Author: Demian Katz

Rio Grande Games has posted their thirtieth newsletter. Although there are no groundbreaking announcements, Carcassonne fans will be pleased to hear that a second expansion set, which adds some new tiles and provides enough pieces to allow a sixth player, will be out soon. Also described and pictured in the

Invisible City Productions, the company known mainly for free monthly games, has announced that their March game will be delayed due to work promoting a forthcoming line of commercial releases. These will include a high-quality version of their popular Run, Hamster, Run along with several completely new designs including Psycho

Deep7 has just released another entry in their long line of 1PGs. The game is called Full Clip, and the subject this time around is the fast-paced world of Hong Kong action cinema. As usual, each game session should play out in about two hours, and five complete and ready-to-play

Wayne Densley just announced the release of a special edition of his first online fantasy gamebook in the Chronicles of Arborell series. This expanded version of Windhammer features revised rules, 155 new sections and other changes based largely on reader feedback. Its sequel, the somewhat delayed Earth and Stone, is

Deep7 has just announced a partnership with Three-Sixty Publishing. Through this partnership, Three-Sixty will get to use Deep7’s XPG game system (which will also be featured in the forthcoming Red Dwarf RPG) and, in turn, Deep7 will become Three-Sixty’s sole distributor. The first product of this partnership will be Mean

Hot on the heels of the last one, Rio Grande Games has released another newsletter! It elaborates on Dragonland and Clash of the Gladiators (both of which turn out to be Reiner Knizia designs), and it also describes a previously unmentioned (if memory serves) April release: Pizarro & Co., a

Invisible City Productions has posted another game of the month. This time it’s Sharon J. Cichelli’s Coral Reef, a two-player strategy game played with either two decks of playing cards or a set of number tiles. If you’re looking for a fast and simple time-filler, this should please you.

This seems the be the week of returning web sites; after a long downtime, Mythrole Games‘ site is back up on a new server. It doesn’t have any new announcements on it just yet, but there seem to be rumblings of something to come. Piecepack Contest Announced James Kyle has

If you’ve tried to visit AdvancedFightingFantasy.com lately, you’ve probably noticed that it’s not there anymore. This is because it got so much traffic in the wake of its announcement of the Fighting Fantasy reprints that its cheapo web host got overwhelmed and took it down. Fortunately, the site will be

Rio Grande Games has just published their twenty-eighth newsletter. Not only does it include pictures and descriptions of several of their recently-announced games like Where’s Bob’s Hat? and Halli Galli, but it also mentions some new and interesting-sounding April releases: Dragonland, Clash of the Gladiators and Magellan.

Arrowflight, the first full-sized, non-electronic role-playing game from Deep7, ships this week. It’s been in development for many years, and Deep7’s other projects have been interesting, so hopefully it won’t turn out to be yet another dull generic fantasy RPG. In any case, it’s something to tide us all over

Piecepack.org has just reorganized its game page into a tidy table that allows user voting. Whether or not you have already tried out the universal board game kit and its many applications, it’s worth taking a look. Even if you don’t want to buy the nifty wooden set, you can