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Deep Water Games splits from OxEye Media Group

Deep Water Games , once part of the OxEye Media publishing group, has spun off to become an independently operated organization. Deep Water was started in 2018 as an avenue for importing games from Taiwan, France, and the Netherlands, then hit it big by signing popular titles Welcome To , Floor Plan , and Fantastic Factories . The new Deep Water Games will be led by original founder Jacob Way. OxEye Media will be creating their own games division in the absence of Deep Water, titled Source Point Games, which will be led...

Thing12 plays with Matches

Thing12 Games is crowdfunding Matches , a unique trick taking game by designer Daniel McKinley . The goal in Matches is to collect the most fire tokens. One player leads by playing a numbered fire card to the middle of the table, placing a single fire token on it. This is called the Blaze. Subsequent players then need to either play single card of the same value, which adds a fire token to the Blaze, or play a set of cards that add to the value of the Blaze. If a player runs...

Hachette screams Olé Guacamolé

Coming from Le Scorpion Masqué and parent company Hachette is the party word game Olé Guacamolé from designer Guillaume Sandance . In Ole Guacamole, players attempt to come up with a word related to a clue topic inside of 12 seconds. However, forbidden letters are listed on Avocado cards. For example, can you come up with a work related to "Mexico", but not containing V, T, O, or D? Each turn, more cards with more forbidden letters are revealed. Name an on-topic word and it moves to the next player's turn, but...

Alley Cat announces world of Arborea

Alley Cat Games and designer Dani Garcia have announced Arborea , a unique mixture of worker placement and resource collection game for 1-5 players. In Arborea, players are patron spirits and guide their villagers to heal and grow the landscape around them. Contribute resources to the shared resource track to gain points, or take resources from the track to build your personal ecosystem. Players put workers on a series of action tracks that wind their way through the board, beautifully illustrated by Javier González Cava . Workers on these...

Next stops for Stefan Feld's City Collection: India and the Bahamas

Queen Games has announced games 7 and 8 in their City Collection , Patliputra and Nassau, designed by Stefan Feld . Not much is known about these games, as we only have been told the titles and an image of a side of the box. Nassau is said to be a re-implementation of a previous Feld game, though it is unknown at this time. It also appears to feature at least one pirate ship. Patliputra is a new design, and a side of the box shows a temple.

There is no expected...

Collect flowers to commemorate a war in Flowar

Spanish publisher Primigenio , has announced Flowar with artwork from Dossom Studio, designed by Isra C. and Shei S. , known collectively as Llama Dice . The team had previously designed The Red Cathedral and its Contractors expansion, as well as Walkie Talkie and Shinkansen: Zero Kei .

Each year, thousands of people travel to collect flowers in order to celebrate Flowar, a festival to commemorate the end of the Two Hundred Year War. This is a worker placement game where players are...

Real-time set collection in Quickity Pickity, the latest from Oink Games

Publisher Oink Games debuted Quickity Pickity at Essen Spiel 2022. Oink is known for producing colorful smallbox games with an endearing visual appeal. Quickity Pickity appears to be right in their wheelhouse; Two to five players compete to pick the best sets of fruit from an array of scrambled tiles that start facedown. In real-time, using only one hand, players will begin flipping tiles over and grabbing ones they want into their personal supply. Each tile depicts a piece of fruit with a particular shape, color, and face (smiling or frowning). Players will score...

Renegade Game Studio partners with Hasbro to publish classic Avalon Hill games

Since Renegade Game Studios was founded in 2014, they have earned a reputation of publishing or importing games that are fun, challenging, and unique. Some of their best known publications are: Clank! , Raiders of the North Sea , Fuse , and The Fox in the Forest .

In 2018, Renegade Game Studios entered into a business partnership with Hasbro by agreeing to run a Kickstarter project for Power Rangers: Heroes of the Grid . Starting in 2020, Renegade expanded its partnership with Hasbro by publishing...

Yellow & Yangtze is now HUANG

In 2018, the former BBG #1 game Tigris & Euphrates received a sequel game from designer, Reiner Knizia , called Yellow & Yangtze . This took the game set in ancient Mesopotamia and relocated it to ancient China. It also replaced the square grid board with a hex board, but much of the gameplay remained the same. You were still competing with civilizations, establishing and balancing their political, economic, and religious power across the board.

Yellow & Yangtze, previously from Holy Grail Games , is currently out of print, however Polish publisher...

Heroscape: Age of Annihilation is crowdfunding on Hasbro Pulse

The crowdfunding campaign for Heroscape: Age of Annihilation is live on Hasbro Pulse through 11:59 PM EST on November 15th 2022. Heroscape , which was originally publised in 2004, is a miniatures battle game set on modular hex-based terrain. Players customize point-based armies from amongst five factions. The new campaign is backwards compatible with previously released Heroscape content. Backers will receive over 70 miniatures, cards describing the abilities of the different units, and enough modular terrain (including ruins, walls, and trees) to construct a multi-level battlefield. The miniatures are dyed to correspond to...

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