As for the contents of this expansion, it includes new common cards for the central deck, new cards for each of the base game's four factions, and two new cards for use in the solo game with some factions. One new effect found on the cards is "open production", an ability that allows an opponent to visit your building for the resource produced there while giving you the worker who made that trek. Hope you can put him to use once again!
• Upper Deck Entertainment's next expansion for its Legendary deck-building game system is Legendary Villains: Fear Itself, due out in February 2015. This 100-card expansion is based on the "Fear Itself" storyline from Marvel Comics, and it consists of one new adversary group; one new commander; three new plots; and six new allies from The Worthy: Kuurth, Mul, Skirn, Nerkkod, Greithoth and Skadi. No, I don't know who they are either. For the most part, my knowledge of Marvel Comics history stopped in the mid-1980s.
• IELLO has picked up the license for Dungeon Fighter and plans to bring the base game and its expansions back to print in early 2015.
• This announcement is a mystery item as Looney Labs releases a holiday gift each year — sometimes a rules PDF of a new game, sometimes promo cards for existing games, and sometimes something weeeeeird. For 2014, the item is something physical, and you can sign up for that free something on the Looney Labs website. Last day to sign up is today, Nov. 13, 2014!
• F2Z Entertainment, owner of the Z-Man Games and Filosofia brands, has announced that those publishers will release English and French versions of Jacques Zeimet's Sonne und Mond — first released in 2012 by Drei Hasen in der Abendsonne — on the North American market in 2015 under the name Sky Tango. Here's an overview of the setting and gameplay:
In game terms, the deck of cards consists of numbered sun and moon cards (some of which feature animals) as well as eclipse cards. Players place the cards in stacks in ascending order, either in front of themselves or in front of others. When a stack is five cards high, it can be removed and scored for points. Stacks can be interrupted by eclipse cards, which in turn can be covered by the appropriate sun or moon cards. Playing a card with an animal allows a player to play again, which is sometimes advantageous, but sometimes not. The player who removes the most cards from play wins!