The game industry gathers in Las Vegas next week, in a year that looks to have continuing change after a tumultuous, mostly successful 2001.

Precedence Entertainment has closed its doors. Former employee and investor Jim Burleson said he was told, '...that Precedence was quietly drifting away,...'

We took a look at the archives of Internal Correspondence , the print predecessor of ICv2, for the stories that were dominating the pop culture products industry fifteen years ago.

We took a look at the archives of Internal Correspondence , the print predecessor of ICv2...

Score has announced its 2002 releases for the Dragon Ball Z CCG , which include four new games/expansions as well as a cool limited edition collector case and cards.

Steve Jackson Games has announced that its upcoming Hellboy RPG will include a new comic with script by Hellboy creator Mike Mignola, Jai Nitz, and Steve Jackson Games' Philip Reed, pencils by Zach Howard, and inks by Peter Bergting.

Ilan Strasser of Fat Moose Comics and Games wrote in to say that he doesn't like Marvel's recently announced plan to bump prices on three of its lower-selling titles.

January is a transition month in the pop culture products business, with the first week or two typically showing strong post-Christmas sales, followed by slowing traffic as the winter doldrums set in. But there was a lot of activity in pop culture stores this January, with especially strong releases in the comic category.

The good news is that ToyBiz action figures are getting better and better thanks to new high tech imaging equipment and an increasing willingness to hire top sculptors, but the bad news is that the first wave of Spider-Man Movie Action Figures showed up in Wal-Mart (and reportedly, in Toys R Us) a month before other channels.

Superhero parody character Lethargic Lad gets its own book this summer with the planned release of the Lethargic Lad Jumbo-Sized Annual #1 in June.