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Twilight Creations Announces new Sci-Fi and Cthulhu Board Games
Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014
ICv2.com has reported that Twilight Creations has announced two board games releasing in the first half of 2014. Cthulhu!!! Hastur la Vista, Baby! will release in February, followed by Jupiter Rescue in April. We love a good Cthulhu board game!
Designed by Mark Major, Jupiter Rescue players take the role of rescue robots, launched into space to help the humans at the Jupiter Deep colony escape the “creeps,” an alien race that eats humans and multiplies out of control. Players work cooperatively to evacuate the colonists before they are converted into alien “creeps.” The game is for 2 – 7 players, and takes 30 – 60 minutes to play.
The box contains 20 double-sided module tiles, 1 evacuation pod tile, 4 reference cards, 36 rescue cards, a six-sided die, and 127 plastic figures (7 player robots, 50 colonists, 60 creeps, 10 super creeps).
Set in the 1920s seaside town of Kingsport, Cthulhu!!! Hastur la Vista, Baby! pits players against the Cult of Hastur in the roles of investigators with some experience in mythos busting, which makes them a little mad already. Players must work semi-cooperatively to find and sanctify ritual sites against the cult, while competing for control of relics and trying to maintain their own sanity while competing for ultimate power.
The box contains 20 tiles, 50 cards, 50 Byakhee, 50 cultists, 3 private detectives, 3 girl Fridays, Hastur, various tokens. The game is for 2 – 6 players, no age limits or game length information was included.
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Geek & Sundry’s Tabletop: Tsuro of the Seas
Tuesday, January 21st, 2014
Check out the latest episode of Geek & Sundry’s smash hit show Tabletop, as host Wil Wheaton and guests Kevin Pereira, Brendan Halloran, and Andy Hull play Tsuro of the Seas!
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About Tsuro of the Seas:
The basic game play of Tsuro of the Seas resembles that of Tom McMurchie’s Tsuro: Players each have a ship that they want to sail — that is, keep on the game board — as long as possible. Whoever stays on the board the longest wins the game.
Each turn players add “wake” tiles to the 7×7 game board; each tile has two “wake connections” on each edge, and as the tiles are placed on the board, they create a connected network of paths. If a wake is placed in front of a ship, that ship then sails to the end of the wake. If the ship goes off the board, that player is out of the game.
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Battleground Games & Hobbies Announces X-Wing Mini Game Organized Play
Saturday, January 18th, 2014
Battleground Games & Hobbies in Plainville, MA
Format: Singles (1v1) 100 points
Date: January 23rd, 2014 a Thursday
Time: 7:00pm
Entrance Fee: $5.00
Address:
25 Taunton Street
Plainville MA 02762
508.316.1195
Contact:
Please contact me at Chase@BattlegroundGames.com with any questions
HOW THE TOURNAMENT WORKS:
• Players are STRONGLY encouraged to read through the X-Wing Tourmanet Rules.
• Players are expected to bring a 100 point Rebel or Imperial fleet.
• In the first round, teams will be matched up randomly. After the first round, teams will be matched up according to current rankings in the tournament (based on the number of points they’ve scored outlined here) e.g., the player in first place will play the player in second place and so on. We will try our best not to pair teams that come to the event together or regularly play each other in the first round. If a team receives a BYE they will be awarded max points.
• Players are expected to have ALL required Range Rulers, Maneuver Templates, tokens, cards, etc.
• You will not play the same person twice.
• The pairings for each round will be posted as soon as they are determined. Please be sure to arrive at your table ready to play right away.
• Slow playing will NOT be tolerated.
• Each game will be played on a 3′ x 3′ board.
• Each game will be 60 minutes long.
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Tags: Events, Fantasy Flight, Miniatures, Star Wars X-Wing
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New Expansions for ‘Summoner Wars’ Announced
Tuesday, January 14th, 2014
According to ICv2.com, Plaid Hat Games will release two new Second Summoner Faction Decks for their Summoner Warsdeck building game in April:Jungle Elves and Cloaks.
The new decks will round out the original eight Summoner Wars factions. Both decks have their own Summoner (Jexik for Cloaks, Nikuya Nafor for Jungle Elves), set-up card, Champions, Commons, Walls and Event Cards. As single faction decks, they do require any Summoner Wars Master Set or Starter Set to play.
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Geek & Sundry’s Tabletop: Carcassonne
Thursday, January 9th, 2014
UPDATE: Our sincere apologies. We’ve experienced difficulties getting the video to display properly. Instead, we’ve provided a direct link to the video below.
Take a look at the latest episode of Geek & Sundry’s smash YouTube hit TableTop with host Wil Wheaton; featuring special guests Jesse Cox, Nika Harper and Kumali Nanjiani as they play Carcassonne!
Watch Geek & Sundry’s Tabletop: Carcassonne here!
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About Geek & Sundry:
Geek & Sundry is an internet community centered around producing entertaining web videos, primarily on YouTube, that focus on comics, games, books, hobbies & more. Their goal is to connect their audience together through common interests both online and in real life.
About Carcassonne:
Carcassonne is a tile-placement game in which the players draw and place a tile with a piece of southern French landscape on it. The tile might feature a city, a road, a cloister, grassland or some combination thereof, and it must be placed adjacent to tiles that have already been played, in such a way that cities are connected to cities, roads to roads, etcetera. Having placed a tile, the player can then decide to place one of his meeples on one of the areas on it: on the city as a knight, on the road as a robber, on a cloister as a monk, or on the grass as a farmer. When that area is complete, that meeple scores points for its owner.
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‘Mega Man: The Board Game’ by Jasco Games
Wednesday, January 8th, 2014
Jasco Games plans to release Mega Man: The Board Game in October 2014. The game is currently a live Kickstarter project, according to an article published by ICv2.com.
Jasco added Capcom’s Mega Man as a license for its Universal Fighting System CCG last year, and plans to release its first product, a UFS Mega Man tin, in January.
The board game based on the property will be released in time for the 25th anniversary of the release of the first video game late this year. Jasco stated that they turned to Kickstarter for funding for two reasons, “First, and most importantly, we’re seeking funding to make this the board game we always wanted to make. Kickstarter funding will allow us to use better materials, offer more extras like miniatures, cards, extra boards, and polish the finalized product… Second, we wanted fans to have a chance to show their support for Mega Man and be involved in this exciting process.”
The core game box will contain 5 Pre-Constructed Player Decks (40 cards each), 5 Mega Man game pieces, 5 Robot Master game pieces (Trophies), 1 Dr. Wily Game piece, 6 game boards (5 for the Robot Masters, 1 for Dr. Wily), 5 Mega Man Character Card Life Meters, 12 Stage Tokens for each Robot Master, 20 Stage Tokens for Dr. Wily, 5 of each Robot Master boss cards, 5 Mega Man Character cards, and a rulebook (with digital download copy). Additional villain decks & game boards, exclusive game pieces, and Universal Fighting System deck boxes & card sleeves are all listed as stretch goals and add-on bonuses.
The Kickstarter has already raised $273,761 from 2,078 backers ($131.74 per backer average) as of this writing and will be funded on Sunday January 19. Official MSRP for the game has not been determined.
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Source: “Mega Man: The Board Game” via ICv2.com.
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