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Fantasy Flight is publishing a new version of Netrunner, a standalone game rather than a trading card game. I am not involved with the design – Fantasy Flight offered to involve me but the time frame seemed too tight. I have not yet seen the design though it has been described – and based on its description and Fantasy Flight's excellent handling of many classic games, I am sure it is in good hands.
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Android: Netrunner is an asymmetrical Living Card Game for two players. Set in the cyberpunk future of Android and Infiltration, the game pits a megacorporation and its massive resources against the subversive talents of lone runners.
Corporations seek to score agendas by advancing them. Doing so takes time and credits. To buy the time and earn the credits they need, they must secure their servers and data forts with "ice". These security programs come in different varieties, from simple barriers, to code gates and aggressive sentries. They serve as the corporation's virtual eyes, ears, and machine guns on the sprawling information superhighways of the network.
In turn, runners need to spend their time and credits acquiring a sufficient wealth of resources, purchasing the necessary hardware, and developing suitably powerful ice-breaker programs to hack past corporate security measures. Their jobs are always a little desperate, driven by tight timelines, and shrouded in mystery. When a runner jacks-in and starts a run at a corporate server, he risks having his best programs trashed or being caught by a trace program and left vulnerable to corporate countermeasures. It's not uncommon for an unprepared runner to fail to bypass a nasty sentry and suffer massive brain damage as a result. Even if a runner gets through a data fort's defenses, there's no telling what it holds. Sometimes, the runner finds something of value. Sometimes, the best he can do is work to trash whatever the corporation was developing.
The first player to seven points wins the game, but not likely before he suffers some brain damage or bad publicity.
FFG's Living Card Game format consists of a Core Set of fixed cards that is supplemented by regular releases of expansion packs, each with a fixed assortment of cards rather than a randomized selection of cards. Android: Netrunner carries a MSRP of $40 and is due out Q3 2012, so I expect to see it on display – and, more likely, for sale – at Gen Con in mid-August. If not, I'll do something drastic, like open that sealed box of Proteus cards in my garage...Corporations seek to score agendas by advancing them. Doing so takes time and credits. To buy the time and earn the credits they need, they must secure their servers and data forts with "ice". These security programs come in different varieties, from simple barriers, to code gates and aggressive sentries. They serve as the corporation's virtual eyes, ears, and machine guns on the sprawling information superhighways of the network.
In turn, runners need to spend their time and credits acquiring a sufficient wealth of resources, purchasing the necessary hardware, and developing suitably powerful ice-breaker programs to hack past corporate security measures. Their jobs are always a little desperate, driven by tight timelines, and shrouded in mystery. When a runner jacks-in and starts a run at a corporate server, he risks having his best programs trashed or being caught by a trace program and left vulnerable to corporate countermeasures. It's not uncommon for an unprepared runner to fail to bypass a nasty sentry and suffer massive brain damage as a result. Even if a runner gets through a data fort's defenses, there's no telling what it holds. Sometimes, the runner finds something of value. Sometimes, the best he can do is work to trash whatever the corporation was developing.
The first player to seven points wins the game, but not likely before he suffers some brain damage or bad publicity.
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• Filosofia's Sophie Gravel has mentioned on BGG that Christian Marcussen's Clash of Cultures will be published "later this year" by Z-Man Games, along with Atlantis Rising, Battle Beyond Space and Equilibrion (now due out in May).
• Wydawnictwo Portal has updated its game page for The Convoy to include a longer game description and depict ten of the 70 cards in the game.
• NSKN Legendary Games, in association with Italian fan site Le Tana dei Goblin, is releasing a small expansion for Warriors & Traders titled Warriors & Traders: Italia in July 2012. Warriors designer and publisher Andrei Novac said that the limited-edition expansion sold out weeks earlier than he had anticipated. As a result, he says, "NSKN is considering creating an expansion – also a limited edition of a hundred copies – to be sold exclusively at Spiel 2012 in Essen. The time is short, but we will confirm this in the summer."
Game board for Warriors & Traders: Italia
• Novac also notes that NSKN has hired David Prieto to do the art and design on its Wild Fun West card game (previously titled Wild Wild West) due out at Spiel 2012.
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