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“It was a normal camping trip until hordes of zombie animals rushed out of the woods, looking for brains.”

25th Century Games is releasing the Bruno Cathala title Oh My Brain , co-designed with Théo Rivière , already available in French and Spanish. Oh My Brain is a shedding style card game, where players try to get rid of all their animal cards. Cards are numbered 0-19, and players need to play cards into the middle campfire pile, always playing higher numbers. Multiple cards of the same number can be...

“Legend has it that the old mansion on the outskirts of the city is home to a fabulous treasure! Hoping to find it, you decide to spend the night there, and the ghost of Captain Echo offers to help in your search.”

Designers Antonin Boccara , Yves Hirschfeld along with publisher Libellud have announced Mysterium Kids: Captain Echo’s Treasure . In this cooperative children’s title, each turn one player gets to be the ghost, using only a tambourine to give clues towards picking the correct revealed noise card. Players work together...

2011’s Tragedy Looper by designer BakaFire , otherwise known as Itou Shin Ito, and publisher Z-Man Games is cult favorite one-versus-many deduction game that is hard to accurately describe. One player is the Mastermind, moving characters through a series of events in 4 rooms and playing cards. The protagonists are trying to figure out who the characters are and what is going on. If a certain set of conditions are met, there is a tragedy, and the game temporarily “ends”. However, the protagonists can use this information to play through events again, hopefully...

In business news, Asmodee corporate headquarters in Paris has announced Welcome by Asmodee . Welcome is a new entity within the board game conglomerate made to help publishers, new and established, providing resources for distribution, translation, and production. Publishers can even pitch new game ideas to Welcome, for one-stop assistance throughout the process.

Welcome comes on the heels of two other big events for Asmodee - First, Asmodee was purchased in late 2021 by The Embracer Group , a Swedish multimedia company with rights to many movie and video game IPs, including but...