Author: Mike Sugarbaker

The prestigious annual German game award has announced its preliminary nominees. From these games, a short list of three will be picked next month, then a final. The Children’s Game award, born last year, is now getting its own full jury process as well. DVONN is the second game in

FFG has finally, formally announced the release date for the Dragonstar Guide to the Galaxy as May 28. This companion book to the Starfarer’s Handbookwill actually contain the background of the Dragon Empire, thereby making it clear to people at long last why they should buy the Starfarer’s Handbook. (Which

The last time they smacked us up with a press release, the folks at Twilight Creations were not totally forthright about the fact that they really were going to have Zombies!!! back in print, under the same name that is, with expansions and such. All they had clear info on

Okay. We’ll make this quick. First: it‘s played on a square map, like Dungeons. Apart from that, it resembles MK in the basics: players trade actions, an action is either ranged attack, melee, or pass. There are other, subtler differences, though. One player tells me that ganging up on a

Fiery Dragon Productions has left the umbrella of White Wolf‘s Sword & Sorcery Studios imprint, as our sources told us… right before the went up on GamingReport anyway. What, if anything, this will mean for Fiery Dragon’s relationship with Monte Cook (whose Malhavoc Press maintains a relationship with Sword &

So I bought the two-player starter because it was so damned cheap, for the sole reason of reporting on it… then I forgot to report on it! But it’s okay because I’m pretty sure it’s all still the same! Here’s the deal: combat reminds me somewhat of . Cards act

Several readers emailed to let me know that The Dark Eye, the RPG mentioned yesterday, is probably Das Schwarze Auge, a popular fantasy RPG in Germany. I should have looked more closely at all the German-language stuff on the FanPro home page, seeing as how I linked to it and

Missed this news earlier in the week: Fast Forward, FanPro, and FASA “announced together that they have entered into an agreement allowing Fast Forward to be the sales and distribution arm for the Classic Battletech game, the Shadowrun roleplaying game and The Dark Eye roleplaying game with all new releases

So I actually got to play the Warhammer 40,000 CCG last night. It’s hard to describe why this game feels innovative, because it does, despite the fact that the tactics and battle mechanics all feel ripped out of other games, which themselves were not that innovative. I haven’t wanted to

GROG stands for “Guide du Roliste Galactique” – “Roleplayer’s Guide to the Galaxy,” according to the press release. It also nicely suggests “grognard,” a French term long used to describe hardcore wargamers, but that’s neither here nor there. The point is that the nominees for the Grog d’Or, an award

Not play-by-email, no. More like get-played-by-email. Delta Green creator John Tynes‘ “friend” Thomas Prendergast wants to send you some secret email communiques he’s obtained. Hit up his website for the details. (No, the upcoming Delta Green computer game isn’t going to be anything like Majestic. Thanks for asking, though.)

Poking through EN World‘s community news turns up something interesting every once in a while. If you have a copy of Inquisitor, which is already pretty darned close to a 40K role-playing game, and a copy of the Dragonstar Starfarer’s Handbook, this site will hook them (and you) up. From

ICv2 brings the pain: Frank Frazetta’s Death Dealer hits from Cell in time for Gen Con. It’s a little disconcerting to read reportage on minis games that seems to believe WizKids invented them, but then again, ICv2’s core audience is comics fans and retailers who only dabble in games –

The same source that told me BFG was coming back into print in September (and insists there was a press release about it at some point) says that “the current edition” of Talisman in fact refers to the last one to go out of print. He’s the only coherent source

If anyone needs another reason to hate Games Workshop, how about this: terminal vagueness. In this article about unpublished Talisman characters (PDF), designer Jervis Johnson keeps talking about “the current edition.” Current? Like, five-years-out-of-print current? More than that? Three-hundred-dollars-on-eBay current? Jeez. So it’s all just mean-spirited teasing about the new