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Supporting Miniature Wargamers Above and Below Ground
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MechWarrior Movie
Posted on August 4th, 2005 No commentsThis comes straight from their website.
DEVLIN LEADS MECH INTO MOVIE BATTLE
Dean Devlin will produce a movie based on the best-selling “Mech Warrior” video games. Paramount Pictures is in negotiations to option the property from Wiz Kids, a Seattle-based game company, for Devlins Electric Entertainment, which will develop a screenplay that Devlin will produce.
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GW Price Hikes Coming
Posted on June 18th, 2005 No commentsOMG! have you seen the latest? GW must be the King of Ignoring Customer Feedback. Or maybe they just don't care? I don't really know. From the GW Site (Games Workshop US – News):
Effective July 6, 2005, select items in Games Workshop's product range will be increasing in price. Every year we will review our range and we will only have one review a year. Our next price review will happen in July 2006.
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Dungeons & Dragons illustrator, Minneapolis native, dies
Posted on June 18th, 2005 No commentsAssociated Press MINNEAPOLIS – David Sutherland, the Minneapolis native and illustrator whose images helped lead the fantasy role-playing game “Dungeons & Dragons” to success in the late 1970s and 1980s, has died of chronic liver failure.
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Ebbles Miniatures the new future of wargames
Posted on June 18th, 2005 No commentsWith growing prices and inflated egos of large gaming industries wouldnt it be nice to get some quality merchandise for a good price? I mean come on, not many of us can really afford to lay down $150.00+ on support vehicles these days. With the multitude of new gamers sticking with card games or cheaply made figures that only come in random boxes, forcing you to purchase hundreds of figures just to get one type of army set up, you would think that the prices of miniatures and the model vehicles would fall right?
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Untold Legends: Brotherhood of the Blade
Posted on May 30th, 2005 No commentsAuthor: Ophelea
from: http://www.gamersinfo.net/If you're looking for a dungeon crawler for your PSP, look no further. Untold Legends fills the requirements nicely, looks good and sates that RPG desire to bash a fantasy monster – repeatedly.
Fans of Sony's Champions of Norrath will find Untold Legends (UL) to be very familiar. The controls, interface, content and design are nearly identical. For those who've not played the series, you'll need to spend a bit of time with the manual – there's little by way of tutorial – but once you get the controls you'll find it very easy to play.
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Profit alert hits Games Workshop
Posted on April 8th, 2005 No commentsShares in fantasy games retailer Games Workshop have sunk by nearly 30% after the company issued a profit warning. The firm said it was "unlikely" to meet a sales target of between £151m-£162m for the year to 29 May, following a sales slowdown in the UK and Europe. Games Workshop said the sales shortfall would "impact materially" on profits.
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Rifts® Opens Up A New Dimension On The N-Gage Platform
Posted on April 5th, 2005 No commentsOfficial Press Release
May 12, 2004First-ever video game version of best selling RPG with mobile multiplayer features
Los Angeles, California – May 11, 2004. Nokia today announced that the highly acclaimed role-playing property Rifts will be brought exclusively to the N-Gage platform in 2005. The Rifts pen and paper role-playing series, published by Palladium Books, Inc., is highly regarded as one of the most compelling properties of its kind with an extensive base of dedicated fans.
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WARMACHINE: Apotheosis release
Posted on March 29th, 2005 No commentsSeattle WA, March 14th 2005 – Privateer Press announces the latest addition to its popular WARMACHINE tabletop miniatures game to be released in August 2005. This 144 page full-color expansion advances the WARMACHINE storyline and adds new warjacks and warcasters.
WARMACHINE: Apotheosis introduces new rules that improve the depth of play and enrich the gaming experience for new and veteran players alike. In addition to new warcasters, some old favorites return with new abilities and updated models to reflect advancement and changes to their characters. The book also includes a new map-based campaign system providing story-driven play.
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Israeli Military vs. Dungeons & Dragons
Posted on March 19th, 2005 No commentsThe latest security risk – Dungeons & Dragons
Security vetting gone mad or perfect sense?By John E. Dunn, Techworld
The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) have sent a clear message to would-be recruits who like playing fantasy game Dungeons & Dragons – don't bother applying.
The IDF is noted for its careful vetting, through training and attention to psychological profiling based on decades of battlefield experience, and it seems that role-playing Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) players don't make the grade in a number of ways.
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Lord of the Rings to Take to Stage as Musical
Posted on March 16th, 2005 No commentsTue Mar 15,11:20 AM ET
By Paul Majendie
LONDON (Reuters) – After setting cinema box office records around the world, "The Lord of the Rings" is to take to the stage as a musical, the producers announced to Reuters on Tuesday.
The show, based on the fantasy classic by J.R.R. Tolkien, is to open in March 2006 in Toronto and come to London six months later.
But the producers have promised to go back to the original tale of Middle Earth and not try to reproduce the dazzling special effects from the movie trilogy, which earned $3 billion worldwide and garnered a string of Oscars (news – web sites).
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