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Thursday, May 5, 2005
Mage Knight’s latest last gasp: RPG for PCs
It turns out that Mage Knight is still good for something after all: lending its name to otherwise unrelated PC games. As the press release says (PDF warning; full text is pasted below), “Mage Knight: Apocalypse opens up the battle for the Land in completely different ways.” Whereas an actual online version of Mage Knight might actually have been helpful to players who didn’t want to deal with the ugly mess that in-person organized play became. That is, it might have if it had come out four years ago. But anyway!
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Tuesday, May 3, 2005
Kingdom of Loathing card game for Gen Con
They have no web page up for it, nor even a permalink to their news post (so we’ve quoted it after the jump), but APE Games (you know, Big Top and Anathema?) has this forum page for Dungeons of Loathing, a card game based on the Web’s #1 threat to corporate productivity, the Kingdom of Loathing RPG. Like the famed Web game on which it is based, DoL will feature original, if crude, artwork by creator Jick, and gaming satire that is actually, seriously, no-kidding funny. (And I don’t think anything is funny.) Available this fall in faithful and glorious black and white. At least I assume so.
Monday, May 2, 2005
Dark days ahead for Round Table
The next boardgame release from Days of Wonder will visit the court of King Arthur, in Shadows Over Camelot. From the preview info given thus far, it looks to be part Reiner Knizia’s Lord of the Rings (players cooperate against the game itself), part Talisman (there are seven choices of knights to play, items to gain, and health to track), and part Clue (one of the knights may be a traitor, and a hidden card reveals who it is). Days of Wonder is pulling out the stops to stir up pre-release excitement, as an eighth knight, Sir Bedivere, is the free giveaway figure from this month’s Game Trade Magazine. In all, this game looks to be another solid strategy title.
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