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As if we weren't already excited about Star Wars The Card Game, Fantasy Flight just posted five tutorial videos that give you a good idea how the game will play—and make you drool in excitement.
Looks pretty fun! Hopefully at least one of us will get this for Christmas, and we'll give you a report ASAP.
You can check out our interview with designer Eric Lang right here, or go watch the tutorial videos right here!
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Alderac Enterainment group has just announced through social media that they're releasing their first expansion to Smash Up: Awesome Level 9000. Looks like players will have 4 more factions to choose from in this shuffle builder.
The new factions will be Killer Plants, Ghosts, Steampunks and the Bear Cavalry. Aside from the 80 faction cards, there will be 8 new bases, and a rule book in the expansion, although from first glance it doesn't look like there will be much more added to the game rules themselves, just more combos, and maybe the ability to add another player?
You can see AEG's official info about the release right here, and you can read our review of the base set of the game right here.
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Just moments ago the folks at Looney Labs sent out an email with the latest news on their quest to bring the ever-changing card game to your iOS devices. They have officially submitted the app to Apple and are waiting their approval, and have set a tentative release date for Dec. 19, just in time to gift it for Christmas!
Below is the screenshot they included, and if you follow this link you too can get up-to-the-minute news as they announce Fluxx's arrival into the App Store!
Thanks for reading and stay tuned as we gear up to finish up the 2012 Holiday Gift Guide!
A couple of weeks ago we reviewed the fun Star Wars The Miniatures Game from Fantasy Flight. The next wave of minis is scheduled for release in February, but you can check out—and maybe play with—the new minis before then. Fantasy Flight has announced the locations of game stores hosting Kessel Run events.
To participate, players bring 100-point squadrons to a participating retailer and compete through a number of Swiss-style preliminary rounds. But in the final round, everything changes. After the close of the preliminary rounds, the tournament’s two top players set aside their personal squads and assume control of preview squads built from the event kits.
One player will field two A-wings and the incomparable Millennium Falcon. The other will field two TIE Interceptors and the versatile and deadly Slave I. Then, each of the tournament’s top four participants get to claim one of the preview expansions!
Sounds fun! Go play some Star Wars, and thanks for reading!
Last week, Mayfair Games announced their Catan Ornament for 2012; this year is their third release in the line, and the featured resource is wool.
It's a cut brass ornament featuring iconic symbols from the island of Catan. For more information and a sneak peek at another ornament offered this year just follow this link.
Thanks for reading and stay tuned this week for more from our 2012 Christmas Holiday Gift Guide!
Hey gang, we're rolling in super late in the game on this one, but it's definitely worth checking out! Brotherwise Games is totally crushing their Kickstarter campaign for Boss Monster: the Dungeon-Building Card Game. I mean their over funded by like $145,000, they've got 3 days left on the campaign and if the get $3,000 more in backing, they will have hit every stretch goal they have planned. Here's the cool thing about the campaign, it's super cheap to get in on. To get yourself a copy of the game you'll only have to buy in for $20!
Ok, enough about the campaign, let's talk about the game for a minute or two. From what I can tell Boss Monster, is like the Grand Theft Auto of 8-bit side scrolling card games, in a fantasy realm setting... Instead of playing the hero or the adventurer, players take on the role of the main bad dude, and try to create a dungeon to lure as many adventurers in and then slay them. The theme sounds like a geeky good time and most of the cards look pretty silly (in a good way). There's even a surprise visit from our favorite pixelated president Pixel Lincoln!
So you've got a few days left, head on over and check it out, and maybe help them hit that last stretch goal! You can find the campaign right here!
It's official, we're excited. And as if the eminent release of Fantasy Flight's Star Wars: The Card Game wasn't enough, they've already announced the first Force Pack for the game.
The game's first expansion cycle with be the Hoth Cycle, with the first Force Pack being "The Desolation of Hoth." It's a little surprising they're jumping ahead in the saga to an Empire theme; I'm chalking it up to Fantasy Flight wanting to start out strong. And I wouldn't be surprised if they have the schedule lined up to continue through and drop them right in line with the upcoming release Episode VII. (There's four words I thought I'd never type!)
Over on the official Fantasy Flight page they are giving some great detail and overview of the pack. You can check it out here!
It's an exciting time to be a Star Wars fan, and a gamer; look out as worlds are about to collide, again!
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The super-long-awaited fourth expansion for Race for the Galaxy is nearly here! Rio Grande has announced a December 2012 release for Alien Artifacts. The expansion will change the trajectory of the game and will not be compatible with the three previous expansions of the title.Rio Grande has also scheduled Roll for the Galaxy—the obligatory dice version of the successful title, that's been rumored for years.You can check out the official Rio Grande page for Alien Artifacts right here.
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It's been a busier week than usual here at TOG; here's a quick look back at this week's posts!
Monday's news: Or maybe this wasn't really news, but we brought you a little more info about the new reboot of Wizkids Pirates of the Spanish Main.
Tuesday we brought you a special Election Day review of Pixel Lincoln!
Wednesday we didn't have an interview for you, but there was some exciting news about the new data pack for Fantasy Flight's Netrunner.
Thursday's Kickstarter Weekly this week featured Lost Legends.
And today we brought you a bonus review, which is also our first Double-Take Review, of the Kickstarter project Ruse!
Thanks so much for reading; feel free to write us if there are any games you'd like us to review.
Have a great weekend!
This week's Kickstarter project comes to us courtesy of Mike Elliott—designer of such great games as Thunderstone and Quarriors...and the far-less-great game Sword & Skull.
Lost Legends is a card-drafting game from Queen Games for three to five players. You'll get a hand of cards, and choose one to equip your character or use the cards for new traits and abilities. Then you pass the leftover cards to the next person, and you'll get a batch from the player in front of you. Lather. Rinse. Repeat, until the cards are gone. Then you start kicking some monster butt—or the monsters start kicking yours...
From the Kickstarter description: At the beginning of your turn, if you do not have a monster in front of you, you must encounter a new one. You can choose to take on the face-up monster in the middle of the table... or you can draw the top card from the monster deck. If you don’t think it’s a good idea to fight this monster, and another player also does not have a monster in front of them, you can evade that monster and it will attack them. But, if you do this, you then must take on the next monster from the top of the deck.
The monsters get stronger as you go through the rounds—and after three rounds the game is over. The warrior with the most points, wins.
The project has already blown past its goal, and the stretch goals include gobs of new monsters, and some new heroes, too. It sounds fun—and the artwork is way cool.
If you have a Kickstarter board game you'd like us to highlight, please contact us. Thanks for reading!
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