Games Unplugged

Games Unplugged was an American magazine dedicated to the adventure tabletop gaming industry. The bimonthly magazine, headquartered in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, ran for 34 issues, from June 2000 until May 2004. The company also had a website, GamesUnplugged.com, which is now defunct.

Content

It featured news, products, designers and their companies, and upcoming releases of non-electronic role-playing games, card games, board games, and miniature wargames.[1]

The magazine is most notable for running as a regular feature the most recent appearance of Larry Elmore's popular comic strip SnarfQuest.[2][3][4] The magazine also sometimes included writing by Margaret Weis.[5]:343

Publication history

After running Archangel Entertainment, Ken Whitman's next venture was Dynasty Presentations, centering on a new magazine called Games Unplugged.[5]:343 Timothy Brown, James Ward, Lester W. Smith, John Danovich, and Sean Everette founded a d20 company called Fast Forward Entertainment, which later took over Games Unplugged.[5]:343

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References
  1. Games Unplugged #1, June/July 2000
  2. Speirs, Colin D. http://www.rpg.net/news+reviews/reviews/rev_3342.html Retrieved on 2009-5-2.
  3. Flemming, David. "Games Unplugged Magazine" Jul 2002.
  4. http://www.fbshq.org/rev/gamesunp.html Retrieved on 2009-5-2.
  5. Shannon Appelcline (2014). Designers & Dragons: The '90s. Evil Hat Productions. ISBN 978-1-61317-084-7.
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