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• True Dungeon going big, spreading to whole Realm
• FATEsters and IPR-ists present… $3 PDFs of D&D content??
• OgreCave review - Ticket to Ride: The Card Game
• Audio Report: Ogre’s Choice 2008, and prizes!
• Audio Report: hella PAX and hella Hellas
• Feeding the Talismania
• Ticket to Ride dice expansion coming soon
• Fourth Edition GSL revision still “weeks off”
• Formula D floors it with exclusive Porsche model
• Call the Maid
• Order of the Stick rolls out rumble at Azure City
• Out of the Box back on the web
• Fantasy Flight announces price increases
• Tell-all Morocco book spills secrets at Chaosium
• Paizo to publish Book of Experimental Might compilation
• WotC titles on final approach at Game Table Online
• Monty Python Fluxx coming in October
• Gamers: Dorkness Rising arrives at long last
• Days of Wonder sells Battlelore to FFG
• More this just more even more in from Gen Con
• All we’re gonna say about the McCain thing
• Layoffs, restructuring at WotC
• More just in from Gen Con 2008
• 2008 ENnies winners announced at Gen Con Indy
• This just in from This Just In From Gen Con
• Grey Ranks and Wolfgang Baur’s Open Design project tie for Diana Jones Award
• WotC amends D&D4 GSL in soon-to-be-specified ways
• Battlestar Galactica boardgame preparing for jump to stores
• PAX East Coast officially in the works
• A passing thought about RPG systems and conversion
• Reaper puts the lead back in leads
• Audio Report: Joe Goodman on Dungeon Crawl Classics for 4E
• Gleemax is one dead-ass brain-in-a-jar
• Hârn creator passes away
• West End Games for sale, maybe
• Audio Report - 4e licensing and other ventures
• OgreCave Reviews: D&D 4e Player’s Handbook
• Rock Band 2 full track list posted
• 2008 ENnies Award nominees announced
• 2008 Diana Jones shortlist announced
• Movie preview: Hellboy II - The Golden Army
• Ticket to Ride - Nordic Countries coming in September
• Yay, we’re all insiders! Or something
• Halo boardgame planned this August
• Munchausen, Dragon Warriors to get new releases
• Mutant Chronicles CMG no longer random
• Origins Awards 2008 winners announced
• Free RPG Day 2009 announced
• Sean K. Reynolds joins Paizo
• Ticket to Ride on Xbox Live today
• Audio report - Free RPG Day 2008 is upon us!
• Audio Report - The pre-game jitters
• Today’s RPG Zen koan, with oregano on the side
• WizKids cuts everything but HeroClix and card models by year’s end?
• D&D 4e GSL surfaces
• Amber creator Erick Wujcik passes away
• Suddenly, D&D4’s launch marketing makes terrible sense
• D&D 4th Edition ships without the thing everyone thinks it is
• CCG crunch continues with a vengeance
• Catching up with Asmodeé
• Wizards to attend Gen Con Indy 2008
• Yog-Sothoth opens Casting Call of Cthulhu
• New sourcebook targeted for Delta Green
• Audio Report - Once more unto the GTS 2008
• Monte Cook to help with Pathfinder RPG
• Gen Con bankruptcy filing unearthed
• Layoffs at Upper Deck
• Fantasy Flight schedules more 2008 boardgame releases
• Audio Report - GTS, Goodman, and Paizo
• 34th Annual Origins Award nominees announced
• Roll the dice, win a lawsuit
• Seen and heard at GAMA Trade Show 2008, part 2
• Seen and heard at GAMA Trade Show 2008
• Long review, average-length Audio Report
• Because you weren’t confused enough: WotC modifies the D&D 4 license deal
• OgreCave reviews: Battue, MagnetX, Marvel Heroscape
• Traveller previews done, game imminent
• April Fool’s Day at Wizards
• Decipher plans viral CCG launch, shared profits for fans
• Upper Deck bringing WoW Minis promo to GTS
• Paizo using Pathfinder RPG to stick with 3.5
• Audio Report - Them’s heretical words!
• Audio Report - Back in the saddle again
• Free Ingenious for PCs, today only
• White Wolf wants you to trade up
• Gary Gygax dead at 69
• BTRC peddles disease with updated wargame
• Remember, kids, stealing genes doesn’t make you cool
• Doors opening to more Portal goodness
• FFG licenses Black Industries and Sabertooth stuff, and more
• Hidden City hidden up Gen Con’s… website?
• Hero announces 6th Ed in 09, Champions MMORPG?
• Seriously, what the hell is up with Gen Con LLC
• FFG takes two CCGs to potentially interesting fixed-set model
• LucasFilm sues Gen Con LLC over charity auction of Star Wars memorabilia
• New sources of enlightenment for spendthrifts: Push and Second Person essays online
• World of Warcraft Minis Game, because Blizzard can’t allow a licensed-product gap with Halo
• 2nd Dark Heresy printing rumored coming soon; next Warlord CCG printing confirmed coming from Germany
• Judges Guild founder struggling with cancer
• Board Game Geek now geekier, so you don’t have to be
• First Warhammer 40K RPG sells out preorders, taps out its own publisher
• LEGO turns 50, rapidly realizing own hipness
• D&D Minis updated for 4e compatibility, rulebook now online
• True20 goes free, FATE still standing there clearing its throat loudly
• More OGL follies in the run-up to D&D 4th Edition
• Hasbro pays $77MM for Cranium
• Audio Report - Trends and microclimates
• 2007 OgreCave Christmas Gift Guide - pt 4
• Amber & Palladium TMNT designer Erick Wujcik terminally ill
• 2007 OgreCave Christmas Gift Guide - pt 3
• Peter Jackson to Ring in two Hobbit films
• Gameplaywright: shall Wii play an RPG?
• 2007 OgreCave Christmas Gift Guide - pt 2
• Weisman gets new gig infiltrating physical world with old-timey modern-fantasy mecha
• New reviews from the Cave
• Something of WotC’s probably headed for Xbox Live Arcade, who knows what
• Dr Who RPG announced at Dragonmeet
• 2007 OgreCave Christmas Gift Guide - pt 1
• Audio Report - Serving up hate with gravy
• State of the Mongoose ‘07: aggressive and hungry
• Ready… set… buy gifts!
• Raw Deal CCG calls it quits
• D&D senior brand manager confirms: no D20 License for D&D 4
• GAMES 100, give or take a few - Pillars of the Earth is Game of the Year
• Bella Sara, Adkison in New York Times
• Audio Report - Uneasy about the approach
• Privateer to enter collectible market
• Top 6 inches of Gleemax alpha front page look really great
• Audio Report: Xcrawl Fiction Contest is go
• Serenity keeps flying at MWP in 2008
• James Wallis getting ARGy with Perplex City creator
• Robotech RPG returns to Palladium
• Audio Report - Coming down after con season
• The magic is in the hole: Project Donut semi-unveiled
• New Crossbows & Catapults: The art of flinging battle carroms
• Want a peek of the Gleemax online board gaming? Maybe you’ve already had it
• I’m in ur Magic, walkin ur planez: crazy new upcoming card type merits a look
• Rackham files for fancy European bankruptcy
• When nerd cultures collide, the winner is you
• Gygax and monkeys, sort of
• InQuest Gamer ceasing
• Upper Deck bails out of Topps bid
• So, uh… did anything else happen at Gen Con?
• Mixed messages, man… that’s what got us in trouble in the first place
• ENnie Awards doled out at Gen Con 2007
• Audio Report - 2007 Ogre’s Choice Awards
• WotC’s series of tubes still clogged 14 hours later; video trickles out
• WotC posts mysterious page starting with ‘4′
• Pendragon Campaign wins Diana Jones Award
• Halo ActionClix ties into videogame preorders
• Cthulhu dice coming from Q-workshop
• Paizo blazes a trail to Pathfinder
• Mongoose to publish Traveller
• BSG RPG, Dragonlance trailer at GenCon ‘07
• Taste the fearsome beak of critical standards!
• Halo miniatures big as housepets
• Audio Report - Conventions, awards, and sundry
• Free RPG Day 2008 announced, expanded
• 2007 ENnie Awards voting open
• Origins Awards happen
• Audio Report: Roleplay free or die
• Diana Jones Award shortlist announced
• Audio Report: when two wizzes go to war
• Reviews
• OgreCave review: Critical Hit Deck
• Audio Report: we still do that
• ‘Tis Free RPG Day
• Role-Playing Games
• GameMastery Critical Hit Deck
• Paizo’s Stonehenge begins world takeover
• WizKids releases Star Wars PocketModel TCG
• True Dungeon gets yet more competition: get your Aliens on at Origins
• Hail Gleemax! WotC creates marketing initiative that actually makes some sense
• Attention motorists: Perplex City is closed
• A brief technical note
• Miniatures download with crunch
• Magnamund tourist season nearly open again
• Spiel des Jahres nominees for 2007 announced
• Star Wars PocketModel CCG rules are online: definitely the most 3D card game ever, or something
• WotC games patents, patents game
• It’s neuron-donation time again: do your part for meaningful data in the tabletop games industry
• Goodman Games gets Wicked
• Audio Report: one GTS 2007 wrapup, partial
• Origins Awards nominees announced for 2007
• GTS: A report from the floor
• Select droplets from the GTS news trickle
• Fantasy Flight announces 2007 releases at GTS
• Dragonlance license not renewed to Margaret Weis Productions
• Green Ronin takes over A Song Of Ice And Fire RPG duties
• Audio Report: we have explosive!
• Dragon and Dungeon Magazines will return to Wizards, go electronic only
• They also announced Rocketmen! (sound of crickets)
• Talisman making the leap to consoles, PC
• True Dungeon info for 2007
• Games Quarterly sold, MSM shuts down
• Uncivilized goblins attack in May; Knizia on Nintendo DS in the fall?
• Paizo to launch line of novels
• Underestimate the pretty collectible horses at your peril
• Audio Report: Games Expo, card models, and dragon junk
• Book on best hobby games coming from Green Ronin
• Map of Perplex City replaced with something interesting
• Confidential to “Dreamblade Fan”
• Introducing Planet Story Games
• Transformers card-model game for summer: Wizards transforms into me-too company
• Privateer makes more P3 and more card game
• Paizo collects D&D minis, game designers
• Audio Report: DunDraCon, Goodman Games and Troll Lord
• Topps sold to former Disney CEO’s consortium
• BattleLore gets epic, then flexible
• Reaper announces pre-painted plastic figs sold non-collectibly
• Audio Report: live in person! On tape!
• Monte Cook’s other final project
• Perplex City season 1 really, really over
• Today’s free expensive idea
• “Building Innovative Games That Sell:” what a concept!
• And a Star Wars starship CSG, too
• Halo ActionClix announced for fall
• End of a moderately attended era: SoCal is no more
• WTFFF?
• Audio Report: put a bow on Christmas and send it away
• Torchlight Gamebooks Unveiled — Free!
• Please stand by…
• RPGNow/RPGShop hacked, customer info obtained
• OgreCave’s Christmas Gift Guide 2006, part 4
• Margaret Weis to launch Battlestar Galactica RPG
• OgreCave’s Christmas Gift Guide 2006, part 3
• Let the BattleLore modding begin!
• OgreCave’s Christmas Gift Guide 2006, part 2
• Nothing’s as Christmasey as biting the heads off Meeples
• This is not a drill: Monte Cook’s World of Darkness announced
• Mongoose looks ahead to 2007
• OgreCave’s Christmas Gift Guide 2006, part 1
• For Christmas, reenact scenes from The Godfather
• Audio Report: go forth and buy things with your dollars
• Audio Report: wow, someone bought a CCG
• Gaming Report purchased by Scrye
• Outsourcing your minis-painting to Asia isn’t just for the big boys anymore
• What do you get a Great Old One for its anniversary?
• White Wolf merges with EVE Online publisher
• What happens when people stop being polite and start making up Magic cards
• Games Workshop shuts down forums
• Audio Report: the SoCal run-up begins
• RPGNow and DriveThruRPG merge
• Mixing it up at Kuma Pageworks
• Hellboy lends his oversized hand to HorrorClix
• Audio Report: BattleLore! Top fives! Thunder Road!
• From the RPG-PC-tools desk, something that might not suck
• Dungeons & Dragons Online wins British award
• Bastion Games calls it quits, hands off titles
• GPA elects 2006-2007 Board
• A tricorn of news items about Pirates
• Audio Report: and so begins the post-Gen Con hangover
• Actual information alert: GAMA/Wargamer/OSU survey results
• Happy Roll Like A Pirate Day
• Gamers online go freakin’ nuts for BattleLore
• WizKids shuffles product releases
• Audio report: coming down from Gen Con ‘06
• OMG Wizards pre-announces Mike’s dream game
• Audio Report: three story gaming interviews from Gen Con, with odd introductions
• Settlers, Carcassonne, other board games head for Xbox Live Arcade
• OgreCave review: Faery’s Tale
• A step beyond making scene selections
• Perplex City board game in September
• “License” no allowed word in Og
• The only thing cooler than a helicopter is two helicopters: Perplex City in San Francisco
• ENnies Award 2006 winners announced
• Live from Gen Con 06: yes, I can write about things besides story games
• OgreCave review: Grand Tribunal
• Tenacious preview of The Spoils at Gen Con Indy
• WizKids brings in Mike Elliott as Senior Designer
• WizKids announces Pirates Online
• Live from Gen Con 06: home of Elvis and the ancient Greeks
• Live from Gen Con 06: let the wild rumpus stop
• Live from Gen Con 06: Diana Jones likes Irish charity
• Next year’s Gen Con to try to be E3, kind of
• A new age of RuneQuest
• Audio Report: the big con big pre-show
• World of Warcraft TCG will be along shortly
• A long-awaited new example of the genericization of Magic
• Guardians of Order’s last words
• Confirming the already-obvious death throes
• Audio Report: the glitzy Ogre’s Choice ceremony
• Announcing the winners of the 2006 Ogre’s Choice Awards
• Audio Report: if you squint it looks like someone announced a product
• Eagle Games for sale. All of it.
• Bleat helplessly in the presence of your masters!
• Spiel des Jahres 06: Thurn und Taxis
• Audio Report: post-everything, pre-everything else
• Stick-y adventure game arriving at Gen Con
• ENnies nominees announced
• Audio Report: three short podcasts from Origins
• Origins 2006 Live: crawling from the wreckage
• 2005 Origins Award winners announced
• Origins 2006 Live: don’t follow the corsets
• Origins 2006 Live: vicious because the stakes are so small
• Origins 2006 Live: who goes to that show? We do.
• Audio Report: the death of the grown-up CCG
• Future of Futurama looking up
• Weisman indeed ousted as WizKids CEO
• Volity: digital games for analog people
• Audio Report: KublaCon and the business of cons
• WizKids forced to reorganize
• Perplex City event announced, perplexingly scheduled
• Audio Report: feel the hate flowing through you!
• True Dungeon sells out at Gen Con 2006
• Audio Report: her first name ain’t baby, it’s Diana, Ms. Jones if you’re nasty
• D&D Miniatures promo dragon at Paizo
• Origins Gamer’s Choice voting is open
• 2006 Spiel des Jahres priestrager auf Deutsch!!! Uh, nominees! Ja!
• Rio Grande Busy as Ever
• Hecatomb’s “endbringers” have officially done their job
• Audio Report: blue light nostalgia special
• Pirates gets all Nemo on your ass
• Aliens vs. Predator confirmed for HorrorClix
• WizKids announces followup to Tsuro
• Star Wars Starship Battles announced for November
• Audio Report: roleplaying-o-rama
• World of Warcraft movie deal announced, Halo 3 impending
• OSU, GAMA and the Wargamer want to ask you some questions
• Keith Baker to work with D&D Online
• Goodman releases more Battle Tiles
• Audio Report: awards, awards, awards
• Audio Report: James Szubski of WizKids
• Palladium embezzlement fire sale is go
• The awesomest new-style RPG you can learn in 90 seconds
• Audio Report: GTS wrap-up, finally
• GAMA versus Television. And… fight!
• True Dungeon truths for ‘06
• Foolery round-up 2006
• New-style roleplaying in 30 seconds
• Mutant Chronicles movie developments
• Star Chamber’s new version shiny, possibly jangly as well
• Audio Report: Chris Pramas of Green Ronin Publishing
• Dennis Mize passes at 49
• Call for True Dungeon volunteers
• Halo graphic novel announced
• I’d like to Swap for my time back
• GTS 2007 at new date and location
• More scattered announcements from GTS
• Rumored WizKids Clix announcement tonight at GTS
• Audio Report: from DDC to GTS
• The Dreamblade dinner, or: when retailers attack!
• Audio Report: DunDraCon 2006
• Secrets of Kenya overview posted
• Audio Report: Aldo Ghiozzi of Wingnut and Impressions Advertising & Marketing
• And now a classified ad
• D&D Minis ‘06: Hugeness confirmed
• Audio Report: return with us to the thrilling days of yesterweek
• Heroscape castles sighted. Wallets at the ready…
• 10 Days in Africa arrives at GameTable Online
• Whispers of WotC’s surprise game announcement
• Out Of The Box distributes Rio Grande, or something
• Paizo prepping Ptolus minis
• Avalon Hill preparing another course of Garfield
• Audio Report: all cons, most of the time
• Classic BattleTech relaunches for Gen Con
• Audio Report: we fear the new year
• WizKids announces HorrorClix for Gen Con
• “Great” news about Colossal Red Dragon
• Never mind the sudoku, here’s Perplex City
• Hasbro merges toy and game departments, eliminates pres-of-games position
• Audio Report: everything is fundable, in its own way
• Asmodee announces Mission: Red Planet
• Godlike print copies go fan-funded
• Audio Report: 2005 Recap
• Licensed product brings enormous company low; also, dog bites man
• Battle Of The Board Game Design Stars!
• The characters prep the game
• Special delivery at Goodman Games
• Audio Report: Brian Isikoff of QuestWorlds
• Just forget I said the W word
• Designing for the party
• OgreCave Christmas Gift Guide 2005, part 4
• Spycraft 2.0 plans revealed
• Actual Play, or: Primetime Adventures Playtest Report
• Etherscope shipping, free character sheet download
• A glimpse behind the scenes at OgreCave
• OgreCave Christmas Gift Guide 2005, part 3
• Especially good if you are a smoker or play outdoors in fog
• Audio Report: ’tis the season to listen to us talk
• OgreCave Christmas Gift Guide, part 2
• Wizards Makes Staff Changes With Incredible Amount of Corporate Doublespeak
• OgreCave videos: Tidbits from GenCon SoCal ‘05
• Audio Report: SoCal 05 and True Dungeon in depth
• Finally, something that Dwarven Forge compares favorably with on price
• So the Forge DID explain what they hell they were talking about!
• OgreCave, your source for celebrity news
• Pinnacle to create WizKids RPGs
• OgreCave Christmas Gift Guide 2005, part 1
• Deryni Adventure Game shipping
• The only thing scarier would be a used car salesman
• Gen Con SoCal ‘05 attendance numbers up 12%
• Race Day and High Stakes Drifter hit stores
• Live at GenCon SoCal ‘05: Best non-miniatures minis wargame
• Audio Report: oh, oh, oh, it’s magic
• News from the (somewhat shrunken) floor of Gen Con SoCal
• More proof that D&D3 is too complex
• Dead of Night sees light of day
• Tabletop RPG theory for the casually curious
• Audio Report from an undisclosed location
• AEG spins off Spycraft
• New GAMES 100 out, Australia is Game of the Year
• There’s no need to fear, Underdark is almost here
• Audio Report: special guest Clinton R. Nixon
• Etherscope previewed at Goodman website
• Keith Parkinson dies at 47
• Pirates of the Barbary Coast streets - er, sails
• Audio Report: action and drama
• AEG announces layoffs
• WizKids takes another crack at CMGs for the kids
• Audio Report: cons, RPGs, healthy antics
• New RuneQuest confirmed to be Open system
• Snow Comes Early at Invisible City
• Worldwide D&D Game Day on November 5th
• Racer Knights of Falconus video shows cars, small dice, strange woodchips
• Essen 05 travelogues begin slightly bothering me
• Today’s completely random web game find
• News flash: gaming trade show plagued by non-professionals and swag hoarders
• Tiny drow poison the minds of WotC
• Decipher moves remaining RPG releases to PDF
• No Audio Report this week
• Shadowrun 4th: slight delay
• Audio Report: crisp, clean, and advanced
• Order of the Stick allies with Paizo, Dragon Magazine
• Twilight Creations announces they’ve a-sploded my brain
• Audio Report: better late than sparkly-sounding
• In startling and innovative move, WotC announces big dragons for D&D Minis
• Head for the shelters: D&D movie sequel arrives Oct 8th
• OgreCave reviews: Westbrook and Stars
• OgreCave Audio: distorting time and decency
• Urge to Let’s Kill rising
• What the World Series of Poker needs is more critical hits
• Possibly the best title since The Penguin Ultimatum…
• Patiently awaiting Serenity
• Vegas Showdown details emerge
• Gen Con Indy now probably Gen Con… um… somewhere
• Banestorm weather forecast at SJ Games
• He’s played Tactics II? SEIZE HIM!
• Invisible City Offers Full Scholarship to Magic School
• Audio Report: slowly driving a stake into the heart of GenCon
• GenCon 05 aftermath: return of the Audio Report
• I am a rocker, I rock out
• GenCon 05 aftermath: the smallest game at the show
• Halo movie plans confirmed
• GenCon ‘05 aftermath: WotC & Upper Deck pre-game shows
• GenCon ‘05 aftermath: Travel the world to meet NPCs and kill them
• GenCon ‘05 aftermath: oh em gee, a playtest
• Live at GenCon ‘05: Dungeons and Dragons Online Demo
• 2005 ENnies winners announced
• Live at GenCon ‘05: Jason Mical of WizKids
• D&D Minis news trickling out of Indy
• Live and mostly conscious from Gen Con Indy 05
• Live at GenCon ‘05: Privateer Press Announcement
• Live at GenCon ‘05: Ryan Miller on Hecatomb
• Live at GenCon ‘05: Things I saw today that I didn’t wave a microphone at
• Live at GenCon ‘05: Peter Adkison Speaks
• Live at GenCon ‘05: A Tour of the Forge, and other things
• WizKids to publish Battlestar Galactica CCG
• Delta Green on the distributed-patronage tip
• World of Warcraft CCG rights go to Upper Deck
• Live from GenCon ‘05: Jesper Myrfors and Peter Adkison on Clout Fantasy
• Live at GenCon ‘05: Welcome to Indy
• Live at GenCon ‘05: Ticket to Ride wins Diana Jones Award
• Hecatomb First Look
• That board game WizKids was going to do
• Another blow struck in struggle to separate RPG design from publishing
• James Ernest and Mike Selinker choose interesting name for new high-end publisher
• Rocketmen First Look
• Ravenloft and Gamma World go back to WotC
• The other shoe gets deciphered
• Where’s this week’s Audio Report?
• Draw more cards, Citizen
• How Neverwinter Nights fought its own mission statement
• And then Mattel got into it: Hot Wheels CCG
• Sabertooth announces Penny Arcade CCG, geek culture implodes under own weight of self-reference
• OgreCave Audio: Games Expo, Games Workshop, games-tastic!
• Diana Jones rushes in breathlessly
• Tomorrow Knights RPG, today
• Warmachine: The Card Game (note: lies)
• Introducing the OgreCave Audio Report
• Games Expo 2007: beginning of the end of GTS?
• Computer-based paper magazine on computer-based paper games
• Any excuse for a haiku contest is a good one
• Chris Pramas on WFRP sales and the industry’s info-poverty
• D&D Minis - Angelfire: First look
• Confrontation publishers plan pre-painted, non-collectible mech game for ‘06
• Etherscope coming from Sword & Sorcery and Goodman
• Feel the Twonky flowing through you
• ENnies 2005 nominees announced, voting open
• Race Day CSG: NASCAR connection is official
• Rumors of WizKids’ next CSG release
• Rio Grande Update
• Invisible City Offers Two for the Price of None
• WizKids announces their first CCG
• Transformers movie release date announced
• In praise of tiltyblocks!
• Industry pros on RuneQuest, Mongoose, D20 and more
• SJ Games’ Scott Haring in car accident
• Mongoose announces new RuneQuest
• 2005 Origins Award winners posted
• Axis & Allies Miniatures pics, gameplay
• Origins photos and board game news
• Dear Internet, you’re fired
• Skotos ships Lovecraft Country
• WizKids offers treasure to avid captains
• Niagara wins this year’s Spiel des Jahres
• Free Fun from Invisible City
• Project Aon Pleases Lone Wolf Fans, Depresses eBayers
• A Star Wars miniature that is big
• Doom boardgame expansion packs loads of minis, Descent compatibility
• Arkham Horror loose, roaming, probably drooling
• Because bangin’ and gangsta rap resonate with so many gamers
• Next two Avalon Hill ship dates have slipped
• Origins Awards ceremony isn’t one
• Hasbro buys back digital rights
• Oh, good freakin’ God: White Wolf announces CSG
• CCG mounts epic battle between business plan and reality
• Dungeon Master’s Guide II scores critical sales
• AH lifts curtain on Nexus Ops
• Let’s Kill again, like we did last summer
• Topps bringing “Yo Mama” to Blockbuster first
• Avalon Hill alludes slyly to more wargames in future
• Mythic licenses Warhammer for MMORPGs
• Steal this developer’s journal: details on Thieves’ World
• Decipher kills two games, deep-freezes WARS until Hollywood calls
• New Torg interim edition as PDF; Sven won’t sleep for days
• Spiel des Jahres nominees announced
• Avalon Hill announces Axis & Allies Miniatures for Gen Con
• Mage Knight’s latest last gasp: RPG for PCs
• Kingdom of Loathing card game for Gen Con
• Dark days ahead for Round Table
• OgreCave reviews: Sword & Skull
• Firefly RPG based on Serenity confirmed
• OgreCave reviews: Idylls of the Rat King
• We’re gonna need a lot more black cloth
• Ronin Arts’ Superline now in super format
• Kevin Wilson’s gonna sing the Doom song now
• Original Arkham Horror expansion rises again
• Cartoon Action Hour story
• That hobby with the dungeons and stuff
• Please don’t eat the settlements
• Mongoose sends boxes of ugly bugs into distribution
• OgreCave reviews: Yog-Sothoth and an Exosuit
• From the “slight change of pace” department…
• WalMart uses miniatures to make more retailer friends
• Green Ronin turns five
• OgreCave reviews: Solid! and Kung Fu Samurai
• Amazon ventures into print-on-demand
• Hecatomb site (and logotype) rapidly improving
• OgreCave reviews: Cthulhu Dark Ages & One False Step
• Sword and Skull Playtest Report, plus sort of some news
• D&D RTS for PCs, OMG WTF
• GOTHIKA: Invisible Expansion Set - no, I didn’t typo that
• Deathknell heard, loud & clear
• Privateer on business, book pricing, time, and money
• A word of advice for PDF publishers
• Freebie Update
• Hecatomb card art and gameplay photos… um… that will chill you to your very soul. Yeah.
• Toys ‘R’ Us sold to investment group, likely to be dismantled
• Gygax to brave northern wilds. Blame Canada
• More GTS ‘05 tidbits: rumors, supplements, and prototypes
• WARMACHINE builds in new outlet for emissions
• Paizo readies meals in a box for GMs
• GTS 05 press wrapup, in which I remember to start putting the year in the post title
• GTS press wrapup, in which WizKids does not piss me off (much)
• Um… Origins Awards nominees?
• Before you die, you see the pentagon
• GTS press wrapup, part deux
• FFG at GTS: perfecting the art of breeding larger and larger boxes
• WotC maybe sort of announces Narnia tie-in CCG
• GTS press wrap-up, part the first
• Eden announces tabletop RPG based on City of Heroes
• Marvel’s case against City of Heroes falling apart
• It’s not the size, it’s how you delve it
• Rio Grande Sells Smallest Continent
• There’s a monster in the Flash, and it does a modern dance
• DragonMech: Second Age preview online
• Equip your GM for GM’s Day
• From the “abandonware isn’t just for PCs anymore” desk
• Issaries’ next order: one HeroQuest, hold the Glorantha
• WotC senior designer on why books are not great sometimes
• Invisible City Plays Hide and Seek
• Between the headgear and the rotting tongue, “arrr!” just comes out sounding like a broken telephone
• OgreCave reviews: Argonauts and Campers
• AEG loses Stargate license
• Tom Jolly’s Camelot rules up for Valentine’s Day
• Slaying enemies is hard! Let’s go shopping!
• U.S.A.! U.S.A! Arrr! Arrr!
• Hero emphasizes direct sales; retailers emphasize unhappiness
• Arkham Horror details loose at Yog-Sothoth
• The grotesquely enormous hand of Chewbacca presents: ATTACKTIX!!
• Duel Masters Trade Day: Beefy card swapping
• WizKids announces standalone family game - no, seriously this time
• Great pics of Monsters Menace America
• New Arborell Gamebook Arrives
• Rio Grande Begins the New Year
• The fine line between stupid and awesome has just been erased for good
• CyborGladiators built for speed
• Avalon Hill gets +5, trample
• Shut your mouth! Just talkin’ ’bout Solid!
• Invisible City Finds Dinosaurs, Explodes
• Mike’s self-important year-end editorial: Do Market Research Or Die
• Necromancer goes with Kenzer, stays with Sword & Sorcery
• Firefly wants haikus (gesundheit)
• Guardians calls for order
• Because kids aren’t fleeing the CCG trend fast enough
• OgreCave columns: Getting things started
• Merry Christmas! Ronin Arts for everybody!
• OgreCave Christmas Gift Guide 2004 - part 4
• Ghettopoly set to be destroyed; to be replaced with Stadiumopoly in urban-renewal program
• OgreCave Christmas Gift Guide 2004 - part three
• German newspaper on German games in America
• OgreCave Christmas Gift Guide 2004 - part two
• When Greg Costikyan talks, ogres listen
• OgreCave review: A Kringle in Time
• This must be some kind of sign of the Geekpocalypse
• Avalon Hill opens up and says arrrrrrr
• OgreCave’s Christmas Gift Guide 2004
• Gen Con SoCal ‘04: Some Last Notes From the Exhibition Floor.
• Deathknell getting louder
• From the “whittling away at RPGers’ mule-like resistance to online play” desk
• Rio Grande Holiday Update
• Multi-eyed orb lurks at Gen Con SoCal
• Gen Con SoCal ‘04: Day 3 - Bits and Pieces
• Gen Con SoCal ‘04: My Afternoon with Behemoth3
• Gen Con SoCal ‘04: Day 2 - Dead Gentlemen
• WizKids announces how they will make cons suck in 2005
• Gen Con SoCal ‘04: More News From the Exhibition Floor [ Lots of Images ]
• OgreCave reviews: David & Goliath
• Gen Con SoCal ‘04: Is That…New?
• Gen Con SoCal ‘04: Day 0
• A Game of Thrones RPG Limited Edition in preorder