Small-Biz Buzz: How to Feed the Gamer's Fix

This new weekly series -- Small-Biz Buzz -- explores the customer aspect of small businesses, both from the customer's and business owner's perspective. If you have a small business you'd like to share, please email me.

Today, a look at a pioneering hobby-based Web site that serves the broad needs of game lovers. It's both a vendor of innovative games and a forum for creators, and its clientele is definitely turned on.

Customer: Kevin Allen Jr., 25, a designer living in New Jersey.

Hooked On: Indie Press Revolution, an online network of creators of role-playing games that sells directly to the customer or retailer. The games are both electronic and nonelectronic (book-based). ...