Author: Mike Sugarbaker

Major gaming distributors Diamond and Alliance recently announced that WizKids will be lowering the discount they offer retailers across the board – all WizKids products will cost more for retailers to get, starting April 1st. They are not, however, raising their MSRP accordingly; rather than let you think they’re taking

Remember that mysterious website that popped up for a new RPG project last summer? Well, the mystery is gone, and the product has split in two. Alderac has announced the new modern d20 game Spycraft, and its first setting book, Shadowforce Archer. The Archer conspiracy protects the world from things

It’s probably just me, but I knew nothing about until I saw it on the store shelf today. It isn’t just an alternate board in the Craigdarroch tradition; it’s got TV monitors for those all-important sightlines, rocket tubes for getting around the interesting board configuration… and it’s printed in two

Those damn dirty apes at ICv2 have the full story. So, FF now has a Dragon equivalent as well as a Dungeon equivalent. The announcement of Replay Games, a division devoted to “more experimental” games, is also interesting, although I can’t find anything further on it on the Fast Forward

Shea Porr of the Camarilla player organization announced on a mailing list yesterday that “[a] Utah court has approved, in full, a temporary restraining order against White Wolf. In summary, this order prohibits White Wolf from using the name The Camarilla; restrains them from claiming to be The Camarilla or

I finally decided to go ahead and post my review of Vortex, even though we haven’t gotten to test multiplayer quite yet. I think you’ll find the article enlightening anyway. And yeah, . Go to town…

According to Slashdot, the long-awaited online gaming toolbox Neverwinter Nights will be published by Infogrames sometime in the first half of this year. The press release says nothing about precise dates, however. Other games have tried NWN’s model of game-mastered online roleplaying without drawing much interest, but none of them

was the first CCG I ever played, and more or less re-initiated me into gaming. All these years later, its standard rulebook has just been revised, according to the Daily Illuminator, which is in a position to know. Relive the memories! Or admire its genius for the first time! Or

have been having schedule issues lately, to hear ICv2 tell it. But they now claim to be shipping their trademark Pioneer-licenced sourcebooks for Serial Experiments Lain in February, Parallel Dual in April, and Fushigi Yugi and Trigun in May. Also on the press release is BESM: Dungeon Crawl, which I

Vortex is a game worth trying, but its price point combined with its diversity of factions makes it difficult to get what you want for the money. I’ve spent a hundred bucks on it and a couple of factions still aren’t playable. Well, until February 4, FFG is selling .

Steve Jackson announced recently that, due to apparent snafus with the printing company, their upcoming standalone GURPS Space setting Transhuman Space cannot be completed on time in color. So, in the interest of making it to market on time, the core rules will release as a B&W softcover book for

ICv2 reports that European trading card company Cards Inc. will produce a CCG based on the classic TV series The Prisoner in 2002. I can see it now: the object will be to figure out the rules, and we will all play against the game designer, who will send strange