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Gen Con News: Brotherwise Games Announces ‘Boss Monster 2’
Wednesday, August 20th, 2014
At Gen Con last week, ICv2.com caught up with Johnny O’Neal – co-founder and lead designer at Brotherwise Games, makers of the immensely popular Boss Monster card game. During the interview, Mr. O’Neal provided details regarding how well Boss Monster has sold (70-80,000 units nation-wide) and their plans to utilize Kickstarter.com to launch their iOS and Android Boss Monster games.
Original Boss Monster. Photo courtesy of ICv2.com.
But perhaps most importantly, Mr. O”Neal announced that Brotherwise Games is currently developing Boss Monster 2, which they also plan to launch a Kickstarter for, with a planned Q1 2015 release to retailers (like Battleground Games & Hobbies!). He mentions that it will be a 160-card, all-new set including more variety and new heroes.
You can read the entire interview here.
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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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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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Z-Man Games Announces ‘Pandemic: Legacy’
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2014
Z-Man Games has announced, according to hobby news website ICv2.com, a new addition to its popular disease-fighting Pandemic line of strategy games, Pandemic: Legacy.
The original Pandemic was designed by Matt Leacock, and this version is co-designed by Rob Daviau, who designed Risk Legacy. Pandemic Legacy will incorporate the evolving history and consequences of current games into future ones, much like role playing games. Characters and their actions in the current game play will affect how future games are played.
A Z-Man Games representative confirmed Pandemic: Legacy will not be released until 2015.
Other imminent upcoming releases in the Pandemic line include Pandemic: Contagion, in which players are the diseases, which will release at Gen Con; and the dice-based stand-alone Pandemic: The Cure, which is due in Q4.
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Days of Wonder Announces ‘Five Tribes’ Board Game
Monday, June 30th, 2014
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Days of Wonder has announced, according to hobby news website ICv2.com, a September release for Five Tribes, a new Euro-style big box board game designed by Bruno Cathala (Senji, Dice Town). Five Tribes builds on the long tradition of German games with wooden Meeples and provides a unique twist on the standard “worker placement” economic board game. A bit more of a “gamer’s game” than the typical Days of Wonder fare, Five Tribes has clear, easy-to-understand rules, but requires a clever and calculated strategy to win.
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In this “worker displacement” game players score points by carefully maneuvering the Five Tribes of Meeples over the tiles that make up the ancient Sultanate of Naqula. They need to look ahead to what moves will not only position them to score, but also put their opponents at a disadvantage. It’s when, how, and where players “dis-place” the five tribes of Assassins, Elders, Builders, Merchants, and Viziers that determines victory or defeat.
‘Five Tribes’ board set up. Photo courtesy of ICv2.com.
Designer Bruno Cathala, who Days of Wonder is bringing to GenCon to demo the game, explained his affection for the game: “After designing a series of smaller games, my inner-self began to insist that I work on something bigger and more substantial. While I’ve already played the prototype hundreds of times, it’s still the game I want to play most often. So please don’t hesitate to come to play with me at festivals–I never grow tired of Five Tribes.”
Photo courtesy of ICv2.com.
Five Tribes is for 2 to 4 players, ages 13 and older and takes approximately 40-80 minutes to play. It includes 30 Tiles depicting the Sultanate of Naqala; 4 Player sets with Camels and Turn Markers; 90 Wooden Meeples (Yellow Viziers, Red Assassins, Green Merchants, Blue Builders and White Elders); 12 Palm Trees & 10 Palaces; 22 Djinn cards; 54 Resource cards; 96 Victory Coins; a Scoring Pad; 5 Djinn & Turn Order Summary Sheets; 1 Betting Order & 1 Turn Order Tracks; and a Rules Booklet.
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‘Smash Up: Monster Smash’ Expansion Announced
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2014
According to retailer news website ICv2.com, Alderac Entertainment Group was previewing the upcoming addition to its hit Smash Up card game line at ACD Game Day last week. Smash Up: Monster Smash is planned for September release.
This edition is Halloween themed, and the four factions featured in this iteration are vampires, werewolves, mad scientists, and giant ants. Each 20-card faction deck can be smashed together with another to create a 40-card play deck, for two-player battles. Monster Smash can be combined with other Smash Up games to create interesting faction play, as well as expand the game to four players.
The box will contain the four faction decks, victory tokens, and rules.
AEG Director of Sales & New Market Development Sean Lashgari noted that the upcoming Smash Up: Big Geeky Box is also planned for release around the same time.
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Tags: ACD Game Day, AEG, Board Games, ICv2.com, New Release, Smash Up, Smash Up Monster Smash, TableTop
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