New Game Round-up: Uchronia Returns, Expansions from Eisenstein, SolForge from Gary Games & Steve Jackson Ducks!

New Game Round-up: Uchronia Returns, Expansions from Eisenstein, SolForge from Gary Games & Steve Jackson Ducks!
Board Game: Uchronia
• Wait, what's this? A cover for Carl Chudyk's Uchronia from IELLO? Why, yes, yes it is. As for when the game will be released and in which languages and countries and with which rules, I'll have to get back to you with all that. Sorry to be such a tease.

Update: Already a drop of more information. IELLO plans to debut Uchronia at Spiel 2012 in October.

• In other IELLO news, the publisher has released English rules (PDF) for Mythic Battles, due out in August 2012.

• In addition to the already released Peloponnes: Goat Expansion, Bernd Eisenstein and his irongames publishing house will have a PAX/Pergamemnon expansion at Spiel 2012. No details about the expansion now other than its impending existence.

Board Game: Empires of the Void: Key to the Universe
Ryan Laukat plans to a release a free print-and-play expansion for Empires of the Void in late July 2012:

Quote:
The small expansion Empires of the Void: Key to the Universe is designed to make the game more fun and balanced. Players now have a fourth action each round that can be used to perform new actions. One of the new actions is called Enslave, which increases the income of conquered planets. Also included are technology boards, which replace tech tokens and have a number of new technologies that open up new paths to victory. Four additional alien races provide more choices for players. Key to the Universe also has a new, revised rulebook for Empires of the Void that makes the game easier to learn and more clearly explains how to play.
Board Game Publisher: Stone Blade Entertainment
Gary Games is teasing a big announcement on August 1, 2012 about SolForge, which is described on its Facebook page as "the next evolution in Trading Card Games, from the makers of the Ascension Deckbuilding Game". So many extraneous capitalizations. Gary Games' Justin Gary mentions elsewhere that SolForge is a "digital TCG", so this might be my last mention of the game in BGGN. After all, I stay away from the digital and stick to covering only pollicital games. (HT: Joel Eddy and 2d6.org)

• On its news page, German publisher alea notes that Inka and Markus Brand's Saint Malo, delayed from its announced May 2012 release due to problems with its erasable pens, will appear at the latest in October 2012 and definitely in time for Spiel 2012.

Steve Jackson Games has announced its October 2012 releases, which consist of a reprint of Zombie Dice and three Munchkin expansions: Munchkin Duck of Doom, Munchkin Duck of Gloom, and Munchkin Naughty & Nice, the fourth Christmas-themed booster pack from SJG.

Board Game: Munchkin Duck of Doom
Board Game: Munchkin Duck of Gloom
Quack! Quack!

So we now have a pair of ducks bearing the Doom/Gloom moniker as well as a retitled card game from Michael Schacht, which went from Crazy Creatures of Dr. Doom to Dr. Gloom to avoid trademark issues in the U.S. We need one more example to make this a solid trend. Any takers?

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