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What next? The Gen Con 2016 Preview bears 228 listings, and while I have another 10-20 messages in the inbox about Gen Con right now, I feel mostly caught up, so let's use this round-up to kick out a bunch of short notes about this and that.
• As mentioned in April 2016, Portal Games will release a scenario expansion pack for Rattle, Battle, Grab the Loot at Gen Con 2016. Angry Ocean contains two unique dice, a character card for each, and 28 other cards. In "Angry Ocean", the ocean fights back with krakens, rocks, wrecks, and whirlpools, while in "Old Dogs" the players start with fully-equipped galleons and focus solely on the treasure.
• Canadian company Lion Rampant Imports will release two Schmidt Spiele titles — Wolfgang Kramer's Vampire Queen and Guido Hoffmann's Castle Flutterstone — in North America, with the former due out in August 2016 and the latter in Q3 2016 in a new English/French edition.
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• Shakespeare: Backstage, an expansion for Hervé Rigal's Shakespeare from Ystari Games, adds new actors, new objectives, and new costumes to the game, along with backstage cards that allow players to place unwagered cylinders on the deck and spend them on special abilities, "such as placing fewer rest tokens, adding hats to actors, or increasing ambiance".
• Catan Studio plans to re-release Klaus Teuber's Struggle for Catan in August 2016 in a tuckbox edition for $13.
• On Facebook, artist Pascal Quidault has shared cover artwork for "the new edition of game Sherlock Holmes, published soon by Space Cowboys". Ystari's Cyril Demaegd is a member of Space Cowboys, so the transition of this title from one publisher to the other is not surprising.
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