April Fools postings are hella lame.
Author: Mike Sugarbaker
Initial D and HumAliens are the CCGs they sound like
It looks like our initial source was inaccurate – those two weird AEG RPGs for kids are card games after all. According to this, the original HumAliens property “is being designed for and released to the core gaming market first.” Does that mean it’ll be followed by a dumbed down
White Wolf does WarCraft
I’m surprised this didn’t come out more loudly at GTS – but maybe that’s because WotC’s old Blizzard-licensed RPGs were so poor. My interpretation of this blurb is that this new hardcover (street date: July) will take after WarCraft III’s integration of role-playing elements. Imagine a tabletop RPG in which
Knizia’s Samurai board game available for PCs
Holy crap, Homestar! One of Reiner Knizia’s most subtle and acclaimed board game designs is available for the PC or Mac, playable in single player mode against an AI or against other humans online. This implementation looks gorgeous and well worth the shareware fee.
Hey, you can vote now and stuff
Voting is now open for the 2002 Origins Awards.
Plucky ‘indie RPGs’ have own website, awards
The finalists for the 2002 Indie RPG Awards have been announced. This gig focuses not just on PDF releases, but on new system designs, and appears to have some kind of game built into its awards-voting system wherein you “buy” votes. Hmm. Anyway, this is as good a place as
Upper Deck announces trojan-horse CCG
This somewhat mistitled press release says that Upper Deck, the conventional trading card company that somehow scored Yu-Gi-Oh, will be slipping “SportsNut” E-cards into one in three of its baseball card packs for the new season. Fans can then enter the card’s ID in a website and add that card’s
Green Ronin burns mad scientist alive
Actually, they won’t get him till June. Allan’s casual observation at GTS was that everyone seems to want to get into (non-trading) card games, and if that’s true, Green Ronin is evidently no exception. Expenses are higher than in the D20 market, but it looks like that market’s pretty dry
Our game could be your life
There doesn’t appear to be any big news in the post-GTS hangover, so have a look at this. Allan will have a mop-up report soon on the less-huge announcements from the show.
Alien Menace doing Modern Naval Battles
After their Origins nom for Sucking Vacuum, the guys at Alien Menace are really moving from strength to strength, although I confess I am not totally sure what that expression means. Modern Naval Battles will be a full-color, boxed version of the classic military card game by Dan Verssen (who
Shots of LotR prepainted collectible yada yada
They look fine and everything – of course, they can always cherry-pick nice paint jobs when they’re doing a trade show like this. The frustrating thing is we don’t get a good look at those hexes. They obviously have some kind of little window in them, and it looks like
WotC makes weird-ass DVD solo adventure
At their GTS presentation for D&D 3.5, WotC announced Scourge of Worlds, a computer-animated DVD set in Greyhawk. Viewers will use DVD menus to choose the path of the story at 20 different points, leading to one of four endings. It streets on June 10th. “We took some pictures as
AEG doing Stargate, Warlord RPGs, and two for the kids
Stargate is a slam dunk for gaming (hey, we found a gate to Gamma World!), and a game set in the Warlord universe makes sense for the last successful CCG besides Magic that isn’t a license. The puzzling things announced in this report, though, are the two games evidently pitched
Hot, live snap-together dungeon action
Creepy Freaks is nice and all, but the presumably MK Dungeons-related plastic dungeon tiles which this post barely talks about but has drooly pictures of, ought to make some folks at Dwarven Forge sweat.
Decipher ups RPG support, continues twitching and winking about Matrix
GR’s notes about the Decipher seminar at GTS indicate that they told a bunch of retailers that they were really, really sorry about their apparent love-em-and-leave-em policy for their RPG releases of late. “Decipher will be releasing a minimum of 2 releases a month for the next few years for