Merric is very knowledgeable about minis and his news site was a great resource. Unfortunately, his site lost several months worth of data because of hosting issues, and Merric himself had a lot of RL issues which prevented him from spending more time on it. Meanwhile, Maxminis went to hell under old-new management, and now Merric resigned as a moderator there in order to be able to focus more on his own site. I applaud the decision to return to it, because I hold him in high esteem as a webmaster and lorekeeper. While he works to rebuild, however, there are many sources of information available, and several ENWorld members are just as knowledgeable about minis as him (as far as the current state of affairs goes). We could even poke the WotC folks who come here about the minis some more, since I know that Mearls (at least) has some involvement.