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Links: North Star Games Wants Your Ideas, Wil Wheaton Guest Stars Again & an Origins Award Reboot?

Links: North Star Games Wants Your Ideas, Wil Wheaton Guest Stars Again & an Origins Award Reboot?
From gallery of W Eric Martin
• Gen Con, LLC has announced that actor/gamer Wil Wheaton is one of three Media Guests who will be present at the convention. From the press release: "Wheaton will sign autographs Thursday through Saturday, August 16-18 at the Autograph Area of the Exhibit Hall at Gen Con Indy 2012. Gen Con will announce its two remaining Gen Con Indy 2012 Media Guests of Honor in the next two weeks."

• At Go Forth and Game, Tom Gurganus interviews 5th Street Games' Phil Kilcrease about how he started working in the industry, what's coming out next, and which games he had to kill.

• As of July 1, 2012, the MSRP for Days of Wonder's Memoir '44 will be $60.

 
• U.S. publisher North Star Games is encouraging Facebook users to submit suggestions for special limited edition promo packs for its line of party games: Wits & Wagers, Say Anything and Crappy Birthday. Your prize if you win? More time on Facebook.

• ICv2 interviews FRED Distribution's Keith Blume, new head of the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design, which oversees the annual Origins awards, about what went wrong in 2012 that led WizKids to pull two items from the ballot before voting took place at the Origins Game Fair and how he hopes to change the award process for future years.

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