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• In a separate press release, Japanime Games states that it "will continue to be the exclusive worldwide distributor of English-language Krosmaster products that were previously released". In addition, "Organized Play will be taken over in a smooth transition to CMON Inc. and further information will be available shortly."
Japanime Games also notes that in Q1 2016 it plans to release the long-awaited Tanto Cuore: Oktoberfest and to conduct a Kickstarter campaign for an English-language version of the deck-building game Heart of Crown, which debuted in Japan in 2011. (Publisher FLIPFLOPs has released multiple expansions for Heart of Crown, and the line for Heart of Crown: Path Before Heaven at Tokyo Game Market in Nov. 2015 was far longer than for anything else at the show.)
In 2016, Japanime Games also plans to release a new English-language edition of God's Gambit from Seiji Kanai, which was previously available only through a Kickstarter campaign, and Panic High School, a quick-playing take-that card game available from Japon Brand at Spiel 2015 as Pani-High!
In the second half of 2016, Japanime Games plans to crowdfund Tanto Cuore 5: The Maid-ing Game, which introduces butlers, "fun relationship cards and love triangles" to this deck-building game. At the same time, Japanime will crowdfund different language versions of the first four Tanto Cuore games, with each language featuring new promo cards.
• Queen Games has resolved its issues with designer Donald X. Vaccarino, and as a result Vaccarino has signed a new contract for Kingdom Builder: Marshlands — which had a Kickstarter project for it cancelled in mid-2015 when contract problems came to light — as well as a fourth KB expansion. As a result, Queen has launched a new KS for Marshlands that's already funded twice over.
• Ralph Anderson from Eagle-Gryphon Games notes the following on BGG: "As of December 7, 2015, Martin Wallace is the sole owner of the rights to Brass. Martin Wallace and FRED Distribution, Inc. dba Eagle-Gryphon Games, have formally ended their contract for Brass, which began in 2008."
• As is his custom at the end of the year, designer Michael Schacht has released a mini-expansion for one of his designs, in this case scoring variants for Zooloretto Mini and Zooloretto Junior.
Wait a minute — what's Zooloretto Junior? According to Schacht, it's a reworking of Zooloretto Mini that's due out from ABACUSSPIELE in February 2016: 2-5 players, ages 7+, playing time 30 min. I know nothing more about the game right now — and German publishers seem to be waiting until the new year to drop info — but here's a pic of the Taiwanese version of Zooloretto Junior (along with other 2016 releases) from publisher GoKids 玩樂小子: