Star Fleet 2010

If your following it CGL have released a new press release in regards to the whole Lawsuit issue.

Like always I’m not going to speculate until we actually have it all over and done with but it does mention they are in negotiations with the current owner of the Shadowrun and Battletech IP Topps.

You can read the press release at http://catalystgamelabs.com

Just a heads up again, that those who are Intresting in D&D should look at checking out Dungeons and Dragons Online, it went free to play a while back but by the looks of it Wizards of the Coast has started to even promote it on their website. DDO as Dungeons and Dragons Online is often shortened to is not a bad MMO, it does have it’s flaws but no one can point to one that doesn’t.

In other D&D News if you’ve not been keeping up of late you’ll notice that the 3rd Players Handbook for 4th Edition has released so it’s clear they are milking that for what it’s worth, These include a few old classics like Monks and Psions.

Still no word though as far as I can see on the next update for the Tool Pack and as such I don’t think that the ‘Hold’ they put on their Virtual Table Top is ever going to actually come out of ‘hold’.

By now most places and people are reporting on Catalyst Game Labs problems.

Most of these appear to be rumor, very very few have posted actual evidence of the constant doom and gloom that is going around on the net, the only official posting on the entire thing is the press statement at Catalyst Gaming labs own website. Other places are claiming stores have been told to cease selling products however Catalysts own main sales site of Battlecorps is still selling PDF’s of all products as are several others not to mention the fact that even if Catalyst had lost the Shadowrun and the like licenses it is actually rather improbable that they will do a cease of sales on already printed books, why is this? Because that is Not how the industry works, if a book is printed their is nothing in the laws that says you have to recall all the books, rather you try and get them to sell to get the money from having to print them.

Examples of this alone can be seen in the fact that you can still pick up books from FASA, Fanpro and even some copies of the Warhammer 40k RPG that have their ORIGINAL creators logo’s on them.

So the big one here guys, look for actual PRESS RELEASES that come from the companies rather then just rumors.

Ok As you may have noticed there is now a new Recruitment center notice off to the side! What this allows is for the system to be intergrated into the WHOLE site and offers me some little features as I move on in the future.

However for the moment the new system will allow you to post up to 2048 Characters, Automatically link HTML text and Allow 4 images to be uploaded as part of the advert. It also allows me to create Catagories for individual Areas.. So hopefully it will become a better and easier to manage addition to the website.

I am going to move the last 10 or so posts over from the OLD recruitment Center.. Then move all links from that to point to the new one and post a REDIRECT on that page.

Regards

Management.

Just a heads up to all you battletech nuts out there, as mentioned in a earlier post Catalyst was working on Operation Klondike and as of 2 days ago it was released at least in PDF form at Battlecorps.

I can tell you that I give it 5 stars, while I find it sad that we do not get a large amount of information on Clan Wolverine (The book keeps to the fact that the Clans destroyed nearly all information regarding Wolverine and as such they will not overly speculate on them) it does give a very very indepth look at the operations that created the clans as we know it, from the Exodus through to the end of the operation.

There is also the hint that shows Wolverine is not gone and the Hint that shows Comstar/Word of Blake knows it.. look for it and see if you can find what I mean.. And then go read the Blake Documents.

Art wise it could have been a little better in some places but overall great book.