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Gale Force Nine to Release Multiple Doctor Who Games Starting in 2016

Gale Force Nine to Release Multiple Doctor Who Games Starting in 2016
Board Game Publisher: Gale Force Nine, LLC
Gale Force Nine has a reputation for strong game designs built to take advantage of an existing media property, as with its games based on Spartacus, Sons of Anarchy and Firefly.

Now GF9 has announced a partnership with BBC Worldwide North America that will allow it to release a series of board games based on Doctor Who, starting with Doctor Who: Time of the Daleks in the first half of 2016. Details on the gameplay are sketchy right now:

Quote:
"Exterminate!" They muttered about their sacred hatred, the Oncoming Storm. Their creator had a plan, a plan to make the Daleks great again. A plan to turn all their defeats into victories. A plan to remove the one variable that has always interfered with the master plan. The Doctor must be erased from time itself!

Ever wanted to be the Doctor? Travel in time and space, meet companions and have adventures? In Doctor Who: Time of the Daleks you do just that, with every player picking a Doctor and trying to thwart the Daleks' master plan of erasing the Doctor from history. Do you have what it takes to fill a Time Lord's Shoes? Join us on an adventure in space and time with a game that is bigger on the inside...
An excerpt from the press release accompanying the announcement: "We are very excited to be able to immerse ourselves into this iconic material and make the game for a show that has shaped generations of viewers," said John-Paul Brisigotti, CEO of the Battlefront Group [of which Gale Force Nine is a wholly-owned subsidiary]. "Having a serious love of the property is how we make our games, and the Whovians in our design teams are creating something truly unique with this new series."

Board Game: Doctor Who: Time of the Daleks

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