The news that Wizards of the Coast would be cutting back on non-WotC RPGs in its chain of retail stores elicited the following response from Don Williams, Public Relations Manager for Wizards of the Coast, which is the first offical statement on the topic from the company.

Sources close to the situation are confirming that Wizards of the Coast retail stores are beginning to eliminate most non-WotC RPGs from their inventory.

Wizards of the Coast has formally announced that it will publish revised editions of its three core D&D rulebooks in July of 2003.

At the kickoff of the 2002 holiday season, we talked to distributors that sell to pop culture stores in four major categories -- toys, games, anime, and comics/graphic novels.

EN World and Goodman Games have announced plans to publish a quarterly d20 magazine, EN World Player's Journal , beginning March 2003.

White Wolf announced that its Sword & Sorcery Studios has acquired the rights to publish the Gamma World campaign setting from Wizards of the Coast.

Green Ronin Publishing has announced the signing of a purchase agreement with Wizards of the Coast for the Dragon Fist RPG, which was originally released as a download-only product in 2000.

Wizards of the Coast announced new details of its agreement with Sovereign Press of Williams Bay, Wisconsin. The Dragonlance Campaign Setting hardcover to be published by WotC next summer will be written by Margaret Weis and Don Perrin of Sovereign Press.

In a press release from Gen Con LLC, which is run by ex-WotC honcho Peter Adkison, the company announced new Gen Con conventions for 2003. In addition to the 'original' Gen Con, there will also be a Gen Con Europe (which replaces Gen Con UK), as well as a Gen Con So Cal.

Diamond Book Distributors announced the hiring of Doug White as a Sales Manager. White comes to Diamond from Holtzbrinck Publishers, the company that markets Wizards of the Coast's role-playing games and books to the traditional bookstores.