Author: Greg Kessler

Well the new Origins Metagame from Flying Buffalo seeks to settle that dispute (the real question is can Dave Arneson whoop Gary Gygax, but alas there is no Gygax card in the deck).  Origins Metagame is a card game featuring some of the famous games and people connected with Origins. 

The new fantasy miniatures game from i-Kore is back from the printer and ready to ship.  Celtos is a table top fantasy miniatures game published by i-Kore who has not had nay of their vans stolen recently.  If you check out the i-Kore site you can see some great new

I must admit that I don’t quite know anything about these books, but I am sure that someone does.  Banshee Screams is available from Pinnacle. Banshee Screams was written by Clay and Susan Griffith, writers of several TICK comics from New England Comics.  SPOOOOOOOON!!! GAMA Europe Game Trade Show Postponed

The H.P. Lovecraft’s Birthday Party Gaming Convention has been announced.  In honor of the dark lord himself, there is a Cthulhu gaming convention being held in Vancouver.  This convention will feature all manner of Cthulhu gaming and a call is out for GMs to blindly slaughter all comers.  Sign up

Flying Mice Games has announced that their game Starcluster is ready to ship. Flying Mice has been developing Starcluster for three years and as the game hits the streets, the core rules, three supplements and a full adventure are available.  This is the way games ought to be released: fully

WotC announced today that due to the 10,000+ submission in their “design a fantasy world” contest,  they would be pushing back the timetable for selecting submissions for the second round.  Instead of the second week of July, designers moving on to the second round will notified the first week of

In their Illuminator Newsletter, Steve Jackson Games has announced that the Hellboy RPG has been sent to the printers.  SJGames seems very excited about the new game, calling it the most beautiful book they have ever done.  For those who do not know what the hell all of the fuss

Monster Island: The Game of Giant Monster Combat from Firefly Games has arrived from the printer and is ready to ship.  If you have not heard about the game, it’s a cross between Jurassic Park and the Golden Girls (or Godzilla. Whichever).  Here is the Plot: giant monsters imprisoned on

Another game company has returned to the fiction milieu.  IHero Entertainment has announced that beginning today they will be adding a new monthly installment of stories set in the I,Hero universe.  July’s tale is called The Other, as Just as Fair.  These stories will be in addition to the their

Steve Jackson announced today that due to “creeping crud” (illness) at the Steve Jackson Games Austin office he will not be attending Origins.  This means that many of activities planned for the convention will not come off.  Get well messages can me sent to sj@io.com

In a story on Gaming Report.com, it has been reported that Wizards of the Coast has recently concluded a revision of their patent for the Magic.  The purpose of the revision is to clarify WotC’s ownership over the innovations that made Magic such a success.  The net result of this

Malignant Games has announced the availability of a PDF demo version of their new game, Dread.  By emailing their website you can get information on receiving the demo.  Dread is a new modern horror game that, if nothing else has a good tag line. The new life will probably end

Call of Cthulhu publisher, Chaosium is in the market for some twisted ideas.  Chaosium has put out an open call for submissions to an upcoming Call of Cthulhu D20 project. For a submission packet, sample format and guidelines, drop an email to xenophon@att.net. Deadline for submissions is August 24th.  Relatives and

Judges Guild Moves To Necromancer Necromancer Games is reporting that starting in January 2003, they will be putting Judges Guild products back into circulation. Bob Bledsaw, owner of Judges Guild, has announced the termination of the Guild’s relationship with QuikLink Interactive as of the end of 2002. QLI had been

End of a (really short) Era at Wizards of the Coast Today WotC announced that they will no longer be supporting the Chainmail brand. For those of you unfamiliar with Chainmail, it is (was) a really promising WarHammer-ish game that is only a year or so old. WotC has gone