Rio Grande Games has just posted their first newsletter of 2005. Rather surprisingly, yet another Carcassonne expansion is on the way, this time with a fantasy theme. Carcassonne: The Princess and the Dragon is due out in March. I don’t know about anyone else, but even though this is one
Month: January 2005
The fine line between stupid and awesome has just been erased for good
“Topps has scheduled The Dozens, the collectible card game created by the Wayans brothers and based on the ancestor-insulting contests popular in urban neighborhoods, for late April or early May.”
CyborGladiators built for speed
The folks at Firefly Games want to bring more warriors into the fold, so they’ve made FastPlay rules for CyborGladiators freely available for download. The “futuristic arena mayhem” game’s FastPlay version comes with four pre-made cyborg warriors and an arena to slaughter them in. Naturally, the full version of CyborGladiators
Avalon Hill gets +5, trample
Yeah, that joke really doesn’t make sense, but, I mean, that’s a lot of stuff. I know it probably just means half of it will get postponed or killed, but still, this is kind of thrilling. A reprint of RoboRally is in fact on the schedule for an Origins-ish timeframe
Shut your mouth! Just talkin’ ’bout Solid!
After non-paying creditors caused OtherWorld Creations to announce the halt of production on nearly all products, a partnership with Wingnut Games has allowed the much-anticipated Solid! to approach completion. Using d20 Modern rules, Solid!: The D20 Blaxploitation Experience “allows players to experience the soul, power, and action of the movies
Invisible City Finds Dinosaurs, Explodes
It’s been a few months since I’ve posted an Invisible City update, but that hasn’t deterred them from producing several new free games in the meantime. If you need something new to do with your Icehouse set, be sure to check out SpellCycles, a strategic pattern-making game, or the more
Mike’s self-important year-end editorial: Do Market Research Or Die
Okay. We all know about the highest-profile product-launch disaster of the year. Let’s talk briefly about another launch, that of the Call of Cthulhu CCG. It went well, right? Sure it did. Well, except for that month or so when it wasn’t so easy for retailers to get starter decks.
Necromancer goes with Kenzer, stays with Sword & Sorcery
The march toward separation of development and publishing continues. Necro is apparently quite happy with S&S, but will be moving several of what look to be single adventures through Kenzer & Company beginning in June. I hope the industry fosters more of this kind of in-(or at least inter-)dependence.
Firefly wants haikus (gesundheit)
The fine folks at Firefly Games, publishers of the not-so-miniature combat game Monster Island, have a new contest. The person who submits the best haiku (monster themed, of course) will be rewarded with a free 30-day membership in Firefly’s new fan club, and the haiku will be published in a
Guardians calls for order
LiveJournal posts and RPGnet threads aside, the fact remains that Canadian RPG company has had a rough time of late. Rumors have circulated that GoO was closing its doors, or had laid off its entire staff to become a struggling company of one member. Though the company has suffered considerable