Only 2.25 hours left until 12pm PST, which will bring an end to our Car Wars “Borrow the Car” contest. Hurry and read the rules (don’t worry, they’re short) and get your entry to us before midnight on bunny day. A quick hundred words or less convincing your dad to
Month: March 2002
Another Miniatures Gaming Publisher That Badly Needs A Decent Web Site
ICv2 brings the pain: Frank Frazetta’s Death Dealer hits from Cell in time for Gen Con. It’s a little disconcerting to read reportage on minis games that seems to believe WizKids invented them, but then again, ICv2’s core audience is comics fans and retailers who only dabble in games –
So I’m Wrong, And GW Sucks Cont.
The same source that told me BFG was coming back into print in September (and insists there was a press release about it at some point) says that “the current edition” of Talisman in fact refers to the last one to go out of print. He’s the only coherent source
Lost Talisman Characters Found Amidst Rampant Innuendo
If anyone needs another reason to hate Games Workshop, how about this: terminal vagueness. In this article about unpublished Talisman characters (PDF), designer Jervis Johnson keeps talking about “the current edition.” Current? Like, five-years-out-of-print current? More than that? Three-hundred-dollars-on-eBay current? Jeez. So it’s all just mean-spirited teasing about the new
First Expansion For Buffy (Yes, I Mean The CCG – What Did You Think I Meant?)
The Angel’s Curse expansion for the popular Buffy the Vampire Slayer CCG hits shelves today in the US and Canada. I wasn’t aware that they were starting from way back in Season 1, but I guess they are. I also wasn’t aware that I would ever have a head full
OgreCave’s Car Wars Contest Nearly Over
Only a couple days left in our “Borrow the Car” contest. If you haven’t done so already, go read the rules (don’t worry, they’re short) and get your entry to us before midnight PST on Sunday. Just a hundred words or less convincing your dad to give you the car
Three-Sixty Announces Film-Noir PDF RPG
Mean Streets: The RPG of Classic Film Noir, a complete downloadable game with a planned line of supplements, is coming soon from Three-Sixty Publishing, who have not only licensed the XPG system from fellow PDF-meisters Deep7, but will be selling through Deep7’s web site. Three-Sixty has a number of other
Moving From Planned Obsolescence To Constant Discovery
I admit it – I forgot to go to Gamegrene for a while. So I only just found this article. It certainly looks like a catch-22: too many revised editions and supplements and people complain about being bled dry, too few and they’ll say it’s a “dead game.” However, there’s
D20 Munchkin
Dear God, help us.
Citizen Tells Us Which Witch Is Which
Citizen Games has announced plans for Way of the Witch, a d20 sourcebook all about you-know-what. Four popular female authors (Janet Pack, Jean Rabe, Megan Robertson, and Christina Stiles) will pack the 128-page perfect bound book with new spells, prestige classes, skills, feats and other rules useful for witchcraft. Background
GIDFA Closing Down After Semi-Successful Mission
The Gaming Industry Disaster Fund Auction, founded by Gary Thompson of The Fiction & Fantasy Network, will be shutting down one week from today after a final grace period. Established to raise relief funds for victims of the September 11th tragedy in New York City, the Auction was a rallying
Cell Entertainment Announces Things Both Cool And Scary
In the cool department, there’s Hybrid, a 60mm (read: big) scale minis skirmish game that’ll be the first to use their “maglock” system as pervasively as it should have been used in the first place. According to flyers distributed at GTS, all weapons and armor will be magnetically attachable and
Cheapass Parks Fightball On A Pole
People have been talking about on the Cheapasses mail list for a few weeks, but the details have only just come to light on the web page. It’s, like, a board game and stuff. Also filtering out from Cheapass consciousness is , apparently this year’s card game in the Falling
Rio Grande Update
Rio Grande Games has posted their thirtieth newsletter. Although there are no groundbreaking announcements, Carcassonne fans will be pleased to hear that a second expansion set, which adds some new tiles and provides enough pieces to allow a sixth player, will be out soon. Also described and pictured in the
Underworld 2nd Edition Gets Rolling
Adamant Entertainment has announced plans for the second edition of Underworld, the property it acquired from Synister Creative Studios. Underworld Second Edition will relaunch the game with all of the original materials, plus the contents of the first supplement, DownBelow, and various other additions. The new hardcover book is scheduled