We’ve known the nominees for a while now, and resisted judging too harshly for having a t-shirt in the “Game Accessory” category. This year’s winners were awarded in a ceremony overseen by James Ernest last night at Origins. A notable winner was the Mouseguard RPG for Best RPG, despite being
Category: Industry
Upper Deck Signs Long-Term Deal with Marvel
Today Upper Deck Entertainment signed a multi-year licensing deal to use characters from the Marvel Universe. Covered products will include trading card games (TCGs), miniature games and trading cards. The agreement also includes rights to develop products based on Marvel’s upcoming films. The first products are expected to be released
BattleTech’s “Unseen” revealed by Catalyst
Catalyst Game Labs is continuing its quest to fulfill BattleTech fans’ every wish by bringing back the out-of-print illustrations for several mech models. The press release has more: In 1996 numerous images originally licensed from several Japanese anime sources were retired from use within the BattleTech universe. Those illustrations formed
Twitter’s got a use after all!
I’ll go out on a limb and say that the increasing uptake of Twitter amongst the gaming community is gonna make this season’s con coverage a little easier to generate. I’m not at Origins myself this year – it’s Go Play Northwest for me, starting tomorrow – but the #origins2009
The story of raising Hellas
Avid roleplaying gamers, prospective game publishers, and anyone even mildly interested in how the wacky tabletop game industry functions should take note of a new column launching today over at RPGnet. Michael Fiegel, creator of the Ninja Burger phenomenon and co-author of Hellas, has begun HELLAS: From Alpha to Omega,
Free RPG Day ’09 is upon us
Time to get dressed and head out the door, ‘cuz today is Free RPG Day 2009. As you heard in our recent Gaming News Update interview on the subject, this year’s event has shaped up quite nicely – all that remains is to find a participating store and get yourself
Toys R Us wins lawsuit against Amazon
Toys R Us is in the news again. No, it’s not . This time, the company has won $51 million in its lawsuit against Amazon.com. This comes three years after the early end of the ten year exclusive contract Toys R Us signed with Amazon in 2000, which made Amazon
Wizards rewarding customers this weekend
Perhaps as a warm-up to next week’s Free RPG Day, Wizards of the Coast is holding a starting tomorrow, June 12, and running through Sunday, June 14. At participating retail stores, gamers who buy WotC products totaling $15 or more will get to choose a free gift, selected from the
Not much time left to Chill
We’ve all seen the successful use of alternate funding by game publishers in the last few years (Delta Green fans are well aware of this trend). However, it seems like OtherWorld Creations may need a last-minute rally to make its Fundable round for Chill 3rd Edition reach the goal of
Audio Report – Rumors of demise are highly exaggerated
Okay, mostly exaggerated. I’ve struggled to get this podcast recording functional for many moons (well, more like a couple moons). A few months and a hardware upgrade later, and we have, at long last, the DunDraCon ’09 episode of the OgreCave Audio Report. You’ll notice this episode takes the news
OgreCave Gaming News Update: Cornering folks at KublaCon ’09
Another convention, another salvo of OgreCave Gaming News Update interviews! This time we made it out to KublaCon ’09 in Burlingame, CA, just south of San Francisco. Four new interviews from the show are at your disposal: Harley Stroh (Goodman Games) on upcoming Age of Cthulhu and Dungeons & Dragons:
Free RPG Day still on track, despite website woes
Earlier today, a reader asked us what we knew of Free RPG Day 2009 – whether it was cancelled, or being changed to another date, or something else – since the Free RPG Day website has been down for a while now. So I called Aldo Ghiozzi at Impressions, and
GAMA Trade Show ’09 interviews, and the Gaming News Update
We’ve had some delays here at OgreCave, largely due to a problem with the podcasts (and with finding enough time to fix it). However, it looks like our audio software glitch is identified and quarantined, so let’s move ahead with presenting not just some episodes, but a whole new podcast!
GAMA Trade Show ’09, Hasbro down
While this year’s GAMA Trade Show may have been down in attendance by 18%, that’s still ahead of the prevailing trends – it was just announced that Hasbro’s 1st quarter profits are down 47%. The economy’s down, for certain – according to one casino dealer a friend spoke with, his
Prepping for GTS 2009
As it turns out, I’ll be at the 2009 GAMA Trade Show starting tomorrow, so you can expect some news to show up here over the next few days. As I’ve been getting things together for my trip, I’ve also been perusing the show schedule, and was reminded that some