New Game Round-up – Rio Grande's 2011 Line-up, Lots of Saboteurs & More

Time to add more games to your wishlist (or not) after looking over the items below:

• In newsletter #106 (PDF) from Rio Grande Games, Jay Tummelson lays out the titles to expect from RGG in the first half of 2011:

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In 2011, we plan to begin releasing our line of new designer games. These are the result of several design contests we have sponsored in the past few years and our attempt to encourage new game design in the US. Of course, we will continue to support our existing game lines and partnerships with new products. For example, this spring we will release Dominion: Cornucopia, Carcassonne: 10 year edition, Carcassonne Dice game, and Carcassonne translucent follower pack (with rules for their special use). We are also very close to completing Arctic Scavengers, our second deck-building game. In the next few months we will release Rails of New England, The Heavens of Olympus, Cavemen, Airlines: Europe (Alan Moon's latest take on Airlines/Union Pacific), Carcassonne: the Castle Falcon expansion, Carcassonne: City 2 (same insides as Carcassonne: the City, but in a cardboard box), Those Pesky Garden Gnomes, Rattlebones, Credit Mobilier, Mogul, Monster Factory, and several others.

On top of all that, another Dominion expansion will follow in 2011, along with another promo card.

• Designer Frederic Moyersoen has noted on his blog that multiple companies have picked up Saboteur 2, sometimes as an expansion, sometimes as a standalone game, and sometimes as a combined base game plus expansion, as is the case with original publisher Gigamic. He includes a pic of the Z-Man Games edition of Saboteur 2, which bears this label: "You need a copy of Saboteur to play this expansion."

• Spanish publisher nestorgames has released "a game like soccer" from Dieter Stein called 11. Pics and a list of available teams on the nestorgames' website.

• Fantasy Flight Games has previewed BattleLore: Code of Chivalry with notes on the knights included therein.

• In other FFG news, the publisher has posted tournament rules for Dust Tactics.

• GameSalute.com has posted a huge number of preview pics of Alderac's Thunderstone: Dragonspire on its Facebook page.

• Trask at LivingDice.com has done the same for Alderac's Nightfall, albeit with only three images.