So first they killed him off

That will teach me for not checking my normal array of sites in the morning--work is busy what can I say--but ICv2 reports that Wizards is indeed annoucing 4.0 today. The new core books will be out in a year but oddly enough only one a month so you have to wait until July to get all three.

Over on the D&D site there's a countdown for a 4dventure that has the internet up in storm. Is this the long rumored, conspired D&D 4.0? It's it a countdown to a new setting? Or just someone at Wizards joking with us?

Mike Wieringo, artist on many titles such as Mark Waid's "The Flash" and "Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four" with writer Jeff Parker, died over the weekend from a heart attack.

Enter our combatants for Friday Night Fights on August 10th, 2007.