As you can see on the lefthand side of the page, we’ve added two new reviews for your reading pleasure. Matthew Pook brings us a look at Ninja Burger from 9th Level Games. After trying this game, you’ll never look at fast food the same way again. Secondly, Joe Kushner
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Hasbro Advertising Machine In Full Swing
Seems like Hasbro’s putting their product in our faces more often than usual lately. At my local supermarket, the Lucky Charms boxes are shrinkwrapped together with a CD-ROM that has both a free Hasbro Interactive game (Boggle, Chutes & Ladders, Operation, Monopoly Junior, or Yahtzee) and AOL version 6.0. As
A Reminder From The Great Old Ones
I finally got myself a copy of Chaosium’s latest masterpiece, 20th Anniversary Edition Call of Cthulhu. If you haven’t seen them, these books are gorgeous. I won’t bother boring you with the details, but I will say the stack of these books has dwindled below 80 copies, and they’ve been
Hasbro Finishing 2001 Strong
According to this article, Q3 profits for Hasbro are up a bit. Maybe now they won’t screw around with Wizards of the Coast (which wasn’t mentioned in the article) for a little while.
Pinnacle Brings Out Their Dead… and Sells ‘Em
Ever wanted to dive into the Weird West, but just didn’t get around to it? Better spur your wallet into action, pardner, ‘cuz Pinnacle is having a rather large Halloween/5th anniversary sale of Deadlands related products. Eighteen different reduced-price bundles of products are being offered, from the core game, the
Fast Forward Moves… um, Forward
Fast Forward Entertainment has announced plans for their next three D20 supplements. Looks like they’re making a play for the title of “Most D20 pages published in Q4.” Encyclopedia of Demons and Devils ($29.99; Ships Nov 12) – 224 page hardcover with all manner of demons and devils. Rings of
Buy Your Way Into Chez Geek
The Game Industry Disaster Relief Auction continues to draw support from all corners of the game industry, and is rumbling toward the $10,000 mark. Today, Steve Jackson Games and their ally John Kovalic got together to offer a truly unique item to the auction: an official Chez Geek card based
Legion of Lost Souls Heading to Printer
Privateer Press announced that the conclusion of the Witchfire Trilogy, The Legion of Lost Souls, shipped to the printer yesterday, and should be arriving in stores in about a month. The Trilogy’s final installment has been expanded to 96 pages, and will retail for $12.95. Definitely worth waiting for, though
Happy birthday to Cheryl, my
Happy birthday to Cheryl, my wife and best friend. Without your help and understanding, OgreCave would not exist. Happy birthday, sweetie!
Suing D20 Companies For Fun and Profit
Roleplaying e-zine The Scribe has just posted an interview with Steve Perrin, famed co-designer of RuneQuest and other systems. In answer to one of the questions about the D20 craze, Mr Perrin wrote “I hope the various companies will sue D20 projects to fund other work, but we’ll see.” I’m
Entire Staff of Journeyman Press Laid Off
Through various channels, we’ve been hearing that the US Playing Card Company has suddenly eliminated its speciality games division, better known as Journeyman Press. All four Journeyman employees were laid off at 2:30 pm this afternoon. This shocking news comes in the middle of the release of Zombies!!!, the biggest
Necromancer Brings Grimtooth’s Traps To D&D3e
You didn’t really think you’d be safe, did you? Just because the Grimtooth’s Traps books were 1st Edition, and we’ve reached 3rd, did you honestly think he wouldn’t find a way to put your characters in mortal danger again? Yes, Grimtooth the Troll is back from the dead, and appropriately
Clowns Shown To Be Gamers’ Worst Nightmare
Should’ve known how you Simpsons fanatics would vote. In response to the question “What keeps you up at night?”, over 63% said “CAN’T SLEEP, CLOWN’LL EAT ME.” About 9.5% were concerned about affording all the special editions coming out lately, and 7.9% of voters wish they were Frodo. Sad, really.
Witchfire 3 Art Preview
If you’ve been anxiously awaiting the finale of Privateer Press’ Witchfire Trilogy, well, you’ll have to wait a bit longer. It seems the massive amount of materials being crammed into WT 3: The Legion of Lost Souls has caused a slight delay in the 64 page book’s release, pushing it
Xro Dinn Quickplay Posted
Ionian Games Studio has posted quickplay rules for its upcoming RPG release, The Xro Dinn Chronicles. For a taste of the hard sci-fi game before its November ship date, head over to their site. AEG To Produce Rokugan D20 Supplement Earlier today, AEG announced plans to publish Rokugan: The Legend