New Game Round-up: Exploring Gaslands, Adding Corruption to Stockpile, and Hosting Another Festival in Kingsport

New Game Round-up: Exploring Gaslands, Adding Corruption to Stockpile, and Hosting Another Festival in Kingsport
Board Game: Kingsport Festival: The Card Game
• From board game to card game — that's seemingly the trend these days, with the latest example of this being the announcement of the June 2016 release of Kingsport Festival: The Card Game from designer Gianluca Santopietro and publishers Giochi Uniti, Passport Game Studios, and Sir Chester Cobblepot. Here's an overview:

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In the unimaginable darkness of Kingsport, silent wanderers are called to a profane celebration. Their goal: to invoke unthinkable horrors! A dread terror that is not of this world or any other — but rather from the spaces between the stars — demands your submission. Meanwhile, unwary investigators vainly attempt to halt this appalling chapter in the dark history of Arkham.

As the high priest of one of these shadowy cults in Kingsport Festival: The Card Game, you must dominate the city. You will invoke cosmic creatures and unholy gods to receive their "gifts", but you must take care to preserve your sanity and thwart the investigators who seek to stop you. This time, you are the bad guys. Why settle for the lesser evil?
Board Game: Gaslands: Post-Apocalyptic Vehicular Combat
Board Game: Stockpile: Continuing Corruption
Osprey Publishing is currently developing Mike Hutchinson's Gaslands — "a game of post-apocalyptic vehicular mayhem" — for publication in 2017 and parties interested in playtesting are invited to sign up on the Gaslands website. The game in slightly more detail:

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In Gaslands, you field bikes, cars, trucks, big rigs, buggies, and buses as a post-apocalyptic racing team. You equip your vehicles with an array of weapons, then compete for money and prestige across a campaign that alternates between race events (for money and reputation) and wasteland scraps (for resources and the gas you need for the next race).

Gaslands is unashamedly inspired by classic car combat games and is designed to work with kitbashed Matchbox and Hot Wheels cars.
Nauvoo Games has announced a small expansion for Brett Sobol and Seth Van Orden's Stockpile titled Continuing Corruption, and as with many other expansions these days, this one consists of multiple modules that can be used independently or in any combination. New investors, bonds, commodities, and more await their inclusion in your pile.

Board Game: Golem Arcana
• While cleaning house in the BGG News queue, I ran across an in-progress post from Phoebe Wild, and while I'd mostly covered the games she had mentioned in posts of my own (since our coordination skills are near nil), I realized that I still hadn't covered the following, so here's Phoebe's write-up:

Publisher Harebrained Schemes has announced that the latest expansion for Golem Arcana — titled Durani: Champions of the Western Wind — has been made available for purchase earlier than expected on January 27, 2015. The publisher has also announced that this will be the final product released for the game, and that the app required to play the game will not be updated since the most recent version was created at the end of 2015. Here's an excerpt from the press release:

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We here at HBS are devastated that we can't continue to expand this ground-breaking game. We poured our hearts and souls, as well as millions of our dollars, into a landmark development in tabletop hybrid games. We're very proud of this game, with glowing reviews by everyone from Penny Arcade to Game Informer, and an Origins Award for Best Miniature Figure Rules. Unfortunately, sales have not recouped our extensive investment in software and manufacturing.

The most recent code-update from the end of 2015 is the final state of the App, representing our best foot forward for supporting as many iOS and Android devices and operating systems as possible at that time. We recognize that there are still many minor bugs and sometimes unexpected behavior, and that future devices or OS updates may create additional bugs.
Unfortunately this means that Golem Arcana is likely to be unplayable in the near future as the app becomes buggy or unusable on newer devices. If you like the game, it might be worth keeping your old device so that you can still play when you have the iPad 27.

WEM adds: But wait! Turns out that app updates, at least small ones, are possible as on March 10, 2016 Harebrained Schemes' Brian Poel posted "a modest list of changes" for the Golem Arcana app. Adds Poel: "Once the dust settles, assuming everything goes smoothly, we'll begin to prioritize the next possible update (code or data) and we'll just keep chipping away at things as best we can."

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