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Renegade Game Studios (frequently abbreviated RGS) is a game company based in Escondido, California, United States, that creates and publishes board games, card games and role-playing games. It is also known for publishing the board game Power Rangers: Heroes of the Grid and co-publishing a variety of games based on Oni Press graphic novels, including those based on the Scott Pilgrim graphic novel series.

History
Renegade Game Studios was founded in 2014 by its President and Publisher Scott Gaeta. Prior to founding the company, Gaeta’s industry experience includes VP and director-level leadership at Decipher, Inc., the Upper Deck Company, and Cryptozoic Entertainment (which he co-founded in 2010 and was COO until his departure to found RGS).

Gaeta told ICV2 the publisher would initially focus on, “light to medium hobby strategy games” and announced announced five titles it would publish: Gravwell, Escape from the 9th Dimension, The Doom That Came to Atlantic City, Word Whimsy, and two titles designed by Munchin ilustrator John Kovalic (ROLF! and Double Feature).

The following month, the company announced it would publish FUSE, designed by Kane Klenko. In 2015 the company announced several more titles including a Renegade-edition version of the critically-lauded and out of print Snow Tails and the TableTop_(web_series) featured game Lanterns (co-published with FoxTrot Games).

As the company’s game offerings grew, so did its team. In 2016, Sara Erickson (of iEllo and Cryptozoic) joined Renegade Game Studios as Director of Sales and Marketing. Anita Osburn (previously of Upper Deck, Blizzard Entertainment and Spin Master ) also joined as Creative Director later that year. The following year saw the addition of Leisha Cummings (of Cryptozoic and Upper Deck) as Director of Operations and Dan Bojanowski (of Upper Deck and Decipher) as Senior Producer. In 2020, veteran game designer Matt Hyra joined the company as Senior Game Designer.

Since its founding, Renegade Game Studios has published both internally-developed original titles as well as titles in partnership with other co-publishers. As such, the catalog offerings of the company spans multiple categories (including family games, strategy games, miniatures games and roleplaying games) and continues to grow.

Notable Partnerships
*Hasbro Renegade Game Studios was approached by Saban to develop and publish a licensed Power Rangers game. During development, Hasbro acquired Saban’s Power Rangers, but the game continued development with the new partnership between Hasbro and Renegade Game Studios. The result was Power Rangers: Heroes of the Grid, designed by Jonathan Ying, which launched on Kickstarter in 2018 and released to the public in 2019.

*Paradox Interactive/White Wolf Publishing In 2019 Renegade Game Studios announced a licensing partnership with Paradox Interactive to bring Vampire: The Masquerade - The Expandable Card Game.

*Oni Press/Oni Games In 2017 Renegade Game Studios partnered with Oni Press to co-publish Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Card Game, based on the graphic novel published by Oni Press, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World. Oni Press eventually created a games imprint, Oni Games and which has co-published and announced several other games based on Oni Press comics and graphic novels: The Tea Dragon Society Card Game (2018), The Acquicorn Cove Board Game (2019), Scott Pilgrim Miniatures the World (2020) and Space Battle Lunchtime (2020).

*Garphill Games In 2017, RGS announced its partnership with Garphill Games to produce the English version of the then-newly Kennerspiel des Jahres-nominated Raiders of the North Sea / Later that year, RGS announced they would produce the English versions of three more games from the North Sea Saga.

RGS partnered with Dire Wolf Digital,a video game publisher, in 2016 to publish deck-building game: ''Clank! A Deck Building Adventure '. In 2017, they co-published a sci-fi themed version, ''Clank! In! Space! and in 2019 released a legacy-version of Clank!'' set in the world of Penny Arcade’s Acquisitions Incorporated.
 * Dire Wolf Digital

In 2019 the partnership also yielded Eternal: Chronicles of the Throne ; a deck-building game with collectible card game-style battle mechanics based on Dire Wolf Digital’s digital collectible card game, Eternal (video game).

*Foxtrot Games In 2015 Foxtrot Games partnered with Renegade Game Studios to publish and distribute Lanterns: The Harvest Festival ; a game that would eventually be featured on the 4th season of TableTop (webseries), hosted by Wil Wheaton. The partnership wild yield several more titles, including the award-winningWorld’s Fair 1893, The Fox In the Forest , and Lanterns Dice: Lights in the Sky.

In 2018 Renegade Game Studios and Hunters partnered to release the catalog of Role-playing games and products in Hunters’ stable to the wider retail market. The partnership has seen the release of Kids on Bikes, Teens in Space, and Outbreak: Undead.. to retail distribution. Recently the partnership has announced that they will also be publishing the 5th edition of Werewolf: The Apocalypse and the Altered Carbon Roleplaying Game.
 * Hunters Entertainment

Award Recognition
SXSW Gaming Awards Origins Award

Mensa Select® Recognized Games

2019 Toy and Game Innovation Awards

ENnie Awards

Games Published

 * Altiplano
 * Apotheca
 * Atlas: Enchated Lands 
 * The Aquicorn Cove Board Game
 * Arboretum
 * Architects of the West Kingdom
 * Artsee
 * Bargain Quest
 * Blood of an Englishman
 * Brick Party
 * Bubble Tea
 * Bullfrogs
 * Byzanz
 * Castell
 * Castles of Caladale
 * Circadians First Light
 * Circus Puppy
 * Clank! A Deck-Building Adventure
 * Clank! In! Space! A Deck-Building Adventure
 * Clank! Legacy: Acquisitions Incorporated
 * ClipCut Parks
 * Covert
 * Dicey Goblins
 * Doggy Go!
 * Dokmus
 * The Doom That Came to Atlantic City
 * Double Feature
 * Dragon's HOard
 * Eternal: Chronicles of the Throne
 * Ex Libris
 * Explorers of the North Sea
 * Fireworks
 * FLATLINE
 * Flip Ships
 * Flip The Bird
 * The Fox in the Forest
 * The Fox in the Forest Duet
 * FUSE
 * Gates of Delirium
 * Ghostbusters: The Card Game
 * Gloomy Graves
 * Gravwell: Escape from the 9th Dimension
 * Gunkimono
 * Hex Roller
 * Hokkaido
 * Honshu
 * Icarus
 * Junk Orbit
 * Kepler-3042
 * Kids on Bikes
 * Kitty Paw
 * Knee Jerk
 * Lanterns: The Harvest Festival
 * Lanterns Dice: Lights in the Sky
 * Lotus
 * Lucidity Six Sided Nightmares
 * The North Sea Runesaga
 * The North Sea Epilogues RPG
 * Outbreak: Undead..
 * Overlight RPG
 * Paladins of the West Kingdom
 * Prowler's Passage
 * Passing Through Petra
 * Pie Town
 * Power Rangers: Heroes of the Grid
 * Proving Grounds
 * The North Sea Runesaga
 * Raiders of the North Sea
 * Revolution of 1828
 * Reykholt
 * Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Card Game
 * Shipwrights of the North Sea
 * Sentient
 * Slap It
 * Space Battle Lunchtime Card Game
 * Spell Smashers
 * Spy Club
 * Stellar
 * Succulent
 * Sundae Split
 * The Tea Dragon Society Card Game
 * Teens in Space
 * Terror Below
 * Time Chase
 * Topiary
 * Trajan
 * Wardlings Campaign Guide
 * Wendake
 * World's Fair 1893