New Game Round-up: The Nazgul Near Infiltration of Goa & Zombies, Zombies and the Devil from Twilight Creations

New Game Round-up: The Nazgul Near Infiltration of Goa & Zombies, Zombies and the Devil from Twilight Creations
Board Game: Zombies!!! The Card Game
Board Game: Zombies!!! 11: Death Inc.
• U.S. publisher Twilight Creations, Inc. has announced a trio of new titles due out in 2012, but despite what you might expect only two of them involve zombies, the first of which is Zombies!!! The Card Game, described as follows:

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You are so tired. You just can't run anymore. Your breath sounds like a jet engine and sweat has soaked every inch of your body. A shower would be nice. Hell, just being able to catch your breath would be great... Who are we kidding? Ten whole minutes not completely enveloped in sheer terror would be heaven. To bad the zombie horde looking to make you lunch doesn't see it the same way...

Zombies!!! The Card Game simulates the coming zombie apocalypse in card game form. Each player uses her own deck to form the narrative of her attempted escape; the ground-breaking card design allows for each card to be used for the card effect printed on the front or as a location as indicated by the card's back. The first player to make her way to the "helipad" at the bottom of her deck escapes certain death and wins the game.

The zombies are right behind you. Do you have what it takes to survive?
"Simulates the coming zombie apocalypse" – it's not even a hypothetical anymore. We are going to have a zombie apocalypse, oh, yes we are. It says so right in the description of this card game.

Board Game: The Current Number of the Beast
Zombies!!! 11: Death Inc. is another take on the "everyone except for the other players is a zombie trying to get you" genre, with the players being employees who have found that their co-workers have lost their brains for real. Time to kill those zombies once again – or at least escape from the building before anyone else so that the zombies can feast on them instead of you.

The third title from Twilight Creations is not about zombies, but is instead about the devil and its numerous incarnations. Whether that's a plus or not I'll leave you to decide. The Current Number of the Beast is a dice-manipulation game in which you play cards and roll dice in order to get your dice to match the number of the current "beast" card in play. My wife, a college friend and I used to draw maps showing the locations of the beast, the neighbor of the beast (#664), the annoying old man across the street from the beast (#665), and so on. Never thought to make a game out of the activity. Our loss.

• After showing off Snowdonia throughout UK Games Expo 2012, designer Tony Boydell has posted lots of images showing off the game board and finished art, while also describing parts of the game.

Board Game: Goa
Board Game: Android: Infiltration
Z-Man Games notes on its Facebook page that Tournay and the new edition of Goa will be available in U.S. stores on Wednesday, May 30, 2012.

• Similarly, Donald X. Vaccarino's Infiltration, coming from Fantasy Flight Games, has a U.S. street date of May 30, 2012, as does The Lord of the Rings: Nazgul from WizKids.

• ACD Distribution lists Cryptozoic Entertainment's DC Comics Deck-Building Game – mentioned in this BGGN item – as a July 2012 release. What's the game about? Dunno. Cryptozoic has offered zero information to date.

• Other July 2012 releases, according to ACD, include Siberia and Vanuatu, which are being imported to/distributed in the U.S. by Coffee Haus Games, as well as the new edition of Arctic Scavengers from Rio Grande Games.

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