Tuesday, February 4th, 2014
According to ICv2.com, Asmodee has announced the March release of Formula D Expansion 5, an expansion for the Formula D racing game that adds two new racing circuits. One of the circuits, which is set in the Olympic Village at Socchi was designed by Herman Tilke, the architect and designer of numerous modern Formula One race courses.
The other course include in Expansion 5 is a street racer’s dream as players scream along the Hudson River in New Jersey through parks, bluffs, and palisades on course that includes nineteen high speed turns. The Formula D games are designed for 2-10 players, ages 8 and up, and take about one-hour to play. The courses included in Expansion 5require that players have a copy of the basic Formula D game.
Formula D is Laurent Lavaur and Eric Randall’s 2008 re-launch of their own hit from 1991, Formula De. The game uses multiple-shaped polyhedral dice to represent the various gears of a Formula 1 racecar.
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Monday, February 3rd, 2014
Battleground Games & Hobbies is proud to announce we will once again host the popular Geek & Sundry’s International Tabletop day to all Battleground Games & Hobbies locations! Join us on April 5th for all things gaming. Further details, including a schedule of events, to come!
Event Title:
Battleground Games & Hobbies – Plainville
Battleground Games & Hobbies – Abington
Event Location:
25 Taunton Street
Plainville MA 02762
1423 Bedford Street
Abington, MA
Event Details:
Event Time:
10:00am – 10:00pm
Event Date:
Apr 5, 2014
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Tags: Board Games, CCG, Geek & Sundry, International Tabletop Day, RPG, TableTop, TCG
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Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014
ICv2.com has reported that Twilight Creations has announced two board games releasing in the first half of 2014. Cthulhu!!! Hastur la Vista, Baby! will release in February, followed by Jupiter Rescue in April. We love a good Cthulhu board game!
Designed by Mark Major, Jupiter Rescue players take the role of rescue robots, launched into space to help the humans at the Jupiter Deep colony escape the “creeps,” an alien race that eats humans and multiplies out of control. Players work cooperatively to evacuate the colonists before they are converted into alien “creeps.” The game is for 2 – 7 players, and takes 30 – 60 minutes to play.
The box contains 20 double-sided module tiles, 1 evacuation pod tile, 4 reference cards, 36 rescue cards, a six-sided die, and 127 plastic figures (7 player robots, 50 colonists, 60 creeps, 10 super creeps).
Set in the 1920s seaside town of Kingsport, Cthulhu!!! Hastur la Vista, Baby! pits players against the Cult of Hastur in the roles of investigators with some experience in mythos busting, which makes them a little mad already. Players must work semi-cooperatively to find and sanctify ritual sites against the cult, while competing for control of relics and trying to maintain their own sanity while competing for ultimate power.
The box contains 20 tiles, 50 cards, 50 Byakhee, 50 cultists, 3 private detectives, 3 girl Fridays, Hastur, various tokens. The game is for 2 – 6 players, no age limits or game length information was included.
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Tuesday, January 21st, 2014
Check out the latest episode of Geek & Sundry’s smash hit show Tabletop, as host Wil Wheaton and guests Kevin Pereira, Brendan Halloran, and Andy Hull play Tsuro of the Seas!
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About Tsuro of the Seas:
The basic game play of Tsuro of the Seas resembles that of Tom McMurchie’s Tsuro: Players each have a ship that they want to sail — that is, keep on the game board — as long as possible. Whoever stays on the board the longest wins the game.
Each turn players add “wake” tiles to the 7×7 game board; each tile has two “wake connections” on each edge, and as the tiles are placed on the board, they create a connected network of paths. If a wake is placed in front of a ship, that ship then sails to the end of the wake. If the ship goes off the board, that player is out of the game.
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Tuesday, January 14th, 2014
According to ICv2.com, Plaid Hat Games will release two new Second Summoner Faction Decks for their Summoner Warsdeck building game in April:Jungle Elves and Cloaks.
The new decks will round out the original eight Summoner Wars factions. Both decks have their own Summoner (Jexik for Cloaks, Nikuya Nafor for Jungle Elves), set-up card, Champions, Commons, Walls and Event Cards. As single faction decks, they do require any Summoner Wars Master Set or Starter Set to play.
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Thursday, January 9th, 2014
UPDATE: Our sincere apologies. We’ve experienced difficulties getting the video to display properly. Instead, we’ve provided a direct link to the video below.
Take a look at the latest episode of Geek & Sundry’s smash YouTube hit TableTop with host Wil Wheaton; featuring special guests Jesse Cox, Nika Harper and Kumali Nanjiani as they play Carcassonne!
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Geek & Sundry is an internet community centered around producing entertaining web videos, primarily on YouTube, that focus on comics, games, books, hobbies & more. Their goal is to connect their audience together through common interests both online and in real life.
About Carcassonne:
Carcassonne is a tile-placement game in which the players draw and place a tile with a piece of southern French landscape on it. The tile might feature a city, a road, a cloister, grassland or some combination thereof, and it must be placed adjacent to tiles that have already been played, in such a way that cities are connected to cities, roads to roads, etcetera. Having placed a tile, the player can then decide to place one of his meeples on one of the areas on it: on the city as a knight, on the road as a robber, on a cloister as a monk, or on the grass as a farmer. When that area is complete, that meeple scores points for its owner.
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