Make Wine Around the World, Experience Cosmic Odyssey, and Defeat Vampire Hunters

Make Wine Around the World, Experience Cosmic Odyssey, and Defeat Vampire Hunters
• In April 2022, Stonemaier Games announced Viticulture World, an exciting new, co-operative expansion for Viticulture Essential Edition, from designers Mihir Shah and Francesco Testini, and developed by Jamey Stegmaier.

Viticulture World: Cooperative Expansion will be available for pre-order in early June 2022 and creates a new, co-operative Viticulture experience where 1–6 players (winemakers) work together to compete against asymmetric continents on a new board. Here's a small taste of what you can expect:
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Cooperate with members of your extended winemaking family in various asymmetric regions around the world in Viticulture World: Cooperative Expansion as you try to achieve global recognition. Balance the management of your individual vineyard with the combined effort of your fellow players to gain influence within the region.

Board Game: Viticulture World: Cooperative Expansion

Using the new game board, tiles, tokens, and event cards combined with the original vineyard mats and game cards, you have six years to achieve the two conditions necessary for victory in the selected region: (1) Each player must reach 25 victory points and (2) the shared influence token must reach the end of the influence track. The cooperation, objectives, and asymmetry in this expansion are similar to that of Spirit Island and Orleans: Invasion.

The Viticulture core game is required to play the Viticulture World expansion. Other expansions are compatible with this expansion.
Board Game: Cosmic Encounter
Cosmic Odyssey is another exciting new expansion which was announced in April 2022, from Fantasy Flight Games and designer Jack Reda. Cosmic Odyssey is the seventh and biggest expansion yet for the galactic hit Cosmic Encounter, introducing a campaign mode, in addition to a slew of other new content briefly described below by the publisher:
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You've conquered the stars in Cosmic Encounter. You've weathered storms, defended against incursions, forged alliances, engaged in countless conflicts, and established dominion for eons. Or perhaps you've done none of those things, and Cosmic Encounter has only recently entered your life. Either way, there is still the ever-burning question: what comes next?

Well, dear friends, this comes next. And it's going to be epic.

Board Game: Cosmic Encounter: Cosmic Odyssey

Cosmic Odyssey is a massive expansion bigger than anything Cosmic that came before it (aside from the base game, of course), and it packs enough wallop to enhance your wild and wonderful space shenanigans for countless games to come. Even if you don't own any of the previous expansions, Cosmic Odyssey brings loads of aliens, variants, and a brand-new campaign mode to the table. It has more of everything Cosmic Encounter has to offer, and lots of things that have never been seen in the game before. It's a never-ending odyssey, and one that no Cosmic fan will want to miss!
Board Game: The Hunger
Board Game: The Hunger: High Stakes
The Hunger: High Stakes is a new expansion for Richard Garfield's The Hunger, which is due out in Q3 2022. The Hunger was a Gen Con 2021 release from Renegade Game Studios, and if you're not already hip to it, I recommend checking out Eric's detailed overview from October 2021.

The Hunger: High Stakes adds 180 new cards and introduces new options and variety to The Hunger, as noted in the summary below from the publisher, which is hopefully enough detail to sink your teeth into:
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The stakes have been raised!

The Hunger: High Stakes expansion features exciting new twists for hungry vampires. The Event Deck creates random starting options. Vampires can now Attack allowing them to defeat new Threats, improve your Hunting abilities and attack other vampires.

The Hunter: High Stakes expansion box is designed to store all your cards and tokens for both The Hunger base game and High Stakes Expansion.

Features:
---• New Threats bring new strategies and excitement to the game.
---•Events create unique hunt nights and spawn the threats.
---•Powers that fight new dangers like Vampire Hunters and Werewolves, and even other Vampires.
---•High Stakes is an expansion for The Hunger. Base game required.
Board Game: Flamme Rouge
• Finland-based publisher Lautapelit.fi has a new expansion on deck for bicycle-racing game Flamme Rouge called Flamme Rouge: Grand Tour, from designer Asger Harding Granerud. The Grand Tour expansion includes a campaign mode and additional new content for 2-4 bike racers, and plays in 30–210 minutes.
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Flamme Rouge: Grand Tour introduces multi-stage campaigns, varying from short 3-stage Tours all the way up to full 21-stage Grand Tours.

Board Game: Flamme Rouge: Grand Tour

In addition to the campaign mode, this expansion also includes new track tiles, special stages and specialist riders that allow you to customize your decks.

Each of these additions can be used both in single-stage races and in the campaign mode.

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