First big impact of the economy on the hobby industry?

[viktor_haag]

According to WizKid's blog, Topps (which I suppose owns WizKids), has announced that effective today, WizKids will cease operations and all product lines will be discontinued.

I'm sorry for all you clix fans, but I suspect that there's lots of stuff in the channel you can soak up for months to come.

Something this relatively large leads one to immediately wonder: how safe is Wizards of the Coast? (Presumably, given the apparent, and perhaps unexpected, popularity of 4e, they're safer than they'd have been had they not had their 4e oars in the water.)

ed. Also, to be fair, I should say I yoinked this news from bruceb. Given his connections, his posting might well accrue more interesting comments on this situation than mine.