Pat Fuge of Gnome Games in Green Bay , Wisconsin sent us a comment on the new UltraPro deal for Magic The Gathering card supplies, and got quite a reaction.

UltraPro has acquired the rights to produce card protection supplies featuring the Magic: The Gathering brand from Wizards of the Coast.

Wizards of the Coast has begun offering mobile services for Magic: The Gathering, including wallpapers and tournament notifications, through communication services provider Proteus.

Wizards of the Coast has provided ICv2 with a list of its releases for the first quarter of 2006.

ICv2 has learned that the 26-episode Duel Masters anime series will start its regular Saturday night run on the Cartoon Network's on March 13.

The prolific Steven Bates of Bookery Fantasy in Fairborn, Ohio saw Mark Amoroso's comments on chain competition on key comic and game products, and explains how he meets competition from big box retailers on those categories and on toys.

Despite a few opening day registration problems, GenCon settled into its new digs at the Indiana Convention Center after 35 years in Wisconsin.

Among the many new electronic games announced at this week's E3 show in Los Angeles are an X-Box version of Magic: The Gathering CCG,.. .

The Wizards of the Coast display at this year's New York Toy Fair also devoted a fair amount of space to the long-awaited Simpsons TCG .

The robust sales patterns that have characterized the Spider-Man-influenced summer of 2002 continued to make their mark on ICv2's Top Ten List for July. Even more than usual, big ticket items tended to dominate the lists this month.