Anche se con la progressiva diffusione di Intrnet e dei mezzi sempre più alla portata di tutti ha reso 'obsolete' le fanzine già alla fine degli anni '90, c'è una bella iniziativa che ha continuato a durare fino al 2018 (!) in forma cartace…
Nella prima degli anni '80 il fenomeno dei librogame in Gran Bretagna è probabilmente al massimo storico dopo il trionfo della serie Fighting Fantasy e tra le collane che cercano di ottenere il successo c'è anche Lone Wolf/Lupo Solitario. P…
From Frank Mentzer comes the sad announcement that Morris Simon, author of various TSR gamebooks and two novels, passed away on May, 1st. Albeit perhaps not the most known TSR author, he wrote, among the rest, some of the best titles in the…
It's always great news when a book about vintage gaming comes out and we are very happy to announce the release of The Stuff of Legends - Volume 1, a book about vintage miniatures born from the site with the same name (sadly the site's foun…
Nel 1989 esce il film Batman di Tim Barton, primo della prima serie dei film dedicati al Pipistrello da parte di Warner Brothers e un grande successo al botteghino (non sorprendente, vista lacaratura di attori, regista e compisitore della c…
It's difficult to understimate the impact of the D20 and OGL license when the Dungeons & Dragons Third Edition was released, but it could very well defined by the Biblical verse "Be fruitful and multiply": a true tsunami of campaign setting…
Great news for all people interested in the design and publishing history of games: the content creator behind the Awesome Lies (name coming from an old News column in White Dwarf) called Gideon has announced a contract with MIT Press, the
Shannon Appelcline, the game historian behind the fundamental Designers & Dragons RPG history books and the upcoming Designers & Dragons Origins (a product history of TSR releases, due in July) has announced a new ambitious project: Free Tr…
Lou Zocchi, a true pioneer in thre adventure gaming field, has passed away on April, 19. He was the founder of the very first company, Zocchi Distribution (closed in 2001 after being sold in 1996), to sell just adventure games (or, as they
Wyrd Science, a British small press gaming magazine we have talked about many times (and occasionally published articles with) has announced that after a long hiatus (issue 7 was released in summer 2025) issue 8 is now for sale and going to…
In 1977 Meraganing Concepts, the company behind the great magazine The Space Gamer, launched the very first title of its microgames line: Ogre. Ogre was the first professional design of Steve Jackson and it showed that good quality (on the