SF Site's early October edition is online with reviews of:
Free RPG Day will be held Saturday, June 21, 2008. The event, inspired by the extremely successful Free Comic Book Day, features the following sponsors this year:
WotC will be giving away a free D&D 4th edition adventure, Q-Workshop will be giving away unique elven dice, and Green Ronin will be offering the Song of Fire and Ice quickplay rules. Specifics about what each company is giving away can be found on the Free RPG Day sponsors page.
Issue of #52 of Mongoose's in-house magazine Signs & Portents is out. On the war gaming side they've got a bumper crop of Babylon 5 stories with four new A Call to Arms articles, including three space combat scenarios.
On the role-playing side, they've got a Spycraft article entitled "The right tools for the right job" about designing a murder kit (obviously, an in-game murder kit), a Conan article detailing the "Ark of Delight", a sailing brothel and drug den that sounds like it could be easily ported to another setting, and "new initiatives" for the Paranoia RPG. Download the magazine from Mongoose's web site.
As of their current THRILLING TALES release The Golden Idol of Sikral, all of Adamant Entertainment's adventures in 2008 will be dual-stated for d20-based games and the FATE-based Spirit of the Century pulp role-playing game. Check it out at Adamant's RPG NOW store.
The H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival 2007 will be held October 5-7 at the historic Hollywood Theatre in Portland, Oregon. It will include eight feature films, 13 special guests, discussion panels, world and regional premieres, There will also be Lovecraftian vendors, multiple door prizes, and more than 20 short films.
Tickets are $12 per day per person on Friday, $15 per day per person on Saturday, $15 per day per person on Sunday. Advance tickets can be purchased at http://www.hplfilmfestival.com.
According to the organizers:
The 14th annual H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival shall prove to be our most exciting festival yet. This year we have some great films lined up along with thought provoking discussion panels and compelling live events."
There's a new print edition of Cosmic Encounter on the event horizon. According to Peter Olotka, Cosmic Encounter designer at Future Pastimes, a new edition of the game will be released by Fantasy Flight Games in Summer 2008.
Issue 43 of Mongoose Publishing's twin PDF magazines Signs & Portents Roleplayer and Wargamer is online and ready for download from http://www.mongoosepublishing.com. Writeth Mongoose:
Signs & Portents Wargamer 43
Another packed issue for wargamers this month! For A Call to Arms, there
are experimental rules on utilising Hyperspace, Tactics for the Frontline,
full rules for the Techno Mage Pinnace and the other newly released ships, a
battle report pitting the pak'ma'ra against the Dilgar, and a complete
in-depth preview of the forthcoming second edition of the game. Whew! Our
other games have not been abandoned either. For Victory at Sea, there is a
complete mini-campaign , Hunting the Beast, featuring the Royal Navy hunting
Paizo Publishing®, LLC announced the creation of a new line of classic science fantasy novel reprints called Planet Stories. With large printing houses distancing themselves from backlisted novels, Planet Stories brings back some of the long forgotten classic inspirations for much of today's science fiction and fantasy genres. Planet Stories will be available at your local book or hobby store and will retail for around $12.99 each.
Midnight Syndicate will be teaming up with Hollywood FX legend Robert Kurtzman (Dusk till Dawn producer, co-founder of the KNB EFX Group) and his production company, Precinct 13 Entertainment to produce the horror-suspense film, The Dead Matter.
Development has been underway for several months and pre-production officially began March 1st. Principal photography is scheduled to begin in Northeastern Ohio this August with a projected release date sometime in 2008. Edward Douglas will be directing the film and producing it through the newly-formed Midnight Syndicate Films division of Entity Productions, Inc. The company is currently in talks with Doug Bradley (Pinhead from the Hellraiser series) and Andrew Divoff (Wishmaster, Air Force One, Lost) to star.
Mongoose Publishing has launched Planet Mongoose, a collaborative blog written by the company's staff and dedicated to news of products, tournaments, and happenings within Mongoose. They write:
"We have just unveiled Planet Mongoose on our web site, a blog that all
members of Mongoose Publishing have access to. Every day or so, you will be
able to read posts from the people behind the books and games you play,
giving you not only up to the minute information on the latest projects we
are working on, but also a sense of what life is actually like within a
hobby games company."
The blog is accessible at http://blog.mongoosepublishing.co.uk/