New Delazan Site

My friend Lori Ann Curley just revamped the website for her corporate face, Delazan Enterprises. If you’re looking for a excellent editor or indexer, you don’t have to go farther. Plus, she lives in Wisconsin too. What’s not to love?

R.E.V.s Site Goes Live

In more upbeat news, Playmates Toys has launched a website for R.E.V.s, the toy line I helped develop for the company earlier this year. The site includes some great pictures of the toys, plus the upcoming TV commercial. Woot!

Bye-Bye Battle Dice

As posted at MarvelBattleDice.com, Playmates has decided to cancel its Battle Dice game line. I’ve known about this for some time but been unable to say anything publicly until Playmates made its official announcement. It’s always sad when a game line goes away, but just because we won’t see any more Battle Dice supplements doesn’t mean we can’t keep playing …

Battlelore on the Way

BoardgameNews.com has an excellent article on the boardgame I’m most looking forward to this fall: Battlelore from Days of Wonder. Take Richard Borg‘s excellent Command & Colors system (from gems like Battle Cry and Memoir ’44) put a fantasy twist on it, and give it the high-quality Days of Wonder treatment. And out just in time for the holidays.

Marvel: Ultimate Alliance

My friends at Raven Software (now a division of Activision) are hard at work on the new Marvel: Ultimate Alliance videogame. I saw a preview of this at Comic-Con, and it’s stunning stuff, up to Raven’s usual high standards. I somehow ended up with a fistful of invitations to the game’s VIP site. If anyone out there is interested in …

New Alliterates Site

The Alliterates site has a fresh, new look, courtesy of our webmaestro Lester Smith. Stop by and check it out. It looks great, although most of us haven’t had much of a chance to tinker with our sections yet. Look for more content there soon.

Wearable Poetry

My fellow Alliterate and pal Lester Smith just launched a new website: PoemTee.com. Here Les sells t-shirts emblazoned with his own haiku. Stop by and take a read.

ACD Games Day Report

Last night, I drive up to Madison to catch the after-hours action for the ACD Games Day, a small trade show run by the #2 distributor in the adventure gaming industry. I would have gone up during the day, but with the kids in school my schedule wouldn’t permit it–not without a lot of juggling. So, it’s a quick evening …

Write for the Black Library

For those aspiring authors out there, the Black Library is holding a new short-story competition. Winning entries will be purchased for a new Warhammer anthology based around the theme of invasion. The deadline is October 11, 2006. Unlike many other competitions, you don’t need to submit a full story from the get-go. You only have to come up with a …