Author: Mike Sugarbaker

It’s , and they say they’ve got confirmation for all of it, despite not many things being attributed (there is this of the Star Wars RPG which confirms that there are layoffs going on, but doesn’t cover all the specifics). Wizards is laying off close to a hundred people, and

has announced the layoffs of two employees in . Rumors of the company’s death are greatly unattributed to Samuel Clemens, however. The press release also details a revised release schedule for the rest of the year, with most of the major new action (including Fightball) still scheduled for this month.

Seriously.

And he isn’t talking about it, perhaps understandably. No, it’s nothing bad. It’s Frag PvP, another variant of the FPS board game, this time themed around the popular video-gaming comic strip by Scott Kurtz published in paper form by John K’s Dork Storm Press. It should be out by Christmas

This is interesting. WK is trying to advocate for an end to the kind of loss-leading online discounts that retail store owners hate so much, for the simple reason that “[i]t leaves money on the table.” WotC has never mounted a campaign like this, to my knowledge, even though this

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Here’s ExecVP Martin Stever of WizKids, telling the world of gaming retailers why it’s actually okay that they sold DC HeroClix at the San Diego Comic Con and at Gen Con (along with MechWarrior: Dark Age packs, in the latter case, and Allan, you had better have gotten your hands

(I’m not sorry.) Here’s an interesting project: fella on the Cheapasses mail list has not just converted a bunch of characters from the real-time card game over to characters, but he’s working on modifying the BESM rules until they play like BRAWL. More roleplaying, less time! Faster, ! Kill, kill!

Yeah, Jordan, we’ll just be the judge of that latter part, OK? But I think he’s actually talking about the impressive feat of licensing that WizKids pulled off to make this HeroClix expansion of characters from CrossGen Comics, Dark Horse, Top Cow and others, right down to some creators who

And the winner is… Sorcerer! Ron Edwards’ freeware-gone-print RPG of deals with various devils was judged by a panel of 17 semi-secret industry leaders to be this year’s most significant development-and-or-developer in hobby gaming. Also announced at last night’s awards party, a bit late due to the recipient’s absence at

On top of WizKids’ postponement of the MechWarrior release, Wizards announced yesterday that the announcement of the selections for the next round of the Fantasy Setting Search has been delayed again, until the end of the month. It’s the same drill – lots of submissions, want to give everyone a