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Proving once again that Peter Adkison has his thumb on the zeitgeist, Gen Con will be hosting the ENnies, the formerly Internet-only awards for D20 products. The link also has the breakdown of the award categories, but no nominees yet.

Sources tell us that Tyranny Games‘ The End RPG is back from the printer and shipping to distributors, so you can expect in in stores shortly. The “post-apocalypse” role-playing game has been revised and expanded for the Lost Souls Edition, with a Faux leather cover and gold embossing to boot.

Paradigm Concepts has announced they’ll be going to press with their Spell Decks for D&D3e in two weeks. I’ve seen these at GTS, and I have to say that this version of the spell card concept does everything right that the old TSR cards did wrong. The initial print run

WizKids has posted preliminary details of the upcoming DC HeroClix sets. The Hypertime Starter Set has images of the Joker and Superman figures, the Hypertime Booster Set has images of Harley Quinn and Batman, and the Premier Edition box has a pic of Plastic Man. All three sets should be

The Mongoose Publishing machine is chugging along at full speed, so D20 players beware. The company’s website has details on the four new releases planned for next month: The Slayer’s Guide to Dragons (penned by Gary Gygax) The Quintessential Elf The Planes: Zahhak – Ash Waste of the Abyss Encyclopaedia

Mongoose Publishing is finally giving us a look at the Judge Dredd RPG on the game’s new official website. Cruise around the site to see a few technical specs, the planned release schedule for both Judge Dredd and the Slaine RPG, and an 8-page PDF preview of the Judge Dredd

The Warmachine website has added a few more images of figures and concept art from the upcoming miniatures game. While no release date has been announced yet, Privateer Press has said it’s “quite likely” the rulebook will be included in both CD-ROM and book forms. For an idea of the

Want to see how good NWN will be at letting you create whatever you want? Go suck down the 241MB beta version of the Toolset. Here’s an introductory user guide. I’m not gonna be sucking down a 241MB anything anytime soon, so can someone report back on whether this is

At least I don’t think we’ve reported on this already. Go to town. We hope to have a short feature up with our Origins picks, slams, and generally entertaining bull-puckey in the next couple of weeks.

The prestigious annual German game award has announced its preliminary nominees. From these games, a short list of three will be picked next month, then a final. The Children’s Game award, born last year, is now getting its own full jury process as well. DVONN is the second game in

FFG has finally, formally announced the release date for the Dragonstar Guide to the Galaxy as May 28. This companion book to the Starfarer’s Handbookwill actually contain the background of the Dragon Empire, thereby making it clear to people at long last why they should buy the Starfarer’s Handbook. (Which

The May game of the month from Invisible City is here. Ziggurat is a pleasant reminder (for two or four players) that dominoes are good for more than just knocking over in sequence — they’re also good for piling up strategically in an effort to score the most points. If

Green Ronin has posted a preview of Secret College of Necromancy, the company’s latest D20 supplement and the second in its Arcana series. Game industry veterans David “Zeb” Cook (he did the original Oriental Adventures, remember?) and Wolfgang Baur (former Dragon Magazine editor), Secret College covers all the best dead

The latest newsletter from Rio Grande Games has some interesting announcements. For one thing, Dvonn, part of the Gipf series of interlocking abstract strategy games, has won a Mensa Select Award, making it the second Gipf entry to receive this distinction. Also interesting in a less braggy sort of way

After some minor negotiations with WotC, Necromancer Games will publish the D20 supplement Tome of Horrors, a “Compendium of New Monsters and Creatures Converted from First Edition to Third Edition.” The hardcover tome, headed by Creature Collection veteran Scott Greene, will be 300+ pages and will contain the following head