• Repos Production has announced preorders for Ghost Stories: Black Secret, with 666 copies (ho ho) being available at Spiel 2011. The preorder pack comes in a Classic edition (€30, with the game and a goodies pack: a signed print, a new curse die and Steven Qi-Gal, a new Wu-Feng incarnation) and a Totally Evil edition (€35, which adds a T-shirt to the lot).
• Fantasy Flight Games has announced a Mansions of Madness expansion – Forbidden Alchemy – that includes four new investigators, three new scenarios and more than 200 cards for release in Q4 2011.
• Rules are now available on the BGG game page in English, French and German for Québec, debuting at Spiel 2011 from Le Scorpion Masqué and Ystari Games.
• U.S. publisher Ascora Games, which debuted with a new edition of Kaigan in 2010, will have a new title from Donald X. Vaccarino at Spiel 2011. Well, that's the plan anyway, but Ascora's Scott Tepper says that production will go down to the wire in terms of having the game ready in time.
What is that game? Nefarious, for which I now present the de rigueur Vaccarino-flavored summary: