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A Game Of Thrones Gets Gamier

November 17, 2002 Mike Sugarbaker Uncategorized

For those who don’t fear the C in CCG (the first C, I mean), A Game of Thrones is some of the tastiest action that’s come out this year, and there are some heavy promotional deals impending for the Sea of Storms expansion. You can get these fancy prints autographed

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GW Plans Limited-Edition Talisman Core Set Reprint

November 17, 2002 Mike Sugarbaker Uncategorized

That’ll teach me never to listen to anything the guys at the GW retail stores say. In April 2003, you’ll be able to get a facsimile of the old Talisman core set, not the expansions, for $75 or so. They plan one printing and one printing only. Dear GW: games

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Bonga bonga bonga bonga bonga bonga bonga bonga bonga

November 17, 2002 Demian Katz Uncategorized

Invisible City Productions has struck again with the 35th free game of the month. This time around it’s Bonga Bonga, a simple game played with a bouncy ball and any flat surface. It’s extremely simple in concept and it manages to avoid being entirely competitive or cooperative, but it involves

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PvP leaves Dork Storm for Image

November 15, 2002 Allan Sugarbaker Uncategorized

Dork Storm Press (the home of Dork Tower, oddly enough) has announced it will no longer be marketing or distributing PvP comic books. PvP, the creation of Scott Kurtz, is parting ways with the Dork crew on friendly terms, and will now be part of the Image Comics family. From

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Armada X: One Shot Till You Get Enough

November 14, 2002 Mike Sugarbaker Uncategorized

The classic Michael Jackson disco track “Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough” is today’s pop culture reference. It’s been showing up in like half the things I read, ever since that karaoke night a couple days ago. I’m trying to kind of exorcise its power over me by mentioning it

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Chronicles of Arborell Just Keeps Growing

November 14, 2002 Demian Katz Uncategorized

Wayne Densley’s Chronicles of Arborell online gamebook series seems to be doing quite well. Although the second volume of the adventure, the reportedly massive Earth and Stone, is still not yet complete, the original volume, Windhammer, has been receiving quite a bit of attention. It is now a permanent part

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WordSnakes Sighted at Penny Games

November 14, 2002 Demian Katz Uncategorized

The Penny Games has just posted the rules to WordSnake, a new game for use with their Alpha Playing Cards. The game allows two to five players to simultaneously build words using their hands and a common pool of extra letters. If you like Scrabble but hate waiting for your

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Sword & Sorcery to bring back Gamma World

November 13, 2002 Allan Sugarbaker Uncategorized

Just when you thought you’d never see Gamma World again, and began mourning the loss of your mutants, Sword & Sorcery Studios announces that it has gained the rights from WotC to bring Gamma World back in a new form. The new edition (and subsequent game line) will be for

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WarMech background revealed by Mongoose

November 13, 2002 Allan Sugarbaker Uncategorized

Over on the ENWorld Forums, an interesting preview has shown up. Mongoose Publishing posted this thread giving the game background for its upcoming WarMech RPG. The lengthy background preview describes Earth circa 2089, and parallels could be drawn between the grim future described and the BattleTech setting (though at this

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Tome of Horrors ships

November 13, 2002 Allan Sugarbaker Uncategorized

Necromancer Games has shipped the Tome of Horrors, containing more than 400 monsters to harass and wound your characters with. As per the “First Edition Feel” Necromancer is always after, the book will give d20 players all the beasts from original AD&D that hadn’t yet crossed over to Third Edition.

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DC HeroClix: Kickin’ ass and Takin’ names

November 13, 2002 Allan Sugarbaker Uncategorized

According to the latest info from WizKids, the DC Heroclix CMG is an even bigger hit than some of us may have realized. According to today’s press release, DC HeroClix: Hypertime “has sold more than one million starter sets and booster packs, which translates into more than five million figures

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Wingnut Games SOAPs up

November 13, 2002 Allan Sugarbaker Uncategorized

Wingnut Games recently announced a publishing agreement with Ferry Bazelmans to bring his SOAP roleplaying game to print. Recently released as a PDF, SOAP is a game of “soap opera mayhem.” Yes, indeed. As the company blurb says, “your character is likely to be shot by ex-lovers, undergo a life-threatening

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Class of ’99 on schedule for Buffy CCG

November 13, 2002 Allan Sugarbaker Uncategorized

The cheerleader/vampire-fighter games just keep on coming. Score Entertainment has announced that Class of ’99, the new Buffy CCG expansion, is at distributors now and should arrive in stores on November 18. Each Class of ’99 booster will contain details on a contest to win more of the CCG, some

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Black Dawning Wolf at Mystic Eye

November 13, 2002 Allan Sugarbaker Uncategorized

Mystic Eye Games as added the Black Dawning Wolf to the free downloads for Nightmares & Dreams. This latest N & D web enhancement is in addition to the Necrosphinx and the short scenario, The Crawling Terror, which can both be found on the Hunt: Rise of Evil downloads page.

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No Gen Con For You!

November 12, 2002 Mike Sugarbaker Conventions, Industry

According to the GenCon.com front page, “Due to reorganization Gen Con So Cal has been pushed back to April 2004 and a new show, Gen Con Games Spectacular, will take place in Amsterdam in November of 2003.” First they make us drive, then they make us wait. *sigh* Are they

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