Posts Tagged ‘Board Games’
Asmodee to Release ‘Dixit’ & ‘Seasons’ Expansions
Wednesday, March 5th, 2014
Popular hobby industry news website ICv2.com reports that Asmodee plans to release expansions for Dixit and Seasons in 2014: Seasons: Path of Destiny will arrive in Q2, and Dixit: Daydreams will release in Q4.
Dixit: Daydreams won’t be released until Q4, and details are few. The Spiel des Jahres winning storytelling card game was designed by Jean-Louis Roubira, and Asmodee has already released three expansions and the series received a huge “TableTop Bump” after the game was featured on the first season of the show.
Seasons: Path of Destiny is the second expansion for Regis Bonnessee’s sorcerer battle game of cards and dice: Seasons. This expansion adds new powers, enchantments and special abilities, and there will be new strategies for game play, tied to the new Die of Destiny. The box contains 62 cards (42 Power cards, 10 Enchantment cards, 10 Replica Power cards), 30 tokens, 1 Die of Destiny and a rulebook. The first edition printing will also include a special promo card. As an expansion, it requires the base game to play. The game is for 2 – 4 players, ages 14 and up, and plays in 45 minutes. The game will release in late April or early May. Source: ICv2.com.
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Geek & Sundry’s TableTop: Lords of Vegas
Wednesday, February 26th, 2014
Check out the latest episode of Geek & Sundry’s smash hit show Tabletop, as host Wil Wheaton and guests Miracle Laurie, Angela Webber, and Aubrey Webber as they play Lords of Vegas!
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About Lords of Vegas:
From Boardgamegeek.com: You and your opponents represent powerful developers in a burgeoning Nevada city. You will earn money and prestige by building the biggest and most profitable casinos on “The Strip,” the town’s backbone of dust and sin. You start with nothing but parking lots and dreams, but from there you build, sprawl, reorganize and gamble your way to victory. Score the most points investing in the most profitable development companies and putting the best bosses in control of the richest casinos. Put your dollars on the line . . . it’s time to roll!
The game board is broken into 8 different areas, each consisting of a number of empty ‘lots’. Players build lots by paying money and placing a die of the value matching the one shown on the lot’s space onto the lot, along with a casino tile of one of 7 colors. Adjoining lots of the same color are considered a single casino. The casino’s boss is the player whose die value is higher than any other in the casino. On each players turn, players turn over a new card representing a new lot they get. The card also is one of the casino colors. Any built casinos of the matching color will score both money and VP. Money is earned for each lot in the casino, where each lot may be owned by a different player. VP goes only to the casino’s owner. Players can expand their casinos; try to take over casinos owned by other players; make deals to trade lots, casinos and money; or gamble in opponents’ casinos to make more money. Ultimately, though, only victory points matter, and that means making yourself boss of the biggest casinos.
Lords of Vegas contains:
- Snazzy game board
- 4 turn summaries
- 55 cards
- 40 chips in 4 colors
- 48 dice in 4 colors
- 4 poker chips
- Lots of money
- 45 casino blocks
- Rules
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Tags: Angela Webber, Aubrey Webber, Board Games, Geek & Sundry, Lords of Vegas, Miracle Laurie, TableTop, Wil Wheaton
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Ticket to Ride 10th Anniversary Edition
Tuesday, February 18th, 2014
According to news website ICv2.com, Days of Wonder has announced a new version of its best selling train adventure board game, Ticket to Ride 10th Anniversary Edition, for release in June. Check it out!
Designed by Alan R. Moon, Ticket to Ride has sold over three million copies since it was introduced in 2004. The new edition will be packaged in an oversize game box with new art, and includes a giant U.S. board map that is 50% larger than the original, which also features new illustrations and design. The five sets of plastic trains will each have a different type of train car and unique paint scheme, which can be stored in tin train storage boxes unique to each rail line. The box will also include 110 large format Train cards, 69 Destination Tickets (which include both the original US map tickets plus those from the USA 1910 expansion), and a multi-lingual rulebook.
The game is for 2 – 5 players, ages 8 and up, and plays in 45 minutes. If you’re a fan of this amazing game, this is a collectible you won’t want to miss out on!
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AEG Announces New Deck Building Game ‘Valley of the Kings’
Wednesday, February 12th, 2014
This June the Alderac Entertainment Group is launching Valley of the Kings, a new deck-building game set in ancient Egypt, according to news outlet ICv2.com. Designed for 2-4 players, 14 and up, Valley of the Kings is all about acquiring a major supply of artifacts for your tomb. Players in the game are Egyptian nobles who, as representatives of a culture that believes “you can take it with you,” compete to gather the most items to stock their funerary chambers.
The Valley of Kings card game takes about 45 minutes to play. The deluxe game box includes 96 artifact cards, four tomb cards, four reference cards, and a rulebook.
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Tags: AEG, Board Games, Deck Building Game, ICv2, Valley of the Kings
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Popular Party Game ‘Cards Against Humanity’ Now Available!
Tuesday, February 11th, 2014
You asked for it, we delivered: Popular party card game Cards Against Humanity is now in stock and available at both Battleground Games & Hobbies locations! As a bonus, we likewise have all four expansions available, too! So act quickly, this immensely popular party game is sure to sell out quickly. Enjoy!
What is Cards Against Humanity, you ask?
From the official Cards Against Humanity website:
“Unlike most of the party games you’ve played before, Cards Against Humanity is as despicable and awkward as you and your friends. The game is simple. Each round, one player asks a question from a Black Card, and everyone else answers with their funniest White Card.”
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Z-Man to Reprint Popular ‘Vikings’ Board Game
Wednesday, February 5th, 2014
According to ICv2.com, Z-Man Games has announced that it will be reprinting Michael Kiesling’s classic Vikings board game. The popular game, first published by Hans im Gluck in 2007 with an English edition from Rio Grande Games, is out-of-print in North America with good condition examples of the game going for big bucks on Ebay. Z-Man’s edition of the Vikings board game will ship to retail in the spring of 2014.
Designed for 2-4 players, ages 10 and up,Vikings is a fast-paced economic board game that takes six rounds (about 60 minutes) to play. Vikings is not about conquest and pillage, rather it a strategy game that rewards clever use of resources. The unique feature of the auction and tile placement game is its pricing wheel, which gives the game several delightful levels of complexity, which can be enhanced even more using the rules of the “advanced” game.
Look forward to this highly anticipated reprint to hit Battleground Games & Hobbies shelves as soon as it becomes available!
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