WizKids announced at the recently concluded Origins Game Expo that Mage Knight:  Nexus, due out in August, will be the last release for Mage Knight 'in its present format.'  The qualifier alludes, of course, to the PC game Mage Knight:  Apocalypse, which Namco will release next spring (see 'WizKids Licenses Videogame'), and its kin. 

 

The Mage Knight CMG will be sent off with a bang via a party at GenCon in August and special events in November.  The timing of those two events mark the five year anniversaries of the first demos of the game at GenCon 2000 and the release of the first Mage Knight product in November 2000 (see 'December Product of the Month,' one of ICv2's first articles).  Mage Knight was the first product by new company WizKids, and was also the first Collectible Miniatures Game (CMG), which defined a whole new category of game.   

 

WizKids founder Jordan Weisman is no stranger to this path for an intellectual property; Battletech began as a game at FASA, then become a videogame before completing the circle and serving as the inspiration for WizKids' MechWarrior CMG.