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Monday, June 28, 2004
Grey Star Goes Beyond the Nightmare Gate
Project Aon has just announced the release of the third World of Lone Wolf gamebook as a free online adventure. In Beyond the Nightmare Gate, you get to explore the dangerous Daziarn Plane in search of a magical item called the Moonstone. If you haven’t played the first two adventures in the series, they remain available and have just had some revisions and corrections made. If you’re a gamebook fan or if you just want to explore the world of Magnamund in preparation for trying out the new Lone Wolf RPG, it’s definitely worth taking a trip to Project Aon’s site.
Sunday, April 25, 2004
Lone Wolf howls with previews
The fellows at Mongoose have posted more teasers for the Lone Wolf RPG. This time, we get a look at the official character sheet, and a second rules preview which includes full rules for the Magician of Dessi, among other things. Now, should I pick Tracking as my next Discipline, and know which page to try next, or… oops, flashback to the original gamebooks. Sorry.
Wednesday, April 7, 2004
Saturday, March 27, 2004
Arborell Update
Wayne Densley, author of the Chronicles of Arborell free online gamebook series, wrote in to report some new developments. While the second book in the series still hasn’t been released yet, work is proceeding, and in the meantime, he has released both a compilation of Blood and Iron web serial episodes (available here) and an Atlas of Arborell. Keep an eye on this stuff; it seems to have a promising future.
Friday, March 12, 2004
Fighting Fantasy on warpath at Myriador
Myriador Ltd. has announced their product schedule for most of this year. Of particular interest is the Fighting Fantasy Role Play Game due in June 2004. The game will use the d20 System, just as the other Fighting Fantasy derived Myriador releases, but remain a “fully contained game.” The company’s forums also mention plans for world guides, though none are officially scheduled yet.
Friday, February 6, 2004
Mongoose Year in Preview
On the heels of Mongoose’s Starship Troopers announcement, the company has outlined this year’s planned releases. Bruce Graw, formerly of Agents of Gaming, has joined the Mongoose staff, and will bring his Babylon 5 Wars experience to the company’s plans for miniatures games. Planned product highlights include: a new boardgames division; Schism, a “mature” RPG about a war in Heaven; Judge Dredd: Turf Wars, a miniatures combat game; Mighty Armies, a 15mm fantasy miniatures wargame that will package an entire army for $19.95; and hints toward another unannounced license, based on “an old and very popular RPG”. Click “Read more” for the full release, and start your drooling.
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Friday, October 31, 2003
Grey Star Rides Again
It’s been a few months since Project Aon last published a book, but they’ve just managed to put together a new release: The Forbidden City, second of the World of Lone Wolf gamebooks. If you need a dose of gamebook goodness, you can’t go wrong here!
Tuesday, July 1, 2003
Gamebooks on the Rise?
These are good days to be a gamebook fan, it would seem. Just a couple of days ago, I noticed that the forthcoming American reprints of the Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks are starting to show up in major online bookstores, and this morning, an informant let me know that Troll is reprinting Carol Gaskin’s entertaining Forgotten Forest series. On a whim, I went over to Barnes & Noble and typed “plot your own” into the keyword search box. Minutes later, my shopping cart was brimming over with recently published and forthcoming works of interactive fiction: six Rollercoaster Tycoon books, four Gameboy spin-offs, a pair of Miss Adventure novels, and a trio of Scream Shop interactive horror tales. I suspect that most of these are simple pick-a-paths rather than full-fledged gamebooks, but it’s nonetheless exciting. I hope this is a trend that keeps growing!
Wednesday, June 11, 2003
Fighting Fantasy Official Site Open for Business
FightingFantasyGamebooks.com, the new official site for the Wizard Books reissues of the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks, is up and running. It should be a continuing source of news, contests, downloads and more; there’s also a club you can join that will get you some free goodies. Check it out!
Tuesday, April 29, 2003
Mr. Buckethead Continues Battling Evil
Mr. Buckethead, the superhero with a bucket for a head, now has a gamebook series thanks to Cybergecko, the company responsible for Super Giant Monster Showdown. In the Mr. Buckethead Adventure Game Series, readers wander from comic book panel to comic book panel (and sometimes from book to book) gathering items and companions and fighting dangerous foes. Two volumes are currently available and two more are currently in the works. Gamebook fans and appreciators of strangeness and rubber monsters should have lots of fun here; for more information, check out my review of the first two adventures over at Demian’s Gamebook Web Page.
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