Crysis Analogue Edition: The Board Game strives to recreate the intense gameplay and finely-balanced action players have come to expect from the Crysis games' multiplayer modes.
Ah! Thanks to their beneficence, Catan's guilds reward such noble-minded behavior by handing out "Favor Tokens" (FTs). Each guild helps us in different ways: granting us roads, development cards, random resources, preferential trades, or even Victory Points.
In Catan Scenarios: Frenemies of Catan, everyone is still just in it for themselves as there is an ulterior motive for everything. In fact, sometimes you can "help a friend" while making things far worse for them.
Sigh. If goodwill really exists, it's not part of this scenario...
• The first four titles in AEG's shared world environment of Tempest – Courtier, Dominare, Love Letter and Mercante – all have a U.S. street date of Dec. 3, 2012 following their initial debut at Spiel 2012 in October.
• Czech Games Edition has posted info on how to get replacement items for Dungeon Lords: Festival Season and Galaxy Trucker: Another Big Expansion, both of which have a few cards with backs that differ from the card backs in the base games. (Bonus news item: In that same post, CGE notes that it plans to release Galaxy Trucker: Small Expansion in 2013, with the replacement cards being part of this forthcoming item.)
• Doug Bass' Garden Dice, self-published through Meridae Games, has now been released. Gnomes!