While we have no official news source -- only the
Troll Lords forum, where the company head's posted about his death, as he was working for Troll Lord games -- it seems fairly certain that Gary Gygax has left us for GMing in a higher plane.
Now, I know a few people here are going to scoff. They're going to think Dice and Paper games are silly. They're not going to understand clustering around the table is less then the creative writing that comes here to live on a daily basis. -- but I'll say this:
Milliways would not be here without Gary Gygax. Roleplaying was nothing until he gave it a few books, mimeographed rule sheets, and some dice. It grew from there. And we wouldn't be here, wearing the skins we are now, if it weren't for him.
So roll some dice, break out the old D&D books, and search for that 1000gp diamond for the resurrection spell...
Edit: Confirmed. It's on Google News and other sites as well. Rest in Peace, Gary. Hope you roll nothing but 20s from here on out.