WizKids, manufacturers of the category-defining collectible miniatures game Mage Knight announced an agreement to create a CMG featuring the characters from DC Comics.

N2, the innovative company that created the highly successful toys based on The Matrix , has released photos and information on its new series of action figures based on The Tick television series, which will air this fall on the Fox Network.

For Part II of our series on successful retailing of apparel in pop culture stores, ICv2 talked with Warp II of Edmonton, Alberta.

The Origins Awards are the most comprehensive set of gaming awards, and in many ways the most prestigious.

Tokyopop is planning to expand its popular Tokyopop Soundtrax as well as its HighVoltage Video lineup.

Reuters News Service is reporting that AOL Time Warner will shutter all its Warner Bros. Studio Stores by the end of October. AOL Time Warner announced in January that the newly merged entertainment juggernaut was seeking a buyer for the retail stores, but reportedly gave up the search for a buyer in February.

The first Buffy CCG release, which will be designed using episodes from the first two seasons of the award winning series, will debut late in 2001.

Fantasy Flight Games plans to announce the acquisition of the Lord of the Rings board game license (formerly held by Wizards of the Coast), with distribution to be handled exclusively by Alliance Game Distributors and Diamond Comic Distributors.

D.P. 'Vern' Vernazzarro, one of the organizers of a drive to create a new organization that would further the interests of both comic and games retailers, told ICv2 that he is pleased with early reactions to his efforts.

Martin A. 'Marty' Stever, a well known figure to retailers in the comics and games industries has been named Executive Vice President of WizKids LLC.