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Days of Wonder announced Thursday that they would be increasing the suggested retail price for several of their most popular games, including the Ticket to Ride series and Battlelore.  The new policy, which has already gone into effect, increases the price for several big-box games, such as Mystery of the Abbey and Shadows Over Camelot, by $10.  Smaller products like the Ticket to Ride 1910 expansion will cost about $5 more.  Not all titles are affected, however: Memoir 44 is notably absent, as are its numerous expansions, so check out the press release before you begin weeping and gnashing your teeth.

(Days of Wonder, Source)

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Hero Games and Cryptic Studios have announced a deal for the creation of a Champions MMORPG. As part of this deal Cryptic has purchased the Champions and Dark Champions intellectual property. Fear not, however, HERO System and Champions tabletop RPG fans. Hero Games is licensing back the right to produce Champions RPG books and the deal does not include the HERO system rules. Instead, those will benefit from an update to a sixth edition in August 2009, coinciding with the release of the MMORPG and benefiting from some of Cryptic Studios’ artwork.

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Christine Schneider of Neu-Isenburg, Germany is the winner of Paizo Publishing’s RPG Superstar contest. From a field of more than 850 initial entries, Christine survived six rounds of celebrity and public judging for the opportunity to publish her “Clash of the Kingslayers” adventure, which Paizo will release as GameMastery Module S1 for the Dungeons & Dragons OGL in January, 2009. The RPG Superstar competition challenged amateur game designers to develop a wondrous item, a country, a villain, a group of three thematically linked monsters, an encounter, and finally a full adventure proposal.

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