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Z-Man brings new tragedies to Tragedy Looper

2011’s Tragedy Looper by designer BakaFire , otherwise known as Itou Shin Ito, and publisher Z-Man Games is cult favorite one-versus-many deduction game that is hard to accurately describe. One player is the Mastermind, moving characters through a series of events in 4 rooms and playing cards. The protagonists are trying to figure out who the characters are and what is going on. If a certain set of conditions are met, there is a tragedy, and the game temporarily “ends”. However, the protagonists can use this information to play through events again, hopefully...

Hasbro stock volatile this week after Bank of America analysis

Polygon and CNBC along with others, reported on Monday on a drop in Hasbro's stock price, after a Bank of America Analyst double downgraded it’s position from "buy" to "underperform". Hasbro, of course, is the publisher of games such as Monopoly is also the parent company of both Avalon Hill ( Betrayal at House on the Hill , Axis and Allies , etc) and Wizards of the Coast ( Magic the Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons ). The stock continued its downwards trend...

Asmodee forms Welcome by Asmodee

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...

AEG releases Smash Up 10th Anniversary Set

Good news, Smash Up fans - the Smash Up 10th Anniversary set is now a reality. The cult favorite Smash Up , by designer Paul Petersen , was originally released by publisher AEG in 2012, a game about mixing two faction decks together to create a hybrid army. Players then use this army to attack and dominate varied base cards for points. The original set came with 8 different factions including Pirates, Zombies, and Dinosaurs. However, over the years, more than 20 expansions and promos, including nearly 100 factions have been released,...

Grand Gamers Guild returns to Artemis Project with a roll and write

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.

2019’s The Artemis Project by...

Hachette brings Zero to 100 to English audiences

Zero to 100 by Antonin Boccara and Scorpion Masqué is getting an English language release thanks to French publishing giant Hachette . Zero to 100 is a trivia game with a twist - each player or team gets 6 question cards, the answer to which is a number from 0 to 100. Play is started with a “50” card in the middle of the table, and each team needs to pick one of their questions that they feel has an answer closest to the target of 50. The winner gets...

Mark Tuck announces Forage, the sequel to solitaire games Orchard and Grove

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,...

Wyrd Miniatures releasing new VagrantSong scenario

The cooperative dungeon crawl VagrantSong by designers Matt Carter , Justin Gibbs , and Kyle Rowan was a critical darling right from its release late last year. Play as a team of Vagrants on a train, “fighting” haints to restore their humanity. Gameplay centers around bag building, with the haints’ tactics, found items, and events using tokens drawn from a bag. Featuring 1930’s style cartoon art from Nguyen Mai Diem , and multiple scenarios, the game tells a creepy, unique story.

And now, publisher Wyrd Miniatures has announced...

Penn Jillete thinks you're a Lying Sack!

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....

Fell trees and flip flapjacks in Fir, from the fellows behind Feudum

Odd Bird Games has announced their next game, Fir , which reunites the designer and artist of Feudum . In Fir , two to five players compete to acquire the most myth points with their band of loggers in the 19th century Pacific Northwest. Task workers with felling fir trees, driving logs to milling timber, and stoking steam donkeys. What's a steam donkey, you ask? Well, it is a steam-powered winch for hauling logs from where the trees were felled to a processing area. You will do more than just cut down...

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