Happy Bunny Day

However you choose to celebrate Easter (or not), have a good one.

V&V court case resolved

As Rogers Cadenhead has reported over at Workbench, the lawsuit over who owns the right to the V&V game has been settled, with the judge declaring the game's creators, Jeff Dee and Jack Herman, do indeed own the rights to the game. Personally, I think this is indeed the best outcome for the game, and I have high hopes that, with the court proceedings now behind them, that Dee and Herman, through their company Monkey House Games, can actually bring back V&V as a viable contender among current superhero RPG's (it will probably never dislodge Mutants & Masterminds as the champ of that particular field, realistically, but there's no reason why it still can't do well for itself in today's market).

As Cadenhead points out, this has ramification for FGU beyond V&V; pretty much all their other games (which were presumably published under a similar contract as the one used for V&V) that they published during the 70's and 80's now can (if I understand it correctly) now be reclaimed by the various authors of said games.  If FGU wants to continue as an active publisher in today's gaming marketplace, they're going to have to look at acquiring new games, and not just coasting by on the glories of the past.

Edit: Scott Bizar of FGU has filed an appeal of the court's ruling, so this will take a little while longer to completely work itself out.

Don't have strong feelings about Disney buying Lucasfilm...

...but with Disney now owning both Marvel and Star Wars, it gives me a good excuse to post this:

Just in case you've been in a cave for the last several hours

Transit of Venus

Watch it live here.  You won't get another chance for over a century, with the next one occurring in 2117.

Oh, to be a child in Portland, OR

This is the type of summer camp I would have loved as a kid:

The B.P.R.D. Training Camp (aka Camp Hellboy)

After all, how many other summer camps are going to teach you the necessary skills to survive a zombie outbreak?

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No V&V Vednesday entry, or any other postings today, in protest of the really, really stupid Protect IP Act (PIPA) and Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) bills currently under consideration in Congress.  Both bills would fail to stop actual online piracy, but could instead be used to block legitimate web sites sans any form of notice or a trial.

Alien Shores could easily be taken down under such proposed laws, for either the Music Monday or Photodump Friday posts, or just the pictures that posted occasionally to accompany other posts.  Please take a few minutes here to learn more about this dangerous legislation, and how to contact your local senator to let them know that this is NOT what you want.