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In business news, Asmodee corporate headquarters in Paris has announced Welcome by Asmodee . Welcome is a new entity within the board game conglomerate made to help publishers, new and established, providing resources for distribution, translation, and production. Publishers can even pitch new game ideas to Welcome, for one-stop assistance throughout the process.

Welcome comes on the heels of two other big events for Asmodee - First, Asmodee was purchased in late 2021 by The Embracer Group , a Swedish multimedia company with rights to many movie and video game IPs, including but...

Publisher Grand Gamers Guild has released Artemis: First Contact , a print-and-play, roll-and-write title by Glenn Flaherty in the world of The Artemis Project . During the Colonization of Europa, a strange tablet is found under the ice, which seems to point to the location of new, undiscovered planets. First Contact is a game of space exploration and discovery. Place dice to expand lab research, discover new planets, create uplinks, and defend chariots against asteroids. After 16 rounds, the player with the most victory points wins.

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In early 2018, designer and artist Mark Tuck created the print-and-play solitaire game Orchard , combining a 9-card micro-deck card game with dice. Cards are placed so that like-colored citrus trees overlap, and dice are used as counters to track the growing fruit. This was followed by Grove in 2021, using a similar system but changing the rules around. Physical versions of both games crowdfunded last November for nearly $50,000. Tuck’s own description of the two games is: “Orchard is a more relaxing experience, here you can zone out if you want to,...

Exploding Kittens has announced You Lying Sack , a bluffing party game from Penn Jillette (of Penn and Teller fame).

In the game, there is a sack filled with 'bad things', and a single 'good thing'. These are represented by red triangles and a blue rectangle, respectively. Players will pull items out of the bag and offer them to their opponents. Depending on whether you had the good thing in your hand or not will lead to you giving bad things to your opponents or keep them for yourself....