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Renegade’s Hasbro partnership grows again as pair expand tabletop licensing deal

05. Oktober 2026 um 15:56

Hasbro has extended its wide-ranging licensing deal with Renegade Game Studios, continuing a years-long partnership which has seen the hobby publisher take over and develop a growing collection of the toy giant’s board game brands.

The renewed agreement includes Axis & Allies, Acquire, Diplomacy, Heroscape, Robo Rally and Ikusa, with new games and expansions planned for 2027 and beyond, the pair said.

Recent projects built on existing Hasbro titles have included Axis & Allies: North Africa, Robo Rally Dice and Diplomacy: The Golden Blade.

Box back for Diplomacy: The Golden Blade

Renegade’s work with Hasbro has also spread to subsidiary Wizards of the Coast, with the publisher announcing a new edition of Dungeons & Dragons board game Lords of Waterdeep and its Scoundrels of Skullport expansion last year, and set to bring the long out-of-print Castle Ravenloft board game back to retail in 2027.

Scott Gaeta, the founder and president of Renegade, said, “We’re extremely pleased to extend and expand our relationship with Hasbro. From our beginnings with Power Rangers to our most recent projects on Dungeons & Dragons Lords of Waterdeep, working with the teams at Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast has been a pleasure.

“It’s an honor to be entrusted with bringing these iconic brands to tabletops worldwide.”

Renegade’s relationship with Hasbro began via an unexpected route in 2018, when the publisher signed a licensing deal with Saban Brands to make Power Rangers tabletop games.

Hasbro acquired Power Rangers from Saban later that year while Renegade was developing Power Rangers: Heroes of the Grid – which went on to raise more than $700,000 through Kickstarter, and spawned a line which ultimately stretched to more than 50 releases.

Hasbro expanded its Renegade partnership to G.I. JOE, Transformers and My Little Pony in 2020, and two years later handed the publisher responsibility for established tabletop lines previously associated with Avalon Hill, including Axis & Allies and Diplomacy.

Heroscape followed in 2023, just months after Hasbro’s own attempt to revive the miniatures game through its HasLab crowdfunding platform failed to reach the 8,000 pledges needed to enter production. Renegade has since developed the game into an ongoing miniatures line with new armies, terrain, organised play and regular expansions.

The Heroscape Master Set from Renegade Game Studios

The companies also added Nexus Ops, Vegas Showdown, Risk 2210 AD and Risk: Godstorm to the agreement in 2023, with Renegade saying at the time it planned to preserve the original gameplay while refreshing the games’ presentation and making minor quality-of-life improvements.

Renegade has also increasingly mixed Hasbro’s entertainment properties with the tabletop systems it now publishes, including G.I. JOE: Battle for the Arctic Circle – the first game in its ‘Powered by Axis & Allies’ line – and a G.I. JOE range for Heroscape.

The publisher also revealed more details for Power Rangers: Impossible Odds last week during Renegade Con, its regular online showcase for upcoming games and expansions. The cooperative boss-battling dice game is due for release in April 2027.

Renegade’s wider Hasbro agreement continues to cover Transformers, G.I. JOE, Power Rangers, M.A.S.K., My Little Pony, JEM and the Holograms and ROM the SpaceKnight.

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BGB Podcast #369 – The Life-Changing Magic of a Minimalist Board Game Collection

10. September 2026 um 13:23

 

 

We’re downsizing, imagining a brigher future where we don’t have hundreds of games to fret about not playing, but a very slight, extremely manageable twenty. Some say it can’t be done, but that’s never stopped us before. Before we get low, we talk about After you, Betobeto-san, Skull Queen, and Star Trek: Captain’s Chair – To Boldly Go.

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Timecodes:

01:53 – After you, Betobeto-san
09:11 – Skull Queen
17:21 – Star Trek: Captain’s Chair – To Boldly Go
28:12 – Minimalist board game collections

Thank you to Heart Society for generously letting us use What’s On Your Mind, Kid? from their album Wake the Queens.

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BGB Podcast #362 – Hot Takes About Board Games

04. Juni 2026 um 13:20

 

 

The people demand takes, so get ’em while they’re hot. We’re weighing in on some possibly bad, certainly edgy opinions, and deciding where we land (spoiler: we’re always right). Before we get heated, we talk about Diplomacy: The Golden Blade, and Cozy Stickerville.

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Timecodes:

01:46 – Diplomacy: The Golden Blade
12:33 – Cozy Stickerville
25:41 – Hot takes!
26:11 – Co-op games are just single player games with an audience
32:01 – Catch Up mechanics ruin competitive integrity
37:39 – Legacy games are a predatory waste of money
41:22 – If a game takes more than 30 minutes to teach, it’s a bad design
45:56 – Player elimination is actually a good mechanism
47:36 – Hidden victory points are a cowardly design choice
51:38 – Gateway games Like Catan or Monopoly should be actively avoided
52:44 – House ruling a game means you bought the wrong game
53:10 – Theme is a myth
54:13 – Kickstarter deluxe editions are actively ruining the hobby

Thank you to Heart Society for generously letting us use What’s On Your Mind, Kid? from their album Wake the Queens.

If you don’t want to miss an episode, please subscribe on Apple Podcasts/Google Podcasts/Stitcher/Spotify, or add our RSS feed to your favourite app. Reviews and subscriptions really help us and would be greatly appreciated! To download the episode directly, click here.

If you’d like to discuss anything in the episode, please do so in the comments below, visit our BoardGameGeek guild, join our Discord, or Facebook Group! Any feedback is also always helpful. If you’d like to show your support for the show, we also have a Patreon with some fun rewards, and a merch store!

Timecodes:

01:46 – Diplomacy: The Golden Blade
12:33 – Cozy Stickerville
25:41 – Hot takes!
26:11 – Co-op games are just single player games with an audience
32:01 – Catch Up mechanics ruin competitive integrity
37:39 – Legacy games are a predatory waste of money
41:22 – If a game takes more than 30 minutes to teach, it’s a bad design
45:56 – Player elimination is actually a good mechanism
47:36 – Hidden victory points are a cowardly design choice
51:38 – Gateway games Like Catan or Monopoly should be actively avoided
52:44 – House ruling a game means you bought the wrong game
53:10 – Theme is a myth
54:13 – Kickstarter deluxe editions are actively ruining the hobby

Thank you to Heart Society for generously letting us use What’s On Your Mind, Kid? from their album Wake the Queens.

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