x
search
menu

New Game Round-up: New Land for Hansa Teutonica, New Vampiric Battles from Daviau & a New Thirstquencher in King of New York

New Game Round-up: New Land for Hansa Teutonica, New Vampiric Battles from Daviau & a New Thirstquencher in King of New York
Board Game: Hansa Teutonica
• German publisher Argentum Verlag has released basic information about its offerings at Spiel 2014 in October, starting with a new edition — a new printing, I believe, with no changes — of Andreas Steding's Hansa Teutonica in English, French and German versions. In addition, Argentum will have the Hansa Teutonica: Britannia expansion that has revised two-player rules and a new game board.

• In addition to those titles, Argentum will have a new 2-4 player game from Pagoda's Arve D. Fühler titled El Gaucho about which I know nothing right now.

From gallery of CPost
Shot of the Britannia prototype board from Christoph Post

From gallery of W Eric Martin
• At San Diego Comic Con 2014, publisher IDW Games has announced a new release scheduled for March 2015: V-Wars, an adaptation of Jonathan Maberry's V-Wars by Rob Daviau, with Maberry aiding in the development of the game plot. Details about the game are scarce now, so let's start with a summary of the V-Wars setting, which was created by Maberry and fleshed out by other authors:

Quote:
V-Wars is set in a world transformed by a catastrophic environmental event that releases a millennium-old virus that, once triggered, affects individuals differently depending on their DNA. The result is vampires as unique as their cultures and a response from those unaffected humans like never seen before.
And now for the game description: "Following a storyline that will both pull from and add to the ongoing comic's universe, players in V-Wars will take up sides as either humans or vampires as they struggle for interspecies dominance. The game will be wrought with tension as players will never know exactly where they stand or who, if anyone, they can trust." In a press release announcing the game, a quote from Daviau suggests that the game design is still a work in progress:

Quote:
"I'm looking forward to working on the V-Wars game," said Rob Daviau. "It combines a lot of what I do and what interests me: combat, conflict, narrative, interesting choices, horror, and a fun world to play in. I hope to be able to bring all the feeling of the stories and comics into the game. It's still early but I can already see chances for a lot of subterfuge and shifting goals. Just because you start the game as a human, doesn't mean you'll end as one."
• Designer Tony Boydell notes that his Bad Grandmas, available as a print-and-play game through both BGG and Good Little Games, has been picked up by a publisher with the details of its release to come later.

• IELLO is rolling out preview images of various power cards from Richard Garfield's King of New York, which will debut at Gen Con 2014 with a few hundred copies before hitting stores in September 2014. Purple Pawn got an exclusive preview card, Rodney Smith from "Watch It Played" got one, Tim Norris at GreyElephant Gaming got one, and BGG got one, too:

From gallery of W Eric Martin

Related

This Space Intentionally Left Blank

Jul 24, 2014

Apologies for the relative lack of posts this week. I'm actually taking a quasi-vacation of sorts ahead of the crunch that starts pre-Gen Con and doesn't let up until after BGG.CON ends in...
Crowdfunding Round-up: Mice, Elves, Aliens, Unpleasant Family Members & More

Crowdfunding Round-up: Mice, Elves, Aliens, Unpleasant Family Members & More

Jul 22, 2014

• Stronghold Games has partners with BrokenMyth Studios to bring out a digital version of Andrew Parks' space-based deck-building game Core Worlds, with the iOS version to come first and the...
Gen Con 2013 – More Con Reports, 922 Settlers of Catan & Final First Game Impressions

Gen Con 2013 – More Con Reports, 922 Settlers of Catan & Final First Game Impressions

Jul 20, 2014

(While prepping posts ahead of a weeklong trip, I ran across this completed but never published round-up of reports on Gen Con 2013, and while the prudent thing to do would be to delete it and...
Game Overview: Blood of the Werewolf, or Am I Really Who I Think I Am? Aw, Forget It — I'll Kill You Anyway

Game Overview: Blood of the Werewolf, or Am I Really Who I Think I Am? Aw, Forget It — I'll Kill You Anyway

Jul 19, 2014

Blood of the Werewolf, released in 2013 by designer Chen Zhifan and publisher Homosapiens Lab, consists of few components and one big idea: What if you played Werewolf, but you didn't know...
New Game Round-up: Witches Get Sneaky in Coven, Kansil Puts Dice in Krakatoa & Sparks Games Invites Hypocrisy

New Game Round-up: Witches Get Sneaky in Coven, Kansil Puts Dice in Krakatoa & Sparks Games Invites Hypocrisy

Jul 18, 2014

 • Jason Maxwell at 8th Summit has announced that Paul Saxberg's Coven will see print in 2015 following a Kickstarter campaign to run before the end of 2014. (So make that "may see print",...
ads