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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This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia articles Axis & Allies, Fireball Island, Operation (game), Heroscape, The Game of Life, Scotland Yard (board game), Hungry Hungry Hippos, List of Heroscape supplements, HeroQuest, Trouble (board game), Thunder Road (board game), Guess Who?, Playskool, Square Mile (board game), Twister (game), Battle Masters, Zoetrope & Forbidden Bridge, which are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.