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Category: Miniatures Games

Gamers: helping the forms exhaust their variety since 1971

August 3, 2009 Mike Sugarbaker Miniatures Games Leave a comment

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the exciting new tabletop miniatures game, Teddy Bears of the Caribbean.

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Family Games 100 contributor list announced

July 24, 2009 Allan Sugarbaker Board Games, Card Games, Geek Culture, Industry, Miniatures Games, Roleplaying Games Leave a comment

Following in the footsteps of the excellent Hobby Games: The 100 Best – which we recommended in our 2007 Christmas Gift Guide – Green Ronin has been hard at work on its follow-up book, Family Games: The 100 Best. Edited

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NECA buys HeroClix, selling exclusive fig at SDCC 2009

July 23, 2009 Allan Sugarbaker Board Games, Conventions, Industry, Miniatures Games 5 comments

Reports are trickling out of San Diego Comic Con of NECA Toys selling an exclusive HeroClix figure at the show. Yes, I said HeroClix – NECA is selling a Marvel HeroClix: Hammer of Thor figure called Thor’s Mighty Chariot, which

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Get ready to count the 4E jokes: interview on card-based RPG in development

July 14, 2009 Mike Sugarbaker Card Games, Industry, Miniatures Games, Roleplaying Games 3 comments

LivingDice is definitely a blog to keep in the ol’ aggregator – most recently, it’s brought Untold to our attention. It’s still under development – and maybe I’m cynical, but when I see someone developing a full color card-based roleplaying

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Privateer plans to Grind this fall

July 1, 2009 Allan Sugarbaker Board Games, Miniatures Games 5 comments

Privateer Press has plans for a new futuristic sports-ish board game called Grind, which at first glance seems like an offshoot of the WarMachine game. The new game will come “with several highly detailed plastic components, including six Runner steamjack

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2009 Origins Award winners

June 28, 2009 Allan Sugarbaker Board Games, Card Games, Conventions, D20, Dungeons & Dragons, Game Design, Geek Culture, Industry, Miniatures Games, Roleplaying Games 4 comments

We’ve known the nominees for a while now, and resisted judging too harshly for having a t-shirt in the “Game Accessory” category. This year’s winners were awarded in a ceremony overseen by James Ernest last night at Origins. A notable

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Upper Deck Signs Long-Term Deal with Marvel

June 26, 2009 Lee Valentine Card Games, Industry, Miniatures Games One comment

Today Upper Deck Entertainment signed a multi-year licensing deal to use characters from the Marvel Universe. Covered products will include trading card games (TCGs), miniature games and trading cards. The agreement also includes rights to develop products based on Marvel’s

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BattleTech’s “Unseen” revealed by Catalyst

June 25, 2009 Allan Sugarbaker Board Games, Industry, Miniatures Games 3 comments

Catalyst Game Labs is continuing its quest to fulfill BattleTech fans’ every wish by bringing back the out-of-print illustrations for several mech models. The press release has more: In 1996 numerous images originally licensed from several Japanese anime sources were

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Wizards rewarding customers this weekend

June 11, 2009 Allan Sugarbaker Card Games, Dungeons & Dragons, Industry, Miniatures Games, Roleplaying Games Leave a comment

Perhaps as a warm-up to next week’s Free RPG Day, Wizards of the Coast is holding a starting tomorrow, June 12, and running through Sunday, June 14. At participating retail stores, gamers who buy WotC products totaling $15 or more

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OgreCave Gaming News Update: Cornering folks at KublaCon ’09

June 1, 2009 Allan Sugarbaker Board Games, Card Games, Conventions, Dungeons & Dragons, Geek Culture, Industry, Interviews, Miniatures Games, Roleplaying Games 3 comments

Another convention, another salvo of OgreCave Gaming News Update interviews! This time we made it out to KublaCon ’09 in Burlingame, CA, just south of San Francisco. Four new interviews from the show are at your disposal: Harley Stroh (Goodman

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GAMA Trade Show ’09 interviews, and the Gaming News Update

April 29, 2009 Allan Sugarbaker Board Games, Card Games, Conventions, Industry, Interviews, Miniatures Games, OgreCave, Roleplaying Games 13 comments

We’ve had some delays here at OgreCave, largely due to a problem with the podcasts (and with finding enough time to fix it). However, it looks like our audio software glitch is identified and quarantined, so let’s move ahead with

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Catalyst drops 'Classic' from Battletech for 25th Anniversary

April 2, 2009 Allan Sugarbaker Board Games, Industry, Miniatures Games Leave a comment

Just to make sure no one gets confused, Catalyst Game Labs, which has steadily worked on the ShadowRun and Classic BattleTech game lines for the last few years, is dropping the “Classic” designation and just going with BattleTech, as it

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Audio Report: Autumn madness

March 3, 2009 Allan Sugarbaker Industry, Miniatures Games, OgreCave, Roleplaying Games 4 comments

As it was held hostage for a time by real life woes and computer wackiness, we’re pleased to finally present this recently arrived refugee episode of the OgreCave Audio Report. Held over from just before the Christmas season, this episode

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Scrye magazine shutting down

January 31, 2009 Allan Sugarbaker Card Games, Industry, Miniatures Games 5 comments

Collectible card and miniatures players might be interested to know that Scrye magazine, the self-proclaimed “Guide to Collectible Games”, will end its lengthy run with its April 2009 issue. Started in 1993 at the height of the Magic: The Gathering

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Fantasy Flight holiday sale is on 'til the 9th

December 3, 2008 Mike Sugarbaker Board Games, Card Games, Miniatures Games, Roleplaying Games 10 comments
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