WizKids, the creators of Mage Knight , the pioneering 'collectible miniatures game,' announced an agreement with Marvel that will result in the creation of a Marvel CMG that will bow in the summer of 2002.

Marvel is planning to move back into the lucrative CCG arena on its own. The aptly named Marvel Recharge CCG is set to debut in November.

San Diego, California. The San Diego Comic-Con International and Expo wrapped up here today as exhausted exhibitors packed up their wares when the Expo ended at 5 p.m.

Tucked inside the massive monthly listings of products from comic distributors like Diamond and FM are the modest offerings of SQP, typically a group of trade paperbacks which retail for under ten dollars each.

Fantasy Flight Games plans to announce the acquisition of the Lord of the Rings board game license (formerly held by Wizards of the Coast), with distribution to be handled exclusively by Alliance Game Distributors and Diamond Comic Distributors.

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

Dragonball has regained its position on top of the Lycos survey of most popular Internet searches.

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.

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.