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GAMA Trade Show 2011 Exhibitor Coverage – Part 8
GAMA Trade Show 2011 coverage continues with Looney Labs, Chivalry Games, Digme Productions,Flying Buffalo, Arcane Tinman, Acrylicos Vallejo, and WorldWise Imports. Looney Labs The Labs were showing off three new products. First is Pirate Fluxx, which released in February. As the many other Fluxx flavors, this adds Pirates to the game. There are a couple [...]
GAMA Trade Show 2011 Exhibitor Coverage – Part 6
GAMA Trade Show 2011 coverage continues with Gary Games, RPS Games, Ovation Productions, Greater Games Industry Catalog, MerchantOS, North Star Games, and GameBrother Gary Games Gary Games was showing off the first expansion to the Ascension deck-building game. This new expansion, called Ascension: Return of the Fallen, adds new mechanics (Fate cards), support for more players (up to 6), [...]
The Ultimate Geek Showcase Showdown
I was alerted to a very interesting happening on Daytime Television yesterday (2/16/11). And by my father, of all people (of course he is retired and can watch daytime TV). On the venerable game show, The Price is Right, they had a rather interesting prize package for their Showcase Showdown. In addition to a new [...]
Gen Con 2010 Events Schedule is Up
You can either go to Gencon.com and download the .csv file and slowly go blind looking at it in Excel or you can just go to the always useful High Programmer site and save yourself a lot of pain. Trask, The Last Tyromancer
Untold–The Card-Based Role-Playing Game Releases!
Untold, the unusual card-based role-playing game is now available for purchase. For the uninitiated, “Untold” uses cards in place of character sheets and game supplements are decks of cards. The card supplements are non-random, by the way. The base deck is $10.95 and the boosters are $4.95. I did an interview with the “Wandering [...]
Catalyst Game Labs Parting Ways with Posthuman Studios and Wildfire
Catalyst Game Labs just announced they are negotiating to end their relationships with Wildfire (publishers of Cthulhutech) and Posthuman Studios (publishers of Eclipse Phase.) The press release indicates that Catalyst is refocusing on Shadowrun and Battletech, their core brands. Trask, The Last Tyromancer
Battle of the Foam
Battle Foam, sellers of custom miniature foam trays, filed a lawsuit against Outrider Hobbies, also producers of miniature foam trays for patent infringement. You can read the full Battle Foam v. Outrider Gamers post from the trademark blog at the link. There is also a link to the original court filing. Now, all this must [...]
Scott Rouse, Former Wizards of the Coast D&D Brand Manager has a New Blog
Scott Rouse, the one-time brand manager for Dungeons and Dragons at Wizards of the Coast has a new blog up at www.scottmrouse.com. Rumor has it that Scott was the force behind a push for more “open” content from WOTC and I wonder what Scott will get up to now that he is free of the [...]
Hasbro Closes Cranium Office
Hasbro smashes some heads over at the Cranium office. 11 pink slips and 8 employees farmed out to other areas of the company. I regularly play board games, but Cranium just seemed too…Starbucks (the coffee shop, not the BSG viper pilot) for me to ever play. That said, many people play “Cranium,” given that Hasbro [...]