New Game Round-up: Batman and Adventure Time Get Fluxxed, Blue Orange Imports Blackrock & Ora et Labora Returns

• Looney Labs continues onward with its plan to Fluxx the world with the introduction of two branded standalone games in mid-2015: Adventure Time Fluxx, which hits retail on July 24, and Batman Fluxx two weeks later on August 7.

Adventure Time Fluxx inserts the familiar characters and events into the familiar Fluxx game, while Batman Fluxx adds a twist to play as no one can win while a Villain is on the table, so you'll need to cart them to Arkham Asylum before you can claim victory and celebrate in the only way that Batman ever should.

• Blue Orange Games has had enough success in the U.S. with its versions of Battle Sheep, Longhorn and Niya — titles first published by sister company Blue Orange in Europe under the name Jactalea — that BOG has decided to add eight additional titles to its European line in 2015. I covered most of these titles — Attila, Dragon Run, Armadöra, etc. — in a January 2015 BGG News post, but now BOG has announced that it will debut Marc Brunnenkant's smuggling game Prohis at Origins 2015, with forty copies shipped in ahead of a retail release later in 2015. Prohis first appeared at Spiel 2014 from French publisher Blackrock Editions, and no changes have been made to the game other than a change in logo and a re-writing of the rules.

What's more, in 2016 Blue Orange Games plans to release another Blackrock Editions title in the U.S.: Alain Ollier's The Boss.

• Designer Uwe Rosenberg noted on Facebook in mid-May 2015 that Ora et Labora will return to print "in a few weeks". He thinks that Z-Man Games will again handle the English-language edition, but I'm checking with Z-Man to see whether this is indeed the case. (Update, May 21: I just received confirmation from Z-Man, which expects to have Ora et Labora available again in Q3 2015.)

In the BGG forums, Hanno Girke from original publisher Lookout Games — which will re-release the game in German — notes that "We upped the quality of those components everybody was complaining about. Everything that used to be thin cardboard is now sturdy cardboard."

• German publisher Clicker Spiele has now released Old Town Robbery from Günter Cornett and Peer Sylvester, a title initially announced for Spiel 2014 but delayed from that show. Here's an overview of this communication-based game:

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In the first part of Old Town Robbery, the robber wanders through the city, and the players construct a story based on the places he visits. In the second part, players take turns playing the sheriff who is trying to retrace the steps of the robber, visiting the same places as the robber has before. The story element helps players do just that, and they earn points by correctly guessing the next building.

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