New Game Round-up: Make Yourself a Mogul, Join the Titanium Wars & Prepare for a Cosmic Storm

New Game Round-up: Make Yourself a Mogul, Join the Titanium Wars & Prepare for a Cosmic Storm
From gallery of W Eric Martin
• U.S. publisher Mayfair Games has announced the July 2013 release of Global Mogul from Manifest Destiny designer Bill Crenshaw. Global Mogul retails for $55 and has a ton of bits in it, but the game description from the publisher leaves out a lot of details that one might want to know:

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Welcome to the heady days of global finance! Money and deals are flowing like water. From sparse beginnings build your empire across the globe, sending agents far and wide as you expend capital and gain access to valuable resources needed to fulfill lucrative contracts. Struggle to dominate world markets and control resources regionally. Expand your interests, and acquire companies that provide an edge on the competition and more efficient use of resources.

The venture capital market is giving away money – you don't even have to pay it back – but it does tie up valuable agents until you do. You can always use an extra agent on your quest to dominate the world.

Global Mogul is a limited action, worker placement, resource acquisition, and opportunity management game. Win by being best at balancing your short term goal of fulfilling contracts for cash with your long term goals of building corporate infrastructure, controlling markets, and regions. So, what are you waiting for? The world awaits...
Board Game: The Downfall of Pompeii
Board Game: Dominion: Guilds
• Mayfair Games' new edition of The Downfall of Pompeii, previously covered in this BGGN item, is expected to reach U.S. markets in August 2013.

• Designer Donald X. Vaccarino has started posting preview cards from Dominion: Guilds, which U.S. publisher Rio Grande Games plans to release in June 2013 – most likely debuting at Origins Game Fair, although RGG hasn't stated this – and through June 6, 2013, he's previewed Baker, Doctor, Journeyman, and Butcher.

• One new title that is prereleasing at Origins, albeit only a couple of days before its June 17, 2013 U.S. street date, is Frédéric Guérard's Titanium Wars from IELLO. Hey, and speaking of Titanium Wars, here's another game preview video recorded at the 2013 Nürnberg Toy and Game Fair that hasn't previously been posted on BGG:


Board Game: Cosmic Encounter: Cosmic Storm
Fantasy Flight Games has announced the 2013 release of Cosmic Encounter: Cosmic Storm expansion #4 for its version of Cosmic Encounter. In addition to including 25 aliens for CE, such as Swindler, Mouth and Bulwark, Cosmic Storm includes ten space station cards, which when attached to one of your home planets gives you an additional power to use in encounters as long as you have at least one ship on that planet.

• I mentioned in a June 2, 2013 BGGN item that Passport Game Studios will release an English-language edition of Alberto Corral's Náufragos in North America under the name of Castaways. Passport has now placed an August 9, 2013 street date on this release.

• I posted about the White Goblin Games trio of Rattus: Mercatus, Rattus: Arabian Traders, and Rattus Cartus: Nobilis. WGG has mentioned that all three titles are due for release in Q3 2013, and it plans to open preorders soon for these titles as well as for David Ausloos' Rogue Agent.

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