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• Bruno Faidutti has posted English and French rules for The Dwarf King on his website.
• Andrew Agard's Card Farm won Protospiel's 10th Anniversary Card Game Design Contest, and his design is now undergoing development for a planned release in 2012 with worldwide distribution. (Sponsors of the contest were ElfinWerks, Delano Services and Alliance Game Distributors, but for now the game's publisher is listed as "unknown" as the sponsors are working out who will be credited with the game's publication, according to Protospiel's David Whitcher.)
• Somewhat old news, but perhaps new to you: Jolly Roger Games plans to release Ted Torgerson's Free At Last as the next title in its line of history games. JRG's Jim Dietz says that the game will be out by Origins 2012 at the latest and will be packaged similar to Founding Fathers with preorders possibly opening as early as August 2011. Rules, counters, game board and other materials are available on the BGG game page, so feel free to check it out now.
Further updates from Jolly Roger Games: Dietz expects the final art for Pirates vs. Dinosaurs to be available by the end of July 2011, which might then tip the number of preorders over the required amount so the game can head to the printers. Dietz said that the game could be available in late September depending on how the preoders come in.
Finally, Philip duBarry's Family Vacation is now available for preorder on the JRG website for $20, with the expected final retail being around $35.
• Christian Lemay of Le Scorpion Masqué notes that Aldo Ghiozzi's Impressions is now carrying the publisher's English games – including Climb!, I Betcha... and the new for 2011 Trafffic – so they should be available to retailers no matter where you might live.
• Eric Franklin, who demoes games for Asmodee at conventions and edits some of the publisher's rules, has blogged about the next (possible) expansion for Dungeon Twister, that being Dungeon Twister: Traps.
• Larry Levy previews what is likely to be a Spiel 2011 release from designer Friedemann Friese, a solo deckbuilding game themed around Robinson Crusoe currently labeled "Freitag II" after Friese's Freitag game-design project.
• Sherlock is a cooperative memory game from designer Arnaud Urbon due to be released through his own Ilopeli in the near future. You can download the rules in four languages from the Ilopeli website or try the game now on Vassal Forge.
• Chris Kirkman at Dice Hate Me as posted a few details about Alien Frontiers: Factions, which he notes is due out March 2012. Clever Mojo's David MacKenzie notes that he plans to open a Springboard project for the expansion on September 1, 2011.
• Gigamic has released a new wood version of Claude Leroy's Gyges as part of its awesome series of chunky wood games that are as good to play as they are to look at.
-----* D-Day Dice from Emmanuel Aquin, with the game being new in that Valley Games has picked up the print-and-play game and will release a professionally produced version in November 2011. Valley is running a poll on the cover art on BGG.
-----* Ninja: Legend of the Scorpion Clan, another hidden movement game from designer Frederic Moyersoen (Nuns on the Run) that Alderac will debut at Gen Con 2011.
-----* Carnival from Dice Hate Me's Chris Kirkman and Cherilyn Joy Lee Kirkman. Naturally Chris has something to say about the game on Dice Hate Me.
-----* Shitenno, the third release from designer Cédric Lefebvre and French publisher Ludonaute, which is due out by Spiel 2011.
-----* Pyjamaparty and Kullerei mit Drachenei, two releases for the younger crowd from Selecta Spielzeug, both scheduled for a July 12, 2011 release.
(The final few items were in a post-in-progress when my time was completely consumed by moving. Thus, they are no longer new, but they might still be relevant, so here they are...)
• English rules (PDF) for The Road to Canterbury are now available through BGG.
• English rules (PDF) are also available for the new edition of Evo, coming from Asmodee/Descartes.
• Recently released titles include the international editions of Paris Connection, Lancaster and the New York Card Game (all from Queen Games); Innovation: Echoes of the Past (from Asmadi Games); Munchkin Zombies: Kill-O-Meter and Munchkin Cthulhu: Crypts of Concealment (both from Steve Jackson Games); For the Crown (from Victory Point Games); Murus Gallicus, International Checkers and ConHex (from nestorgames); and Slapshot (from Columbia Games).
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