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Category: Miniatures Games

2010 Origins Award winners announced

June 29, 2010 Allan Sugarbaker Board Games, Card Games, Conventions, D20, Dungeons & Dragons, Geek Culture, Industry, Miniatures Games, Roleplaying Games Leave a comment

Though the news trickled out in other ways, the 2010 Origins Award winners have finally been announced. Among the highlights: the rerelease of Space Hulk beat out Small World for Best Board Game; Looney Labs continues its streak with a

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Monsterpocalypse film in the works

June 10, 2010 Allan Sugarbaker Board Games, Geek Culture, Industry, Miniatures Games Leave a comment

Hollywood’s been shopping for games again, and now DreamWorks may be courting Tim Burton to direct a feature film based on the Monsterpocalypse property. DreamWorks picked up the movie rights to Privateer Press’ collectible miniatures game last month, and is

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WizKids/NECA to develop Star Trek Clix game

June 8, 2010 Allan Sugarbaker Board Games, Geek Culture, Industry, Miniatures Games 3 comments

Though I doubt it will be the final frontier for the game, WizKids/NECA announced today that it will make a Clix game using the Star Trek license. More specifically, the company will create “HeroClix branded miniature games to be sold

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May a fifth be with you – tequila or something else, doesn’t matter

May 5, 2010 Mike Sugarbaker Card Games, Geek Culture, Miniatures Games, Roleplaying Games 4 comments

Catching up with some news: Green Ronin announces DC Adventures RPG on the Mutants and Masterminds engine. Great for GR, but I’m trying to imagine DC-owned characters I’d want to play with, and the only one coming to mind is

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Clix and other distant rumblings from GTS 2010

March 27, 2010 Allan Sugarbaker Board Games, Conventions, Dungeons & Dragons, Industry, Miniatures Games, Roleplaying Games One comment

Sadly, the OgreCave crew didn’t make it out to the GAMA Trade Show this year, but if we had, we’d probably be talking about the following news trickling out of Vegas right now (other than the Origins Awards nominees, of

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Origins Awards 2010 nominees announced

March 27, 2010 Allan Sugarbaker Board Games, Card Games, Conventions, D20, Dungeons & Dragons, Game Design, Industry, Miniatures Games, Roleplaying Games Leave a comment

As per the usual pattern, as the GAMA Trade Show ends, this year’s contenders for Origins Awards get sorted out and announced. As per the selections made by the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design, the nominees for 2010

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Wizards not planning to renew Star Wars license

January 28, 2010 Allan Sugarbaker Card Games, Industry, Miniatures Games, Roleplaying Games 7 comments

Earlier today, Wizards of the Coast made an announcement on the company’s message board confirming what has been rumored for a while now: when the Star Wars license comes up for renewal this May, Wizards will not seek to renew

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OgreCave’s Christmas Gift Guide 2009, part 3

December 13, 2009 Allan Sugarbaker Board Games, Card Games, Features, Gamebooks, Miniatures Games, OgreCave

If you plan to give gifts this holiday season – or better yet, receive them – you’ve surely been perusing local stores and forming a list. The Cave dwellers have done the same, in the third section of our OgreCave

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Beware of lurking ninja

December 5, 2009 Allan Sugarbaker Board Games, Card Games, Features, Geek Culture, Miniatures Games, Roleplaying Games 4 comments

Today is the Day of the Ninja, December 5th, and we nearly failed our Spot check. We didn’t manage to get a Games of the Ninja mini-feature put together this year (feel free to check out last year’s page, though),

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Can Wormhole make papercraft gaming work in the box?

December 4, 2009 Mike Sugarbaker Geek Culture, Industry, Miniatures Games One comment

This might be really dumb or really smart: I honestly can’t tell. Wormhole is a complete starship-combat minis game for $25 MSRP. How has this amazing feat been accomplished, you ask? Well, the models are printed on paper, without so

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NECA Buys WizKids, Clix, and Pirates Properties

September 14, 2009 Lee Valentine Board Games, Industry, Miniatures Games 4 comments

The National Entertainment Collectibles Association, Inc. (NECA) website reports that NECA has purchased the majority of the assets of WizKids, Inc. from The Topps Company, Inc., including the award-winning Clix family of games, which includes HeroClix, ActionClix, HorrorClix and SportsClix.

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PAX 2009: The Northwest really wants to kill you

September 11, 2009 Mike Sugarbaker Conventions, Geek Culture, Miniatures Games One comment

It turns out that when you get 70,000 gamers together, a couple of them will be sick. It also seems Allan is a robot and therefore impervious to H1N1. Or else my car’s AC doesn’t work very much like an

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Preview of Catalyst’s Leviathans at TGN

September 3, 2009 Allan Sugarbaker Miniatures Games, OgreCave 4 comments

For those of you whose ears perked up upon hearing of Catalyst Game Labs‘ steampunk airships game Leviathans, you should head over to Tabletop Gaming News for the first of three preview articles on the game. Some general development details

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Space Hulk returns to print

August 17, 2009 Mike Sugarbaker Board Games, Miniatures Games 15 comments

Yep, rumors on the internets were true: Games Workshop is bringing beloved boxed game Space Hulk back as a $99 limited edition on September 5th. If you’re into it, you might wanna hop on that preorder.

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Warmachine’s next big thing is a video game version under development

August 14, 2009 Mike Sugarbaker Computer and Console Games, Conventions, Miniatures Games Leave a comment

Privateer Press announced at a seminar today at Gen Con that developer WhiteMoon Dreams is underway on a digital version of Warmachine for… consoles? PCs? Both? Info is coming in via Twitter and is thus a little thin on the

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