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Videos from Gen Con 2014: Dead of Winter, Munchkin Panic, Knightmare Chess, Car Wars & Mars Attacks: The Dice Game

Videos from Gen Con 2014: Dead of Winter, Munchkin Panic, Knightmare Chess, Car Wars & Mars Attacks: The Dice Game
Board Game: Dead of Winter: A Crossroads Game
• Do people still not know about Dead of Winter: A Crossroads Game, the sellout title from designers Jonathan Gilmour and Isaac Vega and Plaid Hat Games that blew through the Gen Con 2014 exhibit hall like a tornado? If those people exist — and they probably do — they can find out about the game thanks to PHG's Colby Dauch, who stopped by the BGG booth during that convention to talk about the game.





Board Game: Mars Attacks: The Dice Game
• Convention sell-outs come both large and small, noisy and not-so-noisy, with an example of the latter being Mars Attacks: The Dice Game, a quick-playing design from Sam Mitschke and Steve Jackson Games' Phil Reed that like so many other titles arrived in advance at Gen Con 2014 only to vanish into the hands of curious gamers.





Board Game: Knightmare Chess (Third Edition)
• Knightmare Chess is an ooooold title relative to most everything else that I post about on BGG News, but after being out of print for many years, Steve Jackson Games has produced a new edition of this design from Pierre Cléquin and Bruno Faidutti on its twentieth anniversary. Yes, twenty years!





Board Game: Car Wars
• What's even older than Knightmare Chess but also returning to print? Steve Jackson's Car Wars, out in a sixth edition for 2014 ahead of a promised large revamping of the Car Wars world that emerged during SJG's monstrous Ogre Kickstarter project.





Board Game: Munchkin Panic
• While Munchkin Panic is not actually a Steve Jackson Games release, you could be forgiven for thinking it were, given the large Munchkin head on the cover and, well, the Munchkin name. No, this game is a blending of Munchkin-style gameplay with Fireside Games' Castle Panic, as designer Ane-Marie De Witt explains in this presentation:

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