To Print
November 4, 2001
Flying Buffalo Games has announced that after receiving new cards from the printer, Nuclear War, Nuclear Escalation , and Nuclear Proliferation will be back in print -- probably in early December.
Early D&D Contributor Plans Modules
November 4, 2001
Troll Lord Games has announced that early D&D contributor Rob Kuntz has agreed to do a series of d20 modules to be released in 2002.
From Game Publishing to Distribution
November 1, 2001
Tim Avers has left his position as Marketing Director at White Wolf Publishing and taken a new position at Gameboard Distributors, a Knoxville, Tennessee-based game distributor.
Cultural Exploitation?
October 30, 2001
The Associated Press reports that Danish toy maker Lego has agreed to change the names of characters in its popular series of Bionicles toys.
Reflecting Over-all Trend
October 26, 2001
Magazine orders from pop culture stores dropped substantially between November 2000 and November 2001, by percentages ranging from 7% to 19% on the seven titles for which we were able to compare orders.
On G.I. Joe, Transformers, Harry Potter CCG
October 24, 2001
Hasbro announced its third quarter earnings this week, and the news was better than expected. On sales that were down to $893 million from $1.1 billion a year ago, the company earned $50.6 million, compared to $13.8 million in 2000.
Prime Saturday Morning Slot
October 22, 2001
Mon Colle Knights , short for 'Monster Collection Knights' was already a popular collectible card game when the tremendous success of the Pokemon anime provided the impetus for the production of an anime version of the Mon Colle Knights game.
Mixture of New and Old
October 20, 2001
A mixture of new and old products make up our Top 10 Cool lists for September, 2001, both in the sense of new and retro properties and creative material, and in the sense of products new to the list and those that have previously appeared.
Just as Zombies Ships
October 16, 2001
As of Friday, October 12th, U.S. Playing Cards laid off four of the five remaining employees in its Journeyman division.
