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Monday, May 17, 2010

May 17th, 2010: Lee Valentine says...
Days of Wonder to Release Fourth Expansion for Small World

Days of Wonder just announced Tales & Legends, the fourth expansion for their award-winning area control boardgame Small World. Tales & Legends will feature a deck of 54 large-format Event cards. In every round except the first, an event card will change the way that the game plays. This expansion was created by Laurent Verrier, Special Prize Winner of the 2009 Small World Design Contest. Small World was named Game of the Year by Games magazine in 2009 and had the highest first year sales of any Days of Wonder product since Ticket to Ride. Like the base game, Tales & Legends will be available in six languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Dutch, and Japanese. Tales & Legends is expected to hit hobby game stores in late June or early July with a suggested retail price of $15.00.

Friday, April 23, 2010

April 23rd, 2010: Lee Valentine says...
Days of Wonders Has New Breakthrough

Continuing the WWII-themed gaming news, in May, Days of Wonder will be releasing an expansion for its boardgame Memoir ’44. The new Breakthrough Expansion kit will contain two extra-large, 9-panel, double-sided map boards (13 x 17 hexes deep). Also included will be 15 scenarios for use with this expansion, designed by Jacques David and Memoir ’44 author, Richard Borg. These scenarios cover the Western and Eastern Fronts, as well as the Mediterranean and Pacific Theaters. Breakthrough is not a stand-alone set, and requires the base game to play. It is strongly recommended for some of the scenarios that you own other previously released expansions for the game. The MSRP is $30.00.

Friday, April 2, 2010

April 2nd, 2010: Lee Valentine says...
Days of Wonder to Release Small World for the iPad

With the impending release of the Apple iPad we are bound to see new games intended specifically for that platform. One of the first hobby games getting ported over to the new touchscreen media device is Days of Wonder’s hit game Small World. Small World is a fantasy wargame that has won Games Magazine’s traditional game of the year award. We’ve also reviewed it on OgreCave.Com. The iPad release will cost $4.99 and will be available from Apple’s App Store. This version will only handle two players in a face-to-face, hot seat mode of play by sharing the device. Unfortunately it seems that there won’t be a five-player version over the wireless network in this release, but at least this is a start. Future expansions are planned for the product for separate purchase and download.

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

February 17th, 2010: Lee Valentine says...
Thunderstone Sells Out for Alderac

Thunderstone has had strong sales for Alderac Entertainment Group. AEG is currently sold out of the product. They are planning another print run equalling the size of the first one. They also intend to print the game in 5 other languages shortly (via partners). Thunderstone: Wrath of the Elements, the first expansion for the game, should have an estimated launch in the second quarter of 2010. Check out our recent review of Thunderstone.

Monday, November 23, 2009

November 23rd, 2009: Mike Sugarbaker says...
Taste the donut: FreeMarket RPG beta available

There’s still some capacity in the “Colony Program,” a.k.a. beta-PDF giveaway, for FreeMarket, the transhumanist RPG by Luke Crane of Burning Wheel and Jared Sorenson of inSpectres, Action Castle and many others. The beta is capped at 1000 copies, just like the lavish print edition planned for next year.

Me, I think everyone who’s interested in the technology of roleplaying should have a look at this. It’s the first game I know of that truly reverses “kill them and take their stuff” – all the way into “no one can die and you want to give them all presents.” And yes, it makes that work, turning it into a tense, motivating, probably hilarious saga of social climbing and idealisms of all sorts. It’s the most developed, wide-ranging and at times gleefully evil take on the concept “all combat is social combat” that I’ve yet seen. I’m surprised it isn’t catching more hate from the usual Internet suspects, because it is a direct and vicious frontal assault on roleplaying’s indulgence of the Geek Social Fallacies.

Thursday, November 12, 2009

November 12th, 2009: Mike Sugarbaker says...
Bella Sara now has flocked pastel-colored collectible minis

For all your Warhammer 40K proxying needs!

Sunday, October 4, 2009

October 4th, 2009: Demian Katz says...
Windhammer Prize Gamebook Entries Ready for Votes

The second year of the Windhammer Prize has reached the voting phase. This time around, there are seven mini-gamebooks available for your consideration. Take a look and cast your vote — there’s a cash prize at stake here! If the experience inspires you to write your own entry, you’ve got a whole year until the next contest….

Monday, September 21, 2009

September 21st, 2009: Mike Sugarbaker says...
Privateer previews Warmachine MkII rules in full

Wow, it managed to get by me that Warmachine was getting its rules completely rebooted. The reboot doesn’t go to press for a bit but Privateer has released a layout-incomplete version as a free PDF. “Layout-incomplete” means the rules won’t be changing, but the backgrounds and art aren’t in place, which on the main rules text is actually mostly rather nice but is a bit of a pain on unit cards. I’m not anywhere near enough of a WM geek to be able to say what’s changed in the rules exactly, but I’ve always had a fondness for the game; if you’re curious to look beyond the quick-start rules, this isn’t a bad way to do it.

Monday, August 31, 2009

August 31st, 2009: Mike Sugarbaker says...
Game Chef changes hands, faces, channels

The DJA-nominated Game Chef mini-RPG competition is on for 2009, and it’s now being operated by Push editor Jonathan Walton, who’s given it a great look, a rules overhaul, and a very clever and well-executed new means of communication. Whereas the last several Game Chefs have had dedicated web forums, Walton is encouraging competitors to start free weblogs and is aggregating the results through several feeds. It’s a new approach to community that I think will be a good fit for the contest, and new approaches to community are certainly needed in the RPG world. Also, the tight time restriction of GC is now optional amidst the new achievement-badge-style contest schema; if you’re long on ideas but short on free time, take a look at those.

August 31st, 2009: Lee Valentine says...
Disney to Buy Marvel

After escaping the Green Goblin and the Sandman for years, Spider-Man will soon be caught by a mere mouse — Mickey Mouse. In a $4 billion deal, Disney is acquiring 5,000 Marvel-branded characters and other associated properties. For the gaming industry, this might make Marvel licensing available only to the “big boys”, because Disney’s licensing division is notoriously harder for small companies to navigate without a Disney-vetted licensing agent or a stable of other successfully managed licenses in the game company’s portfolio. Still, as Marvel’s value as a licensor has gone up in recent years, the licensing fees may have already put Marvel out of the reach of many game companies anyway. The guys at Upper Deck renewed their license at just the right time. Feel free to comment with additional details or speculations. The full story is here.

Monday, August 24, 2009

August 24th, 2009: Mike Sugarbaker says...
Thinking outside the box and the envelope

Small Box Games has, ironically enough, no games in small boxes: they do cloth bags, custom printed with cover info and such. Games are around the $20 mark, seem to have decent components, look kinda interesting, and catch some love on BoardGameGeek here and there.

That’s good, internet. Now bring me some more.

Thursday, August 13, 2009

August 13th, 2009: Mike Sugarbaker says...
New edition of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay announced

Yeah, whole new edition… and it looks fascinating. Possibly fascinating in the car-wreck sense, but it’s a bit early to know for sure. Also, it’s a box set at a planned MSRP of $99 – which people will see as a bold step, even though it looks like a better deal than the D&D core books plus dice and power cards. No announced release date that I can see, and it’s an FFG production, so caveat anticipator.

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

August 12th, 2009: Allan Sugarbaker says...
Reaper to produce Pathfinder RPG miniatures

Paizo Publishing announced an agreement today that Reaper Miniatures will produce monthly metal miniatures to support Paizo’s Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. Paizo has had excellent miniatures through Crocodile Games in the past, but now we’ll get to see what Reaper does with the line. No word yet on whether any preview figures are at Gen Con this week – a Fall release is expected for the start of the line. The full press release is below.
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August 12th, 2009: Mike Sugarbaker says...
Fascinating details on LEGO’s board game line

BrettSpiel has a good-sized interview with freshman designer Cephas Howard, who was on the cusp of getting a couple of board games published when he landed what I think we can all agree is a pretty sweet job: lead designer for the entire LEGO Games line. (Although apparently Herr Knizia is credited on a couple of them, and consulted on many of the rest.) Check the hot piece-prototyping action on the dice there. Howard also confirms that game hacking – with good recommended methodology, even! – is an explicit part of the products. These things are gonna be hot, hot fun.

Thursday, August 6, 2009

August 6th, 2009: Mike Sugarbaker says...
There is crying in Elfball, as long as it’s noble, immortal crying

Just a quick right-on to Impact! Miniatures, who are doing some much-needed exploration of the Blood Bowl gamespace with their appealingly lo-fi Elfball sets. Check the rules PDF here if you care to. They’ve also acquired a fantasy-themed basketball game and, well, if you’ve ever wished for some white-metal hockey sticks on a sprue, they’ve got the hookup.

(While we’re talking Blood Bowl, I can’t remember if I gave a review of the PC version or not. I will tell you that I’ve played the DS version a bit and it’s actually better. The isometric view is unfortunate, though; I prefer nice, square grids, Advance Wars-style.)

Thursday, July 30, 2009

July 30th, 2009: Mike Sugarbaker says...
Two RPG events that should be happening regularly in every town

First, the Tucson Gamemasters’ Conference. More or less speaks for itself.

Then, the weekly Dungeons and Divas game at Guardian Games here in Portland. An article ran on this in one of the local alternative weeklies, and that on its own is interesting both as a barometer of perceptions of D&D as well as of what is perceived as cultural progress for it.

Thursday, July 23, 2009

July 23rd, 2009: Lee Valentine says...
Richard Garfield Announces Next Game

Gamasutra reports that Mind Control Software is joining with Magic: The Gathering‘s creator Richard Garfield and Skaff Elias to produce a new game called Mind Twist. The game will be playable on iPhones and as a Flash application on Facebook. Apparently this will be a wargame playable in 10 minutes or so. A free army will be offered to beginners, with more armies being made available for purchase as time goes on.

Friday, July 3, 2009

July 3rd, 2009: Lee Valentine says...
Big Things in Store for Midnight RPG Setting

The folks at Gamer Dome noticed recently that Fantasy Flight Games has pulled materials from its award-winning Midnight RPG series from its website. This probably has something to do with the upcoming U.S. DVD debut of the Midnight Chronicles, a film set in the dark world of the Midnight RPG setting. The Midnight Chronicles blog reported the release of the French version of the DVD on June 10, 2009. ICv2 reports that the U.S. version of the DVD will be available in September with an MSRP of $14.95.

July 3rd, 2009: Demian Katz says...
Gamebook Competition Warming Up

In case you’re looking for something to do this holiday weekend, you might be interested to know that the second year of the Windhammer Prize was announced last month and will be accepting entries this fall.  The contest is designed to encourage creativity within the realm of solo gamebook writing, and there is a cash prize.  To check out some of last year’s entries and get a better idea of what this is all about, visit this link.

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

July 1st, 2009: Mike Sugarbaker says...
This is the tweetfest we promised you, and this is the slideshow it turned into

So it turns out that the sort of person who both uses Twitter and goes to gaming cons apparently forgets all about the former once they’re playing things at the latter. I am as guilty of this as everyone else. Fortunately for us board game fans who missed Origins, this dude Ted Cheatham took some photos, taped some audio, and put the one over the other. The result is a bit richer than a straight podcast but not so demanding-feeling as video interviews. Right on!

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

June 30th, 2009: Lee Valentine says...
Blood Bowl Now Available for the PC

The Games Workshop Ltd. miniatures game Blood Bowl is now available for the PC, Nintendo DS, and Sony PSP.  Wikipedia reports that the portable versions of this game are missing career league play and other functionality that is available in the PC release. For those who can’t wait for their local store to carry this product, a downloadable version is available for purchase for $49.99.

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

June 17th, 2009: Lee Valentine says...
Mutant Chronicles Movie on Sci Fi Channel

The Mutant Chronicles movie is coming to the small screen on the Sci Fi Channel (soon to be the SyFy channel). For those who blinked and missed it, Mutant Chronicles premiered in theaters in April 2009 and its already coming to TV.  That’s gotta be one of the shortest turnarounds from big screen to small screen on record for anything other than an independent film.  The hobby game-inspired movie stars Thomas Jane and co-stars Ron Perlman, John Malkovich, and Devon Aoki. Its first Sci Fi showing is Saturday, June 27 at 9 p.m., followed by a planned repeat on Sunday, June 28 at 6:30 p.m.

The movie’s official site (with trailer) is here.

Matt Forbeck gives a Mutant Chronicles author’s perspective on the film here.

Friday, May 29, 2009

May 29th, 2009: Lee Valentine says...
Toys ‘R’ Us Buys F.A.O. Schwarz

Toys ‘R’ Us just announced that it has acquired financially ailing toy store icon F.A.O. Schwarz. While it has only a couple of locations (at Fifth Avenue in New York City and at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas), F.A.O. Schwarz is 145 years old and its flagship Manhattan store draws in millions of visitors each year. This makes F.A.O. Schwarz an historical gem in the Toys ‘R’ Us crown.  During the fourth quarter of last year, cost cutting measures gave Toys ‘R’ Us an 11% rise in profits even as sales declined.

For the detailed story follow this link.

Thursday, May 21, 2009

May 21st, 2009: Lee Valentine says...
New Multiplayer MTG format starting September

Wizards of the Coast has announced a new set of products called Planechase for Magic the Gathering which will focus on multiplayer gameplay. Planechase game packs will include 70 cards, a special die (yes dice in MTG), and a strategy insert with multiplayer rules. While MTG has long had multiplayer formats such as “five color magic”, “two headed giant”, and “emperor”, this release is noteworthy in that the Planechase products include “plane cards” specifically designed for playing just this format.  Planechase release events will be held September 4-6, 2009.

Monday, March 30, 2009

March 30th, 2009: Mike Sugarbaker says...
I went to GameStorm and some stuff happened

First, The Free RPG Blog is rad. Just had to get that off my mind.

Now: GameStorm! The best thing about Portland’s largest game convention is that it’s smaller than anything in Seattle. This makes all the industry heavyweights who live in Seattle feel all relaxed when they come here. I’d tell you everything I gleaned in conversation as a result, but that’d end the relaxation pretty quickly.

Andrew and Kristin Looney of Looney Labs were guests of the con and waaaay overshared on their plans for the rest of the year – they told their secret Christmas gift, for crying out loud! But one thing I doubt they will mind me telling you about is Are You The Traitor?, a card game which, as you might guess from the title, plays in the are-you-a-werewolf? gamespace. It’s similar to Covert Action in some ways, but I found it easier to grasp – basically it’s a Werewolf/Mafia-ish experience for fewer players in less time. They’ll have it out for Origins, and even the haters are going to have to admit that it is freaking gorgeous.

Bucephalus Games was showing a whole lot of stuff coming out soon. I liked the look of Bill of Rights by Mike Selinker along with Teeuwynn Woodruff of D&D fame, and a Mr. Dan Tibbles. It’s kind of like Nomic Lite, but lots of games are like Nomic Lite… but Bill of Rights is more so. Also showing, not from Bucephalus but perhaps in a similar vein to Bill of Rights, was T.P.O.C. (The Politics Of Cannibals) by Stractical Concepts (not kidding about that name). Didn’t get a chance to play it, but any political game where you can throw swing voters into a cauldron of stew has something going for it.

I saw a game called Space Alert getting a good measure of play; apparently it’s from the designer of Galaxy Trucker and is along the same lines – build a spaceship, hope it doesn’t get torn to hell by stuff – but it’s co-op, way crazier, and timed by means of an included audio CD. It doesn’t have a US publication date yet.

On the RPG front, new releases were largely of the ashcan-and-leaflet variety. Be on the lookout for Advanced Sea Dracula Second Edition, though. And should you find yourself in one of those normal-people bookstores, check the humor section for Michael Fiegel’s Ninja Burger Employee Handbook, which he was showing alongside HELLAS but which doesn’t have hobby-channel distribution.

Lastly: Mutant Chronicles movie trailer. Certainly looks… like a movie.

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