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Only a couple days left in our “Borrow the Car” contest. If you haven’t done so already, go read the rules (don’t worry, they’re short) and get your entry to us before midnight PST on Sunday. Just a hundred words or less convincing your dad to give you the car

Mean Streets: The RPG of Classic Film Noir, a complete downloadable game with a planned line of supplements, is coming soon from Three-Sixty Publishing, who have not only licensed the XPG system from fellow PDF-meisters Deep7, but will be selling through Deep7’s web site. Three-Sixty has a number of other

I admit it – I forgot to go to Gamegrene for a while. So I only just found this article. It certainly looks like a catch-22: too many revised editions and supplements and people complain about being bled dry, too few and they’ll say it’s a “dead game.” However, there’s

Dear God, help us.

Citizen Games has announced plans for Way of the Witch, a d20 sourcebook all about you-know-what. Four popular female authors (Janet Pack, Jean Rabe, Megan Robertson, and Christina Stiles) will pack the 128-page perfect bound book with new spells, prestige classes, skills, feats and other rules useful for witchcraft. Background

The Gaming Industry Disaster Fund Auction, founded by Gary Thompson of The Fiction & Fantasy Network, will be shutting down one week from today after a final grace period. Established to raise relief funds for victims of the September 11th tragedy in New York City, the Auction was a rallying

In the cool department, there’s Hybrid, a 60mm (read: big) scale minis skirmish game that’ll be the first to use their “maglock” system as pervasively as it should have been used in the first place. According to flyers distributed at GTS, all weapons and armor will be magnetically attachable and

People have been talking about on the Cheapasses mail list for a few weeks, but the details have only just come to light on the web page. It’s, like, a board game and stuff. Also filtering out from Cheapass consciousness is , apparently this year’s card game in the Falling

Rio Grande Games has posted their thirtieth newsletter. Although there are no groundbreaking announcements, Carcassonne fans will be pleased to hear that a second expansion set, which adds some new tiles and provides enough pieces to allow a sixth player, will be out soon. Also described and pictured in the

Adamant Entertainment has announced plans for the second edition of Underworld, the property it acquired from Synister Creative Studios. Underworld Second Edition will relaunch the game with all of the original materials, plus the contents of the first supplement, DownBelow, and various other additions. The new hardcover book is scheduled

We are not kidding. Wizards has the press release up. Doesn’t this seem like it could become a bit dodgy? “Here, we’re gonna move the preeminent game convention from its 30-year home to a whole new location, aaaaaaaaaand hereyouhandleeverythingokaycool.” But I can’t imagine Adkison would go into this blind, and

Todd Breitenstein, veteran of Journeyman Press, has formed Twilight Creations to bring Zombies back to the people. When Darkness Comes takes the variable-board mechanic of Zombies and adds RPG-like character creation. Art is from the original Zombies artists. The base set (yes, there will be expansions) allegedly hits on June

It was announced this morning at GAMA – original Dragonlance co-author Margaret Weis’ company, Sovereign Press, will be doing Dragonlance for D&D3. It’s unclear whether this will be a D20 book requiring the Player’s Handbook and published by Sovereign, or some kind of licensed deal with full rules and the

The official site is going to be under construction until last week, so, um, until then, you can get the list of nominees .

Buried under the hailstorm of GAMA stuff on GamingReport yesterday (quick recap: WotC may put restrictions on “trade dress” for certain types of D20 products, the new Star Wars CCG has D20s in it, it’ll have basic common cards for the big characters and then rarer cards you stack up