroscape products, including master set 'Age of Annihilation' and expansion sets 'Battle for the Wellspring' and 'The Grove at Laur's End'. |
February 27 2024 | UK expansion Against the Ogre Horde was re-released, including three new quests, a new game mode, and additional sculpts. |
2023 | RPG historian Stu Horvath published 'Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground', analyzing HeroQuest as a significant gateway into role-playing games for children. |
2023 | Hasbro entered into a licensing agreement with PlayMonster to manage the Playskool brand following a major corporate restructuring focused on licensing, digital games, and core toy brands. |
2023 | Hasbro introduces Twister Air, an app-driven version using motion-tracking wearables and augmented reality. |
2023 | Renegade Games Studios releases reprints of multiple Axis & Allies game versions, including 1914, 1941, 1942, 1940 Europe, and 1940 Pacific. |
2023 | Mike Ando invented the Andotrope, a digital successor to the zoetrope that uses smartphones within a slotted cylinder to produce a 360º viewing angle for digital content. |
2023 | Restoration Games releases a modernized version of the game called Thunder Road: Vendetta. |
August 2023 | Avalon Hill releases the third hero expansion pack, the Hero Collection - The Path of the Wandering Monk. |
June 2023 | Renegade Game Studios announced they would take responsibility for the Heroscape reboot after reaching a licensing deal with Hasbro. |
March 27 2023 | Hasbro announced a new expansion, Rise of the Dread Moon, featuring new miniatures and a potions card deck. |
February 2023 | The Mage of the Mirror Quest Pack is released with new elven furniture. |
2022 | Hasbro introduced a Minions: The Rise of Gru version of the Operation game. |
2022 | Comic Book Resources conducted a retrospective review, ranking Heroscape as the best discontinued board game and highlighting its unique combination of Lego-like building and miniature game mechanics. |
2022 | Renegade Games Studios announces a partnership with Hasbro to publish future Axis & Allies versions and organize a world championship. |
2022 | Appears in The Afterparty TV series. |
2022 | Pharrell Williams's music video for 'Cash In Cash Out', directed by Francois Rousselet, uses a computer-animated 3D zoetrope, taking over a year to create, featuring claymation-like versions of Williams, 21 Savage, and Tyler, the Creator. |
2022 | Captivade, a board game with similar mechanics to Scotland Yard, was released, potentially indicating the continued influence of the original game design. |
2022 | Stephen Baker, the designer of Battle Masters, gives an interview reflecting on past criticisms about the game's lack of strategic depth. |
2022 | The Game of Life 2 was released for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X, further expanding its multi-platform availability. |
2022 | The Game of LIFE: Jurassic Park Edition was released. |
2022 | Marvel Comics and Super Mario themed Guess Who? editions were released |
December 2022 | Avalon Hill releases the second hero expansion pack, the Hero Collection - The Rogue Heir of Elethorn. |
November 2022 | HasLab crowdfunding campaign for Heroscape: Age of Annihilation concludes without receiving enough backers to justify production of the new master set. |
August 2022 | The Barbarian Quest Pack expansion is re-released as The Frozen Horror Quest Pack. |
August 2022 | Avalon Hill (a Hasbro subsidiary) announced plans to revive Heroscape through a HasLab crowdfunding campaign for a new expansion called 'Heroscape: Age of Annihilation'. |
April 8 2022 | Hasbro released online quest zero: New Beginnings (later renamed HeroQuest: Try out a New Beginning). |
2021 | HeroQuest was released to stores, along with two expansions: Kellar's Keep and Return of the Witch Lord. |
2021 | HeroQuest board game re-released, with a notable change to the Elf character being depicted as female for the first time in the game's history. |
2021 | Playskool launches Peppa Pig and PJ Masks product lines, which continue ongoing. |
2021 | The Game of Life: Super Mario Edition was launched. |
2021 | A new version of the Game of Life was released, featuring invest cards, 6 different peg colors, and a special pets edition, updating the game's design and gameplay mechanics. |
2021 | Restoration Games partnered with Goliath Games to produce a smaller, Target-exclusive version of Fireball Island called 'Race to Adventure', featuring a smaller game board, smaller marbles, and fewer treasures for quicker gameplay. |
2021 | Hasbro Gaming remade the board game Forbidden Bridge as a classic edition, making it exclusively available for sale at Target during the third quarter of the year. |
November 2021 | Avalon Hill announced the first hero expansion pack, the Hero Collection - Commander of the Guardian Knights. |
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