Links: No Glory for IELLO?, Wurm Win & a New Game of Thrones

• U.S. publisher Cambridge Games Factory has sent a cease-and-desist letter to French publisher IELLO over that publisher's impending release of Carl Chudyk's Uchronia, which CGF's Ed Carter claims IELLO is promoting "as a 'definitive' version of Glory To Rome with only a few 'technical' changes." CGF first published Glory to Rome in 2005, and Carter has laid out his summary of how the game came to be on the BGG Cambridge Games Factory page.

• Coincidentally, designer Bruno Faidutti writes about how publishers can bounce players out of a game world by being inconsistent with a game's theme, mentioning Uchronia as one such example:

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Uchronia is a lighter, faster and simpler variation on the complex Glory to Rome. Not a bad idea. The characters are still legionaries, patrons, senators and craftsmen...but for some mysterious reason, the artist has been asked to add on almost every card a dinosaur which looks really out of place on the banks of the Tiber. Once more, the theme is destroyed just for the sake of adding some nice cartoons.

• The Kinderspiel des Jahres jury announced Carmen Kleinert's Da ist der Wurm drin (Zoch) as the 2011 award winner.

• Fantasy Flight Games has announced a second edition of A Game of the Thrones, with previews of the game at Gen Con in August 2011 and availability in Q4 2011. From the announcement:

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[The new edition] includes elements from the A Clash of Kings and A Storm of Swords expansions, including ports, garrisons, Wildling cards, and Siege engines, while introducing welcome new innovations like player screens and Tides of Battle cards. This, along with updated graphics and a clarified ruleset, means the time has never been better to take control of Westeros.

But if we're all trying to take control of Westeros at once, won't that mean – oh, wait a minute...

• Lookout Games has released downloadable files of the revised German-language cards in its seventh edition of Agricola, with separate files for the E, I and K decks as well as the major improvements.

• Online gaming site Yucata.de has Rüdiger Dorn's Dragonheart in a beta version.

• Tommy Dean, a comedian in Australia, appeared on the ABC television show Collectors to talk about his board game collection, highlighting Blood Bowl, Talisman, Stop Thief, Finca and Funny Friends. Nice variety! Here's his segment. (HT: Universal Head)