Savvy readers will recall "The Goblin Game", now titled Uncivilized: The Goblin Game and hitting public beta in about another month. Promo materials for Uncivilized name all four factions in the game (the League of Tyrants has a snazzy recruiting poster), and a few words about the world: "familiar fantasy races and monsters with a gobliny twist - elves are foppish, trolls are pimpish, dwarves are bikerish[...]" Um, trolls are pimpish? Something tells me that isn't going to end well for our friend WotC.

Also! At the GameStorm convention here in Portland where he was guest of honor this past weekend, Reiner Knizia announced that he has completed a game design for the Nintendo DS handheld platform. He added that he has seen the completed game, so he guesses at a fall release but that's only a guess. No, he didn't say anything else about it, except that his name will indeed be on the cover of the box.