New Game Round-up: KingBrick Reborn, Expansions for Legendary and Quarriors & New Pics of the New Pix

New Game Round-up: KingBrick Reborn, Expansions for Legendary and Quarriors & New Pics of the New Pix
Board Game: Cube Quest
• Both designer Oliver Sibthorpe and publisher Gamewright have confirmed that Cube Quest, due out Q2 2013 in North America, is a new version of the self-published KingBrick.

Are the games identical? Designer sibling Gary Sibthorpe has noted on BGG that "[t]here's new artwork and a new board, and some of the cube names are different, but the rules are virtually unchanged as far as I understand". Gamewright's Nora Meiners offered this clarification: "Cube Quest is a new version of KingBrick; we have licensed it from the inventors and made some adaptations." (If it becomes clear that the games are the same or nearly so, we can merge the game pages, but until then I'll keep them separate as it's far easier to merge than split.)

Board Game: Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game
• U.S. publisher Upper Deck Entertainment has released a few details of Devin Low's Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game - Expansion 1, which GTS Distribution lists in its catalog with a June 25, 2013 release date. (HT: Joel Eddy) Note that this is not the final name for the expansion, and some details below might differ from what's actually in the set. For now, here's what is known about the expansion:

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Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game - Expansion 1 – which requires Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game in order to play – includes seventeen new heroes, six new villain groups, five new Masterminds (including Apocalypse and Kingpin), and two new Henchmen groups. Unlike in the Legendary base game, each hero is represented with four pieces of artwork to make it easier for players to distinguish at a glance which hero card has which power.

This expansion also includes a new game mechanism for Bystanders, who in the base game just stood around waiting to be kidnapped or rescued with no autonomy of their own.
Board Game: Quarriors! Quartifacts
WizKids Games has announced the fourth expansion for its Quarriors! dice-building game from designers Eric M. Lang and Mike Elliott. Here's a summary of what you'll find in Quarriors! Quartifacts:

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In Quarriors! Quartifacts, all of Quaxos' magical items have gone missing and you, mighty Quarrior that you are, must take it upon yourself (with the help of your trusted Squire) to find them!

Quest cards are available in the Wilds for you to send your Creatures to capture the all-new LARGER Quest dice that wield unimaginable power. (No, seriously, we have no idea what these things do.) Quarriors! Quartifacts includes five new Creatures and two new Spells, in addition to a new Basic card (the Squire), twelve Quest cards, and six Quest dice.
Italian game site Gioconomicon has pics of the Quartifacts components that were on display at Nürnberg 2013, which I never saw despite running around like a maniac for three days. Geez, what else did I miss at that show?

Board Game: PIX
• In a late January 2013 post, I noted that the German branch of Asmodee was distributing a new version of Laurent Escoffier and David Franck's PIX under the name Pixelstücke. Now Sébastien Pauchon – one of the fellows behind Swiss publisher GameWorks SàRL, the publisher of PIX – has contacted me to confirm that the new edition of PIX will be released in French, English and Japanese, in addition to German. The game is expected out in May 2013, and to accommodate the various languages while being packaged as efficiently as possible, the game apparently comes with a language-specific rules overlay that will be shrinkwrapped on the box bottom, with the box itself showing 36 miniature pix that make up a game all on their own.

Board Game: PIX

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