The venture capital market is giving away money – you don't even have to pay it back – but it does tie up valuable agents until you do. You can always use an extra agent on your quest to dominate the world.
Global Mogul is a limited action, worker placement, resource acquisition, and opportunity management game. Win by being best at balancing your short term goal of fulfilling contracts for cash with your long term goals of building corporate infrastructure, controlling markets, and regions. So, what are you waiting for? The world awaits...
• Designer Donald X. Vaccarino has started posting preview cards from Dominion: Guilds, which U.S. publisher Rio Grande Games plans to release in June 2013 – most likely debuting at Origins Game Fair, although RGG hasn't stated this – and through June 6, 2013, he's previewed Baker, Doctor, Journeyman, and Butcher.
• One new title that is prereleasing at Origins, albeit only a couple of days before its June 17, 2013 U.S. street date, is Frédéric Guérard's Titanium Wars from IELLO. Hey, and speaking of Titanium Wars, here's another game preview video recorded at the 2013 Nürnberg Toy and Game Fair that hasn't previously been posted on BGG:
• Fantasy Flight Games has announced the 2013 release of Cosmic Encounter: Cosmic Storm expansion #4 for its version of Cosmic Encounter. In addition to including 25 aliens for CE, such as Swindler, Mouth and Bulwark, Cosmic Storm includes ten space station cards, which when attached to one of your home planets gives you an additional power to use in encounters as long as you have at least one ship on that planet.
• I mentioned in a June 2, 2013 BGGN item that Passport Game Studios will release an English-language edition of Alberto Corral's Náufragos in North America under the name of Castaways. Passport has now placed an August 9, 2013 street date on this release.
• I posted about the White Goblin Games trio of Rattus: Mercatus, Rattus: Arabian Traders, and Rattus Cartus: Nobilis. WGG has mentioned that all three titles are due for release in Q3 2013, and it plans to open preorders soon for these titles as well as for David Ausloos' Rogue Agent.