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The crime-ridden district of Freeport known as Scurveytown is detailed in Green Ronin‘s online preview of Freeport: City of Adventure. The three-page preview describes things such as the Beggar’s Market, and Krom’s Throat, a rather unsavory orc bar that requires hosing down each morning. The preview, combined with the reports

Hot on the heels of the last one, Rio Grande Games has released another newsletter! It elaborates on Dragonland and Clash of the Gladiators (both of which turn out to be Reiner Knizia designs), and it also describes a previously unmentioned (if memory serves) April release: Pizarro & Co., a

Having to glue things together sucks. I mean, sure, I’m spoiled, wargames, uphill in the snow, yada blah foo. Maybe it’s just the plastic that’s giving me trouble. I tried to separate the little tank and airplane units, the ones that don’t require any gluing, and found that the connections

Once again, Matthew dives into a d20 supplement to give us the skinny. This time, it’s Backdrops from our friends at Atlas Games. How does a book of two-page city settings fare in Matthew’s estimation? Click over and have a look. The Penumbra line is coming along quite well, I’d

Invisible City Productions has posted another game of the month. This time it’s Sharon J. Cichelli’s Coral Reef, a two-player strategy game played with either two decks of playing cards or a set of number tiles. If you’re looking for a fast and simple time-filler, this should please you.

Gamers in Europe will soon sink their teeth into their first taste of the Buffy CCG. According to the official newsletter, “Buffy CCG cards will be heading over to Europe as early as next week, for an immediate release upon arrival.” The cards were obviously slowed in their journey overseas,

This seems the be the week of returning web sites; after a long downtime, Mythrole Games‘ site is back up on a new server. It doesn’t have any new announcements on it just yet, but there seem to be rumblings of something to come. Piecepack Contest Announced James Kyle has

John Tynes‘ weblog, Dispatches from Revland, is a particularly good thing to read right now. It features copious details about the upcoming second edition of Unknown Armies (including a tentative completion date of April), the cover of said edition, a nugget of joy from the RPGnet forums, and a couple

The book that stood alone stands alone no more! Wizards has just announced (well, they probably announced it before but now they’re screaming about it) The Wheel Of Time: Prophecies of the Dragon, a nearly 200-page six-part campaign supplement. The events in the campaign dovetail neatly with the first five

Yeah, I guess so. A whole mess – possibly an entire passel – of Hero System fans were hanging around the joint, enjoying Hero Games‘ celebration of the 5th edition going to press. We also heard news from Ken Hite of Decipher, who assiduously avoided saying that he knew anything

If you’ve tried to visit AdvancedFightingFantasy.com lately, you’ve probably noticed that it’s not there anymore. This is because it got so much traffic in the wake of its announcement of the Fighting Fantasy reprints that its cheapo web host got overwhelmed and took it down. Fortunately, the site will be

Just in time for DunDraCon, the Green Ronin folks have released Focus on Freeport #14, which completes the three-part mid-level adventure Deus Ex Machina. (I’m not really sure what that has to do with DunDraCon, but I thought I’d slip in a link, seeing as how it’s part of the

Rio Grande Games has just published their twenty-eighth newsletter. Not only does it include pictures and descriptions of several of their recently-announced games like Where’s Bob’s Hat? and Halli Galli, but it also mentions some new and interesting-sounding April releases: Dragonland, Clash of the Gladiators and Magellan.

Also in the you-don’t-care-but-I-think-it’s-interesting department, ICv2 reports that Infogrames has developed a version of the DragonballZ CCG for the . Creating AI for a card game of this nature is supposed to be a tough problem, but maybe this particular CCG is simple enough to run perfectly well on a

If you happen to have picked up the Magic: the Gathering Online beta CD-ROM at your local game retailer and haven’t tried it yet, and you have a dialup Internet connection: don’t bother. The pain, the pain. I don’t even know why I wanted to play with it, other than