Pojo's Friday News Page
November 11th - 2005

PRESS RELEASE
MechWarrior Officer’s Club Leads Support Campaign For Brick And Mortar Retail Stores

November 1, 2005 (SEATTLE) — WizKids Inc., creator of the runaway hit games HeroClix® and Pirates of the Spanish Main™, is proud to announce the advent of the MechWarrior Officer’s Club, a collector’s program designed to drive customer support of traditional brick-and-mortar gaming stores by offering customers who purchase from those stores opportunities to purchase special collector’s pieces.

“The MechWarrior Officer’s Club is a flagship program that will carry over to other WizKids game lines,” said Mike Samora, Vice-President of Sales and Marketing at WizKids Inc. “What began with the Buy it By the Brick program for HeroClix has grown into a club that supports customers who support their local retailers.” Beginning in January with the release of MechWarrior: Domination, customers who purchase eight boosters of that expansion at a brick-and-mortar store as opposed to an online store can enter the MechWarrior Officer’s Club.

Officer’s Club members receive many perks, including the opportunity to buy Army Builder kits, packs of predetermined figures that will help them flesh out their armies. Club members also receive a discount on the kits. The kits will be produced in extremely limited quantities, and sold on a first-come, first served basis: once they’re gone, they’re gone! Army Builder kits will only be made available to non-Club members at a later date if supplies remain. Other perks will be announced in the future.

PRESS RELEASE
Happy Blood & Water Release Day!

It's the day you've all been waiting for! Today's the release date for Blood & Water, the first expansion set for Fullmetal Alchemist TCG, with over 110 new cards, new mechanics, new leaders, and more of the great gameplay you're used to!

Here's what you can look for today and in the coming days and weeks on www.fma-tcg.com and elsewhere:

* Blood & Water card list. The full card list is now up! You can now view any card from the set, and don't miss the updated promos list, as well.

* Strategy and decks. We'll continue to provide you with all kinds of great strategy and decks to put your Blood & Water cards to use. Tune in on Friday for an analysis of a popular card from Premier Edition and how it's affected by Blood & Water.

* Magazines. Look for Blood & Water articles and strategy in many popular gaming and anime magazines, like IQGamer and Anime Insider, as well as Beckett Anime, which will have a new FMA TCG price guide, starting next issue and Scrye, which will have an FMA TCG cover and strategy by Lead Designer Ian Ryan!

* FMA TCG's 2006 plans. We're almost ready to make major announcements regarding our expansion plans for 2006 -- and one of them should really knock your socks off!

Stay tuned to www.fma-tcg.com for everything pertaining to Blood & Water and beyond! And most of all, have fun with your new cards!

If you're into Yu-Gi-Oh that is... Yu-Gi-Oh GX for PSP is coming and it'll be visualised in full 3D

Konami took recent initiative to announce the latest instalment in a very popular card game thing called Yu-Gi-Oh, in Japanese print press earlier this week. Revealing the game's name as Yu-Gi-Oh GX, the company went on to confirm that it'd appear on Sony's PSP handheld and that for the first time ever, it will feature full 3D graphics. FullStory

Star Wars Blogger: Delusions of Grandeur

While some bloggers are addicted to roleplaying games, one is busy creating them. During the last decade, VIP blogger Sterling Hershey has written and designed Star Wars RPG projects for West End Games and Wizards of the Coast, and is currently contributing missions for the Star Wars Miniatures game to the Wizards of the Coast website. FullStory

Now entering a new fantasy

Jesper Myrfors has created armies of battle maidens, diseased zombies, harpy slashers and ravening dire wolves in his basement game room, and now he's unleashed them to conquer the world.

Myrfors is the creator of Clout Fantasy, a new game that includes elements of fantasy role-play, tactical war gaming and pitching pennies. The game debuted in the United States in September, and got its European launch in late October. FullStory

Dungeons & Dragons Game Day

Play sessions of two to three hours each are scheduled to go on for 24 hours for the Worldwide "Dungeons & Dragons" Game Day. To learn more, go to www.dndgame day.com.

Unlike his regular life as an organic-chemist-turned-game-store-owner, Brandon Petitpren can be whomever he pleases in a Dungeons & Dragons game.

One day, he's an evil necromancer, who deals with the dead and raises skeletons. On another, he transforms into a righteous paladin, a knight in shining armor who saves the world. FullStory

D&D claims day of fame

The curious and the can't-get-enough can learn more about gaming and meet enthusiasts at area events.

To most people, Dungeons and Dragons is an obscure fantasy game played in dark basements by nerds with no social lives.

But for Nick Postiglione, co-owner of the Source Comics and Games store in Falcon Heights, D&D is a versatile, social game that draws an incredibly diverse group of players.

"People have a stereotype that a gamer is some kind of social outcast," he said. "That's just not true. We have all types of people, ranging from professionals to blue-collar workers." FullStory

Sony settles PS2 class action suit

Ruling on infamous "disc read error" issue could give qualifying PS2 owners $25, a free game, free repairs, or a replacement system.

PlayStation 2 owners whose systems have given them inappropriate "Disc Read Error" messages are eligible to reap the benefits of a settlement in a class action lawsuit they might never have heard of. FullStory

Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire (PS2)

Here comes Harry – and he’s as magical as ever!

Ah, the bespectacled one returns with his bi-annual outing on the big screen and as if conjured up from nowhere here’s the console game to go alongside it. Movie tie-in cynicism aside, the Harry Potter games have actually made for pretty entertaining fare and the fourth instalment is in a similar vein. FullStory

Guitar Hero for the Playstation 2 Rocks

Guitar Hero combines addictive game play with some of the greatest rock songs of all-time and lets gamers experience the thrill and excitement of being a rock star without leaving home! FullStory

Decode Da Vinci on Your PC

A computer game based on the upcoming Da Vinci Code film, is being developed by 2K Games, and will coincide with the movie's release in May 2006.

Sony Pictures' "The Da Vinci Code", is director Ron Howard's film adaptation of Dan Brown's best-selling novel of the same name, and stars Tom Hanks as Professor Robert Langdon and French actress Audrey Tautou among others. FullStory

Resident Evil 4 Cheats, Secrets, and Unloackables for PS2

Unlockable weapons, costumes, gameplay modes and more Resident Evil 4 cheats. FullStory

Pokemon unleashes EX Delta Species

Dragonite soars in the Pokemon 'EX Delta Species' series.
The Pokemon trading card game has become more of a magnetic pull with kids than ever before.

The new ‘EX Delta Species’ expansion series in stores now focuses on the mysterious subset of Pokemon from the Holon region. There, existing Pokemon have been transformed by magnetic forces into the Delta Species who can use two types of energy while in battle. These enhanced cards can be used as regular Pokemon or as Energy Cards to augment other Pokemon. FullStory

Namco And Nintendo.Com Launch Galactic Space Camp Sweepstakes For "Atomic Betty(TM)" Video Game

Heralding the retail availability of its "ATOMIC BETTYTM" Game Boy Advance video game, Namco Homtek Inc, a leading video games developer and publisher, today announced a wide-reaching consumer sweepstakes with Nintendo.com for the month of November.

Located at www.nintendo.com/atomicbetty, the "ATOMIC BETTY" sweepstakes offers two eligible Grand Prize winners and their parents the chance to win a week-long stay at the world-famous Space Camp where they will take an astronaut training session and learn everything they need to know to help Betty rid the galaxy of the evil Maximus I.Q. Located at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, Space Camp features exciting programs on robot design, flight simulation and life on a Mars space station. FullStory

Nintendo releases details of Wi-Fi service for the UK

Japanese gaming giant Nintendo has released details on its soon to be launched free Wi-Fi service for the UK. It is due to be out by November 25 and they are calling it the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. It would run on The Cloud network and the BT Openzone wireless service. Nintendo is offering this service to encourage the online play between the Nintendo game console owners. FullStory

eBay prankster claims his NES can “float”

One seller on eBay seems to have gone a little too far in his efforts to differentiate his NES console auction from the rest. The auction enthusiastically titled “FLOATING Nintendo NES It has floated!” is basically just a NES and some accessories, with the added bonus that it can be seen to float if — and only if — you hang it up in the air with some included fishing line. Isn’t it a little too late for Halloween?! Source

Dragon Ball Z: Buu's Fury Review
Another amazingly fun game based on a hugely popular Anime series.

Of all of the Japanese-style animation series on television today, Dragonball Z is probably far and wide the most popular. With that said, it is no surprise that this show has translated into many video games over the past few years as well.

Dragon Ball Z: Buu’s Fury is one of the more recent of these games. Developed by Funimation for the Game Boy Advance, and published by Atari, Buu’s Fury is the third and final installment in the Legacy of Goku series. FullStory