• I've chosen a few videos to highlight in this post, starting with the next Uwe Rosenberg title from Feuerland Spiele: New York Zoo. Here's a short description ahead of the video overview:
• I already posted a teaser about The Castles of Tuscany, a Stefan Feld design coming from alea in 2020, in late January and now here's an equally cryptic teaser video, with Ravensburger's André Maack trying to reveal as little as possible about both this design and the new edition of Puerto Rico coming from alea in 2020.
The reason for the minimalist info is that alea is run by developer Stefan Brück, and Brück is still developing both titles, so nothing is final as of yet. As such, it's best not to say anything definitive until those definites have been locked in.
• Could Ravensburger have found a more appropriate looking demo person for Harry Potter Strike Dice Game, a new version of Strike coming in 2020? I mean, I suppose they could have sprung for Daniel Radcliffe himself, but he turned thirty in 2019, so he's hardly the scruffy tween that the world met in The Sorcerer's Stone. Also, he's probably out of line in terms of Ravensburger's game promotion budget.
• The next game fairs BGG will cover are NY Toy Fair 2020 (which I'll attend) and FIJ 2020 in Cannes, France (which will have a livestream run by Beth, Rodney, and Lincoln).
Publishers at FIJ typically demo lots of prototypes of upcoming games, but they might also have a new game for sale, which is the case for Catch Up Games and Joachim Thôme's combo card game Wild Space. We got an early peek at this game in Nürnberg, and now you'll know what we know.
• Enigma: Beyond Code was one of three titles that we previewed from Russian publisher CrowD Games, with this Sergey Pritula design being a quick-playing deduction game in which your role is secret, which means that your victory conditions are secret as well, so not only do you have to figure out which spots in the mansion you might need to visit, but you also need to decipher who other players might be to thwart their deduction efforts.