So this new Score CCG called Epic Battles, which I don’t know anything else about, will be sold exclusively through Blockbuster Video at first, then trying to feed customers from Blockbuster back to hobby stores, via organized play. The latter point sheds some light, I think, on why all these
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AH lifts curtain on Nexus Ops
You know, there’s almost nothing I like better than mining resources on a strange planet. If StarCraft and its ilk weren’t so damn stressful, I’d be in there mining my little heart out. But, since turn-based games are more my speed, I’m glad to see these details on Nexus Ops.
Let’s Kill again, like we did last summer
If, like us, you’ve been doing the casual-gaming thing for a while, you might remember a cute little card game called Let’s Kill, which not only did the stick-figure thing years before Kingdom of Loathing, but managed to be a funny game about serial killers and still be actually funny.
Avalon Hill alludes slyly to more wargames in future
And lo, a cute reference to a Seekrit Projekt in this interview about RoboRally (PDF) has raised anew the spectre of “Avalon Hill” now standing for “WotC Board Games,” rather than the completely proud, never ever silly, always grognardy and entirely luck-free (yeah, right) legacy of the AH backlist. All
Mythic licenses Warhammer for MMORPGs
Is there some rule in Warhammer for deja vu? Or oh-God-oh-God-not-again?
Steal this developer’s journal: details on Thieves’ World
Right, so… Thieves’ World. Green Ronin is doing it for D20. There’s a dev journal with one article up so far. I keep waiting for some company or another to embrace the weblog a little more fully; I just feel like that’s the form this kind of article belongs in
Decipher kills two games, deep-freezes WARS until Hollywood calls
“MegaMan and .hack will be taken out of production and no further products will be released for either line. … WARS TCG will be put on hiatus to give the property a chance to develop to its fullest potential. While this is very disappointing to all of us here at
New Torg interim edition as PDF; Sven won’t sleep for days
He will be too busy saying “DUDE!!!” over and over again, and hitting reload at RPGnow waiting for the Torg 1.5 Revised and Expanded Rulebook to hit as a PDF in the “next few days.” June will supposedly bring us a hardcover “limited edition” – $38 is way too cheap
Spiel des Jahres nominees announced
In General and Children’s categories, along with recommended lists, per the usual. I could be wrong, but it looks like most of the short list is already in print in English.
Avalon Hill announces Axis & Allies Miniatures for Gen Con
Finally, some collectible WWII minis. But, um, there’s this little game out there called Flames of War, and… well, I guess we’ll see how it shakes out. I mean, D&D Minis is certainly kicking ass over Mage Knight these days, and you could probably say they’re in the same segment
Mage Knight's latest last gasp: RPG for PCs
It turns out that Mage Knight is still good for something after all: english assignment help lending its name to otherwise unrelated PC games. As the press release says (PDF warning; full text is pasted below), “Mage Knight: Apocalypse opens up the battle for the Land in completely different ways.”
Kingdom of Loathing card game for Gen Con
They have no web page up for it, nor even a permalink to their news post (so we’ve quoted it after the jump), but APE Games (you know, Big Top and Anathema?) has this forum page for Dungeons of Loathing, a card game based on the Web’s #1 threat to
Kevin Wilson’s gonna sing the Doom song now
The designer of Doom, WarCraft and the developer on the new Arkham Horror edition is interviewed, and gives what I think are heretofore-unreleased gameplay details about the latter. And it’s just generally a fun read for design heads such as myself.
Please don’t eat the settlements
Fun for the whole family that’s strategic, challenging, and delicious!
Mongoose sends boxes of ugly bugs into distribution
Seriously. Mean, ugly, nasty, and, er, tall. I’d rather face a bunch of Genestealers than a pack of these. So: recall that this is the Andy Chambers-designed brand new Starship Troopers minis game. After a long time of talk and no action, distributors have it and it should be in