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Anyways is a fast-paced, interactive word game in which players place one letter at a time from their hand onto the board, while trying to maximize their score. Words score in every direction: horizontally, vertically and diagonally; forwards or backwards. In other words, Anyways! Players choose whether to restock their hand from the consonant bag or the vowel bag, and letters vary in value. There is a unique scoring system for this unique game. The tiles are solid wood and in black with colored letters, making for a stylish display!
• Writing from Alan Moon's somewhat industry-only gaming event The Gathering of Friends, blogger/cartoonist Debbie Ridpath Ohi shows a couple of pics of game components from City of Horror, due out from Repos Production (with Asmodee distributing) in time for a Gen Con debut in August 2012.• In a another blog post from TGoF, Ohi shows off Ultimate Werewolf: Inquisition, an apparently forthcoming title at Spiel 2012 from Bézier Games and "Legend Dan Hoffman". I expect Bézier's Ted Alspach to send me a breathless email chock-full of superlatives and virtual pats-on-the-back about this title in the near future because that's just the kind of guy he is...
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• Fantasy Flight Games has announced a new expansion for Battles of Westeros – the House Baratheon Army Expansion, due out Q2 2012.
• French game news site TricTrac details some of the changes in GOSU2, the recently announced reboot of GOSU from Moonster Games. Each of the goblin cards will have some combination of seven icon-oriented powers, with those powers existing in both regular and MAX versions. The "vision" power, for example, has you draw five cards and keep one at the basic level, with MAX allowing you to keep two cards. Destruction either lets you destroy a free card (basic) or swap the position of two cards on the same level, then destroy a free card (MAX). The «link» ability mentioned in the previous announcement involves the addition of a card to one's army. Cards have link icons on all four sides, and as you add a card to your army, you're linking it to one or more existing cards, which grants your cards power in various ways.
• Two titles from Queen Games – Kimmo Sorsamo's Kairo and Donald X. Vaccarino's Kingdom Builder: Nomads – have been released in some parts of the world (Kairo in France, Nomads in the UK) and are undoubtedly making their way to parts of the world yet unblessed with these particular titles – or maybe they're not and Queen will force people to order each new release in 2012 from a separate country in order to encourage inter-continental oneness and gamer unity across borders. That sounds like a reasonable business plan, right?
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