Audio is smoother than last time, but a bit quiet. (You’d rather hear the end theme music than me anyway.) But it’s there now and you may jump on it. Gently, please – this one’s nearly an hour and we are hosting it ourselves. We’ll see how long that lasts.
Diana Jones rushes in breathlessly
This year’s Diana Jones Award shortlist has finally been announced, leaving the committee about ninety seconds to vote before the winner is announced in the traditional pre-Gen Con ceremony. The list comprises innovative chat-RPG hybrid Code of Unaris, the hailed indie RPG Dogs in the Vineyard, and the ubiquitous-for-a-reason Ticket
Tomorrow Knights RPG, today
After a bit more delay than expected, Z-Man Games has shipped a completed Tomorrow Knights RPG. The 128-page rulebook is based on the comic series, which I haven’t read, but sounds somewhat similar in concept to Bubblegum Crisis, or at least in the same ballpark. Spectrum Games developed the game,
Warmachine: The Card Game (note: lies)
1) Wow, we really haven’t posted since the podcast. 2) New podcast will be up Monday night probably. 3) The Warmachine Faction Decks are the best product Privateer has ever made. They comprise one (or, in the case of warjacks commonly fielded in groups, more) of each character card for
Introducing the OgreCave Audio Report
So, Chris wanted to podcast, and I said, “Okay.” The OgreCave Audio Report is a weekly half-hour-or-less on the gaming industry topics of the week, plus what we are playing and liking. We figure we spend enough time just kind of Waldorfing about gaming stuff that we may as well
Games Expo 2007: beginning of the end of GTS?
As you might expect, the announcement of the vaguely Games Quarterly-affilliated is wreckin’ all kinds of shop out there. GAMA loyalists are calling it unprofessional, divisive, et cetera; those less than happy with GTS as an industry trade show claim that GTS wasn’t super likely to go on in 2007
Computer-based paper magazine on computer-based paper games
On one level it’s a shame about Escapist magazine’s relentless insistence on the forms and tropes of paper magazines in a digital medium… but on the other, at least they do it well. And check out this talk with Greg Gorden, designer of the original James Bond 007 and, yes,
Any excuse for a haiku contest is a good one
And a Knizia board game with John Howe art about Beowulf is an especially good excuse. To wit: No, it’s not co-op. It comes out in October. Here’s the contest link.
Chris Pramas on WFRP sales and the industry’s info-poverty
The new edition of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay sold better than anything else GR has done lately, but you wouldn’t know it from Comics and Games Retailer, which most of the retailers I’ve talked to cite as the only entity actually trying to deliver sales rankings. Well, apparently there’s another now,
D&D Minis – Angelfire: First look
As both a roleplayer and a miniatures gamer, I was excited to receive some Angelfire figs to fiddle with. The selection assembled for the set seems to have a wide range of heroic individuals, menacing beasts, and staples of fantasy miniatures (kobolds and skeletons? Check). I even managed to get
Confrontation publishers plan pre-painted, non-collectible mech game for ’06
Just yesterday I was complaining to Chris that there hadn’t been any really good miniatures games that went with pre-painted figures but were non-collectible, or at least sold on the same a la carte basis as Warmachine and others. I would love to be playing more Warmachine, but I can’t
Etherscope coming from Sword & Sorcery and Goodman
White Wolf (or rather, its Sword & Sorcery arm) will bring us more Goodman Games goodness in the form of Etherscope, a standalone “Cyberpunk Victoriana” RPG spun off from d20 Modern under the Open Gaming License. Developed by the guys at Malladins Gate Press, Etherscope will join the rapidly growing
Feel the Twonky flowing through you
The Robo Rally Flash demo up at Avalon Hill looks on the surface exactly like the Flash demos for all their other games. Poke through it, though, and you eventually find a fine solitaire puzzle game called “Mini Rally Training Ground,” featuring five or six levels of compact boards, a
ENnies 2005 nominees announced, voting open
This year’s ENnie Award nominees have been announced for 2005. As always, the winners will be revealed at Gen Con Indy. You can swing by and vote now, if you like. In case traffic gets heavy, nominees are copied below.
Race Day CSG: NASCAR connection is official
Which, sadly, probably precludes a lot of the interesting mix-and-match options we could have had if driver, car, and sponsor didn’t have to fit reality. I so wanted to swap out the Tide sponsorship for, say, Monsanto and get the special ability of spewing toxic chemical clouds onto the track.