New Game Round-up: Titans Threaten Mankind, Boomers Settle Oklahoma & Cartoons Animate Fluxx

The Rock'em Sock'em Robots Dice Game tries to emulate the fast action of the Rock'em Sock'em Robots of old, with players rolling their dice as quickly as they can to get the same face on all dice — colors or icons, depending on a flip of the match coin. Whoever does this first flips one of the opponent's face-down life markers face up. Two of these markers are blank, and the other three have hits; if all three of your hits are revealed, you lose.

If you've been hit, you can try to roll "block" on all your dice. If you do, flip one of your face-up markers face down again, then shuffle it with your remaining face-down markers.

Titans, the demi-gods of the underworld, threaten mankind, spreading mischief and chaos in the world — but the humans are prepared to defend themselves by creating their own Titans to withstand these attacks from the underworld. While this action happens all around them, the players try to carry on with normal life, too, acquiring goods, refining them to better merchandise, and delivering them to ships and dealers — not to mention strengthening their own Titans and using troops for even more power. To keep your followers active, you need to hold enough action discs.

Panthalos lasts at most eight rounds, but the game can end earlier if the powers of the underworld become too large...

Oklahoma Boomers takes you back to the year 1889. The Land Run of Oklahoma has just taken place, and now you and your opponent strive to get your Boomers the largest homesteads — but that can be harder than it looks!

Each player has three Boomers. On a turn, a player moves one Boomer in a straight line on the game board grid, moving it as many spaces as they wish. After this, he may use this Boomer and one of the opponent's Boomers to place cornerstones on the game board; these cornerstones are placed on the intersections where these two Boomers would meet, should they move toward one another. (If one of the Boomers couldn't reach an intersection point due to another piece being in the way, that cornerstone is not placed.)

Chains of cornerstones form borders on the game board, and at some point these borders will close off certain areas from the rest of the game board. If Boomers of only one color are in an area, this area/homestead belongs to the owner of those Boomers.

The game ends once all Boomers have their own homestead. Players receive 1 point for every square in their homesteads, and whoever has the higher score wins.