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Coming Soon from Zman Games

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Coming this fall from Zman Games ! Clash of Cultures: Civilizations Designed by Christian Marcussen (Merchants & Marauders), Civilizations is an expansion to 2012's city building game Clash of Cultures. The expansion will contain 14 new civilizations, 3 new buildings, 2 new army units, and introduce Leaders. These civilizations will have 4 unique advances and 3 unique leaders. Each Leader will have their own special abilities that will allow players to improve their civilizations even more. The new buildings will be the apothecary, the market, and the obelisk. Player armies will also get elephants and cavalry units. Earlier in...

Battle Merchants, Tricked-Out Hero, and Red Dragon Inn

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Now Available Battle Merchants Battle Merchants, designed by Gil Hova and published by Minion Games , is an economic game set in a fantasy land in which players manufacture four different weapons, then sell them to various warring races. Demand for each type of weapon differs throughout the game, but a well-crafted weapon will last longer. In a faraway land, the Elves, Dwarves, Orcs, and Hobgoblins stand on the brink of war. After years of failed peace negotiations, they have finally decided to take up arms and stand ready to fight. Which...

Aquasphere Concept Art

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Tasty Minstrel Games posted the concept art for Aquasphere, a new game from designer Stefan Feld that should be hitting Kickstarter soon. Eric Martin, with BoardGameGeek, posted pictures from Origins here . If you haven't heard about this worker placement game yet:

The game board in AquaSphere has two main areas: A research station comprised of six sectors in which your scientist conducts experiments and a headquarters where your engineer supervises preparation of the bots. During each of the four game rounds, you take several turns, and on each turn you either: ...

Coming Soon - Robinson Crusoe: Voyage of the Beagle

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Coming third quarter of 2014 is a new adventure expansion for Robinson Crusoe, designed by Marion Heuser, Robert Masson, and Ignacy Trzewiczek. From Zman Games: The Voyage of the HMS Beagle is an incredible campaign for Robinson Crusoe! This adventure is based on the real events that took place between 1831 and 1836, which led to the creation of the Theory of Evolution. During this very expedition, Charles Darwin laid the foundations for one of the most breakthrough scientific papers in the history of mankind– the paper on the Origin of Species. Players take on...

Coming September from Greater Than Games

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Sentinel Tactics: The Flame of Freedom Sentinel Tactics puts you in control of one of the many super-powered characters from Sentinel Comics. Whether playing in tournament-style skirmishes or playing through the storyline of The Flame of Freedom in the included scenario comic book, each player controls one of our familiar heroes or villains, each with their own powers and abilities! Combat takes place on a hex-grid map, and attack and defense is based on the rolling of six-sided dice. Whereas the Sentinels of the Multiverse card game is a fully cooperative game, Sentinel Tactics is a team...

Prisoner's Dilemma Project with Faidutti and Lang

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Designer Bruno Faidutti (Citadels, Mission: Red Planet, Mascarade) blogged a brief article about a project that he is working on with designer Eric Lang (Quarriors!, Chaos in the Old World, Marvel Dice Masters). The project is based on the prisoner's dilemma. Every round, players-have to choose Simultaneously and secretly Between three possibilities, All which we-have names Peace, and War 1 (or sometimes Greed). In the article, Faidutti touches on a few ways they have been testing and their results. Using dials, cards, and hand gestures (like Rock, Paper, Scissors). Stay tuned...

Coming August - Zeppelin Attack!

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Evil Hat Productions will release Zeppelin Attack in August. This is an aviation, fighting, card game designed by Eric Vogel (Cambria, Armorica, Hibernia) for 2 to 4 players and a play time of 45 minutes. Take over the world in Zeppelin Attack , a deck building game set in the world of Evil Hat Productions' Spirit of the Century. You play villainous masterminds bent on world domination. To win, you must build a powerful deck of Zeppelin cards, weapons, defenses and operatives, and then use these to fight your opponent’s Zeppelins. The player...

Interview with Marc André

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Splendor, a card drafting, set collection game with 40 "poker style" tokens and 90 cards is a 2014 Spiel des Jahres Nominee. It is designed by Marc André and published by Space Cowboys / Asterion Press / Lautapelit.fi / REBEL.pl. MeepleTown posted an interview with Marc.

Can you tell us a bit about the origin of Splendor ? It seems to be a very carefully designed, classical game. You mentioned in an old interview you design games by tweaking old games and putting restrictions on yourself. Is this part of how Splendor came about?...

Coming Soon from Fantasy Flight Games

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Blood Bowl: Team Manager - Foul Play Last week, Fantasy Flight Games released the rules for their upcoming expansion for Blood Bowl: Team Manager, Foul Play. If you missed the preview for Foul Play, you can check it out here . Team Managers will now start seeing flags on the field for penalties for excessive cheating. For players still looking to cheat, there are now corrupt referees that let you look at the cheating token being placed so you know what is coming. The expansion's expected release is third quarter 2014. ...

More Zombies on Kickstarter

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There's certainly not a shortage of zombie games available. Adding to such hits as Zombicide and Dawn of the Zeds is a new Zombie game on Kickstarter from George Rubio and for 1-4 players. "DISTRICT-Z is a zombie-killing board/card/rpg game for 1-4 players in which you must survive and make your way to the safety of the CITY'S EDGE. Each game takes about 30 minutes or less to play. The game “board” is always randomly generated and determines the layout of the city at the start of each game. The game is easy to play and easy to...

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