Author George R.R. Martin’s news page confirms what everyone’s known for a while now: Guardians of Order is shut down. The unanswered phone calls and emails told that story already, but Martin offers news that “[Mark] MacKinnon is presently attempting to place some of GoO’s games with other companies.” More
Audio Report: the glitzy Ogre’s Choice ceremony
Seriously, you should have seen my gown. It was fabulous.
Announcing the winners of the 2006 Ogre’s Choice Awards
Welcome to the Ogre’s Choice Awards, the first of our long-threatened annual awards, honoring what we of OgreCave deem to be the best products in the tabletop gaming industry. These are the games we’ve enjoyed most over the past year, and simply had to seek out, bash over the head,
Audio Report: if you squint it looks like someone announced a product
But only kind of. At last, here’s our post-Origins wrapup of what Mike saw, or at least of what he had written down. Also I share some thoughts on the actually-timely post-show interview that Paul Tevis did with Ken Hite. That’s over here and is totally worth the time if
Eagle Games for sale. All of it.
Mike’s been rambling about this in recent comments, but here’s an official mention: As this Boardgamenews.com story notes, Eagle Games is up for grabs. Troubled for some time now with delays (Sid Meier’s Pirates, anyone?), Eagle has been spotted selling the company’s brand and remaining inventory at auction. Where will
Bleat helplessly in the presence of your masters!
By which I mean that comments should be working again (the phrasing is adapted from one of my favorite cards in The Shab-al-Hiri Roach – it’s inexact, I don’t have it in front of me right now BAA BAAA oh god make it stop BAAAA). I was going to solve
Spiel des Jahres 06: Thurn und Taxis
Spelled Thurn and Taxis in Rio Grande’s new stateside edition. Reserve your copy now, I guess, because with their luck of late, they’ve printed about five of them.
Audio Report: post-everything, pre-everything else
We recorded this show the day the WizKids layoffs were announced… and literally the day before the departure of Jordan Weisman was confirmed. So, we have a variety of perspectives on that, some of which have now proven false. The rest is what we thought would happen at Origins, what
Stick-y adventure game arriving at Gen Con
Another reason I wish I were going to Gen Con Indy: to pick up The Order of the Stick Adventure Game: The Dungeon of Dorukan from APE Games. To quote Rich Burlew, the man behind The Order of the Stick webcomic and co-designer of the Adventure Game, “This game will
ENnies nominees announced
The EN World awards, known as the ENnies to most of us, has revealed its list of 2006 nominees. Voting hasn’t opened quite yet though, so check back next Monday and get your two cents in. As always, winners will be announced at Gen Con Indy.
Audio Report: three short podcasts from Origins
The Volity team, Brennan Taylor of Indie Press Revolution, and Rob Dougherty of Your Move (publishers of Battlegrounds). I talked to them on the show floor (generally) and the sound is good, unless you try to listen with the in-page widget. So there.
Origins 2006 Live: crawling from the wreckage
A few last details: Hey, guess what? AT-43 isn’t collectible. Fixed boxes of assembled and painted plastic figs. It will be in your FLGS in December, provided that Rackham communicates anything to retailers at all, which they seem not to enjoy, so who knows. People do indeed seem to be
2005 Origins Award winners announced
The 2005 Origins Awards winners are announced, now that those in attendance have had time to sleep off the revelry. Items of note: among the winners were Artesia for Best RPG, GURPS Infinite Worlds for Best RPG Supplement, Gloom for Best Traditional Card Game, and Warmachine: Apotheosis for Game of
Origins 2006 Live: don’t follow the corsets
Playtested Slugfest Games’ upcoming expansion for Kung Fu Fighting. I am NDAed on the details but I can tell you I am confident that this set will make an already-screamingly-fun game even more fun. I keep meaning to say to any board game fans at the show that Titan Games
Origins 2006 Live: vicious because the stakes are so small
Picked up a copy of Mortal Coil, the new diceless (and no, it doesn’t use playing cards either) small-press RPG by Brennan Taylor, better known to the world as the head of Indie Press Revolution. It looks like it’s in the Baron Munchausen camp a bit, but building on a