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White Wolf Publishing has entered into an agreement to publish Fiery Dragon's line of d20 roleplaying games.

United Playtest, Inc. is launching a bi-monthly game magazine based on the d20 universal roleplaying system.

Corsair Publishing, LLC is preparing to launch Campaign Magazine , which will focus on the d20 system, with original material, news, reviews, and previews.

In its first quarter report issued late last month, Hasbro reported a quarterly loss of $25 million, far worse than Wall Street estimates, and attributed the shortfall to rapidly falling sales of the Pokemon CCG.

In an open letter addressed to 'Friends of Magic' and posted on the Wizards of the Coast website, Richard Garfield, the creator of Magic: The Gathering , announced that he is stepping down to concentrate on personal interests.

Sovereign Stone , a fantasy-roleplaying world created by artist Larry Elmore and fleshed out fictionally by the best-selling novelists Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, is abandoning its current game-playing system in favor of the d20 system, which has been made available to third party creators by Wizards of the Coast.

Magazine publisher H& S Media has cancelled its monthly 'unofficial' Pokemon magazine, Pojo's Pokemon , which was selling 500,000 copies per month, primarily via newsstand distribution, at the height of the Pocket Monsters craze.

Decipher Inc., the Virginia-based CCG powerhouse, announced that it has hired the former staff of Last Unicorn Games.

Sabertooth Games, a new company founded by game industry veteran Bob Watts, has secured the license to create a collectible card game based on Games Workshop's popular Warhammer 40,000 miniature-based wargame.