In Fleecing Olympus, players take turns using their deity's powers, rolling dice, and using powerful card abilities in an effort to steal golden gems from other players. When the game ends, the player holding the most gems becomes the new ruler of Mount Olympus and wins the game!
• The Kane Klenko real-time tile-laying game Mad City, which Mayfair Games released in 2014, is being reborn in 2018 as Kaosmos from French publisher Gigamic, with the title debuting at Gen Con 2018 in August ahead of its retail release in Q3 2018. Here's an overview of the new setting, without details yet of the tweaked gameplay:
• Hanno Girke of Lookout Games has teased the following on Facebook:
Yes, Uwe Rosenberg's Agricola: All Creatures Big and Small is coming back to print in 2018, with this "Big Box" edition including the base game, the two expansions (More Buildings Big and Small and Even More Buildings Big and Small), and shaped wooden components for the workers and resource tokens. Girke says that this new edition might reach the UK in time for UK Games Expo at the start of June 2018 and might reach the U.S. for Gen Con 2018 in August, but if not, then you can be assured that they are on their way from the manufacturer to retail outlets.