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New Game Stuff (4/19/2013)

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Apr 192013

Restock is the magic word for this week’s New Game Stuff.

Above all else is the return or revenge or attack of the X-Wing miniatures game. After having been out of print for a limited time, all of the wave two ships are back in stock. That’s the Tie Infiltrator, the Millennium Falcon, the A-Wing, and the Slave I. And they’re just in time, too, because this Sunday brings the first Star Wars X-Wing League Play day up at the store. So choose whether you support the Rebel Alliance or the Empire then come knock some ships out of the stars in some head-to-head battle. Sign-up will begin at noon and play will commence shortly after.

After selling out swiftly last week, Dixit Quest has returned from whatever magical land this game hails from. For those who’ve been awaiting the return of Dixit 2, this is your chance. Dixit Quest is an eighty-four card expansion for the base Dixit game, adding a gallery’s worth of psychedelic, gorgeous artwork to this Apple-to-Apples-esque party game. If you’re not familiar with Dixit, then allow me to inform you. Play revolves around players taking turns offering descriptive words, sounds, or phrases, then everyone who didn’t lays down a full-art card which they feel best encompasses the description. From there, everyone chooses the card they think the person who offered the descriptor laid down. Points are awarded based on who is correct and incorrect. An extremely well illustrated game, Dixit is fun for the whole family.

Magazines are supposed to have gone the way of the dodo, but here’s a brand new one in the tradition of Dungeon and Dragon Magazine called Gygax Magazine. As they say in the forward, the name of the publication was chosen out of respect to the originator of the RPG and as a statement of the traditional approach the magazine is going to take to its content. The first issue of this nostalgic treat features stories about “The Future of Tabletop Gaming,” “The Cosmology of Role-Playing Games,” and “DMing for Your Toddler.” A system-neutral play setting is also included, being Gnatdamp a tiny hamlet in the middle of a swamp, full of rowdy cutthroats. Come reminisce with issue #1 of Gygax Magazine.

And, finally, a moment of Warhammer 40K zen featuring (the late arriving; thanks Games Workshop) the XV88 Tau Broadside Battlesuit. Soak it up.

New Game Stuff (4/12/2013)

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Apr 122013

Begin the snapping because it’s about to get all West Side Story up in here!

But you can throw technicolor and musical numbers out the window, because this gang warfare is in the dystopian city of Gatorum. Two to four players take on the role of futuristic gang leaders attempting to overrun the city in a power play. Hire up local toughs, collect some heavy artillery, and build up your home turf. But beware because your rivals will be ready and waiting to nab anything you do build up. City of Remnants is basically Agricola or Kingsburg but filthier.

Throw dem bones!

Adding a component long missing from the slew of Vegas themed games out there, Las Vegas is a new dice game where players roll to win it all! With six different casinos littering the Las Vegas landscape, each player must carefully choose which casino they roll in so that they maximize their rewards. A fast-paced, easy to learn family game of interactive dice play, Las Vegas will bring lady luck to your house tonight!

The band’s getting back together! That’s right, you’ve got the gargoyle, the ogre, the prince, the warrior, the ghoul, the enchantress, the centaur, and, above all, the dragon maiden. Each of these eight new characters appears in the first expansion set for Chaosatle, the Melee Expansion. Each of these characters adds a new ability to the game, including the ability to ride the centaur or the dragon maiden’s power to call to her aid the mighty red dragon. The expansion also includes a special conversion for a solo version of the game where clips reconnect the board in different ways.

Why travel the world to see each of the seven wonders when you can pick up the 7 Wonders: Wonder Pack?

This expansion to the base 7 Wonders drafting game packs in four special wonder boards and their matching wonder card along with a rule book on how to use them. These wonders include the Great Wall of China, Stonehenge, Abu Simbel, and Manneken Pis. These brand new wonders can be incorporated into the game easily, adding entirely new abilities to the process.

You’ve made it to the surface, you’ve found a raft, you’ve got a broken sword to defend yourself with, but can you Escape from Atlantis? Survive: Escape from Atlantis receives a expansion reprinting and a new release this week in the form of The Giant Squid and Dolphins and Dive Dice. The Giant Squad has been in print before, but it is no less vicious. Guard your boat carefully, because the five giant squid tokens included within are always ready to attack. Luckily, if you get the Dolphins and Dive Dice the friendly creatures kept within will help you back to your boat if you fall out. However, the Dive Dice give a new benefit to the monsters surrounding Atlantis, that of diving below the surface.

New Game Stuff (1/4/2013)

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Jan 042013

Can you believe it’s been ten years since BANG! came out?

To celebrate, the BANG! 10th Anniversary edition of the base game has come riding into town. Unlike the base version of the game, this edition comes with a number of additional extras that enhance gameplay. Wooden bullets and premium player boards organize the life totals and card arrangement, respectively. Also included are a “Most Wanted” rogues gallery of character cards from the various expansions for the game, which include two cards from the Valley of Shadows expansion which was only released in the Czech Republic. A completely new character is also held within the metal confines of the box, one featuring a cowgirl. Giddy on it, liddle doggies.

Rule one is: Don’t let the natives get restless!

In Archipelago the colonists players control have to walk a tightrope of resource management and worker placement, while also carefully choosing to side with or backstab their opponents. As you mine Carribean settlement for resources, you must also transform these natural commodities into cash by selling them at market or overseas in the homeland. Construction of temples, markets, and whole cities must also be carefully balanced as to not leave the natives unsatisfied or organized because they will rise up. And though that may sound like a way to unseat your opponent, a violent uprising will end the game for everyone, so it’s in your best interest to quell them as they sprout up.

Core Worlds receives its first expansion set this weekend in Galactic Orders. Alliances are beginning to form in this galaxy-spanning war, a development that has brought in various Galactic Orders represented by oversized cards. Each Order possesses unique abilities, all of which are laid out clearly on their adjoining card. As players utilize cards with faction distinctions on them, they in turn place their faction tokens onto Galactic Order cards, either to gain points at the end of the game or activate the Galactic Order abilities for your benefit. If you’ve ever been party to any galactic politics (and who hasn’t?), you’ll realize that Core Worlds: Galactic Orders recreates such discussions perfectly.

Judging from the box description, Panic On Wall Street! will have you punching your friends in their faces with glee. Sounds amazing to me! A party game unlike any other, Panic On Wall Street! has players yelling across each other to win intense bidding wars, attempting to collect the most money possible. Use speculation! Use intimidation! Use force! Use a large mallet to smack others in the naughty bits! Warning, the application of alcohol may result in bloody murder.

New Game Stuff (10/12/2012)

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Oct 122012

Let’s begin with a moment of miniature Zen this evening brought to us by the Warmachine Hyperion Colossal.

Okay, now that that’s out of the way, here’s some words about stuff.

Alien Frontiers, the Kickstarter sensation where you populate planets in space, receives three expansions today. The first, and largest, is Alien Frontiers Factions. This expansion adds enough materials for another, 5th, player and faction mini boards which give special abilities to their owners. The Factions expansion gets its own expansion with the Faction Pack #1. This pack includes a booster pack with a new faction board and the other essential cards to add it to the game. Finally, the Upgrade Pack provides components, like miniatures and Dockcover tokens, to replace the basic Colony and Field Generator tokens in the original game.

Malifaux: Storm of Shadows is the newest expansion rule book for the Gothic miniature game. Storm of Shadows adds a new faction, The Ten Thunders, along with new Faction Masters and Minions. New schemes, a hiring guide, rules for Dual-Faction and mounted models, and narrative fiction.

Urbania is a game of urban renewal. Try your hand as a famous urban planner overseeing the re-development of a run-down city. You must hire the best specialists and designers. Get the bastions of industry to buy into your vision. Design blueprints for dynamic neighborhoods that bring the city back to its former glory. If you can manage your projects well, you will become the most renowned planner and take credit for the city of the future!

New Game Stuff (10/5/2012)

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Oct 052012

There’s been Star Wars. There’s been world wars. But never has there been anything like Mage Wars. I mean, like, really, this game is pretty damn unique. Players build a spell book of spell cards, doubling up on ones if they want (put you’ll want to pick up the spell expansion pack to do that), with an end goal of decimating you opponent more than they decimate you. Coming with an excellent looking game board, tokens, life counters, and more, this is a well designed and pretty looking game to own.

The chaos can’t be released just yet, but when it does (which is midnight) you better run for cover.

That’s right, the new Chaos Space Marines, well, everything comes out tomorrow (which, again, is midnight). The “everything” of that last sentence includes the new Chaos Space Marines Codex, sporting the new hardcover trade dress. The big guns, that being the Heldrake and the Forgefiend/Maulerfiend, plus the Raptors, Warpsmith, and Mutilators. These guys look b-e-a-utiful! Check out the detail on the Heldrake to the right. Great looking miniatures all around.

Don’t have the free time it takes to construct, paint, and organize terrain for your miniatures games? That’s where Terraclips come in. These easy to assemble thick cardboard terrain sets are designed for use with any miniatures with in the 25mm to 32mm range. Each location collection comes with all the pieces you’ll need to build the environment (which are three dimensional, by the way), which includes the walls, floors, obstacles, and clips used to link the pieces. The three newest sets releasing today are the Prison of the Forsaken, Vaults of Ruin, and Dungeon Essentials, each coming fully painted.

If you’re the kind of person who’s ever said they want to experience mind-numbing terror as you evade and escape evil creatures who want to eat your brains? No, probably not, but if you want to play a game like that then Level 7 is your game. A semi-cooperative game for 1-4 players, Level 7 drops you into a subterranean base and makes you work with or betray your partners as you fight to get out. If Last Night on Earth and Panic Station had a slimey, evil baby, Level 7 would be it.

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