this week in our news...
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What's New?
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- The GenCon 2006 Report
- A Note About Recycling at Origins
- New Dessert Samples (plus yet more artists' names): Apple Turnover,
Chocolate Toaster Tarts, Chocolate Fondue, and Ice Cream Sandwich
- The Ember Update: Garden, Blast from the Past, Spirituality
- GinohnNews: Many, Many Anniversaries
- Bonus HMRs: Less Than Zero, Paycheck, and Night of the Demon
Testimonial of the Week
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"My most interesting discovery has been around forever, I've just always
avoided it. Self-described hippie game company Looney Labs has produced a
set of game pieces called Icehouse for 20 years. They're just little
stackable plastic pyramids in different colors. I've seen them forever
taking up little back-wall booths at conventions, inevitably staffed by
freaky looking hippies in lab coats. I never once felt the urge to go talk
to them. The games being played with these little pyramids always seemed so
abstract and complex as to not be fun, and frankly, the whole thing reeked
of 'hey I made this in my basement.' This year, however, they changed how
they marketed the game. They boiled down the product into a single, 9
dollar stack of pyramids and one very simple game (Treehouse). It's
extremely easy to teach and demos wonderfully. I actually stopped to play
this year, and half an hour later, after a great series of demos and some
intelligent conversation with Kristin Looney, I bought one of every single
thing they had on offer. 6 tubes of different colored pyramids, some
special dice, some cards, a 5x5 handmade plastic board, and a book of a
dozen really, really good games you can play with it all. I encourage
anyone with even a passing interest in games to at least spend 20 minutes
on their website." -- Julian Murdoch, in his Gen Con Wrapup at
GamersWithJobs.com
Regular Features
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- Haiku Movie Review: Little Miss Sunshine %}
- Tirade's Choice: The 25 Most Important Questions in the History of the
Universe
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-Kristin (of the Looney variety)