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New Game Round-up: A Game with Gears, Conan and Skullkickers & More Puzzles, More Strikers

New Game Round-up: A Game with Gears, Conan and Skullkickers & More Puzzles, More Strikers
Board Game: Munchkin Conan
My apologies for the briefness of today's post. I'm on the road with limited Internet access, so I'm making do in short time!

• Steve Jackson Games has announced a July 2012 release date for two previously announced items: the Munchkin Conan standalone sequel/expansion and the Munchkin Skullkickers 15-card booster pack.

• In a convention report from The Gathering of Friends, designer Alan Moon's mostly industry-insider event, Dale Yu shows off a pic of Mayan Age, a worker-placement/resource-collection game from Czech Games Edition that also has a four-second video showing the game board gears in action. Four whole seconds!

• BGG user Henk Rolleman has loads of pics from Zuiderspel, a game convention in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, including shots of Michel Baudoin's Crash'em (a Spiel 2012 release from Baudoin's Wacky Works), Tetteretet from Sensalot (which needs a game entry), and many other Dutch-only releases.

Board Game: Puzzle Strike: Third Edition
Board Game: Puzzle Strike Shadows
• Today's Kickstarter item is a pair of items: the third edition of David Sirlin's Puzzle Strike and the standalone sequel/expansion Puzzle Strike Shadows, with the KS project being within striking distance (ho ho ho) within a day of launching. Says Sirlin, This expansion and the "redesigned base set has been a long time in the making. The online version at FantasyStrike.com has been adjusted and adjusted based on both tournament play and casual play, and I'd really like to lock it down and get the physical version totally in sync with the online version." Also from Sirlin's description:

Quote:
Puzzle Strike Shadows has ten new characters, 24 new puzzle chips, new gameplay modes including a free-for-all mode with no player elimination, a 2v2 Team battle mode, and a customization mode. Hopefully it will have even more components, too, depending on how the stretch goals go.
(KS link)

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