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Five Tribes Available for Pre-Order

Five Tribes, designed by Bruno Cathala (Cyclades, Shadows Over Camelot, Mr. Jack) and published by Days of Wonder is now available for pre-order. Five Tribes is a "worker displacement" game with a set collection and area control aspects. An interesting twist to worker placement, in this upcoming Arabian themed game, the worker meeples are placed on the board at the beginning of the game. The main board consists of tiles placed in a 5 by 6 grid and meeples are randomly placed on the tiles. These meeples do not belong to any one player and...

Casual Game Insider's on Kickstarter

Casual Game Insider, a print and online magazine from Casual Game Revolution, has a campaign going on over at Kickstarter to help fund it's third year or production. " Board games are making a comeback! Casual Game Insider (or CGI) is a quarterly magazine that covers news, reviews, and interesting articles about casual board, card, dice, and party games. These games are relatively easy to learn and play, but offer a fun and engaging experience for nearly all ages and backgrounds .

Because of you, we have had 2 successful years of Casual Game Insider....

Coming Soon - Dungeon Fighter Expansions

Fantasy Flight Games announced the first expansions for Dungeon Fighter, a fully cooperative dungeon delving board game, published in 2011. Fire At Will and The Big Wave are designed by Aureliano Buonfino, Lorenzo Silva, and Lorenzo Tucci Sorrentino who also designed Steam Park and 1969. Dungeon Fighter: Fire at Will First of four planned expansions, Fire at Will is themed around the element of fire. Players will navigate a burning cavern and combat flame-breathing monsters with flammable weapons and BBQ armor. Melissa, The Fire Sorceress joins the party of heroes as an expert in fire...

Coming Soon - My Little Pony: Rock 'N Rave

Coming in August from EnterPLAY is a new r2-Player starter set. My Little Pony: Collectible Card Game is designed by Darrell Hardy (Runebound, Maelstrom). The set introduces two all-new deck themes, giving players their very first chance to choose DJ Pon-3 or Maud Pie as their Mane Character! Rock ‘N Rave also includes 12 additional brand new cards, featuring never before seen Friends, Events, and Troublemakers. This set includes 110 cards, 2 Special Foil Mane Characters, 2 sets of action tokens and a full size 2-player mat. Also expected to release in August is the...

Victory Point Games Going Digital

Hunted Cow Studios and Victory Point Games have partnered up to produce digital versions of popular titles from VPG's line. “Victory Point Games is a boardgame publisher staffed by many digital game developers,” VPG co-founder Alan Emrich remarked. “That’s why we’re so glad to have found our kindred spirits in the digital game publishing industry who ‘get’ manual-to-digital game translations. We’re very excited to be working together with a great publisher, our new friends at Hunted Cow Studios.” Head of Marketing at Hunted Cow Studios, Craig Withers, said, “Everyone at Hunted Cow is incredibly excited to help...

Unpub Hits Kickstarter

I'll have to admit, I had not heard about Unpub until recently. It's not your typical "board game funding" campaign. It's actually a campaign to help raise funds to host an event that is geared towards game development. It will include special guest (and popular designer of games such as Arkham Horror and Defenders of the Realm) Richard Launius.

" Founded in 2010, The Unpublished Games Network , called Unpub, is a growing community of game designers, publishers, players, retailers and artists working towards the creation of new and unique table top games...

Battle for Hill 218 & Sci Fi Sequel

Chad Ellis (Your Move Games) has initiated a Kickstarter campaign to reprint the popular war card game " The Battle for Hill 218 " (designed by Darwin Kastle) while, at the same time, releasing a science fiction based sequel entitled " Battle for Sector 219 ." " Over the years, Darwin and I naturally talked about a sequel. He tried a number of times, but discarded each new variant as unworthy. Then, as I was getting ready to order a third print run of Hill 218 Darwin came to me and said he'd finally come...

Mouse Guard Comic Soon to be a Board Game

Mouse Guard has been around as a comic, from David Petersen. Well David and Luke Crane (from The Burning Wheel ) are developing a lite-strategy game based upon the comic and it's presently on Kickstarter. "Swords & Strongholds is a game invented by David Petersen for his Mouse Guard graphic novels. Recently, he asked Luke Crane (of Burning Wheel and the Mouse Guard RPG) to come up with some rules for the game and so we did! We developed a...

Cosmic Encounter: Cosmic Dominion Preview

A preview for Cosmic Dominion, a new expansion for Cosmic Encounter, was released yesterday from Fantasy Flight Games. Designed by Jefferson Krogh, Bill Martinson, and Jack Reda this is the fifth expansion for the Fantasy Flight version. In this preview, FFG gives us a taste of a few of the new two dozen races that are coming in the expansion. The Reactor pulls the other player's flares at the start of the game and will be taking them for himself or distributing based on allies and negotiations. The Mesmer lets you play...

Coming Soon from IELLO

Friday the 13th First published in 2010 in China and Germany, this Reiner Knizia (Through the Desert, Ra, Tigris & Euphrates) family, card game will get treatment for English, French, and Dutch. Friday the 13th has also been distributed under the name Poison and Baker's Dozen. Bad omens are all around you! Whether it’s black cats walking in front of you, walking under ladders or breaking mirrors, you will want to play your cards smartly to avoid all the bad luck or risk gathering as much bad luck as possible to pass the curse on to your...

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