From the land of Geek
TweetThe Ennies may well be the most significant of the RPG industry awards. Certainly, everyone who’s made it through to this round should be very happy with themselves and will hopefully see a rise in sales just because they’re a nominee. You’ll see some of the products marked with HM – these are honourable mentions [...]
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TweetHasbro issued a press release to deny market rumours that it was for sale. However, the games company admitted it had been approached by a private equity firm about a possible deal – and that the Board of Directors had turned them down. This is interesting as a private equity company might well decide there [...]
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TweetI had started to collect some of the worst text from Wizards of the Coast’s Dungeons and Dragons: Tiny Adventures. It’s not a huge list but I wanted to share. It must have been hard writing all that conditional text for the game in the first place. I wonder how many words some poor writer? [...]
Read More...TweetThere you have it. Wizards of the Coast’s Facebook D&D game has been removed from Facebook. This comes as a surprise to me as despite playing it a lot (hey; I travel) I was totally unaware that the game was about to retire. If you go to the old URL for the game application at [...]
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TweetThis isn’t a full play test as I’ve not had a bunch of kids play through The Heroes of Hesiod for me. I can’t think of much worse than mixing the escapism of my roleplaying with the real world horrors of kids. Of course, loads of gamers have happy and busy families. It makes sense [...]
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TweetTurbine Inc, the company responsible for Lord of the Rings Online, Dungeons & Dragons Online and Asheron’s Call has been bought. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Inc – part of the giant Time Warner Inc – is believed to be paying up to as much as $160 million for the Boston based company. The final figure [...]
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TweetHasbro and Wizards of the Coast have granted IDW Publishing a license to launch several new DUngeons and Dragons comic book lines. We’re expecting the first one to be available in August. IDW’s Dungeons and Dragons contribution is expected to be set in the “core” world but then grow to include Dark Sun (January 2011) [...]
Read More...TweetWizards of the Coast have taken an Alabama couple and two of their friends to Court. The producers of Magic: The Gathering have asked the Court to ban Jonathan and Jennifer Clifton, Jason Bailey and Adam Schlagether from using any Wizards of the Coast products and $75,000 in damages. So, what happened that’s made Wizards [...]
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TweetThe Book of Darkness: Guide to Shadow Magick is now available in PDF form. Publishers Magechantry promise the book will be in print before the end of April. The book is the first in a series and targets the Pathfinder and Wizards of the Coast OGL. As key aspects of the book are OGL it [...]
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TweetYesterday a number of very good news sites ran the story that Mattel would be changing the rules of Scrabble. We’re talking about people like the BBC and The Telegraph. If this is true it means people’s names and place names are valid scores in Scrabble. Shakira, for example, would be worth 64 points (as [...]
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