Mike Boze of HawgHead Comics in Fort Smith, Arkansas would like a collection of the first three issues of Origin to make it easier to sell the later issues, which he still has in stock...

Amid the swirling mountain of hype being generated for the highly anticipated debut of the Spider-Man film next week, it came as no surprise that the webslinger dominated nearly every discussion at today's Marvel press conference.

Decipher, Inc. announced the formation of the Decipher Game Management Authority (DGMA), an independent tournament management company.

Twilight Creations of Cold Spring, Kentucky has reached an agreement with the United States Playing Card Company to produce and sell expansions of the Zombies!!! Board Game .

Wizards of the Coast announced today that the company had reached an agreement to sell GenCon , North America's largest game fair, to Peter Adkison, founder and former president of WOTC.

The good news is that ToyBiz action figures are getting better and better thanks to new high tech imaging equipment and an increasing willingness to hire top sculptors, but the bad news is that the first wave of Spider-Man Movie Action Figures showed up in Wal-Mart (and reportedly, in Toys R Us) a month before other channels.

A few weeks back we wrote about the filing of a lawsuit by Neil Gaiman (and Marvels and Miracles, LLC) against Todd McFarlane, his companies, and Image Comics regarding a dispute over Miracleman.

GAMA has launched an online game store locator service, which provides a way for consumers to locate stores carrying games based on store name, city, state, or zip code.

Apparently responding to concerns that its industry discussion boards allowed public access, GAMA has taken steps to resolve this issue by requiring users to identify a business with which they are associated.

A solid crowd of around 25,000 was expected by the wrap-up of Gen Con -- North America's largest consumer show for games--in Milwaukee today.