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Wacky Wizard Games Imprint and Three New Games Announced by @wwizardgames

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Wise Wizard Games announced the launch of Wacky Wizard Games, a new brand imprint focused on family-friendly, lightweight games. Three games are planned for release in 2024 as part of this new brand imprint: Star Realms Academy, Caution Signs, and Pack the Essentials. If you are interested and attending PAX Unplugged they will have prototypes of Caution Signs and Pack the Essentials. "We are super excited to be adding this new family friendly product line to our catalog. We wanted to maintain the focus of Wise Wizard Games on strategy card and dice games with geeky themes, and have created Wacky Wizard Games as an umbrella for lightweight games with a more whimsical, cute vibe," shared Debbie Moynihan, COO of Wise Wizard Games. Star Realms Academy Forge your own star realms, overloaded with cuteness! A kid friendly but still fun for grown-ups version of the popular Star Realms deckbuilding game for 2 players. A little less math, no reading necessary, but still tons of fun! 

Viz Media Licensor of Tiger & Bunny

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Viz Media  announced on Friday that it has been named the exclusive American product licensor for the series  Tiger & Bunny . Viz plans to release a range of merchandise based on the show, aimed at males between 14 and 25 years old. In a press release, Tracy Hanchett, Director of Consumer Products, said: “With its multi-textured characters and unique blend of comedy and over the top action, the  Tiger & Bunny  brand is ideally suited to a range of product merchandising options across all categories for the key male 14-25 demographic." VIZ will showcase the property to potential merchandise partners during the 2011 Licensing International Expo, held in Las Vegas from June 14 to 16.

Stargazing Dog & Yuichi Yokoyama Manga on Amazon

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The online retailer Amazon is now listing for the book  Stargazing Dog , by manga creator  Takashi Murakami . Publisher NBM Books has confirmed with that it plans to release the book in November. Amazon is also listing a volume titled  Yuichi Yokoyama: Color Engineering   from publisher PictureBox . Yokoyama's short story "Book" was featured in PictureBox's  New Engineering  anthology and was nominated for an Eisner Award in 2008. ANN has confirmed that publisher Harper Collins, which had a co-publishing and distribution deal with  Tokyopop  from 2006 until the beginning of 2011, will continue the original comic series  Vampire Kisses . An Amazon listing for  Vampire Kisses: Graveyard Games #1  currently shows a release date of September 27, and Katherine Tegen Books, a Harper Collins imprint, as the publisher. An editor working on the project told that work had begun on the book prior to  Tokyopop 's closure. The closure caused a delay in the book's