If you lust for the Warmachine, stay up late on Thursday night and get your order in for the new, not-in-stores-for-a-while box, chock full of “Magnus the Traitor and his personal battlegroup”. They’ll also be selling the box at Gen Con, natch. On a side note (literally), the Iron Kingdoms
WizKids creates publishing arm, takes over Girl Genius
If this is the big announcement, some heads are gonna be pissed off. But the announcement about Girl Genius is interesting; did they acquire it from the Foglios outright, intellectual property and all, or are they simply handling the publishing side of things? Nothing on Foglio’s site even mentions the
Invisible City Encounters Sprawl
Invisible City Productions has just released its forty-third free game of the month. In Sprawl, three to eight players use Icehouse pieces to simulate (in abstract strategy fashion) the process of urban growth and suburban sprawl. As always, lots of variants are included to keep things interesting for a long
Lore Gaming Returns
After disappearing for a little while, Lore Gaming, the future publisher of the Lore: Uprising, Lore: Origins and Lore: Hunters RPGs, has returned to the gaming scene. The first game, Lore: Uprising, is due out in the second quarter of 2004, and the search for beta testers in the Hampton
Human Head to preview Dracula’s Revenge
Looks like I won’t have to dig for details on Human Head Studios’ upcoming boardgame. At both GenCon and Gamefest Milwaukee, the company will be previewing Gothica: Dracula’s Revenge, a two-player game set a few years after Bram Stoker’s Dracula novel, where Dracula and his forces face off against Van
Unbidden Arrives
Politically Incorrect Games announced the release today of Unbidden, an 80-page PDF roleplaying game of “modern horror – both psychological and real.” Using a variation of the game mechanic that powers Shady Gulch and The Colonies, the new game imposes both power and madness on unique individuals, forcing them to
Diana Jones Nominees Announced
The increasingly coveted Diana Jones award will once again change hands at GenCon ’03, and the short list has been announced of who or what will be awarded the remains of a burnt game. Created in part to recognise worthy people or items in the industry missed by other awards,
Gameboard Breaks 3.5 Street Date, Makes Many Friends
ICv2 reports that Gameboard Distributors has already shipped D&D 3.5 and is selling them at Gameboard retail stores. This is despite the WotC mandated street date of July 18, and despite the fact that Gameboard is not an authorized WotC distributor. Many folks in the industry are angry at this,
Taking a Dip online has real sanction?
So I was nosing around the Avalon Hill site tonight, given the recent news, and I found this: the complete rules to Diplomacy as a PDF, from the publisher. This is pretty interesting to me, because I remember back when I was investigating the online Diplomacy scene, when physical copies
Avalon Hill dead again?
Veteran designer Greg Costikyan reports in the second-to-latest entry of his weblog that Hasbro has killed off its Avalon Hill division. I can’t find any confirmation of this, but I have heard talk of a “small box” version of Risk 2210 coming out soon… perhaps a smaller box to accommodate
Human Head Rolls Onward
Yes, the folks who created the Rune PC game are continuing their expansion into the tabletop game market (or “adventure game” market, a moniker I still find amusing), and a new website is the next logical step. As already reported, the first Human Head RPG product will be The Redhurst
Rumor Confirmed: Dungeoneer at Atlas
Atlas Games has just confirmed the rumor we reported a month ago, stating that Dungeoneer will indeed be published by Atlas from now on. The game was transferred to Atlas from Citizen Games, which admitted a lack of funds was making the proper support of Dungeoneer impossible. The sold-out dungeon-delving
Everything's Getting GOO-ey
As Mike reported at Origins, Big Eyes, Small Mouth d20 was released upon an unsuspecting world, and all of the rules content is Open Gaming Content. Now has taken the extra step of creating a BESM d20 System Reference Document, taking those three special little initials (SRD) and making them
Babylon 5 Previews Build Anticipation
Now that the Babylon 5 RPG is fully operational (read: shipping to stores), Mongoose Publishing has multiple preview downloads available on the B5 section of the company’s website. Currently, three preview downloads are available, including the official character sheet. I’m waiting. Gimme, gimme, gimme.
GenCon Indy Chat at WotC Site
You’ve got less than half an hour to get to the Wizards.community chat on GenCon Indianapolis with Mr GenCon himself, Peter Adkison. The chat’s today at 5pm PST, so if you don’t already have a password at the WotC community section, you may be out of luck today (it can