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Ares Games to publish Vietnam War title Saigon 75

Ares Games is publishing the two-player title Saigon 75 from designers Jean-Philippe Barcus and Pascal Toupy . Originally released by Nuts! Publishing , Saigon 75 simulates the fratricidal war between North and South Vietnam between 1973 and 1975, balancing the differences between the two sides, and incorporating such aspects as morale, desertion, and the numerous outside forces at play. The game is packed into just a few simple rules, and plays in an hour, with event cards ensuring just enough randomness for replayability. Saigon 75 should hit retail by...

Jump Drive gets a Terminal Velocity expansion

Jump Drive by Thomas Lehmann is a 2017 card game that was originally touted as a lighter version of the award winning Race for the Galaxy . Jump Drive uses cards for most of aspects of the original Race - Technology and Planet cards are paid for with other cards. Money income from played cards translates into more card draws. And played cards bring in point income each turn. This turns Jump Drive into a very fast game - about 10 minutes once you know how to play.

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Test your rules lawyer skill in Trivial Pursuit Dungeons and Dragons

Every once in a while, an IP matches up with a classic game title so perfectly, you can only sit back in admiration. Such is the way with Trivial Pursuit: Dungeons & Dragons . A perfect forum for testing all the completely obscure rules and lore facts your mind has been accumulating since the RPG first released in 1977 (1974 if you count early versions). Trivial Pursuit itself, designed by Scott Abbott and Chris Haney , has been making specialized trivia games only since 1981.

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Cooperative Carcassonne expansion Mists over Carcassonne coming soon

Nebel über Carcassonne , a cooperative version of Klaus-Jürgen Wrede ’s genre-defining tile laying game, was announced back in February 2022. Publisher Z-Man Games has confirmed the English version of this classic, titled Mists Over Carcassonne , coming soon. Carcassonne, winner of the 2001 Spiel des Jahres , has had numerous expansions and big box collections over the decades, but until now never a cooperative version.

Players work together through six levels of challenges, placing tiles and trying to stop the spread of ghosts, and contain haunted ground within cemeteries....

Flick magnets in Panepita

Publisher SzpiLAB with designers Eisuke Fujinawa (藤縄英佑) and Kazunori Hori (堀和紀) have announced the dexterity game Planepita . Planepita is a disc flicking game, with players trying to get their discs into the center of a target board. The discs, however, are two sided and magnetic. Players can flip their disc over after flicking it onto the board, making the magnet stick more firmly. And this matters since opponents can knock your discs off the board. Flipped discs, however, are not worth as many points as those still magnet side up....

Win some prizes in Gasha!

25th Century Games has announced a new card game, Gasha , which is themed around the Japanese vending machines. Gasha is designed by Jason Levine (no, not the Dice Tower Gaming Machine) and features artwork from Christine Alcouffe and Miguel Coimbra .

Gasha is a push your luck game where you are trying to collect the most valuable set of prizes. On your turn, you can either draw two cards or trade in sets of cards for points and half a ticket. As you collect tickets, you can...

Button Shy Games releases microdeck title Wildtails: A Pirate Legacy

The publisher Button Shy Games is known for making 18-card micro-deck games, and have published hundreds of the little gems since their start in 2014 with Six Sons of the Sultan . Notable titles include Sprawlopolis , Tussie-Mussie , and Circle the Wagons . And now, designers Dustin Dobson and Milan Zivkovic have released a seeming impossibility for micro-deck games: an 18-card legacy title. Wildtails: A Pirate Legacy is a co-operative adventure game for 1-2 players, where you build your own empire by successfully navigating each...

Hachette gives video sneak preview into 2023 releases

North American Marketing Manager Danni Loe gave a livestream presentation from Hachette Boardgames which included many game and expansion announcements from the publisher. Hachette is a conglomerate of many French and French-Canadian game companies, so numerous studios have releases noted here.

Gigamic Games , known for beautiful wooden abstract games such as Quarto and Pylos , has announced Qawale , coming in February. Qawale is a mancala-like game of moving wooden pebbles over a 4x4 board. The first player lining up 4 pebbles of their...

Boardgametables.com is rebranding to Allplay

Boardgametables.com is changing their name to Allplay to more accurately reflect the company's products. The company, which was founded eight years ago, started out producing board game tables and accompanying accessories. They have since branched out to bags, playmats, shelves, and board games. Allplay will continue to publish board games focused on titles that are approachable and easy to learn, while including strategic elements. Their board game titles include:

QE - an auction game where players can bid any amount, but the biggest spender is disqualified On Tour - a...

EmperorS4 releases World Splitters and World Exchangers

Taiwanese publisher Emperor S4 debuted two of their new games at Essen Spiel this past October. World Splitters by Romain Caterdjian and Tony Chen is a unique area control game. On their turn, the active player places a fence, splitting the board into more regions. Then all other players secretly bid to place a meeple on a space adjacent to that fence. Starting with the highest bid, the active player can choose to either take the money and allow the bidder to place, or the active player can...

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