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Llama Dice announces The White Castle

The design team of Llama Dice , who are in reality Israel Cendrero and Sheila Santos, affectionately credited as Isra C. and Shei S., really came into the spotlight with the release of The Red Cathedral in 2020, a resource-collection and recipe-fulfillment game about constructing Saint Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow. The game was particularly notable for its unique dice-driven resource market. And now, Llama Dice have announced the spiritual successor to Red Cathedral, The White Castle .

The White Castle takes place in feudal Japan, with the centerpiece being Himeji...

Ravensburger and Gamefound are looking for the next big family game

Publisher Ravensburger in collaboration with crowdfunding platform Gamefound are looking for the next big family game. Literally.

The publisher behind The Castles of Burgundy , Puerto Rico and The Quest for El Dorado is holding a contest for all those wanna-be game designers out there. Starting November 15, the public is encouraged to submit game ideas online. Ravensburger is specifically looking for family games targeting ages 7 and up, 60 minute playing time max. Promising designs will be asked to send in a prototype, and a jury will...

Catch Up Games announces Cubosaurs

Cubosaurs is a new hand management card game from Fabien Tanguy and French publisher Catch Up Games . The title shares a polyhedral aesthetic with the publisher’s 2018 title CuBirds , both being illustrated by Kristiaan der Nederlanden .

Cubosaurs is a card drafting game, and each of the dinosaur cards has its own scoring rules, earning or costing points depending on the number of that specific card successfully gathered at the end of the round. Each turn, decide whether to play the hand you were given, or pass...

Siliconvania announced by WizKids

“The Vampire Council is looking to hire a new city planner to turn Transylvania into the world's newest tech haven! The race is on to present to the Vampire Council the most organized plans for the city to renovate Transylvania into Siliconvania!”

Siliconvania from Reavers of Midgard and Flotilla designer J.B. Howell and publisher WizKids is first and foremost a tile laying game. Bid on tiles that give either immediate or end game effects, then place them in a growing 4x4 city grid. Or bid on...

Enter the Matrix in the next Legendary Encounters release

Upper Deck Entertainment originally announced Legendary Encounters: The Matrix at GenCon 2022, but has released more information recently.

The Legendary series of games includes a variety of deckbuilding titles built around intellectual properties, most notably Marvel, where players are assembling a deck of heroes to defeat a villain's scheme. Legendary Encounters is the cooperative variation, taking the deckbuilding formula and adding specific scenarios pulled from the intellectual properties. The prior entries in the Legendary Encounter series include Alien , Predator , Firefly , and X-Files . Now, ...

Gamelyn Games Announces Tiny Epic Crime

Gamelyn Games have announced the newest game in their Tiny Epic line: Tiny Epic Crime a film noir themed " crime-fighting, deduction game".

Designed by Scott Almes , the game invites 1 to 4 to play as detectives, to either cooperatively or competitively solve a murder. Sift through evidence using " the novel Tiny Epic Decoder System", which allows you to evaluate each piece while keeping the rest hidden, using red filter envelopes. But detectives still need to keep tabs on everyday crime, even while solving the big case. Tiny...

25th Century Games reprints classic Cathala game Oh My Brain

“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...

Pearl Games announces real time civ builder Time of Empires

Pearl Games is known for some very impressive mid-weight euro titles, such as Troyes , Ginkgopolis , and Black Angel . And the publisher's newly announced title is Time of Empires coming from designers David Simiand and Pierre Voye .

Time of Empires is a real time civilization building game, where players guide their people through Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and into Modernity, with each age lasting exactly 9 minutes. Game play involves using two 30-second sand timers to activate actions - build wonders, inspire leaders,...

Mysterium Kids does cooperative deduction with a tambourine

“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...

NSV releases the roll and write number game Triggs

Triggs by designer Karin Hetling is a card based roll-and-write title from publisher Nürnberger-Spielkarten-Verlag (NSV). Cards contain the numbers 1-12, and players have sheets with these numbers appearing 2-5 times each. Each turn, players either draw new cards, discard a set of cards of the same value, or use their cards to cross off numbers. Players cross off as many squares of the same number from their sheet as they can, either by playing cards of that number, or pairs of cards that sum to that number. Finishing a row of...

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