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New Game Round-up: Another Run for Snow Tails, Credited Apocrypha & New Characters for Adventure Time Card Wars

New Game Round-up: Another Run for Snow Tails, Credited Apocrypha & New Characters for Adventure Time Card Wars
Board Game: Adventure Time Card Wars: Ice King vs. Marceline
Board Game: Snow Tails
Board Game: Battle Merchants
• Cryptozoic Entertainment has two new additions for its Adventure Time Card Wars series of two-player card games, with Ice King vs. Marceline due out in June 2015 and Lemongrab vs. Gunter due in Q4 2015. Ice King vs. Marceline introduces a new type of landscape — IcyLands — along with frozen tokens that shut down your opponent's lanes, keeping their creatures out of play.

• U.S. publisher Renegade Game Studios plans to release a new edition of Gordon and Fraser Lamont's Snow Tails in August 2015, with new art from Beth Sobel.

• Designer Gil Hova is putting together a small expansion deck of Kingdom Cards for Battle Merchants, with some cards being new and some replacing existing cards. Writes Hova, who hopes to have this expansion ready by June 2015, "It hasn't been decided yet whether this will be only the new cards, a completely new deck of Kingdom Cards, or both; I want to provide an option so players will not have to worry about card backs matching."

• Designer Mike Selinker is teasing the Apocrypha Adventure Card Game, described as a combined card game and role-playing game, with this video, which features music from The Doubleclicks. I love how adorable the words "torture and demise" sound when they sing it!


Board Game: Bad Habit
• The always interesting publisher Games by Play Date has released a published version of Bad Habit, which is also available in a print-and-play format. Here's an overview of the game from the publisher:

Quote:
Bad Habit is a co-operative game for 2-5 players in which you must work together to learn the patience and empathy necessary to help those who suffer from Non-Suicidal Self Injury. It is our hope that this game can provide a unique perspective on the subtle challenges involved with this taboo subject.
• In early March 2015, ACD Distribution announced that Imperial Settlers: Why Can't We Be Friends, Theseus: The Dark Orbit – Bots, and Neuroshima Hex! 3.0 are "coming soon" to U.S. retailers.

Board Game: Onitama
• Shimpei Sato's Onitama has been signed by Arcane Wonders as game #3 in its Dice Tower Essentials line. I've played Onitama a half-dozen times and found it an engaging two-player, sort of perfect information strategy game. In September 2014, I created a video explaining how to play:

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