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Warhammer 40,000 Conquest Preview - Dark Eldar

Announced in March, Warhammer 40,000: Conquest is a new living card game coming from Fantasy Flight Games . In today's preview , FFG gives us a look at the pirate fleets of the Dark Eldar, with their swiftness and flexibility, and their monstrous pets, the Khymerae. Conquest is due to release later this year. Earlier previews include the Chaos Dwarfs , Howl of the Blackmane , Astra Militarum , and gameplay .

Shadowrun: Crossfire Virtual Scavenger Hunt

Shadowrun: Crossfire from Catalyst Game Labs will be releasing next month. Designed by Mike Elliott, Rob Heinsoo, Jim Lin, Gregory Marques, Sean McCarthy, and Rob Watkins, this is a cooperative deck-building game, crossing cyberpunk with fantasy and plunging players into a world dominated by ruthless mega corps. Catalyst announced that they have hidden 15 PDFs across hobby new websites and that if you can find all of them, you will get over 100 cards and rules for their demo box. The first person who can correctly identify all 15 links...

Eagle & Grypon Games' Clockwork Wars Prepares for KS

Eagle & Gryphon Games have a new project, Clockwork Wars, that will be launching on Kickstarter on July 30. Designed by Hassan Lopez, this fantasy civilization game features hidden unit deployment and a technology tree that varies from game to game in sorcery, science, and religion. In this "magic and steam-era technology" universe, players earn points by controlling territories with resources, developing your cities, and seizing villages. After nine turns, the player with the most victory points is the winner. Clockwork Wars is for 2 to 4 players, ages 13 and up with a play...

NECA/Wizkids Buys Hastings

An announcement of a planned merger between National Entertainment Collectibles Association (NECA) and Hastings started an investigation on behalf of shareholders for "acting in their best interest." Joel Weinshanker is the founder and CEO of NECA , who is the parent company of WizKids . Hastings Entertainment is a multimedia retail chain with 126 stores throughout the United States. NECA is an entertainment and collectible supplier with some pretty awesome stuff such as the The Flasher Gremlin . They have all sorts of collectible goodies. Mergers are a long process...

Coming August from Games Salute

Pixel Lincoln: 2-1: Environments Expansion All new environment cards that change the way that levels work. See how wind effects Pixel Lincoln, pushing him back further and further. Spikes are deadly and prevent players from jumping. Warp zones allow players to swap levels. This expansion does require the Pixel Lincoln: The Deckbuilding Game to play. Expansion contains over 50 cards. For 1 to 4 players, ages 10 and up and a play time of 45 minutes. Tattletale Tattletale, designed by Will Emigh, is a fast-paced microgame about the shifting allegiances of elementary school. Each...

Panamax, Stronghold Games Overview

Panamax is coming in October from Stronghold Games . An overview video has been released for nautical eurogame. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzidwbOnnTU In Panamax, players represent companies established in the Colón Free Trade Zone, the largest free port in the Americas, at the entrance to the Panama Canal. Players will negotiate contracts to use ships that arrive at both entrances to the Canal, coming from the USA, China and Europe, which will enable them to profit from the cargo and ship movement. Players will deliver containers onto ships, move ships through the Canal by opening...

Now Available - Relic Knights

Now available from Soda Pop Miniatures/Cool Mini Or Not is Relic Knights, a miniature strategy game designed by John Cadice and Kevin Clark.

Relic Knights: Darkspace Calamity Rulebook One by one the Darkspace Calamity has consumed the galaxies of our universe. Now, only a single galaxy remains - The Last Galaxy. Only the mighty champions known as Relic Knights possess the strength to overcome the Calamity and save us all from total destruction. Relic Knights brings the frenetic energy and over-the-top action of anime and video games straight to your tabletop. In this dynamic miniatures...

Super Slamwich Now With Super Sized Cards

Slamwich, designed by Monty Stambler and Ann Stambler and published in 1994 by Gamewright Games , is getting super sized just in time for its 20 year aniversery. This new edition has been renamed Super Slamwich to reflect it's inclusion of 55 custom, over-sized cards and a new sandwich-shaped box and is available now! Slamwich is a real-time, pattern recognition card game for 2 to 6 players where cards resemble slices of bread topped with sandwich items, sandwich thieves, and sandwich "munchers." The deck is dealt out as evenly as possible to all players. One by...

Dungeon Fighter: Fire at Will Preview

Fantasy Flight Games announced Fire at Will last week, which is an expansion to 2011's Dungeon Fighter. If you are not familiar with Dungeon Fighter, it is a cooperatiave, dexterity, dice game designed by Aureliano Buonfino, Lorenzo Silva, and Lorenzo Tucci Sorrentino. Players are adventurers trying to survive monsters as they explore dungeons. During a turn in the game, cards with events and monsters are revealed. If monsters are encountered, then they must be fought by physically tossing dice towards a target board. Fire at Will is the first of four planned expansions...

Coming Soon from Catalyst Labs

Coming August from Catalyst Game Labs ! Shadowrun Crossfire: Expansion Pack The Character Expansion Pack 1 has character cards with new art, a starting deck for each character that includes one new piece of art per deck, and a full set of upgrade stickers. With this pack, players can branch out, creating whatever shadowrunner concept comes to mind, starting them on the path to being a legend. Or they can bring new players into the game, sending them on the path to designing their own character and discovering the story the mean streets are waiting to...

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