Hey, someone else is stepping up to the money pit: Games Quarterly magazine has its first issue on shelves, and is making most of its contents available online as well on its newly launched website. There’s a board gaming focus, with some RPG and CCG articles as well. Maybe this
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Reinventing the download
I’ve been pondering the significance of DriveThruRPG.com, which recently announced an exclusive agreement with Malhavoc Press to “offer Malhavoc electronic products as secure e-Books.” These e-Books will make use of Adobe’s Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology to keep the nasty pirates out there from copying the electronic game products so
Hey, check it out, you can vote on the Origins Awards
Or, you know, the Gamer’s Choice awards, whatever. UPDATE: As you’ve seen if you’ve gone ahead and voted, as I’ve now had time to do, the “Gamer’s Choice” voting process A) reshapes your voting choices in some unannounced ways, and B) has more bugs than Kermit the Frog’s refridgerator. Let
Topps dinged in Europe for ancient price manipulation
A Yahoo Finance story yesterday tells of a “relatively low” fine ($1.94 million) imposed on Topps by the European Commission. According to the story, “The Commission fined the company for an elaborate strategy to prevent imports of the children’s items [Pokémon collectibles] from low-price to high-price countries in 2000 in
D&D3.5 ruled ineligible for Origins award, voluntarily withdrawn by WotC
According to a noncommitally titled GAMA press release, AAGAD chair Nicole Lindroos and WotC RPG brand manager Charles Ryan came to the conclusion that D&D3.5 doesn’t fully meet the AAGAD’s requirements for nominees, and Ryan made the decision to pull it. “A second or subsequent edition of a game is
Will it play in Mystara– uh, I mean Peoria?
Why you should bookmark the new Gamethink weblog immediately, despite the Orwell-esque title: “I’m shooting here for perspectives anchored in practical understanding of the possible, for rolegaming as a commercial pursuit as well as a social one.” Word up to that.
Dragon, Dungeon magazines get relaunches, ugly logotypes
Paizo Publishing has announced that, while Dungeon will be focused solely on D&D moving forward, Dragon will be widening its focus to all the media in which D&D appears: the minis game, computers, et cetera. Dragon will also include a WotC catalog every quarter. The relaunch officially happens in, of
Origins Awards nominees (short list this time) announced
Well! That didn’t take as long as I thought. No voting yet from what I can see.
WizKids snafu of the month
They just can’t catch a break, can they? This time, independent retailers are less than thrilled that the new HeroClix starter sets and booster design, set to go on sale two weeks or so from now, went on sale at WalMart yesterday. Alliance Distribution doesn’t even have their allotment yet,
Reaper website hacked, customer info stolen
As someone who’s getting more and more into miniatures gaming, it scares me a bit to hear what just happened to Reaper Miniatures. A group of hackers has stolen Reaper’s customer information, including credit card numbers used on the site’s online store, and is demanding money to keep from making
Oh yeah, D&D turned 30
We in the Cave were too busy playing it to make much note. The BBC offers the best media coverage we’ve seen. ” ‘I thought we would sell about 50,000 copies,’ says Gary Gygax.” And back then, that was a low number.
Savage Worlds brings you yet another license, plus pictures of tiny Victorians with guns
Pinnacle/Great White/Whatever has announced what isn’t really a license so much as a simple, standardized contract for people who might want to use the Savage Worlds system in their RPG or miniatures-gaming products. Basically, they get to approve your game and you pay a royalty and include a logo. They’ve
Loooonnnng lists for Origins Awards now available
From here, you can read the un-narrowed-down nominees for each category, and you can go to a form that will taunt you for not being an AAGAD member and not let you vote. Nonetheless, hours of fun.
Gary Gygax suffers stroke, recovering
According to a post by Eric Noah on the forums over at ENWorld, Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, is not in the best of health. Sure, he’s been chain-smoking for years, but that’s not the main problem; the stroke he suffered on April 1st is the problem. Gary
Blackmoor revival finally underway
When I read the press release headline, I was hoping WotC had struck some kind of deal with that biker bar in the Mission District, but alas, no: D&D creator Dave Arneson’s new-ish company has announced a licensing agreement with WotC that will return Arneson’s Blackmoor campaign world to print,