Rolling for Initiative -- Miniatures Week: AdeptiCon News from Atomic Mass and Games Workshop
Column by Scott Thorne
March 31, 2025

This week, columnist Scott Thorne kicks off Miniatures Week with a look at AdeptiCon announcements from Atomic Mass Games and Games Workshop.

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Rolling for Initiative -- A Modest Proposal on Games Workshop Preorders
Column by Scott Thorne
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This week, columnist Scott Thorne looks at the problems with Games Workshop's preorder process, and makes a modest proposal for improvement.
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Big Numbers and Bad Ideas: A Post-Ides of March Grab Bag
Column by Rob Salkowitz
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This week, columnist Rob Salkowitz takes a look a the big Bad Idea orders, a new Oz universe, and heroes and villains in the 2020s.
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Column by Scott Thorne
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This week, columnist Scott Thorne looks at the potential impact of U.S. tariffs on the game industry.
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The JDS Perspective -- Weighing in on the Avalanche of Anime Licenses in Games
Column by Jeffrey Dohm-Sanchez
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ICv2 Managing Editor Jeffrey Dohm-Sanchez weighs in on anime-licensing for games as it stands in the market today.
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Japan Manga Market Slows as Digital Captures 73% Share
Column by Richardson Handjaja
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In his first column for ICv2, Richardson Hanjaja explains how recent manga publishing trends in Japan can drive strategies in the U.S.
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Rolling for Initiative -- Into the 'Fallen Empires'
Column by Scott Thorne
March 10, 2025
This week, Thorne compares the selloff of Into the Inklands to the glut of Fallen Empires back in the 1990s.
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The JDS Perspective -- Post-Trade Show Season Thoughts on the Games Industry
Column by Jeffrey Dohm-Sanchez
March 7, 2025
ICv2 Managing Editor Jeffrey Dohm-Sanchez offers his thoughts on the state of the games industry post-trade show season.
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Three Shows in 11 Days – Taking the Temperature
World According to Griepp
March 6, 2025
In this column, ICv2's Milton Griepp reports on what he found at ComicsPRO Annual Meeting in Glendale, California; GAMA Expo in Louisville, Kentucky; and New York Toy Fair.
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ReedPOP's Kristina Rogers on ECCC and the Current State of the Con Business
Column by Rob Salkowitz
March 4, 2025
This week, columnist Rob Salkowitz interviews ReedPOP's head of fan conventions on Emerald City Comic Con and the state of the comic convention business.
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Rolling for Initiative -- GAMA Expo Overcrowding, R.I.P. Ernie Gygax, Jr.
Column by Scott Thorne
March 3, 2025
This week, columnist Scott Thorne discusses overcrowding at GTS seminars and remembers Ernie Gygax, Jr., who passed away on February 28, 2025.
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Rolling for Initiative -- GAMA Expo Seminars of Interest
Column by Scott Thorne
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This week, columnist Scott Thorne points out seminars of interest at GAMA Expo.
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