Shrinking sales, particularly in the highly competitive arena of trading card games, have resulted in layoffs at Upper Deck.

We sat down with Upper Deck's Scott Gaeta at the recent GAMA Trade Show in Las Vegas to talk about Upper Deck’s release plans for 2008.

John Jelley of Pyrimid Comics & Games in Sierra Vista , Arizona attended GAMA Trade Show last week and found that the reduced number of presentations made it hard to figure out what each publisher had to offer.

In Part 5, the panelists continue the discussion of the events in a historical context, and answer a question from the audience.

In Part 4, panelists place the early New York comic conventions in the history of the medium and the business.

In Part 3, panelists share their favorite New York comic convention moments.

In Part 2, Levitz wraps up the “first convention” recollections, and a discussion is held to properly place the dates of the convention.

In Part 1, Griepp introduces the panel, kicks off with a favorite Phil Seuling story, and asks the panelists about their first New York comic convention experiences.

Upper Deck has announced that it will launch Call of Duty , a new two-player “real-time card game” based on Activision’s successful videogame series.

A spokesperson from ADV confirmed the acquisition of the rights to the 51-episode Kiba anime series.