UK RPG publisher Hogshead Publishing has announced that it is ceasing operations as of November 30, 2002.

Ilan Strasser of Fat Moose Comics and Games in Whippany, New Jersey saw the comment by ICv2 founder Milton Griepp on comic collectability and had this to say.

Beyblade , the high tech spinning top combat game that took Japan by storm, is slowly but surely establishing a beachhead in North America.

4Kids Entertainment has designated Bandai America Inc. as the master toy licensee for the U.S. for the animated series Ultimate Muscle: The Kinnikuman Legacy .

Our report on the GAMA board's decision not to enforce the membership's resolution to ban Internet discounters from the floor of Origins has generated considerable response. Now it's come full circle, as WizKids Executive Vice President Martin Stever, who introduced the resolution in the first place, weighs in expressing his frustration with the situation.

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

We recently reported on the GAMA board's decision not to implement a membership resolution to ban discounters from the Origins game show. Now GAMA President Rick Loomis has responded to criticism of the board decision.

Retailers reporting their top dollar products to ICv2 based on October sales listed products with retail prices varying by over a factor of 100, showing that it's not necessarily a high price (or a low one) that produces big dollar volume.

Mike Webb of Alliance Games, a member of the GAMA Board of Directors, sent us this comment in reaction to the comment of Gabriel Vega of Name of the Game regarding the GAMA board's decision not to enforce a recently enacted ban on Internet discounters at the Origins game convention.

Tokyopop announced that it has acquired the U.S. rights to the Digimon manga and plans to begin releasing trade paperbacks in March of 2003...