Category: Industry

Though details are sketchy, we’ve been hearing that around 25 employees have been laid off at WizKids. According to rumor, this includes HeroClix guy Jeff Grubb, though so far we can only confirm that WizKids has let go of Dave Nieker, their Advertising & PR Manager. This particular case was

In an interview at SciFi.com, Underworld director and co-author Len Wiseman mentions a sequel and prequel that may come to pass (or at least, they may have before the White Wolf lawsuit; the interview was completed before the suit was filed). Wiseman is quoted as saying “I’m obsessed with seeing

In case you missed it a few days back, White Wolf posted an update on their legal case against the makers of the movie Underworld (Sony Pictures, Screen Gems and Lakeshore Entertainment). While it looks as though the movie won’t be stopped from reaching theaters, the press release states that

Penny Arcade weighs in on the White Wolf vs. Sony suit today. The comic distorts things a lot, but the news post is balanced and entertaining – that’s just how they do up in the P.A. They have also “secured” a copy of the legal filing as a PDF (from

Revealed in the details of Hasbro’s just-released quarterly report are gruesome numbers regarding the retail arm of Wizards of the Coast. From the article: “With no purchaser for the chain, and an apparent inability to make most of the stores profitable, [Hasbro] appears to be willing to continue to close

The Gen Con website has a poll up that should interest anyone who’s even remotely considering attending next year. It seems that a major NASCAR race, the Brickyard 400, has changed its dates to the originally proposed dates for Gen Con ’04. While the convention space itself wouldn’t be affected,

There’s no permanent URL for it that we can find, so we’ve pasted it below: Steve Jackson Games is closing its miniatures department, effective at the end of the month. As always, Steve’s honesty and directness in corporate communications is unrivalled and appreciated – “[t]he reason for the shutdown is

Since I’m new to this whole gaming without batteries thing, I figured I should just jump right in and figure out where it’s headed. I was in the mood for some Cassandrean predictions for the fate of the gaming industry so I headed over to a seminar on that very

Having just returned from the 2003 Diana Jones Award ceremony, I can now inform you that the traveling trophy has now been jointly awarded to two worthy parts of the game industry, selected for “seeing something missing, and filling that void”: Jordan Weisman, founder of WizKids, and Nobilis: Second Edition.

If this is the big announcement, some heads are gonna be pissed off. But the announcement about Girl Genius is interesting; did they acquire it from the Foglios outright, intellectual property and all, or are they simply handling the publishing side of things? Nothing on Foglio’s site even mentions the

The increasingly coveted Diana Jones award will once again change hands at GenCon ’03, and the short list has been announced of who or what will be awarded the remains of a burnt game. Created in part to recognise worthy people or items in the industry missed by other awards,