Maxing Out Venue
August 21, 2005
The third GenCon to take place in Indianapolis wrapped Sunday night, after a four-day weekend of gaming events, demos, tournaments, sales, and news.
In 2006
August 15, 2005
Four long-time members of the game industry, James Ernest, Mike Selinker, Lisa Stevens, and Bob Watts, have announced that they will launch Titanic Games in 2006 to produce board and card games.
From Arthaus
August 15, 2005
An agreement has been reached for the rights to the Ravenloft and Gamma World campaign settings to return to WotC.
Site Has 25 Million Members
June 21, 2005
MTV Networks, a division of Viacom, has acquired NeoPets Inc., the owner of the popular teen Website Neopets.com .
Starting in August
June 20, 2005
Devil's Due Publishing has announced the publication of a comic book adaptation of Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman's original Dragonlance trilogy.
And Licenses D&D Games
June 9, 2005
Hasbro has bought back the electronic game rights to its properties from Infogrames for $65 million; Infogrames acquired them in late 2000.
Than Non-Core Titles
June 1, 2005
Wizards of the Coast's Dungeon Master's Guide II was ordered in the largest quantities of any Dungeons & Dragons book (other than the three core titles) since 2002.
First 'Nancy Drew' Volume Back to Press
May 25, 2005
Papercutz has signed with Holtzbrinck Publishers for distribution to the U.S. booktrade starting on October 1, 2005.
Dark Chronicles Trilogy
May 19, 2005
Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, co-creators of the Dragonlance world, will pen a new hardcover fantasy trilogy, The Dark Chronicles, for Wizards of the Coast.
Ninth Language Added
May 11, 2005
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.