New Game Round-up: Kung Fu Panda, Siege of the Citadel & OMG Royal Goods!

New Game Round-up: Kung Fu Panda, Siege of the Citadel & OMG Royal Goods!
Board Game: Kung Fu Panda: The Board Game
• During Spiel 2015, Modiphius Entertainment announced two upcoming releases for 2016, and while I tweeted about them at the time — at least I think I did; it's hard to recall everything from Spiel! — it's easy to miss such announcements, so here they are again.

First, Modiphius has a licensing deal with Dreamworks Animation to create a board game based on Kung Fu Panda, and Kung Fu Panda: The Board Game will debut at Gen Con 2016 before hitting stores in September 2016. For now, Modiphius has released only a non-final cover image and this short description:

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In Kung Fu Panda: The Board Game, you play as either Po or one of the Furious Five (Tigress, Monkey, Mantis, Crane and Viper), with everyone working together to defeat Tai Lung and other villains from the Kung Fu Panda films and animated series through intense dice-rolling action. By defeating villains, completing quests and helping others, players will gain karma to upgrade their character's abilities and secure the use of legendary artifacts from Master Shifu with which to face even deadlier perils.

Each of the heroes in Kung Fu Panda: The Board Game will be represented by a custom miniature.
Board Game: Mutant Chronicles: Siege of the Citadel
• The other title coming from Modiphius is a reboot of the 1993 Pressman Games title Mutant Chronicles: Siege of the Citadel. In a press release, Chris Birch from Modiphius states that Eric M. Lang, Kevin Wilson, and the game's original developer Richard Borg are part of the design team working on the reboot, with Adrian Smith providing cover art while Prodos Games and Paolo Parente will be the sculpting team for the miniatures. Siege of the Citadel will debut at Spiel 2016, and here's an overview of how it relates to the original game:

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Siege of the Citadel is set in the Mutant Chronicles universe with each player controlling one of five corporations: Imperial, Cybertronic, Mishima, Capitol, or Bauhaus. Each player begins with two of their own unique Doomtroopers who both benefit from their Corporation's special ability. The players must prevent the Dark Legion and one of its vile leaders from conquering the solar system. Each successful mission brings news of monstrous foes and terrifying events as the heroes explore the modular Citadel. Promotion gives credits to access more powerful weaponry and abilities, while secret missions can cause chaos for the heroes!

The narrative-led design of Siege of the Citadel builds on the gameplay mechanisms of the original release, and new campaigns based on major events from the Mutant Chronicles universe will expand on the much loved game.
Board Game: Oh My Goods!
• The record for "fastest sellout at Spiel to reprint being available" might have been broken by Alexander Pfister's Royal Goods, which debuted at Spiel 2015 from Österreichisches Spiele Museum as part of its effort to promote Austrian game designers and artists and sold out almost immediately. (No surprise there given Pfister's previous success through ÖSM with Händler der Karibik, which was reprinted as Port Royal, not to mention Pfister's other recent successes: Broom Service, Mombasa and Isle of Skye.)

Lookout Games has already picked up the game, renamed it Oh My Goods!, and released it for sale through its webstore. Pfister notes that nothing has changed with the game other than the title (and the inclusion of English rules), and that's easy to believe given that practically no time has elapsed between first and second editions!

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