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• Designer Gerhard Junker has released a small expansion for his dexterity game Blocky Mountains: The Rock Slide, which consists of an S-curve block and new route cards. More challenges on the mountains!
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• Designer Bruno Faidutti has a list of forthcoming games on his website and with 2014 nearly over, I think we can consider them all potential 2015 releases (and I say "potential" because publisher plans change all the time, as can be seen with the note about Lookout above). Here's the list, some of which I've previously posted about on BGG News and some of which are new to me:
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• Attila, Blue Orange Games
• The Big Movie, Funforge
• Diamant, new edition, with Alan R. Moon, IELLO
• Kheops, with Serge Laget, White Goblin Games
• Mission: Red Planet, new edition, with Bruno Cathala
• Neeed!, with Eric Lang, Lui-Même Éditions
• Piraci, with Bruno Cathala, Bombyx
• Raptor, with Bruno Cathala, Matagot
• Sauve qui Peut!, with Anja Wrede, Grosso Modo Editions
• Space Station Argo, with Serge Laget, Flatlined Games
• Trois Singes – Three Monkeys
• Warehouse 51, with Sergio Halaban and André Zatz
Even though Faidutti doesn't mention the publisher of Mission: Red Planet, Bruno Cathala spilled the beans in March 2014 about Fantasy Flight Games being that publisher, although FFG has not commented on that revelation one way or another, which is common for them. Piraci is a new version of Boomtown, which Egmont Polska had released in Polish in 2012. And a new version of Diamant! I still have my Schmidt version with the wooden explorers and treasure chest gem holders, but I'll hope for everyone else's sake that the IELLO version has components just as nice.• The Big Movie, Funforge
• Diamant, new edition, with Alan R. Moon, IELLO
• Kheops, with Serge Laget, White Goblin Games
• Mission: Red Planet, new edition, with Bruno Cathala
• Neeed!, with Eric Lang, Lui-Même Éditions
• Piraci, with Bruno Cathala, Bombyx
• Raptor, with Bruno Cathala, Matagot
• Sauve qui Peut!, with Anja Wrede, Grosso Modo Editions
• Space Station Argo, with Serge Laget, Flatlined Games
• Trois Singes – Three Monkeys
• Warehouse 51, with Sergio Halaban and André Zatz
One item not on that list is a new version of Castle, a co-design with Serge Laget that Faidutti had previously mentioned was getting prepped for a new edition. Turns out that Faidutti had disagreements with that publisher, so that new version will likely not take place for now.
• The award for tastiest-looking game pieces of 2014 goes to the abstract strategy game 王さまのマカロン, which translates as The King's Macarons from designer Pesu Nabeno and publisher Nabeno Kikaku:
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