Alien Menace, the company known for producing cheap, humorous games and for giving a wider aucience to Mythrole Games‘ titles, has announced plans for a revised, expanded edition of Sucking Vacuum, the company’s Origins Award nominated board game. Called Ultimate Sucking Vacuum, the revised game will be a boxed product,
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Archfiends miniatures gallery up at Wizards
Though the images have been floating around the web for a couple of weeks already, Wizards of the Coast has put up an official figure gallery for the entire Archfiends Expansion of D&D Miniatures. They’ve also done a close-up preview of some figs from all four alignment factions, most recently
Atlas directs you to Northern Crown
Over at the Atlas Games Dispatch page, Northern Crown: New World Adventures is mentioned. Just as Nyambe took d20 to Africa, Northern Crown will take d20 to colonial North America. An entire campaign setting, Northern Crown is still in early development, but will certainly contain witches, wendigo, and other weirdness
Risk Godstorm arrives in July
Ever since seeing the game in a case at Gen Con SoCal, I’ve been curious about WotC’s impending board game release, Risk: Godstorm. Today’s press release (below) adds fuel to my curiosity. Players seem to take on the role of one of four ancient civilizations, and start conquering the world
WizKids wants your opinion
WizKids has a customer survey they want you and all your buddies to fill out. To compensate you for your time in answering the questions, you’ll be entered in a drawing that could result in a HeroClix Galactus figure, a MechWarrior: Dark Ages DropShip, all four of the Mage Knight
Great Old Ones bring new meaning to "death race"
According to Yog-Sothoth, Fantasy Flight isn’t the only company planning a Cthulhu card game this summer. Atlas Games has announced plans to release Cthulhu 500, which is just what it sounds like: a Cthulhu racing game. The game will be released as a two-deck package for $19.95, and should be
OgreCave review: Slayer’s Guide to Elementals
To start the week off right, Joe’s provided us with his thoughts on The Slayer’s Guide to Elementals by Mongoose Publishing. Did he give a yea or a nay to this d20 book of combative natural resources? Find out for yourself.
Return of the King wins Best Movie, ten others
In case you missed it, there are now eleven more reasons for New Line to make The Hobbit. Only Titanic and Ben Hur won as many Oscars in a single year as The Return of the King just did. Now if only Decipher would keep publishing the dozen or so
D&D Minis go Huge in June
The price increase on Expansion Packs of D&D Miniatures didn’t come to pass, thankfully. At least, not yet. The Archfiends set releasing next month will still carry the MSRP of $9.99 per box, but the price will go up with the Giants of Legends set in June. Perhaps in an
MLB SportsClix hits stores
The much-hyped MLB SportsClix becomes available today, and begins its true test to see how well it can sell. While the baseball miniatures’ stats are based directly on the previous MLB season’s official stats for each player, I haven’t found many HeroClix or Mage Knight fans that are anxious to
Ogres in Love contest winner
It took a while of debating, but we’ve finally selected the winner of our Ogres in Love contest, David Vega. We’ve selected several other entries that were in the running for the best submission, and posted them along with David’s prize-winning poem of an Ogre’s Valentine’s Day (a disturbing prospect
Green Ronin to publish for Human Head
Green Ronin Publishing and Human Head Studios have partnered up. Starting now, all Human Head tabletop game products will be published by Green Ronin. First up will indeed be Dracula’s Revenge, designed by Matt Forbeck, Director of Human Head’s Adventure Games Division.
Last dance, last chance for love
You’ve only got until tonight at 12 midnight PST to enter our OgreCave Ogres in Love contest. It’s an easy one: just come up with a few sentences describing an ogre’s Valentine’s Day, and you could win a copy of this month’s new Mongoose Publishing release, The Slayer’s Guide to
Cargo arriving at DunDraCon
Some of you may understand that title, others not, so let me elaborate: Tom Jolly’s Cargo, the new strategy boardgame from Wingnut Games, will be available for the first time at DunDraCon this weekend. The neat little game of shoving crates of tea around the docks at the Boston Tea
WotC plans for D&D 30th anniversary
Wizards of the Coast has revealed more details about their celebratory events around the thirtieth anniversary of D&D. The coffeetable book, with as-yet-unnamed celebrities appearing in its pages, gets mentioned again, as does a new Basic Set and a huge party at Gen Con 2004. A worldwide D&D Game Day