WotC Wizards of the Coast Is Moving -- But Not Far!

Wizards of the Coast has leased 110,000 square feet in a new office development in Southport, an area of Renton, a city near Seattle in Washington. The company is already based in Renton, which is where D&D has been based since WotC acquired TSR.

Renton’s Southport, the 727,000 square foot office complex developed by SECO Development located on the southern shores of Lake Washington, has found another tenant to occupy its modern office space. Hasbro’s gaming subsidiary Wizards of the Coast

SECO’s Southport Development Scores 110,000 SQFT Lease with Gaming Developer Wizards of the Coast - The Registry

Renton SECO Development Southport The Partners Group Wizards of the Coast Hasbro

news.theregistryps.com

 

[CleverNickName]

No mention of this little unknown game named Magic the Gathering....

Eh, it's just a fad. A passing fancy. It won't last a week.

 

[Parmandur]

I'm not sure "newspapers" should be blamed for what one reporter in Vancouver did.

And I also don't think you can expect the public to know or give a crap about what a CCG is. They should have probably just dropped "trading" and called it a card game, but I doubt anyone spent more than 30 seconds worrying about updating the press release from the real estate folks.

I don't think you should expect a real estate publication to be any better writing about gaming than you would a gaming publication writing about real estate.

WotC hasn't published Pokémon in nigh twenty years. That's a "I skimmed Wikipedia" writing.

 

[Twiggly the Gnome]

What difference does that make when you're supposedly being informative?

I'm not sure if there are many news organizations that are even interested in being informative.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

I'm not sure if there are many news organizations that are even interested in being informative.

You may be right. I think I'm old-fashioned enough to still expect that they ought to be trying to. Clearly I should adjust my expectations.

 

[Charlaquin]

Wait... the article says that WotC "counts Dungeons & Dragons and the Pokemon trading card game as two of its notable titles"...

Good to know newspapers are still great at fact-checking.

They did publish the Pokémon TCG in the US until 2003.

 

[EzekielRaiden]

Seems like every newspaper article where you get a title and half a paragraph before a pop-up stops you and they want you to pay a subscription.

As the hip teens say, "there's an app for that." (Technically, a browser addon. Or you can be old school like me and just try to stop the page load before the paywall covers stuff.)

 

[Charlaquin]

And I also don't think you can expect the public to know or give a crap about what a CCG is. They should have probably just dropped "trading" and called it a card game, but I doubt anyone spent more than 30 seconds worrying about updating the press release from the real estate folks.

Pokémon is a TCG though. There is a meaningful difference between TCGs and CCGs (not that any but the nerdliest of nerds know or care).

 

[FitzTheRuke]

They did publish the Pokémon TCG in the US until 2003.

I know! I sold it and even played it back then. (I still sell it). But... that's 20 years ago!

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

WotC hasn't published Pokémon in nigh twenty years. That's a "I skimmed Wikipedia" writing.

It was from the real estate company's press release.

 

[Charlaquin]

I know! I sold it and even played it back then. (I still sell it). But... that's 20 years ago!

Sure, but I don’t think it would be wrong to say they count it as one of their notable titles. It is a very notable title, and they do count it among those they’ve published.