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D&D Expands Beyond Dungeons and Dragons

Plus the 2026 Dice Tower Award winners

Jason Dean

Jason Dean

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D&D Expands Beyond Dungeons and Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons meets World of Warcraft

We are back from Gen Con, and have the latest updates from the event, including how Dungeons & Dragons plans to expand its universe. Also, all the winners from the Dice Tower Awards and more gaming news. Let’s go.

Dungeons & Dragons goes Universes Beyond

Role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons is expanding into new worlds.  

At Gen Con 2026, Wizards of the Coast announced Universes Beyond, a program to create licensed content with the D&D mechanics. Their first collaboration will be with video game maker Blizzard, as the companies are launching Dungeons & Dragons: World of Warcraft November 17. Designers say the game will offer 11 new species and 9 subclasses that allow players to create their favorite World of Warcraft character. New spells, monsters and dungeons will also be part of the expansion. 

Warcraft is not the only property getting the Universes Beyond treatment. Wizards of the Coast is also working with Disney on a Star Wars crossover called Season of Rebellion. This crossover is anticipated to launch sometime in 2027. 

You can check out everything announced at the Dungeons & Dragons press conference here.

The 2026 Dice Tower Award winners

Galactic Cruise

Each year at Gen Con, Dice Tower announces their top board games of the year in a variety of categories. This year, Galactic Cruise received three awards, headlined by  their game of the year. The game about managing a space cruise company has been one of the most anticipated games over the past few years of Gen Con. Also leading the way with three awards was  Luthier, a game about creating classical music in Western Europe at its height. Here is the full list of winners. 

Congratulations to all the 2026 winners.

John Wick as a Simpson's character in Fortnite
John Wick as a Simpson's character in Fortnite

🚫 An outage of Xbox’s online network meant that even people with physical copies were unable to play their games. Xbox’s chief technical officer said that it was unacceptable. 

😯 Sony sold over 95 million PlayStation 5s worldwide. 

🎤 Rapper Lil Tecca is coming to Fortnite as is John Wick…as a Simpson’s character. 

📉 Microsoft is raising the price of their Xbox consoles in Europe between €150-200 after Xbox’s revenue fell $1.7 billion in the 2026 fiscal year. 

🐉 J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit is coming to Magic: The Gathering cards.

👎🏼 After being spun off from Microsoft, Psychonauts developer Double Fine announced a round of layoffs. 

🆓 Microsoft announced that 13 Ubisoft titles will now be free on PC, if a player owns them on Xbox. 

😠 The code in the Grand Theft Auto 6 box will expire 170 days after the game launches in Japan. 

🎴 Also in Japan, Pokémon card stores are installing facial recognition to stop people from breaking their purchasing rules.

😢 The Guardian looks at how players cope with their favorite online games going offline forever. 

👋🏿 Despite removing its blockchain integration, Ubisoft’s NFT-based role-playing game Champions Tactics is shutting down. 

⚔️ Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey increased the player count of Ubisoft’s Assassin's Creed: Odyssey.

🚬 Movie characters Jay and Silent Bob are getting a new game where players will grow weed.

📈 Round numbers: Resident Evil Requiem sold over 8 million copies and Pragmata moved over 2.5 million. 

New Releases this week:

Beast of Reincarnation

Check out our article on 11 new games to play in August. 

8/4: Beast of Reincarnation (PlayStation, Xbox and PC)
8/4: Big Walk (PlayStation, Switch and PC)
8/6: Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls (PlayStation and PC)

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