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Galaxy Defenders - The Earth Strikes Back!

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Galaxy Defenders is a cooperative tactical board game, inspired by the classical Sci-Fi movies and video games of the '80s and '90s. The exciting Season 2 of the cooperative science-fiction board and miniature game has just launched. Now it's time to fight Aliens on their home planet! Miniatures do not require any assembly - The game is ready-to-play out of the box. Painting them is optional. The closing date on Kickstarter is June 7, 2014, the current pledged amount is $198,227 and the funding goal for the project is $40,000. Full pledge packages at $120. Estimated delivery:...

Kickstarter Upsized Machined Die

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A project has been created, by Laura Flores S./Eagle Claw Designs, to produce Machined Die. Here's some more information taken from the Kickstarter page: Well to simply put it these are 25mm polyhedral dice that are made from 6061 Aluminum. These dice will have large faces/surface area, be slightly heavier(providing a more solid roll), and also be the first 25mm metal polyhedral dice offered on Kickstarter. The dice are CNC machined from solid billets of aluminum. These dice are larger than your standard gaming dice and when rolled provide all the "Thunk" and "Thunder" you need to catch...

Board Game Currency on Kickstarter

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It seems like creating new board game currency is catching on big time. Well Game Knight has created a Kickstarter project to fund a new project to create poker chip-like board game currency.

What are GemChips?

As many experienced gamers have discovered, a great set of chips is one of the best accessories you can get to enhance your gaming. GemChips will be casino quality ceramic chips that are designed specifically for tabletop gamers. Of course they are also great for your occassional poker nights too if you're into that sort of thing. ...

Coming Soon - The Battle of Five Armies

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An upcoming release for Ares Games, The Battle of Five Armies, will be published in seven different languages...French, German, Italian, Polish, Portugese, Spanish, and English. Sorry, no Elvish, Dwarvish, or Entish. The Battle of Five Armies is a fantasy, miniature game based on the climactic battle in the novel, The Hobbit and is designed by Roberto Di Meglio, Marco Maggi, and Francesco Nepitello. All three all designed 2004's War of the Ring. Ares has partnered with IELLO (France), Heidelberger (German), Raven Distribution (Italian), Galakta (Polish), Devir Livraria (Brasil) and Devir Iberia (Spain). Expected release is this year,...

Coming Soon - Dino Race

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Coming in September from Ares Games How did dinosaurs become extinct? Nobody knows for sure but now you can try to save your species from extinction, running as fast as possible through the prehistoric landscape, while avoiding the nasty tricks of your opponents! Each player controls a couple of dinosaurs, running away from a raging volcano and a river of lava, toward safety. A precious dino egg must be carried out – And as precious as it is, it’s quite a burden to carry while you are running! You will play cards from your hand to get...

Coming Soon - The X-Files Boardgame

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Coming soon from IDW Games is a deduction, adventure game based on the hit tv series, X-Files.

In The X-Files , players take on the role of Mulder, Scully, and the X-Files team as they work to uncover global conspiracies and threats while going up against various members of the Syndicate. In game terms, 1-4 agent players team up against one opponent who controls the Smoking Man and his nefarious network.

The X-Files board game will focus on material from the first three seasons of the television series, giving fans a...

Coming Soon from Fantasy Flight Games

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Android: Netrunner LCG Summer 2014 Tournament Kit Bring the high-stakes cyberstruggles of Android: Netrunner to your store, and tap into your local player base with Summer 2014 Tournament Kits! Based on Netrunner, Richard Garfield’s classic card game, Android: Netrunner pits runner against megacorp in a near-future dystopian society. The Summer 2014 Android: Netrunner Tournament Kit contains everything you need to run an Android: Netrunner tournament or league, including alternate art versions of two of the game’s most popular cards: Aesop’s Pawnshop and the corp ID Jinteki: Personal Evolution. Along with these exclusive cards, the Summer 2014 Tournament...

Gods' Gambit

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In Gods' Gambit, players represent fallen Gods who must solve problems in the world, performing good acts to be allowed to return to the High Heavens. By playing a card from your hand of either the same color (same location) or the same value (same trouble) as on the playing table, you clear one of the quests bestowed upon you. When one player has managed to rid themselves of all of the cards in their hand (quests), or when a certain period of time has passed (when you've drawn four certain special cards from...

Realm of Heroes

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The King is dead, and all are making their play for power. Do you have what it takes to emerge victorious in this Realm of Heroes? From the depths of the kingdom, armies are on the move and castles have been fortified...war is in the air. The General and the Heir, the Fiend and the Vizier, the Barbarian and the Dark One — all prepare to take the land by force. Only the bold shall survive and thrive in this realm of heroes! Realm of Heroes is a strategy game based in Western fantasy...

Warhammer 40,000: Conquest Preview

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Fantasy Flight Games posted a preview of their upcoming card game set in the Warhammer universe. Warhammer 40,000: Conquest is a new two player, living card game with an expected release third quarter of 2014. Conquest is designed by Brad Andres (Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game & Warhammer: Invasion - Hidden Kingdoms), Nate French (Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game), and Eric Lang (Quarriors!, Star Wars: The Card Game & Game of Thrones: The Card Game). In FFG's preview they take us deeper into the planet cards and deployment phase, showing us how player...

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