jablow@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Eric Robert Jablow) (03/03/86)
About two years ago, Eon Products went out of business. They could not handle the strain of producing so many games with only a four-man company. They sold all rights to their games to West End Games of New York, and a more fitting bunch of people I could not name. Anyone who would give both Greg Costikyan and Eric Goldberg a job deserves anything it gets. West End will be coming out with a repackaged edition of CE Real_Soon_Now. It will have some minor editing done. Perhaps some of the more problematic powers will be removed. I wonder if they'll start up a mag like Eon's old ENCOUNTER magazine. If you want a great game to play, try CE. Ignore expansion set 5, Moons, however. Incidentally, if you are looking for an interesting diplomatic game, try Pax_Brittanica, which Greg Costikyan did for Victory Games (=SPI-in-exile). It is a brilliant (literally--look at the map) game on the age of Victoria and the colonization and exploitation of the world by Europe and the US. Recommend it to your friends in net.politics--you'll never hear the end of the arguments. Respectfully, Eric Robert Jablow MSRI ucbvax!brahms!jablow I may be a screwy little wabbit, but at least I'm not going to Alcatraz! --E. Fudd--