Press Pass Inc is canceling it’s trading card game based on the show 24. According to the source, it’s moving out of the games business, altogether.

The reason for 24’s cancellation was last year’s screen writer’s strike. Apparently, with the TV show out of commission, hype for the licensed product died down.

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Rusted Heroes is a new miniatures skirmish-style game from Fantization.

It uses 32mm minis and d10s for combat results. Most of the figures are scheduled to be released in August.

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Tenacious Games, publishers of The Spoils CCG, is closing down.

The reasons are to be found in a forum post, detailing the exact financial problems they encountered in the last two years. Essentially, they overspent, and failed to collect the last investment money as quickly as they required.

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The Fresno Bee covers Chris Handy, designer of Plext, Linkity, and Handy.

It’s a nice pimp piece for Euro games.

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Only a few copies of the 115 year old Zimmer’s Baseball Game are known to exist. Some dude found a mint copy in the storage space in a servant’s bedroom.

The owner is currently resisting  a likely high auction price (similar games have sold for $27,000) and a museum entreaty for the game.

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Mensa picks their favorites from a pool of submitted games during their Mind Games competition each year. This years picks are:

AmuseAmaze a word race in a maze game by HL Games

EyeKnow, a trivia poker game by EyeKnow Games

Jumbulaya, a tile word game by Platypus Games

Pixel, a sliding pattern alignment game by Educational Insights

Tiki Topple, a strategy card game by Gamewright

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Dead Gentlemen Productions, creators of the Demon Hunters RPG published by Margaret Weis Productions, as well as the original The Gamers film, have signed a deal with Anthem Pictures to distribute their latest project, The Gamers: Dorkness Rising. This film is a parody of fantasy films and adventure games, and features a dysfunctional roleplaying group. Anthem distributes independent films to major retailers and rental companies. Paizo Publishing will distribute Dorkness Rising to the hobby trade.

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