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The Manhattan Project Returns, and Teasers from Bombyx and Alley Cat Games

The Manhattan Project Returns, and Teasers from Bombyx and Alley Cat Games
• In April 2021, Grail Games announced that it had acquired The Manhattan Project family of games originally published by Minion Games, and its first order of business for the game line is figuring out how to fulfill the Kickstarter campaign for The Manhattan Project: Energy Empire – Cold War, with the campaign for that expansion having ended on May 30, 2019, just ten days prior to the unexpected passing of Minion Games owner James Mathe.

Board Game: The Manhattan Project: Energy Empire – Cold War
This Cold War isn't over yet...

• UK publisher Alley Cat Games plans to bring a design by Fabio Lopiano (Merv) and Nestore Mangone (Newton) to Kickstarter in the second half of 2021, then will follow this with a "deluxified and remastered reprint of a very famous [Reiner] Knizia game" in January 2022.

• French publisher Bombyx has teased a new title from Nathalie and Rémi Saunier that probably doesn't have exactly the title shown here:

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