Author: Mike Sugarbaker

Everything marked $something.95 is actually 5 cents more expensive when you buy at a vendor booth. It’s amusing how widespread that is. Are your price guns broken, guys? The fancy stuff I hooked up to post from my Palm from the show floor has suddenly broken, so I’m back in

I am here at the show, at the moment in the Looney Labs demo and seminar room, and filing this via my VisorPhone and portable keyboard. I am the mack. More news shortly.

…as opposed to chucking it out. Which, as a system, it doesn’t deserve. No it doesn’t. Anyway, WEG/D6Legend has announced that its D6 system is available under a cheap, not free, license. When Allan heard this he of course got excited about Torg, but it looks like their “non-licensed worlds”

Well, not really – his Line of Sight column on this week’s big WotC hoo-hah is as level-headed as it is insightful. In my opinion Chainmail was mismarketed from the get-go, and it looks like a lot of people agree. But here’s the thing: Monte’s comments open up another thing

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Surprising no one, Rio Grande announced in its newsletter that it’d be picking up this reported frontrunner for this year’s Spiel des Jahres and printing it in English, for a July release. I want to make a July 4th joke here but I can’t quite make it work. In any

The boys over at Penny Arcade are very excited about an upcoming turn-based strategy game called Moonbase Commander, and you know what? After looking at the screenshots, I am too. So there.

WizKids announced Monday that they’ve done a deal with the publishers of PC Gamer magazine to include a special redemption coupon in their September issue. The coupon plus five bucks will get you a limited edition MechWarrior figure not available anywhere else. I can see what PC Gamer will get

The G to the R has some further notes on both the at Wizards, and the . According to their story, Hasbro has filed suit against two individuals. Oh my.

You know, it hadn’t fully dawned on me until recently that 2001 was a really sad year for me, games-wise. Perhaps this didn’t dawn on me because 2001 didn’t actually get sad until 2002. To unpack that a little, I had two games I was collecting avidly in 2001 (both

You that two new standalone Diceland sets are due by the end of the year, one of which will feature a “giant” OGRE die (not sure how they’re pulling that one off). You knew that , the very first game in Cheapass’ line of no-nice-board-and-no-pieces board games, is going to

Via IGN, via GamingReport: The artist formerly known as Hasbro Interactive announces for PS2, Xbox, and GameCube in the fall. From the description here, it sounds like Gauntlet with special moves and leveling. But I guess it won’t be so bad to have a little game where you can beat

Want to see how good NWN will be at letting you create whatever you want? Go suck down the 241MB beta version of the Toolset. Here’s an introductory user guide. I’m not gonna be sucking down a 241MB anything anytime soon, so can someone report back on whether this is

At least I don’t think we’ve reported on this already. Go to town. We hope to have a short feature up with our Origins picks, slams, and generally entertaining bull-puckey in the next couple of weeks.