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
Category: Miniatures Games
Pinnacle invites you to rip, mix and burn – IN HELL
Pinnacle has posted a PDF preview of their new skirmish minis game Rippers. The six-page preview is all story – what the minis gamers call “fluff” without any pejorative intent – but I’d lay odds that the rules are very similar to the Showdown! skirmish rules based on Savage Worlds.
Cheap “laughs” at the expense of a game? company
You know, like how poor, innocent ethnic restaurants will put “the ‘best’ food in town” on their menus? I just want to point out that, thanks to a misconfigured HTML character set, the new official product page for Pirates of the Spanish Main has some amusingly placed question marks in
Dwarven Reforged
The fine folks at Dwarven Forge have made several website improvements, adding a wish list to the shopping cart, and a message board. Next month, in addition to having the new Sci-Fi sets hit stores, the company will also put a “Tile Construction Kit” into place on the website. Finally,
Andy Chambers leaves GW
Most of our readers are going, “Who dat,” but the Warhammer hardcore have been whispering about this online for at least a week. Internal sources confirmed today on message boards that longtime Warhammer 40,000 lead designer and very nice chap Andy Chambers is leaving the Games Workshop nest. He oversaw
GTS Day 3 press mock- uh, I mean wrapup
I only link to to point out that I was right. Also, I didn’t mention it before but I had vague wishes/suspicions that the name Chop Shop might be some kind of obscure shoutout to RoboRally, and now that I’ve heard it involves robots, well dammit, ¡viva la Twonky! We
GTS Day 2 press wrapup
would be intriguing if it weren’t for the fact that every catalog-like thing that I’ve ever seen Wizards release has contained something that was either misnamed or actually cancelled some time after said catalog went to press. As it is, it’s just funny. Maybe Chop Shop is the boys’ equivalent
Cardboard heroes, eh? How about cardboard <i>everything?</i>
No disrespect to the fine SJG line of folded paper, but, as in so many other genres, the Japanese have us sort of outclassed. This blog Boing Boing has been nuts for the folded paper over the last couple of days, including these Star Wars models that might be of
Live from GTS 2004: WotC wins crowd with GI Joe
I just staggered back from Peter Adkison’s party (thanks, Peter!), and find Mike has one-upped me. Curses! I’ll get you, evil brother of mine. Anyway… To kick off the banquet presentations here at the GAMA Trade Show, Wizards of the Coast gave a recap of a successful 2003, and previewed
Archfiends miniatures gallery up at Wizards
Though the images have been floating around the web for a couple of weeks already, Wizards of the Coast has put up an official figure gallery for the entire Archfiends Expansion of D&D Miniatures. They’ve also done a close-up preview of some figs from all four alignment factions, most recently
WizKids wants your opinion
WizKids has a customer survey they want you and all your buddies to fill out. To compensate you for your time in answering the questions, you’ll be entered in a drawing that could result in a HeroClix Galactus figure, a MechWarrior: Dark Ages DropShip, all four of the Mage Knight
D&D Minis go Huge in June
The price increase on Expansion Packs of D&D Miniatures didn’t come to pass, thankfully. At least, not yet. The Archfiends set releasing next month will still carry the MSRP of $9.99 per box, but the price will go up with the Giants of Legends set in June. Perhaps in an
MLB SportsClix hits stores
The much-hyped MLB SportsClix becomes available today, and begins its true test to see how well it can sell. While the baseball miniatures’ stats are based directly on the previous MLB season’s official stats for each player, I haven’t found many HeroClix or Mage Knight fans that are anxious to
OgreCave Preview: CyborGladiators
Matthew’s brought us a pre-release look at CyborGladiators by Firefly Games. I got to test out the game at last October’s RPGnet Game Day: Oakland, and ended up losing a limb, then the combat to a really tough insectoid. The book’s at the printer right now, so see what you
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