Wizards of the Coast
American game publisher
Follow Wizards of the Coast on Notably News to receive short updates to your email — rarely!
| April 2025 | Creative Director Chris Perkins and Game Director Jeremy Crawford announced their departures from Wizards of the Coast after decades of service, following the release of the 2024 revision of Dungeons & Dragons core rulebooks. |
| March 2025 | Launched the 3D virtual tabletop (VTT) Dungeons & Dragons simulator Sigil as part of D&D Beyond. |
| April 2024 | Cynthia Williams resigned from her position, to be replaced by John Hight in the summer. |
| March 2024 | Wizards of the Coast stopped localizing Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons for Portuguese. |
| January 2023 | Canceled at least five video game projects and underwent a significant internal reorganization. |
| July 2022 | Skeleton Key studio opened in Austin, Texas. |
| May 2022 | D&D Beyond was acquired by Wizards of the Coast. |
| April 2022 | Hasbro acquired the digital toolset and game companion D&D Beyond from Fandom. |
| 2021 | Avalon Hill was moved back to Hasbro Gaming. |
| September 2021 | Atomic Arcade studio opened in Raleigh, North Carolina, led by Ames Kirshen, a former vice-president of production and creative at Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. |
| February 2021 | Underwent reorganization within Hasbro, becoming the lead part of a new division called 'Wizards & Digital'. |
| December 2020 | Wizards Kids Studio opened in Seattle, Washington. |
| June 1 2020 | WotC released a statement supporting Black fans and employees after George Floyd's murder, leading to significant changes in their product representation. |
| October 2019 | Invoke Studios was acquired by Wizards of the Coast. |
| April 2019 | Archetype Entertainment studio opened in Austin, Texas, U.S. |
| April 2019 | WotC appointed gaming-industry veteran James Ohlen as head of a new studio in Austin, Texas. |
| 2018 | Reorganization of Magic: The Gathering R&D at Studio X in Renton, Washington. |
| 2017 | D&D Beyond was founded. |
| 2016 | Chris Cocks replaced Greg Leeds as president of Wizards of the Coast. |
| 2014 | 20th Century Fox acquired screen rights to Magic: The Gathering for a potential movie series with Simon Kinberg. |
| July 15 2014 | 5th edition of Dungeons & Dragons was released with the Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set. |
| 2012 | Invoke Studios was founded in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. |
This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia article Wizards of the Coast, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.