Category: Industry

Every now and again, close study of the Daily Illuminator is rewarding. Steve Jackson doesn’t like the nomination process of the annual Origins Awards, which ends tomorrow (the nomination process, I mean), and today on the Ill, he’s telling the world. Interesting read. BTW, the permanent link is here for

I suppose it was inevitable, considering the popularity of the Warhammer 40,000 CCG : Sabertooth Games has had 85% of the company bought by Games Workshop. The prediction is that this will result in higher product quality, a crossover of popular WH40K artists, and a minor delay in the release

I always forget to check ICv2 and then find great news there two weeks later, so it’s no surprise that I missed it on Christmas Day. But that was when WizKids announced they’re spinning off Ral Partha. Effective on Tuesday (that’s the first of the new year, if you’re… dumb),

While the RPG department at Decipher gains momentum by the day, it looks like their CCG department is having its legs cut out from beneath it. On the company’s website today, Decipher CEO Warren Holland provided extensive quotes from a July 2000 presentation made to Lucasfilm executives. The quotes were

Bastion Press announced two new additions to its Board of Directors: Ryan Dancey and Cathleen Adkison. If you’ve never heard of those names, go review the press release. Of course, if you’ve never heard those names, there’s a few other names you probably missed. We’ll start with a little company

According to a recent press release, WizKids has sold off some of the Ral Partha rights to Iron Wind Metals, which plans to continue some of the product lines. Bravo, I say… as long as the figures live up to the Ral Partha standard. Guess Iron Wind will carry on

One of the pillars of the gaming industry, Wargames West, will be closing its doors for good at the end of this month. CEO Wayne Godfrey sent out this message today to clients and industry friends: After twenty years of business in our industry, I have decided to close Wargames

ICv2 reports that WizKids has opened a retail store in Redmond, WA (yes, home of the Microsoft campus), in a highly youth-visible location. The stated purpose of the store is advance playtesting of new games and expansions, not an eventual global empire. “[ExecVP Martin] Stever told us that WizKids has

The other site I work at, RPGnet, has announced the winners of the 2001 RPGnet Awards, also known as the Buzzies. These awards give recognition to the image, promotion and creation of products in the RPG industry. And the winners are: Most Anticipated Pre-launch of a Game: Lord of the

John Tynes, Pagan Publishing principal and co-creator of the justly praised Delta Green series of Call of Cthulhu supplements, recently announced on his weblog that the Pagans have signed a deal with an unspecified game developer to put DG on your PC. He says: “[W]ork is underway. The project is

Icv2 and other sources have reported that Zocchi Distribution is shutting down. The general slowdown in the economy, plus the effects of the September 11th tragedy, were sighted as major factors to the distributor’s unfortunate demise. I’ve been hearing that today was the company’s last day, but considering their plans

Yep, it’s live and open for business. Come on over to The Gables and join in for a while. If you’re lucky, one of the Victorian manor’s butlers will give you a sugar candy. 🙂

James Ernest, proud father of a baby girl as of yesterday (congratulations to you and Carol!), released details of the long-awaited Cheapass project Diceland to the Cheapasses mailing list today: Diceland is a tabletop game played with large paper dice, about 2 inches to a side. It’s a cross between