![SPIEL 2016 VIII: Cottage Garden, Quartermaster General: 1914, Raise Your Goblets, Steam Park: Play Dirty/Robots, and Colt Express: Marshal & Prisoners](https://cf.geekdo-images.com/Au4uYEB-racSoMPLfp4e8w__thumb/img/9hFlAoI0tP1Z0U3r4aYJESzc5ZA=/fit-in/200x150/filters:strip_icc()/pic3159206.jpg)
• Prisoners, a new bandit, a new train car, and a playable marshal that plays against all of the bandits on the train are what you'll find in Colt Express: Marshal & Prisoners, the second expansion for the Spiel des Jahres-winning Colt Express from Christophe Raimbault and Ludonaute.
• In this demo video, designer Ian Brody reveals the secret origin of the Quartermaster General series, including the latest release: Quartermaster General: 1914, which PSC Games debuted at SPIEL 2016.
• At Gen Con 2016, I got a preview of Tim Page's Raise Your Goblets from Cool Mini Or Not, which is releasing the title in the U.S. in partnership with original publisher Horrible Games. The short description of the game is a special-powered Princess Bride-style Battle of Wits, with all players trying not to die of poison while trying to ensure that their target for the round does take a long nap
• Publishers need to channel Goldilocks when determining the proper amount of time to wait before publishing an expansion for a game: not too soon or you look rapacious, and not too late or no one will care. Three years isn't that long of a wait in the real world, but we'll see how gamers feel about the release of Steam Park: Play Dirty and Steam Park: Robots, two expansions — one large and one small — that add multiple new elements to the original Steam Park game from Federico Latini, Lorenzo Silva, and Horrible Games.
While searching for a Steam Park logo to use in the thumbnail image of that video (before I decided to do what's currently in place), I ran across this pic of Beth and Lorenzo conducting a game demo at SPIEL 2013. Time flies like a banana!