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Rio Grande Games Announces Two New Board Games
Friday, August 15th, 2014
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Rio Grande Games has announced two new games for third quarter release: Pressure Cooker and Rattlebones, according to hobby industry news website ICv2.com.
Releasing in September is the dice-building game Rattlebones, designed by Stephen Glenn (Balloon Cup, 1st and Goal). Players build customizable dice (rather than a customizable deck in a deck-building game), by removing and replacing sides on a standard 6-sided die, to build the best set of custom dice to score points.
The game is for 2-4 players, ages 14 and up, and plays in 30-60 minutes.
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Releasing in August is a real-time set collecting game Pressure Cooker, designed by Kane Klenko (Mad City). Players take rolls as chefs at the hot new restaurant Tres Yummy on opening night, out to fill their orders the fastest and win the coveted roll of Head Chef. Over three rounds, players collect ingredient tiles to fulfill their orders accurately, thus earning points. Things move more quickly as the rounds progress. The highest point total at the end wins.
The game is for 2-4 players, ages 13 and up, and plays in 30-60 minutes.
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Two Expansions Planned for ‘The Resistance’ Card Game
Monday, August 11th, 2014
Indie Boards and Cards has announced two planned expansions for its deduction card game The Resistance this November, according to ICv2.com. Hidden Agenda and Hostile Intent were funded through a combined Kickstarter program that attracted pledges over $100,000, featuring promos and incentives that will not be included in the final retail version. In addition, both expansions include a number of “modules” that can be added to the base game in any combination.
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Hidden Agenda includes three modules. In “Assassin,” the roles from The Resistance: Avalon have been re-themed and renamed for the Resistance Universe. The “Defector” module introduces characters that can switch sides during the game. And “Trapper” adds a spy-catcher mechanic to the game.
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Hostile Intent also features three new modules. “Hunter” shifts the focus from targeting the enemy’s facilities to neutralizing their leaders. The “Reverser” can change the results of a mission, turning defeat into victory (or vice versa). “Inquisitor,” meanwhile, introduces an ability from The Resistance: Avalon that allows the Inquisitor player to examine the affiliations of other players.
The Resistance was Indie Boards and Cards’ breakout hit in 2010. It was featured on Geek & Sundry’s TableTop web program, and is currently available in 20 languages. It is a deductive card game with similarities to the classic party game Mafia and plays in about 30 minutes.
Tags: Board Games, Card Games, Geek & Sundry, Hidden Agenda, Hostile Intent, Indie Boards and Cards, Kickstarter, New Release, TableTop, The Resistance
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IDW Games Announces ‘V-Wars’ Strategy Board Game
Monday, August 4th, 2014
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IDW Games announced plans last week for a big box strategy board game adaptation of Jonathan Maberry’s prose series, and recent comic adaptation, V-Wars, designed by Rob Daviau, according to hobby industry news website ICv2.com.
IDW launched a comic adaptation of the New York Times best-selling horror series on Free Comic Book Day. Now they have tapped well known game designer Rob Daviau (Risk: Legacy, Betrayal at House on the Hill) to work with V-Wars author and creator Mayberry to bring the V-Wars experience to the tabletop.
The story will pull from and add to the ongoing comic’s universe, with players taking the role of either humans or vampires in a struggle for dominance. Though the game is still in development, release is planned for March 2015.
“[The game] …combines a lot of what I do and what interests me–combat, conflict, narrative, interesting choices, horror, and a fun world to play in,” said Daviau. “I hope to be able to bring all the feeling of the stories and comics into the game. It’s still early but I can already see chances for a lot of subterfuge and shifting goals. Just because you start the game as a human, doesn’t mean you’ll end as one.”
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Devil Pig Games Announces ‘Shadows Over Normandie’ Board Game
Thursday, July 24th, 2014
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According to popular hobby industry news website ICv2.com, French company Devil Pig Games will release a new board game that combines their World War II board game Heroes of Normandie with the eldritch horror of Modiphius Entertainment’s Achtung! Cthulhu RPG. Shadows over Normandie is currently seeking funding on Kickstarter.
Shadows over Normandie is a standalone game that features characters and forces from the Achtung! Cthulhu world. The story follows the Lost Platoon, a few weeks after D-Day, somewhere deep in the Normandy countryside. The platoon is led by Sgt. Carter of the U.S Rangers, with help from the French resistance agent Ariane Dubois, who must stop the Deep Ones and the Nazi Cult of the Black Sun before they summon Cthulhu and unleash the Great Old One on the Allied forces.
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Chris Birch, of Modiphius Entertainment, explained how the English and French game companies came together. “We first hooked up with the Devil Pig’s Yan & Clem last spring when we both Kickstarted our respective games. We both got on well (as us Londoners and Parisians do when there’s no one called Napoleon organizing the party) and a tie-up with our world seemed like a match made in heaven so they launched the cross-over expansion Shadows over Normandie. Since then it has become a standalone boxed game in its own right and this latest Kickstarter is to upgrade the contents and add in a bucket of new content.”
The Heroes of Normandie game is distributed in the US by Iello, and according to Devil Pig, has sold 5,000 copies worldwide. The European-based Kickstarter was funded in the first hour, and is now approaching £100,000.00 in funding with 6 days to go. Backer fulfillment is planned for December 2014, with trade release to follow in Q1 2015. The tentative US MSRP will be $80.00 – $88.00. U.S. distribution has not been finalized, but previous Devil Pig releases have been distributed by Iello.
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Tags: Board Games, Devil Pig Games, ICv2.com, Iello, Kickstarter, New Release, Shadows of Normandie, TableTop, World War II
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Rio Grande Games & ‘Dominion’ Creator Announce New Board Game
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014
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According to hobby channel news website ICv2.com, Rio Grande Games has teamed up with Donald X. Vaccarino (Dominion, Kingdom Builder) yet again, this time for the time-travel board game Temporum.
In Temporum, players assume the role of time travellers, manipulating both subtle and major events in history in a bid to gain the most power at the moment that time travel is invented. The game board shows different “paths” that history can take, and players use their hand of cards to travel through time and alter this course of events. Two to five can play, and each game lasts between 30 and 60 minutes.
Temporum is expected to release later this year and will definitely be a highly anticipated release! Look forward to seeing it at your local Battleground Games & Hobbies!
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Evil Hat Productions to Release New Deck Building Game
Monday, July 14th, 2014
Evil Hat Productions will release the deck building card game Zeppelin Attack! in August, according to news website ICv2.com.
Designed by Eric B. Vogel (Cambria) and based in the world of Evil Hat’s Spirit of the Century pulp RPG, the game has players take the roll of villainous masterminds (Gorilla Khan, Jacqueline Frost, Der Blitzmann, or the Walking Mind) out to conquer the world. The goal is to destroy all rival criminal overlords by deploying a zeppelin fleet, commanding minions, and utilizing strange defenses.
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The box contains 112 cards (4 start decks of 13 cards, 6 mercenary operations zeppelins, 6 mercenary attack zeppelins, 8 mercenary attack cards, 6 mercenary defense cards, 8 mercenary operative cards, and 26 fate cards) and a rule book. The game is for 2-4 players, ages 12 and up, and plays in 45 – 60 minutes.
The game was financed by a Kickstarter campaign in February, which raised $35,524 from 1,200 backers ($29.60 / backer average).
Let us know at your local Battleground Games & Hobbies if you’d like us to order this game for you! Please don’t forget to join us every Monday evening at our Abington, MA location for Board Game Night!
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