The new GAMA Board of Directors has hit rough waters already, after being appointed a month ago, and has lost two members. According to the press release sent yesterday (see below), Ryan Dancey has resigned as Treasurer of GAMA after revealing that he had been reading private emails from the
Month: July 2004
Pokémon gets up on soapbox
Seems like companies are all searching for that elusive advertising venue these days, that crowd of potential customers that haven’t yet realized how badly they need to purchase games and toys. Or maybe I’m just hearing about the various promotional experiments more often, and they were happening all along. Most
The corpse of Twonky rises to feast on the flesh of its enemies
I just keep findin’ em! (Confession: – found via .) RoboTournament is a cross-platform, networkable near-clone of RoboRally. The changes are improvements, in my view; at least they’re improvements for the online domain. For one, I very much like that the default mode is Deathmatch – Rally was never the
WizKids’ Pirates hit the streets, search for rum
Today’s the street date for WizKids‘ latest innovation, Pirates of the Spanish Main, designed primarily by Mike Selinker and James Ernest. I’ve managed to get my hands on some packs of the game, and yes, every $3.99 pack has at least two ships, some crew members, treasure, an island, and
A board game design convention only two blue cards away
This past weekend the first annual Pow Wow conference was held in Charlottesville, Virginia. Like its predecessor Protospiel, the idea was to get together a group of German-style board game designers and have them play each other’s prototype games. Each game is then work-shopped, offering suggestions on what works, what
Extended Return of the King scenes online
For you Peter Jackson/Tolkien fans out there, this site has footage of the extra Return of the King scenes from this December’s upcoming extended edition previewed at San Diego Comic Con this past weekend. Apparently, the Voice of Sauron appears briefly, and a good time is had by all. Follow
Steal a gene, go to jail: it’s the law
If there is only one of you, according to the most careful accounting you have available, you can play Space Hulk second edition rules on Windows.
Rumors of John Wick’s death are greatly exaggerated
Hey, so look who shows up all of a sudden! Enemy Gods is the new style being rocked by the famed L5R and Orkworld author, who has a new publishing house and domain name, apparently co-owned by the author of the praised indie game InSpectres. Enemy Gods looks like it’s
The kimono finally lifts on Doom board game
This interview with FFG’s Kevin Wilson over at one o’ them video-game sites reveals that, no, Doom: the Boardgame will not in fact be much like Frag. He describes it as “a cross between Heroquest and Space Hulk.” Not only will play be scenario-based like the WarCraft board game, but
Paranoia XP cover posted
According to the development blog as well as the visual evidence, the cover artist of the original Paranoia is back and apparently in fine form. Whether the book is going to be at Gen Con Indy is a matter of crossing one’s fingers at this point (and we don’t mean
When the time limit expires, a giant sneaker fills the screen
So, while I’m thinking about virtual CCGs that cross card gaming with established computer-gaming genres: Magnant is a real-time strategy game driven by card play. The CCG haters among you will be happy to know that any and all actual trading is not implemented yet. The geeks among you might
Werewolf relaunch delayed to February
Originally planned for a November release, White Wolf‘s Werewolf relaunch, Werewolf: The Forsaken, is now scheduled to arrive in February ’05. Why the delay? According to Ken Cliffe, White Wolf’s Vice President of Editing and Development, “All of us have been working flat-out on Vampire, and it became clear to
Cue the Odd Couple theme: Palladium Books and Nokia share presence at Gen Con
Now this is just weird: Palladium will be sharing their Gen Con booth with Nokia – yes, the Finnish cell phone empire and makers of the thus-far lackluster game deck N-Gage. The form-factor problems with the N-Gage have been at least partially solved, but the bigger problem was a games
Essen 04: if I can make it there, I’ll make it anywhere
GameFest has an Essen ’04 preview that is mostly kind of perplexing. It’s meant to collect all the details for all the pre-announcements of board and card games coming out this year at Germany’s preeminent game fair, but sometimes the details are pretty sketchy. Some highlights: a European-map version of
But running them down in a burnt-out Hummer is no challenge!
Phil Reed, who among his other fine qualities has the distinction of being the very first financial contributor to OgreCave (he gave us a dollar!), has released a new PDF RPG called MotoCaust. I was disappointed to learn that it has little to do with motocross, the retro sport of