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About Charlie Hall

Charlie Hall is a journalist, editor, and photographer with more than 12 years’ experience at Polygon. After spending time as a freelance writer (Ars Technica, Paste Magazine, Gamers With Jobs) covering PC games, board games, and Dungeons & Dragons, he became Polygon’s first dedicated features writer in 2013. Over his career, Charlie has hosted and produced several podcasts on games and gaming, and has created multiple million-plus-view videos on YouTube. His areas of expertise include simulation, strategy, and spacefaring games as well as gaming and public policy. Charlie became Polygon’s tabletop editor in 2021 — the first tabletop editor named to a major entertainment media website in the United States. Charlie has been attending Gen Con, the nation’s largest tabletop gaming convention, since 2007, and has served as a judge for both E3 and the Origins Awards. He’s been invited to speak at GDC, PAX, and Gen Con. His work has been featured on NPR, Marketplace, the BBC, online with Smithsonian Magazine, and in the collection of The Peabody Essex Museum. He makes his home in far northern Illinois.

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Xbox Series X console and controller on a graphic linear background
Microsoft just raised prices for Xbox consoles and games
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The Xbox Series X costs $100 more than it did yesterday, and that’s not the only price hike

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Purple deck boxes, card sleeves, and playmats.
Heavy Play is an elegant alternative to card sleeving’s established dogma

Double-sleeves for a more civilized age

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Asmodeus, in a white coat and carrying a green-jeweled sceptre, sits across a gambling table.
Altered TCG’s wild new print-on-demand service is now live

Equinox delivers on its promise of game-changing new technology

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Final Fantasy Magic cards are helping protect Hasbro from Trump tariffs
Tabletop Games

The Square Enix collaboration is already the best selling set in MTG history

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CMON announces layoffs, will stop ‘all future game development’ and crowdfunding efforts

More than $26.1 million in board game products still await delivery to backers

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Art for Braids, Cabal Minion shows a woman with purple eyes, lips, and fingernails looking over her shoulder.
Magic team unbans cards for Commander, but not the ones you expected
Magic: The Gathering

Wizards vows not to tinker further with bans until 2026

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Mercenaries walk down the street of the city of Gloomhaven in key art for the second edition of the beloved board game.
Trump tariffs may stop Gloomhaven from reaching retail stores in the US

‘Is his ’trade war’ with China or US businesses?’

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A massive six-legged alien from Helldivers 2, rendered here in gray as a tabletop miniature.
What Helldivers 2: The Board Game draws from Helldivers 1, the video game
Helldivers 2

Making a shooter into a board game is challenging, so Steamforged tried something different

Helldivers 2: The Board Game key art shows the game box, in black and yellow.
The Helldivers 2 board game looks like a good time, just don’t forget to read the fine print

Insert ‘managed democracy’ goof here

A woman and a giant fox poised for battle. The woman holds a bronze sword, with red, blue, and green armor.
Magic’s new Commander decks include a once-in-a-generation value
Magic: The Gathering

Oops, all dragons

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Trump tariffs could mean 25% fewer board game publishers
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Nearly a quarter of publishers polled said they’d stop making board games entirely

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Row after row of painted miniatures, all with stamped numbers on their shoulders.
Why hardcore wargamers are suddenly way into nail art

Goblin Hobbies’ new Stampin’ Kit is great news if you hate waterslide decals

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A scene from Attack of the Clones with Boba Fett mourning Jango in the ring.
Jango Fett joins son Boba on Star Wars: Unlimited’s suspended card list

Benicio Del Toro’s scoundrel, DJ, is also banned from Premier

A pustulent demonette, his guts spilling onto the floor, sits like Conan on a throne.
How to compete in the Golden Demons

One of gaming’s most prestigious competitions is open to the public

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Hiram Flaversham, as seen in The Great Mouse Detective.
Disney Lorcana’s first bans include a humble toymaker

Hiram Flaversham, from The Great Mouse Detective, has banished his last Pawpsicle in organized play

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Han and Luke on Tauntauns in miniatures for Star Wars: Legion.
Star Wars: Legion is back, promises dozens of new miniatures for fans
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The release calendar makes 10 men feel like a hundred

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an array of colorful six-sided dice — red, gray, teal, and purple — lies on a wooden table along with a hammer, plus the shattered remnants of a destroyed gray die
Tabletop industry in full panic as Trump tariffs are poised to erase decades of growth
Tabletop Games

‘Devastating consequences’ expected says trade group

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A Marauder mech from BattleTech: Gothic, clad in glimmering blue and white, fires off an EPC.
Yes, BattleTech: Gothic is real, and there’s more like it on the way

Priced at $99, it’s the first entry in the Continuum Series

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A member of the Imperium of Mankind’s Ecclesiarchy with arms raised like Christ’s stigmata.
The year's best Warhammer 40K expansion sold out online. Track it down anyway
Warhammer 40,000

The Ecclesiarchy sucks, and their miniatures should have existed a long time ago

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High Tide, shown here in its original printing featuring a merfolk and some bubbles.
Magic: The Gathering devs unban cards as ‘an experiment’
Magic: The Gathering

The Commander format remains unaffected at this time

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