Talisman fans rejoice! Fantasy Flight Games announced today that it has secured exclusive rights to publish board, card, and role playing games based on Games Workshop properties, including such popular items as Talisman and the new Dark Heresy RPG.  While the deal does not cover games that rely heavily on miniatures, such as Space Hulk, Fantasy Flight will be able to reprint most of GW’s board game catalog.

Games Workshop recently caused some controversy among gamers by shuttering Black Industries, their board game and RPG branch, but it looks like Fantasy Flight will be picking up right where they left off.

(Fantasy Flight Games, Hat Tip)

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Hasbro is running a vote procedure for its upcoming World Monopoly edition. Until Wednesday, all the cities vying for place on the board were listed as City, Country. Suddenly on Wednesday, one city was only listed by its city name alone: Jerusalem.

Apparently, some mid-level employee fielding complaints as to the status of Jerusalem decided to eliminate the reference to Israel, without consulting his managers. I first noticed this and posted about it on my blog. Others followed soon thereafter.

I called Monopoly’s PR for an explanation and was given the runaround while they figure out a response. Sometime later that day, the response was that they planned on removing all the country names, and Jerusalem was just the first. And by Thursday, all the country names from all the other cities were indeed removed.  This was obviously following complaints as to the lone status of Jerusalem as a countryless city in the list.

Hasbro is begging everyone not to make this into a political issue, now. And that’s basically it.

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Yehuda

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