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• Reiner Stockhausen from dlp games says that U.S. distribution is in the works for Siberia, which keeps bobbing near the top of the GeekBuzz and Fairplay lists of best-rated games. Good news for those in North America who feared what this game might cost to ship overseas.
• Konstantinos Kokkinis, co-designer of Drum Roll from Artipia Games, says that he expects to possibly have enough games to last through Sunday. In any case, he says that Artipia will produce a second printing of the game, and Eagle Games will be importing it to North America.
• Ascora Games received missing coin sheets for its remaining copies of Nefarious from Donald X. and expects to receive the remainder of its shipment on Saturday.
• Finnish publisher ReVision Games is on hand with its 2010 release MANIA! – now added to the Spiel 2011 Preview; is that a good idea? Bad? – but it also had a prototype for a 2012 release called Iron Sky: The Board Game, which is based on a movie of the same name. The gist of the story: Ater World War II, Nazis escape the planet via rocket and set up base on the far side of the Moon. They return to Earth in 2008 to attempt to conquer the globe once more.
Iron Sky: The Board Game is played in teams, with each team having an equal number of players; once section of the Earth's surface is on a game board between each pair of opponents. Each team plays simultaneously, with each player on the team taking one or more actions, then the opposing team taking actions. Teammates can share money with one another to buy items, but not other types of resources. (Money's a lot easier to move around the globe than artillery.) In the end, one side will rule the planet.
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