When our next Audio Report goes up, you’ll hear how Wizards of the Coast’s latest product catalog is rather heavy on novels. Not to be deterred, Paizo Publishing has announced a “new line of classic science fantasy novel reprints” starting this August. Called Planet Stories, the sci-fi and fantasy line
Month: March 2007
Underestimate the pretty collectible horses at your peril
I told you not to count Hidden City Games out; they’re now the exclusive licensor outside of Scandinavia for a product called Bella Sara. What on Earth’s that, you ask? Why, it’s “an imaginative, joyful world of horses, where every girl is special and uniquely beautiful! Horse cards can be
Audio Report: Games Expo, card models, and dragon junk
The complete rundown on this year’s trade events, past and future, plus the twin announcements of what we used to sort of call “constructible strategy games” for June, are the meat of this show. Fans of Currently Playing have a ton of mini-reviews to chew on as well. Also, check
Book on best hobby games coming from Green Ronin
Now this looks to be interesting: at Gen Con ’07, Green Ronin Publishing will release Hobby Games: The 100 Best, a book of essays penned by 100 different game industry authors and designers. Each contributor has written the praises of a hobby game from the last 60 years, one that
Map of Perplex City replaced with something interesting
Curse my distributed-story-loving soul, but I am starting to get my hopes back up about Season 2 of Perplex City. The website is demonstrably worse, unless you need a constant supply of alterna-Sudoku puzzles from Japan (which I kind of do… I loves me some Ponturu), but if your local
Confidential to “Dreamblade Fan”
First, way to be on topic. Granted, that part is kind of our own fault (we’re working on a solution). But second, if “we’re not going to pay people quite as much to play our game” equals “killed off,” then the game never had much life to begin with, did
Introducing Planet Story Games
So I did this thing. I’ve long heard complaints from folks that the forums that are the epicenter of the story-gaming community are too hard to be a part of, and it wasn’t even that long ago that I felt that way myself. The weblogs and LiveJournals of the community
Transformers card-model game for summer: Wizards transforms into me-too company
I think this news might make me a little sad. Not because a Transformers CSG is something I don’t want to see in the world – I’m fine with it, I think card models that can “transform” will sometimes be pretty neat, and I am especially hoping they don’t design
Privateer makes more P3 and more card game
Despite P3 paints getting a mixed response (no pun intended), P3 will become a full hobby line this year, including brushes, other tools, and Privateer’s first standalone painting guides. Even harder to comprehend, except from a pure game-design standpoint – Matt Wilson’s minis rules have always set the hobby’s standard
Paizo collects D&D minis, game designers
Paizo is giving us more than a few reasons to scratch our chins lately, the latest of which being that they are buying up large collections of D&D Minis. Why? Doesn’t say. We know they have a big year planned, with “new and exciting products, company changes, and a late
Audio Report: DunDraCon, Goodman Games and Troll Lord
Allan’s interview with two D20 survivors – Goodman Games and Troll Lord games, respectively – is the meat of this show. We also report on DDC more generally, and threaten to talk about lots of other stuff. Get with it.
Topps sold to former Disney CEO’s consortium
Actually Eisner’s company is splitting it with some other company, and I guess I’ve just blown the only chance I’ll get for a while to use the word ‘consortia’ in a headline. What does this mean for Topps’ wholly-owned subsidiary WizKids? My guess is as good as yours, but there
BattleLore gets epic, then flexible
Okay, so, we slept on this a little – in part because the first portion, the Epic BattleLore expansion that’ll open the game up to 6 players at a time, was expected. But this Call to Arms business is entirely intriguing, offering an alternate card-based army deployment system. It’ll hit
Reaper announces pre-painted plastic figs sold non-collectibly
That little noise you just heard was the sound a tiny, faraway shark makes when D&D Minis jumps right the hell over it. Or we could be wrong, and D&D Minis could actually have a life beyond DMs who buy and trade for the figures they really want. I guess