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“The first alpha test version will be released in PDF form and based
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Submitted by: Tim "Comicbookman" Davis
Source: ICV2
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PAZIO'S AUGUST 2009
RELEASE...A Pathfinder RPG is
coming from Paizo Publishing and it will serve as the
cornerstone the company's Pathfinder adventures,
sourcebooks, and campaigns. The rules will be based on the
Dungeons and Dragon's 3.5 rules currently attainable through
Wizards of the Coast's Open Game License. With an August
2009 release date for the hardcover, alpha and beta testing
will happen over the course of this year. The first alpha
test version will be released in PDF form and based on 3.5
rules with comments from gamers being solicited and
incorporated into later releases. Various other Pathfinder
related PDF products will also be released in the coming
months. After further playtesting, a hardcover Pathfinder
RPG will be released in August of 2009. Until that time, all
Pathfinder products will be based on the current 3.5 rule
set, with future products (after August of 2009) based on
the updated Pathfinder system but backward compatible to 3.5
( this will be their irst attempt at an update of the 3.5
rule system.) Paizo also hopes to provide online fan-created
4.0 conversions for the game. Paizo will also support 4.0
through a complete line from partner company Necromancer
Games, which will produce a 4th Edition version of its Tome
of Horrors monster encyclopedia, plus other player and
gamemaster support products. Paizo has hired Nicolas Logue,
who co-founded the Living Greyhawk organized play campaign
during his tenure at Wizards of the Coast, to run its
organized play program for Pathfinder. Convention, in-store,
and home play events will be supported with online scenarios
available from Paizo. Paizo launched the Pathfinder brand in
the form of a monthly release last year after the
cancellations of Dragon and Dungeon magazines. |
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CCG NEWSBYTES |
 LEGION
ON THE MARCH...Upper Deck will be
rolling out major promotional tour behind its World of
Warcraft TCG. The "March of the Legion" Tour events will be
hosted at a limited number of local hobby/comic stores
across the U.S. beginning in April. These events will
feature players going up against Upper Deck "Legionnaires,"
in competition for exclusive prizes. Legionnaires will be
drawn from Upper Deck's WoW TCG research and development and
organized play teams. Players who beat a Legionnaire will
win a Varimathras Extended Art card and a Leeroy Jenkins
t-shirt. All participants will receive a new Weeble Extended
Art card from the March of the Legion set. Five events will
be held in each of six different areas around the country
and stores will be chosen based on the strength of the
existing WoW TCG organized play base. Upper Deck plans
marketing and outreach programs to publicize the tour, and Legionnaires
will blog about each event as they take place. |
Submitted by: "Comicbookman"
Source: ICV2 |
Posted:032508 |
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 MAPLE
THE THIRD...Wizards of the Coast
will release the third set for the MapleStory iTCG this
spring. Last November WotC, in partnership with Nexon
America, launched the MapleStory Internet Trading Card Game,
which is based on Nexon's popular 2D MapleStory MMORPG. The
MapleStory MMORPG is free to play, but players can buy
character and game enhancements at online shops. WotC's
MapleStory iTCG includes special cards with exclusive codes
that can be redeemed online for virtual goods that can be
used in the MapleStory MMORPG. Each nine-card MapleStory
P3TS booster pack contains an online code card. The P3TS
Booster Packs are available in both booster displays and in
single boosters that are blister-packed. |
Submitted by: "Comicbookman"
Source: ICV2 |
Posted:032508 |
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MILLION? A MERE BAG OF SHELLS...4Kids
released its fiscal 2007 end of year report last week and
the news was not exactly rosey. In the 4th quarter of 2007
they lost $16.8 million, vs. a $2.3 million loss in same
quarter of 2006. For the year, 4Kids' loss was $23.3
million vs. a loss of $1 million in 2006. Overall sales
dropped from $71.8 million in 2006 to $55.6 million in 2007.
4Kids reported that $7.8 million of its 2007 loss was
attributable to launch costs of the Chaotic TCG and Chaotic
Website. In spite of this the Chaotic launch is seen
as a positive for 2008 and beyond. The TCG is now in over
15,000 outlets, and reorders are being received from many of
these retailers. TV ratings for the Chaotic animated show
are also improving, with Chaotic being the top Saturday
morning show on broadcast TV for boys 6-11 in two of the
last three weeks. |
Submitted by: "Comicbookman"
Source: ICV2 |
Posted:032508 |
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ABBREVIATIONS
KEY TO THIS PAGE |
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"If you're a not a gamer then you're probably
wondering what it means above when it sez...." |
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CCG= Collectable Card Game,
essentially the same as TCG
CMG= Collectable Miniatures Game
D&D= Dungeons and Dragons
MMORPG= Massively Multi-Player Online Role Playing Game
MMORTS= Massively Multi-player Online Real Time Strategy
Game
MSRP= Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price
"Street"= Street Date, the calendar date manufacturer's
assign to their product for it's release. Retailers cannot
sell this item before this date on PAIN OF DEATH!!
OGL= Opening Gaming License
PC= 99.9% of you are utilizing one right now!
RPG= Role Playing Game
SRD= System Reference Document
TCG= Trading Card Game, essentially the same as CCG.
WotC= Wizards of the Coast |
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VIDEOGAME NEWSBYTES |
 A
HAPPY MEAL WITH YOUR DEAD ALIEN…So
you’re playing Aliens Colonial Marines when suddenly the
Alien Queen bursts out of the Hardees’s restraint window to
attack you by surprise. Hardees’s? It may happen now that
Gearbox and Double Fusion have announced a deal that will
allow the studio to incorporate in-game ads into upcoming
titles. Games covered by the deal weren't specified, but
Gearbox has in development: Brothers in Arms Hell's Highway,
Aliens: Colonial Marines, Borderlands, Heat, and Samba de
Amigo. Double Fusion will handle both dynamically streaming
ads and sponsorship opportunities for games that fall under
the agreement. Besides the money received for ad placement
it’s felt by developers advertisers will bring value that
will enable them to invest even more in creating the best
possible video game experiences. Double Fusion has
previously signed ad deals with THQ, Take-Two Interactive,
Midway, NCsoft, and Eidos. |
Submitted by: "Comicbookman"
Source: Gamespot |
Posted:032508 |
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 TOKYOPOP
ADAPTS MORE VIDEOGAMES...Tokyopop
will release several new manga titles based on videogames
this fall and into 2009. The company continues to build on
its Warcraft line, by launching a four-volume anthology
title with three volumes this fall, in August, October, and
December. The series will include stories by Richard Knaak
and Jae-Hwan Kim, the creators on Tokyopop's original
Warcraft series, Mike Wellman, Dan Jolly, Carlos Olivares,
Troy Lewter, and Brian Yang. World of Warcraft, the Blizzard
online game, recently passing the 10 million paying
subscribers. Tokyopop also announced that it will release
the first two volumes of a three-shot Starcraft anthology
series in August and November. Creators will include Josh
Elder and Daniel Cross; Richard Knaak and Naohiro Washio;
Paul Benjamin, Dave Shramek, and Nam Kim; and Simon Furman
and Jesse Elliot. Additionally, Castlevania: Curse of
Darkness, a two-volume gothic Dracula series by Kou Sasakura
based on the Konami videogame, will be released in
September. A Castlevania movie has been in development for
some time and was reportedly close to production last year,
but is now delayed as a result of the writers strike. The
Castlevania videogame has been around for over 20 years,
with games available on every platform. |
Submitted by: "Comicbookman"
Source: ICV2 |
Posted:032508 |
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 IDW
GETS ALL AGES BLUE DREAM…Scott
Christian Sava's Blue Dream Studios will become an imprint
of IDW Publishing as of an agreement between the two was
signed last week. Sava is an animator who has worked in both
conventional TV animation (Spider-Man) and on animation for
video games before shifting gears and launching a
self-publishing comic company specializing in creating
all-ages comics. Sava's The Dreamland Chronicles comic also
appears online where it has garnered over 4 million unique
readers and has been published as two graphic novel size
collections with a third due for publication this year.
Other Blue Dream Studios properties include Ed's
Terrestrials, Dino Wars, Gary the Pirate, Pet Robots and the
forthcoming My Grandparents Are Secret Agents. |
Submitted by: "Comicbookman"
Source: ICV2 |
Posted:032508 |
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