Board Game News:

• Fantasy Flight Games posted articles about Hordes in Deathwatch, the Harbinger of Insanity card in the Call of Cthulu card game, and a partnership with Dust Games. They also announced an upcoming board game called Cadwallon: City of Thieves, and Dust Tactics – a tactical miniatures boardgame.
• Random Line’s web site is having a Squiggle contest for a chance to win a Squiggle On-The-Go drawing pad.

Game Accessories News:

• Q-Workshop updated its home page today to indicate that the Dwarven Dice Sets are available again (or perhaps for the first time?). According to the post, “At last the dwarven artifacts lost by Quentin the Inventive have been found. You can get them through our on-line shop.”

Game Deals:

• The Paizo web site says that Jason Bulmahn sold off a huge collection of D&D Miniatures to them, and they’re in turn offering them to their customers.

Miniatures and Miniatures Games News:

• 15mm.co.uk has added “The Octopods” 15mm Sci-fi miniatures to their product line. They also note that Alien Squad Leader 2.0 is back in stock.
• Wargame Vault has added Dave Graffam Models’ High Ground Tiles 30mm paper models product to their site.
• Games Workshop has posted a Warhammer Lauch Sneak Peek on their web site.
• Mantic Games posted a video explaining how their miniatures shipping boxes double as a way to hold the miniatures when completed, making them easy to store and carry around.
• Catalyst Game Labs has received 9 ENnie Award nominations this year, for Best Art, Best Game, Best Production Values, Best Regalia, Best Writing, and more. Congratulations, Catalyst, and good work!
• Crooked Dice Game Design Studio says their Release 2 miniatures might be shipping early.
• Wargames Factory says their Shock Troops miniatures are now shipping, as are the next two Saxons sets for Hammer of the Gods.
• Don’t forget to stop by The Miniatures Page for more daily miniatures news.

RPG News:

• 0One Games has added the Heavenring Village: Emporium black and white map set to their product line.
• Adamant Entertainment’s blog indicates that they’ve received the printed books for their ICONS superhero-based RPG.
• Flames Rising has posted several articles in the last couple of days, including Notes on Designing The Queen of Crows, The Age of Ra Review, Fallen is Babylon, a New World of Darkness SAS, The Ghosts of Manhattan Review, and Damnation (PS3) Review.
• Hex Games says its site has been upgraded, including a new Wiki, calendar of events, new photo gallery software, new FAQ software, and more.
• Indie Press Revolution has added Rogue Games’ Thousand Suns: Starships supplement (on pre-order) to its catalog.
• Mongoose Publishing says Signs & Portents #82 is available for free download now.
• Pinnacle Entertainment Group posted an update about recent Deadlands material updates, including details about the second printing of Deadlands: Reloaded and Deadlands Conversion Notes.
• Precis Intermedia Games posted a blog item today indicating that they’ll be converting Disposable Heroes for use with SmiteWorks’ Fantasy Grounds II application. Fantasy Grounds II provides a virtual tabletop for RPG players, allowing them to play their favorite RPGs online.
• RPGNow has added some new products, including Dark Quest Games’ Mundus Novit: The Changed World – Source Book, Skortched Urf Studios’ The Dragonbound Core Class, Sonic Legends’ The Reaper (audio product) and City of the Dark Elves (audio product).
• Morrigan Press’ Talislanta web site is having a poll on which edition of the game is readers’ favorite. They also report that Talislanta Geographica has been made available for free download.
• Amarillo Design Bureau posted an Origins 2010 message and provided the download link for downloadable Federation Commander computer desktop wallpaper.
• Triple Ace Games says that they’ve just sent The Sundered Skies Companion for Savage Worlds to the printers, and posted a preview on their site.
• Green Ronin Publishing added ten PDFs to its 10th Anniversary Sale, including Advanced Bestiary, Freeport Trilogy: 5 Year Anniversary Edition, and more.

Retailer and Game Deal News:

• Noble Knight Games has added a number of products to their online catalog, including Fire & Movement 149, Necromancer Games’ Player’s Guide to the Wilderlands, and a number of Magic The Gathering cards.
• RPGShop has added “7 set Otherworld Crystal (Red)” (crystal shaped dice), 16mm Assorted D20 dice, and 25mm Foam d6 dice to their catalog.
• Troll and Toad has received a number of new RPG products, including The Vault of Larin Karr softcover module for d20 D&D 3.0 RPG, Raise the Dead for Sword and Sorcery, Chaos Rising for Sword and Sorcery, Fantasy Flight Games’ Wings of War: Flight of the Giants, and more.
• Greenfield Games posted information about the release of Magic The Gathering 2011 Core Set and their Summer Big Game Auction.
• Warweb.com has added several miniatures to their shop, including Indian Tepees, Dismounted US Cavalry with Command, Mounted US Cavalry with Command, Plains Indians Villagers, Dismounted Plains Warriors, and Mounted Chieftains.
• The German Boardgame Company has restocked and added several titles.

Wargame News:

• Consimpress is looking for a BEDA FOMM player to help them with a game replay to be captured and posted on the CSW forum.
• Avalanche Press is selling a dozen games at $30-$40 in honor of their boss’ birthday.
• C3i Current Ops has posted several photo diaries.

PC and Online Game News:

• Matrix Games and Forced March Games have announced a publishing agreement for Hannibal: Rome and Carthage in the Second Punic War to market.
• Paradox Interactive says that when the game ships on August 27 you’ll be able to skipper the Rainbow Warrior III a year ahead of its real-life completion in Poland. They’ve also updated their Fort Zombie lite action/RPG.
• Longbow Games has released Hegemony 1.1.2 beta 1, a release that will fix a crash which can happen in one region of Persia, as well as a crash that can happen after capturing a city. They’ve also made minor GUI changes. (I’m still looking forward to loading and playing my copy!)
• Sega announced that a Tri-Weapon Pack will be released in conjunction with the release of Vanquish on October 19, 2010.
• Battlefront is offering a bundle of Combat Mission Shock Force Marines and CMSF British for $35.00.
• World of Tanks is accepting applications for their Closed Beta test. This is a free-to-play Panzer MMO game. Looks good.