Seemingly subtitled “The New Hotness,” the big WizKids announcement was indeed a major revision of Mage Knight. This revelation, however, was not revealed to those of us in attendance until nearly two hours of build up and odd delays. Still worth waiting through, but I never got a slice of
Month: July 2003
Big GenCon announcement #1: Mage Knight refurbishment
I am dimly suspicious that we already knew about this in some way, shape, or form, and I didn’t report on it because I didn’t think it was all that big. But, still. Mage Knight 2.0 features an overhauled combat dial format, as well as new collectible pieces for terrain,
Nevermind whether it's a game, I'm just glad it's not a fetish
Our buds at have launched the first issue of their “Virtual Magazine” today, including Justin’s piece on, er, water play. It’s not what it sounds like. Anyone who’s interested in expanding their thought on what it means to play would do well to check out GGA. (GGA’s editor Jane is
Jordan Weisman and Nobilis tie for Diana Jones Award
Having just returned from the 2003 Diana Jones Award ceremony, I can now inform you that the traveling trophy has now been jointly awarded to two worthy parts of the game industry, selected for “seeing something missing, and filling that void”: Jordan Weisman, founder of WizKids, and Nobilis: Second Edition.
Privateer readies another sneak-preview sale for new Warmachine box
If you lust for the Warmachine, stay up late on Thursday night and get your order in for the new, not-in-stores-for-a-while box, chock full of “Magnus the Traitor and his personal battlegroup”. They’ll also be selling the box at Gen Con, natch. On a side note (literally), the Iron Kingdoms
WizKids creates publishing arm, takes over Girl Genius
If this is the big announcement, some heads are gonna be pissed off. But the announcement about Girl Genius is interesting; did they acquire it from the Foglios outright, intellectual property and all, or are they simply handling the publishing side of things? Nothing on Foglio’s site even mentions the
Invisible City Encounters Sprawl
Invisible City Productions has just released its forty-third free game of the month. In Sprawl, three to eight players use Icehouse pieces to simulate (in abstract strategy fashion) the process of urban growth and suburban sprawl. As always, lots of variants are included to keep things interesting for a long
Lore Gaming Returns
After disappearing for a little while, Lore Gaming, the future publisher of the Lore: Uprising, Lore: Origins and Lore: Hunters RPGs, has returned to the gaming scene. The first game, Lore: Uprising, is due out in the second quarter of 2004, and the search for beta testers in the Hampton
Human Head to preview Dracula’s Revenge
Looks like I won’t have to dig for details on Human Head Studios’ upcoming boardgame. At both GenCon and Gamefest Milwaukee, the company will be previewing Gothica: Dracula’s Revenge, a two-player game set a few years after Bram Stoker’s Dracula novel, where Dracula and his forces face off against Van
Unbidden Arrives
Politically Incorrect Games announced the release today of Unbidden, an 80-page PDF roleplaying game of “modern horror – both psychological and real.” Using a variation of the game mechanic that powers Shady Gulch and The Colonies, the new game imposes both power and madness on unique individuals, forcing them to
Diana Jones Nominees Announced
The increasingly coveted Diana Jones award will once again change hands at GenCon ’03, and the short list has been announced of who or what will be awarded the remains of a burnt game. Created in part to recognise worthy people or items in the industry missed by other awards,
Gameboard Breaks 3.5 Street Date, Makes Many Friends
ICv2 reports that Gameboard Distributors has already shipped D&D 3.5 and is selling them at Gameboard retail stores. This is despite the WotC mandated street date of July 18, and despite the fact that Gameboard is not an authorized WotC distributor. Many folks in the industry are angry at this,
Taking a Dip online has real sanction?
So I was nosing around the Avalon Hill site tonight, given the recent news, and I found this: the complete rules to Diplomacy as a PDF, from the publisher. This is pretty interesting to me, because I remember back when I was investigating the online Diplomacy scene, when physical copies
Avalon Hill dead again?
Veteran designer Greg Costikyan reports in the second-to-latest entry of his weblog that Hasbro has killed off its Avalon Hill division. I can’t find any confirmation of this, but I have heard talk of a “small box” version of Risk 2210 coming out soon… perhaps a smaller box to accommodate
Human Head Rolls Onward
Yes, the folks who created the Rune PC game are continuing their expansion into the tabletop game market (or “adventure game” market, a moniker I still find amusing), and a new website is the next logical step. As already reported, the first Human Head RPG product will be The Redhurst