That’s the rumor, anyway. Allegedly this’ll be out next year at Gen Con (the real one). You know, at least a few of these games had to have been conceived when it was already apparent that Mage Knight was starting to flag commercially. Did they think they could somehow freeze
Author: Mike Sugarbaker
Hey, you got your dungeons in my zombies!
That’s right, kids: Eden is finally doing an All Flesh Must Be Eaten genre sourcebook for straight-up fantasy. Dungeons and Zombies should hit in March. If, like me, you always feel a little instinctual confusion when an All Flesh product comes out – a genre supplement for a zombie game,
WarCraft: The Board Game reviewed
My playtest report just kept getting bigger, and bigger, and bigger, so I decided it was a review. Some aspects of play are sketched out only briefly, but I’ll be playing this one again (watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat – this time for sure!), so I’ll
FFG CoC CCG
I love when I can use that joke. Anyway, Fantasy Flight seems to be okay at making solid, sustainable CCGs from somewhat nichey source material, so this new entry, a non-Mythos-compatible new design for a Call of Cthulhu CCG due in the spring, certainly has a shot. Nothing on FFG’s
James Ernest to judge American Idol
You know you believed that headline for a second. But the real story is that Fleer has allegedly contracted him to design a mass market American Idol card game. Thousands sing, millions kill, one dies! Or something like that. This is still in rumor territory and we’ll follow up. Update:
Looney Labs ships Stoner Fluxx
This is not a joke. Stoner Fluxx is a new version of Fluxx with appropriately (or inappropriately) adjusted Keepers and Goals, as well as some special rules you can probably imagine. Looney Labs will be donating one dollar to organizations such as NORML and the Drug Policy Alliance for each
More virtual cards for your virtual free time
If you’re like me, you had no friggin’ clue about Decipher Online Gaming, but lo, you can play both the Lord of the Rings CCG and the original Star Trek: TNG CCG in a manner similar to that of Magic Online. Also, look at this weird thing Sega is doing
2004 Games 100 announced; New England is Game of the Year
GAMES Magazine’s 2004 GAMES 100 is up in its entirety at ye olde Funagain, and the veteran design team of Alan Moon and Aaron Weissblum took Game of the Year honors with their tile-laying Pilgrim fiesta New England. Curiously, last year’s winner Dvonn is listed again this year to fill
Game of Thrones Board Game Playtest Report
FFG’s in-house board game designs are just looking really sharp these days: they aren’t what you’d call mind-blowingly original, but they preserve the feel of their source material and keep the focus on fun, fun, fun. Game of Thrones: the Board Game is basically Diplomacy modified until unrecognizable. It has
New Cyberpunk CCG, because the last one sold so well
Yeah, I still pine for NetRunner. Cyberpunk the CCG is an entirely different design and may get some things right that NR, God rest its soul, got wrong, at least from a marketing perspective. The post-apocalyptic sci-fi thing seems to be riding a wave in CCGs right now – rumor
Axis and Allies becomes one again in ’04?
Avalon Hill has announced a new revision of good ol’ A&A to hit in March. It’s billed as the first major revision in 20 years, although splitting the thing into two parts seems pretty friggin’ major to me. There’s no word in either the press release (included below) or the
Mage Knight 2: the new hotness is under our control
We played as near to a “complete” game as we could muster, which was damn near – I was able to play a faction-pure 300-point squad of elves, and we even used the wacky weather modifier things on the PVC cards – and the higher point total did indeed make
Fixed fig sets for D&D Minis cancelled
WotC has announced on the D&D Minis home page that two announced non-random box sets, Orc War Party and Outlaw War Party, have been cancelled. They cite business considerations as well as nebulously defined “player feedback.” Amazingly, some folks online are complaining about this decision. Who would have thought. First:
Mage Knight 2 Playtest Report: the prequel to the preview
Neither Allan nor I had actually played Mage Knight up until yesterday. We’ve flirted with MK Dungeons (he’s actually on a big Dungeons kick right now), but that’s it. So, we’re not the best qualified to tell you how Mage Knight 2 differs from its predecessor, but we’ve gathered a
More WarCraft thoughts, or: I really need to buy someone in Michigan a drink
Our WarCraft board game story got picked up by Slashdot yesterday, and I found some stuff to say there, because even in the less-trafficked areas, where intelligence has a shot at shining through, Slashdot is always a reliable wellspring of hot and cold running stupid. People there seem to actually