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Facebook X Reddit Flipboard Email 8 us Wizards of Coast and Hasbro Games have a boss, and it's kind of boss. Dan Ayoub, spent past couple as senior vice of games at Wizards, has promoted to big where he'll head Magic: Gathering, Dungeons and Duel Masters, and Hasbro Games. will take place of Hight, left position July after just on job. On videogame-specific of things, will now oversee projects development: Mass sci-fi RPG Exodus developed by Archetype and third-person action-adventure Warlock: Dungeons and by Invoke Studios. "[Ayoub] selected after a rigorous search evaluated dozens of internal and candidates," Hasbro said. "He first internal candidate promoted into Latest Videos FromPC Watch full video has real experience biz: to joining Wizards of Coast, he as executive producer and studio head at studio 343 Industries, and also spent than a year as vice and general of co-development studio Certain Affinity. honored to lead Wizards of Coast and Hasbro Games, and to Chris [Hasbro CEO Chris and leadership team for opportunity," said. "Magic and D&D have of my life for as long as can remember, and teams them are among world. We'll put first, respect artists and make these worlds alive, and set an course for growth across and digital. can't wait to started." But he also comes into at a challenging time. Despite hard on videogames immediate of Baldur's Gate 3, Hasbro has to actually on it: company a $56 million non-cash earlier year arising from of several games development were to release "in 2028 and Potentially complicating matters Cocks, Hasbro CEO, a vocal enthusiast. He recently indicated he pushing to incorporate it Hasbro games people "just don't it," but he also clear he views generative use as inevitable "You can't ignore it, can't stick your head sand." Ayoub's remark about "artists and creators" might seen as a little meaningful—but holds long run, we will have to wait and Do work videogames? From of A free weekly videogame newsletter, featuring in-depth expert analysis and exclusive 2026 games: All gamesBest PC games: Our favoritesFree PC games: Freebie festBest games: Finest gunplayBest RPGs: adventuresBest co-op games: Better TOPICS PRODUCTS Andy US News Lead Andy has gaming on PCs from beginning, starting as a youngster text adventures and primitive games on a cassette-based TRS80. From there he to glory days of Sierra adventures and Microprose sims, ran a BBS, learned to build and developed a longstanding love of RPGs, sims, and shooters. He began writing videogame news for Escapist and somehow managed to getting fired until when he joined storied of PC Gamer. He covers all aspects of from game announcements and patch to legal disputes, Twitch esports, and Henry Cavill. of Henry Cavill. must confirm your public name before commenting logout and then login will then prompted to enter your name.
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