To indulge in a bit of speculation, (1) The Hobbit Card Game appears to be based on the book and not the movie, (2) Fantasy Flight Games released a new board game based on The Hobbit book in 2010 (with Reiner Knizia providing the design of The Hobbit), (3) Egmont released a Polish edition of this Hobbit game, and (4) Ted Nasmith provided the artwork for FFG's 2001 board game The Hobbit (designed by Keith Meyers and Michael Stern).
Ipso ergo factotum speculatum, The Hobbit Card Game will be released by Fantasy Flight Games in English, just as it's releasing an expansion for its The Lord of the Rings Living Card Game based on The Hobbit – two expansions, actually. Remember, you heard the rumor here first... (HT: Mirosław Gucwa, editor-in-chief of Świat Gier Planszowych)
• In other Martin Wallace news, ICv2 reports that Asmodee will release a Few Acres of Snow-type deck-building game from Wallace in September/October 2012, but the game will be "for four players and in a different universe". To indulge in yet more speculation, this title is likely to be Mythotopia, discussed in this BGG thread in March 2012. In that thread, BGG user Jim Marshall provides an overview of Mythotopia based on three playing during a playtest session.
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