Author: Mike Sugarbaker

For those who don’t fear the C in CCG (the first C, I mean), A Game of Thrones is some of the tastiest action that’s come out this year, and there are some heavy promotional deals impending for the Sea of Storms expansion. You can get these fancy prints autographed

That’ll teach me never to listen to anything the guys at the GW retail stores say. In April 2003, you’ll be able to get a facsimile of the old Talisman core set, not the expansions, for $75 or so. They plan one printing and one printing only. Dear GW: games

The classic Michael Jackson disco track “Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough” is today’s pop culture reference. It’s been showing up in like half the things I read, ever since that karaoke night a couple days ago. I’m trying to kind of exorcise its power over me by mentioning it

Right, well, I missed the news about Chez Greek, a fraternity-themed standalone Chez Geek clone that’s fully compatible with the original. Apparently, the SJG marketing department decided that not everyone who might enjoy a fun card game is a self-billed geek. It’s currently listed as At The Printer. Yesterday they

Whoa! I missed this: NPR‘s Vikki Valentine did a piece on Dungeons & Dragons’ 30th anniversary that aired last Saturday on Weekend All Things Considered. Haven’t had time to listen yet, we’ll see if I cringe.

So this guy James Stubbs, who does the 1PG games for Deep7, and this other guy Rogan Hanby who did this Ranma 1/2 fan game, sent us an email letting us know that they’re now Heyoka Studios and they have a PDF d20 book called the Book of Curses. Their

Hey, what’s this? Monsternomicon cereal? Let’s give it to Demian… aw, he won’t like it, he hates everything. Hey! He likes it! Hey, Demian!

Funagain Games has on their front page a complete list of the category winners and Game of the Year from GAMES Magazine’s annual GAMES 100 holiday buyers’ guide. This year’s winner is DVONN, the GIPF Project thingy. I’ve played it, it’s good. Also charting are Spiel des Jahres winner Villa

That Wingnut Aldo alerts us that you may now preview the cover, created by our own Colin Adams, of the third edition of Battle Cattle. You can also peep out a PDF of the new Bovine Record Sheet. The cow on the cover is meant to resemble one of the

I’m sorry, but this is just cool. Why didn’t I hear about it earlier? [‘Cuz you didn’t see the huge ad in Dragon this month. – Allan]

By which I mean that they‘ve licensed another popular strategy PC game to turn into one of their signature big-box, lotsa-plastic throwdowns. We first saw their gorgeous board-game conversion of Sid Meier’s Civilization at Origins (it appears to have been delayed somewhat, it now being the end of September). Now