New Game Round-up: Field a New Ogre, Knock Blocks in Kaboom, and Create Your Own Boss Monster

New Game Round-up: Field a New Ogre, Knock Blocks in Kaboom, and Create Your Own Boss Monster
Board Game: Ogre
• Designer Steve Jackson of Steve Jackson Games has announced that sometime in 2016 SJG will release a new "Ogre 6th Edition" in the same scale as the Ogre Designer's Edition, but it "will include only the Ogre map (exactly the same as the one in the ODE), the Ogre rules, and a generous helping of counters to play them". Follow the link for more on this release (the details of which is still in the works) as well as a link to the 6th edition rules, should you feel like proofreading.

• Want more expansions for Boss Monster? Designers Johnny and Chris O'Neal from Brotherwise Games now invite you to create your own as they've taken the Boss Monster card templates and uploaded them on DriveThruCards so that you can create your own or admire (and order) cards created by others.

Looney Labs has moved the release date of Uglydoll Loonacy from April 15, 2016 to March 11, 2016 due to the unusual problem of its manufacturer finishing production far earlier than expected.

Board Game: Dr. Eureka
Board Game: Ka-Boom
• Publisher Blue Orange Games plans to release two quick-playing Roberto Fraga designs to the U.S. in 2016, with one of those — the mad-dash test tube-matching game Dr. Eureka — having first debuted at Spiel 2015 from sister company Blue Orange, and the other — the mad-dash building game Kaboom — having hit Europe first in 2013. Thanks to those debuts, you can watch overview videos of both titles now: Dr. Eureka and Kaboom.

Fireside Games has floated info about a July 2016 release from co-owner Justin De Witt titled Dastardly Dirigibles. Here's an overview of the game from the publisher:

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Professor Phineas Edmund Hornswoggle, famed airship builder, is retiring and you are an engineer competing to inherit the Hornswoggle factory!

Dastardly Dirigibles features tarot-sized cards that are played in a constant action format in which each time a part is added, ALL players MUST add the SAME part – which may replace an existing one. Build your airship from different parts of nine beautiful suits, while also using special cards to your advantage or to thwart your opponents. The round ends when the first airship is complete — but you score only the suit used most in your airship. The player with the highest score after three rounds wins!
Board Game: Dastardly Dirigibles

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