Milton Bradley Company
American board game company established by Milton Bradley in Springfield
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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 | 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. |
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'. |
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. |
June 2023 | Renegade Game Studios announced they would take responsibility for the Heroscape reboot after reaching a licensing deal with Hasbro. |
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 |
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 | Avalon Hill (a Hasbro subsidiary) announced plans to revive Heroscape through a HasLab crowdfunding campaign for a new expansion called 'Heroscape: Age of Annihilation'. |
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. |
April 19 2021 | Deadline Hollywood announced an unscripted television adaptation of the Guess Who? board game was in early development at NBC, to be produced by Endemol Shine North America and Entertainment One (a Hasbro subsidiary). |
January 2021 | After corporate restructuring, Avalon Hill becomes a subsidiary of Hasbro Gaming. |
2020 | TripleA reached stable version 2.2, capable of playing major Axis & Allies versions and hosting fan-created maps. |
2020 | Referenced in the TV series Space Force. |
2020 | Meyer et al. explore an adaptive game project based on Chutes and Ladders, focusing on systemic game pedagogy and mathematization in the Monza project. |
2020 | The Game of Life 2 was released for iOS, Android, and PC via Steam by Marmalade Game Studio, introducing an updated version of the game. |
2020 | New version of Mall Madness launched featuring a three-dimensional board with two stories, a bank, and a central speaker, introducing stairs and elevator access to the second floor. |
2020 | Most recent redesign of Mall Madness was released, likely incorporating modern design elements and gameplay improvements. |
2020 | Operation Perfection variant created, combining elements of Operation (buzzer and tweezers) with Perfection's timer and pop-up mechanism. |
November 15 2020 | Food Network premiered a Candy Land-themed cooking competition show hosted by Kristin Chenoweth, where teams of dessert chefs competed over six weeks for a $25,000 grand prize. |
November 5 2020 | Jenga is inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame. |
2019 | Playskool starts producing Power Rangers products, which continue ongoing. |
2019 | Beamdog published Axis & Allies 1942 Online. |
2019 | Another special edition of Don't Break the Ice is released to coincide with the premiere of Disney's Frozen II. |
2019 | The second season of the anime Mob Psycho 100 includes a 3D rendering of a zoetrope in its opening credit sequence. |
2019 | Pokonobe Associates reports over 80 million Jenga games sold worldwide, equivalent to more than 4.3 billion Jenga blocks. |
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