Margaret Weis (who?), a book and game publishing company based in SE Wisconsin named after owner / author Margaret Weis has announced they will be publishing the Battlestar Galactica table-top role-playing game come 2007. Known for their Dragonlance setting for Dungeons and Dragons as well as their Serenity RPG, Margaret Weis also publishes the young adult pick-a-path novel series, Paths of Doom (I used to love pick-a-path novels!). The game-book will be set in space, following the storyline of the re-imagined series as what’s left of humanity races to find Earth before the ever so lovely Cylons do. The game-system is being designed by Jamie Chambers, who also designed the Serenity RPG and aided by Sean Everette, writer for Knightly Orders of Ansalon and an ex-United States Navy and Air Force soldier, which will aid in keeping the writing similar to the military style Battlestar Galactica is known for.

Read more: Margeret Weis to launch BSG RPG | Margeret Weis Productions

What better city than New York is there to hold a fun and healthy ARG event? None! This time around, we have Payphone Warriors, an alternate reality game which pits teams of players on the streets of New York who must control the area around Washington Park by controlling the long-forgotten payphones around the area. A team controls their area by simply making a call from a payphone to the game system and entering your team number, before dashing off to the next payphone on your map. For each minute your team controls that phone, you score 1 point, so the more phones you grab and the longer you own the phone, the more points you get.

Read more: Payphone Warriors | ARG entry @ Wikipedia

CCP, the makers of the sci-fi MMO EVE Online have announced that they will be merging with White Wolf Publishing, one of the leading creators of traditional RPG franchises in the world. The companies will operate autonomously, but with White Wolf owning some impressively rich worlds such as World of Darkness, it looks as if CCP is positioning themselves to release some interesting new MMOs in the coming future.

Read the full press release after the jump..

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Yesterday, Gothic 3 developer Piranha Bytes announced via their website that their much-anticipated sequel in the Gothic series, Gothic 3, has gone gold. After 3 and a half years of development, Gothic 3 has a release date of October 13th, 2006 throughout various markets in Europe via JoWooD, with announcements for the US forthcoming from Aspyr Media no doubt.

Official announcement after the jump..

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