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Alderac Entertainment Group posted a little more information on their upcoming expansion, Rising Sun, for 2012's Trains. Trains: Rising Sun is designed by Steve Ellis (II) and Hisashi Hayashi and will come with Bonus Cards that will " claim more points by completing specific routes," cited on their Facebook post.

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T.C. Petty III is a game designer of 2012's VivaJava: The Coffee Game and last year's dice variant, VivaJava: The Coffee Game: The Dice Game. Last week he posted an interesting article on tumblr , '7 Reviewer Tactics That Could Kill You.' Petty states that " This, my dear readers, is a list of traps and logical fallacies for reviewers to avoid; some helpful criticism that may jog your creative muscles or make you swoon with indignation ."

Coming Soon from Mindware Games . Qwirkle Expansion Boards These new double-sided expansion boards will feature powerful star tokens that allow you to remove a tile from the board and add it to your hand and other opportunities for points by connecting starter tiles. Castle Blast In this medieval dexterity game, players armed with wrecking balls attack their opponents' castles and attempt to retrieve treasure, defeat the dragon, and, of course, save a princess. Tokens are earned for each successful feat and the first player to three wins. Components include 26 solid wood...

White Wizard Games will be releasing play mats for Star Realms next month. Star Realms, designed by Robert Dougherty and Darwin Kastle, is a spaceship combat deckbuilding game that offers all the thrills of traditional trading card game style combat, combined with the fun of a deckbuilding game. Play powerful ships, destroy enemy bases or blast your opponent directly on your way to victory! The new Star Realms War World and Battle Mech play mats provide the perfect surface for playing Star Realms with 2-6 players!