Author: Demian Katz

The public domain Piecepack universal board game set initiated by Galloglass Games has just received its own Internet domain, thanks to Mesomorph Games, the first producer of commercial Piecepack sets. At Piecepack.org, you’ll find a downloadable, printable Piecepack along with rules for using the set and directions for ordering more

Gary Chalk, the illustrator of the first eight Lone Wolf gamebooks, has at last been contacted by Project Aon, the online republishers of the classic series. To everyone’s joy, he has given permission for his artwork to be included in the online reprints! Although the exact date on which his

Invisible City Productions, the diversified organization which has been bringing a new free game to the Internet every month for quite some time now, has done it again. This month’s offering is Lilypad, a two-player Checkers variant in which two fairies race across a pond filled with frogs and turtles.

Lore Gaming, the future publisher of the Lore line of thematically-related role-playing games, has been rebuilding its website for quite some time now, but the redesigned pages are nearly done. By late afternoon tomorrow, the site should have a new look and contain lots of information on several forthcoming releases:

It appears that Deep7 has found the bands they were looking for, as they have just announced the impending release of the CD-ROM-based second edition of their simple, cinematic horror role-playing game, Shriek. The new edition will contain all the fast-playing goodness of the original, but it will feature a

Although the Galloglass Games edition of HellRail, a rather unconventional rail-building game, sold out last December, a new version is on the way. According to Diamond Comic Distributers, Inc., it is now possible to pre-order the latest edition, this time published by Mayfair Games. Soon enough, the damned shall be

Greysea LLC, the most recent publisher of the innovative Ace of Aces and Lost Worlds combat picture book games, recently sent out an e-mail announcing that the web sites devoted to the company and its two main products are no longer in service. No explanation of why this has happened

Rio Grande Games, the company responsible for bringing lots of clever German games to the American market, has just posted their fifteenth newsletter. Quite a few interesting forthcoming releases are described, including Barbarossa, a classic Pictionary-like game which uses clay instead of pencil and paper, and The Traders of Genoa,

Deep7, publisher of the 1PG line of cheap and quick role-playing games, is currently looking for unsigned bands who might be interested in contributing to a soundtrack for use with the second edition of its “teen horror” game, Shriek. This is a great opportunity for musically-inclined gamers (or their friends)

The solitaire gamebook scene has been dead for far too long; apart from some interesting online efforts and a handful of simplistic Choose Your Own Adventure books, almost nothing notable has seen print since the late nineties. Fortunately, Panurgic Publishing, the brainchild of Fighting Fantasy author Paul Mason, has begun

Deep7, the company responsible for the 1PG line of quick and easy role-playing games, has just released a new card game. In Snake Oil, each player is a quack attempting to sell allegedly miraculous potions and oils in an effort to become rich at the expense of the gullible masses.

Since receiving permission from author Joe Dever, fans of the classic Lone Wolf fantasy gamebooks have been hard at work converting the series to an Internet-based electronic format. At last, Castle Death, the seventh book of the saga, has been made available. The book is still in the “public preview”

GAMA, the Game Manufacturer’s Association, has posted the nominees for the 2000 Origins Awards. The nominations fall into 23 different categories, and just about every aspect of unplugged gaming is covered. Check out the list, and see if your favorite games have been nominated. If so, you can find out

Wizards of the Coast has just added an interesting new item to their long list of free downloads: a long out-of-print solitaire gamebook. The book, entitled Gnomes — 100, Dragons — 0, is the second volume in the attractive Catacombs series, and it comes with all the rules necessary for