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• Designer Tom Lehmann gives an overview of Race for the Galaxy: Alien Artifacts, the next story arc in his RftG universe. More comments from Lehmann about the expansion's setting and other details in this BGG thread.
• Colby Dauch of Plaid Hat Games has posted info on BGG about Summoner Wars: Master Set, which contains six new factions, and two new reinforcement packs, all of which is due out June 2011.
• Claude Leroy's Gyges is being released in a new edition from French publisher Gigamic, matching the style of Quoridor, Quarto and the other abstract classics in that game line. Due date is June/July 2011.
• Two Age of Steam expansions from Eagle Games/FRED Distribution should be available in U.S. stores before the end of February. The first, Age of Steam: Mexico & China, pairs half of one Steam Brothers expansion with half of another, with the maps being hard-mounted instead of sealed in plastic. The second, Age of Steam: Time Traveler, is a new expansion from Charlie Bink and Sean Brown in which players travel from one "era" (i.e., game board) to another through portals on the edges of each board.
Brown notes that the Mexico & China expansion is slightly too big for the AoS box, akin to what happened with the 2010 release of AoS: Germany & France, but both maps fit in the Time Traveler box, a box added to present gamers with a solution for this problem. What's more, the next Age of Steam expansion from Eagle – AoS: Moon/Berlin Wall, pairing two of Alban Viard's previous creations and due out Q3 2011 – will be packaged in a similar box.
• Fantasy Flight Games has posted rules for Tide of Iron: Fury of the Bear (PDF), BattleLore: Code of Chivalry (PDF) and Anima: Twilight of the Gods (PDF).
• Alderac Entertainment Group has posted rules for Nightfall (PDF).
• French publisher Gigamic is releasing Die Sieben Siegel, aka Wizard Extreme, under the title Les 7 Sceaux.
• White Goblin Games has announced a March 12, 2011 release date for Get Nuts (Man, I cannot wait for Gone Cardboard to be functional once again...)
• Dutch publisher 999 Games has picked up 1655: Habemus Papam, which debuted at Spiel 2010 from DDD Verlag. The Dutch edition is due out Q2 2011.
• Designer Andrea Meyer posted the following on a Facebook update in Feb. 2011: "In Essen 2011 and Nürnberg 2012 two of my games will be published with bigger companies. Wait to be surprised!"
• Frederic Moyersoen teases a new card game for 2-4 players due out April 2011.
• Toy Vault has released final images of Richard Berg's Godzilla: Kaiju World Wars, due out in Q2 2011. Here's a shot of all the bits and pieces, including buildings ready to be taken down by the big guy himself:
• Old news, but better to publish than delete from my files, I think. Repos Production has released "The Cursed Children", a scenario for Ghost Stories: White Moon, on its website in English, French and German. In this scenario, the children of the villagers are most at risk of being killed by the forces of Wu-Feng; if one does fall, instead of being placed in the cemetery, the token occupies a ghost space on a monk's board. The only way to bring peace to the child's troubled soul – not to mention free up the space so that Wu-Feng doesn't overrun you – is to visit the cemetery tile. Visit one of the three pages to download the game board and rules for this scenario.
• In the category of "designer/publisher most likely to receive a cease-and-desist letter from a lawyer", I present Ferris Bueller's Day Off Board Game.
• Finally, games recently added to the BGG database that might merit a look or two include Québec (which has been kicking around from publisher to publisher for years and is now at Le Scorpion Masqué), Pamplona (Ghenos Games), Conquest of Nerath (Wizards of the Coast), Guards! Guards! (Z-Man Games), Princes of the Dragon Throne (Clever Mojo Games) and Atlantis Rising (Z-Man Games), with designer Galen Ciscell writing a designer diary on the game page.
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