In the end, the design from Monpertuis and Beaujannot will be titled Flick 'em Up!, and the game will include multiple scenarios for gameplay.
I played one such scenario on the prototype in April 2014, with me and a partner working to free the Sheriff's daughter from a gang of bandits, but before we could bring her to safety, we first had to find where they had hid her. Each team had a group of characters, and we had to move each character once before we could move someone again. Once you entered a building by landing your character's disc in the doorway, you found (if not the daughter) a special item that you could use during play. I recall the characters having different special abilities, but no details about those. In any case, that — along with the image of the prototype below — should give you some sense of the game.
• U.S. publisher Greater Than Games notes on its Facebook page that Sentinels of the Multiverse: Wrath of the Cosmos — an expansion that includes "two cosmic heroes, four destructive villains, and two far-flung environments" — is shipping "in the next few weeks", so it may or may not hit stores before the end of the year.
Also due out in the near future from GTG are the Guise mini-expansion (a character card and a 40-card hero deck), the Wager Master mini-expansion (a character card and 25-card villain deck), and the Omnitron IV mini-expansion (a 15-card environment deck).
• WizKids Games has already taken preorders for the anticipated May 6, 2015 release of Marvel Dice Masters: Avengers – Age of Ultron, the next entry in the Marvel Dice Masters line from designers Eric M. Lang and Mike Elliott and one that debuts, hey, would you look at that, only five days after the debut of the Avengers: Age of Ultron movie. Why you might almost think that was planned or something?! for those who haven't played, here's an overview:
• Guillotine Games has launched a website and Facebook page for its next release: Blood Rage from designer Eric M. Lang (him again!) and artist Adrian Smith. The sites lack much material on them now other than a couple of images, one miniature and a movie-style trailer voiced by a robot, but I'm sure more material will come soon enough. Here's an overview of the game from the publisher:
Blood Rage is an epic Viking board game of pillaging, fighting, and questing for 2-4 players, with each player representing a mighty clan of Vikings, who have been released from the halls of Valhalla and endowed with the gifts of the gods themselves to pillage the remains of Midgard as it burns during Ragnarok.