Wizards of the Coast has announced that the ninth edition of Magic: The Gathering , a new 350-card core set, will street on July 27th.

ICv2 has released its 2004 market reports in the ICv2 Retailers Guide to Games #7, and the over-all market for CCGs, miniature games, board and family games, and roleplaying games was weak in 2004.

Daniel McAbee of The Tangled Web in Spartanburg, South Carolina is concerned about the size of his Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG allocations for 2005.

Avalon Hill has announced its 2005 product line-up, which includes a new printing of Richard ( Magic: The Gathering ) Garfield's RoboRally .

A Paid Advertisement. February 21st sees the launch of Kindred Most Wanted the new set for Vampire: The Eternal Struggle .

This week, Bates shares his store's experience with trading cards.

UK company First 4 Figures will release a series of resin statues featuring characters from Magic: The Gathering in May.

Heather Barnhorst of Attactix, in Aurora, Colorado, saw columnist Steven Bates' holiday gift guide column on games and has some additional suggestions.

We took a look at what was happening ten, fifteen, and twenty years ago this month in ICv2's print predecessor, Internal Correspondence.

The game market began a comeback in the third quarter after declines in most game categories in the first half of the year, ICv2 reports in the ICv2 Retailer Guide to Games #6.