HASBRO IS LOOKING to grow its top and bottom lines with a decades-old game, Magic: The Gathering. But unlike tournaments in which players use paper cards, Hasbro has digitized the game and is informally naming it Arena. The company expects to be attracting millions of players in the next few years. / BLOOMBERG NEWS PHOTO/MARK ABRAMSON
NEW YORK – In the battle for gaming dominance, Hasbro Inc. has what it hopes is an ace up its sleeve – in a deck of playing cards that hit the market 26 years ago. Not a standard deck, to be sure, but packs costing just $4 each that millions of devotees use to play Magic:…
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