If you’re looking for short and sweet reviews of tabletop games of many stripes, check out the new GameCryer.com. It’s the brainchild of Ed Healy, David Moore, and Chris Perrin, but they have a number of reviewers lined up to tear through the shelves of their local game stores and tell you what they think. They summarize their style as …

According to a press release on its website, the bankruptcy court has approved Gen Con‘s reorganization plan, and it’s now emerged from Chapter 11. Woot! I’m thrilled for Peter Adkison, Adrian Swartout, and my other friends at the company. This means that the current team will remain in place and that the show will go on this summer. As part …

Infogrames (now known under the name Atari, which it purchased a few years back) just announced that it bought Cryptic Studios. This means that Champions fans can stop worrying about how the game might get finished in this challenging economy. It also means that my pal Jack Emmert (and hopefully my other friends at Cryptic) will be wearing a very …

Publishers Weekly just posted an excellent article about what it takes to make money at producing comics. It’s framed in terms of this summer’s notorious debate between Robert Kirkman and Brian Michael Bendis, but feel free to ignore that and just look at the numbers. Making money in comics is far from easy, and this shows you exactly why. Put …

The BBC has an excellent piece on the new eTools for use with Dungeons & Dragons Fourth Edition. The video features short appearances by my friend (and former editor) Rich Baker, and the article has quotes from my pal Charles Ryan. I’m excited to see that the beta for the online character builder is finally up. While 4E is a …

Women In Games International–an organization dedicated to getting more women professionally involved in creating games–is holding a benefit auction on eBay, starting this Saturday, November 22. They have huge load of very cool and rare video game merchandise up for bid, and the money all goes to a good cause. Be sure to check it out.

Writer Rob Gard–who played varsity soccer with me waaay back in high school–just launched a new blog dedicated to the appreciation of whisky in its various, delicious forms. Rob’s a good writer with a clear love for his subject. If you share in that love (I’m looking at you, Dansky), be sure to stop by and see what Rob has …

A few weeks back, I heard a rumor that the Christian Children’s Fund had refused a donation from a benefit auction honoring Gary Gygax at this year’s Gen Con. I didn’t post anything about it at the time because it sounded a bit off-kilter. While the report understandably irritated some tabletop gamers, wiser heads (like those of Andy Chalk at …

The nominations for the inaugural Toy and Game Inventor Awards (the TAGIES, because they’re part of the Toy and Game Inventors Expo) came out on October 23. You can read all about them on Richard Gottlieb’s blog at Playthings.com. Longtime tabletop games fans should recognize at least two of the names on the list: my friend Richard Borg and Curt …

My friend Steven Savile and David Niall Wilson (one of our fellow conspirators at StorytellersUnplugged.com) have leaped into NaNoWriMo in a big way. They’re writing a new novel in tandem and posting the results every day. You have to register at the site to read it, but it promises to be worth the time.