Posts Tagged ‘Donald X. Vaccarino’
Rio Grande Games Announces New ‘Dominion’ Expansion
Tuesday, November 11th, 2014
Rio Grande Games will release a new large expansion for Donald X. Vaccarino’s award-winning Dominion card game in Spring 2015, as first reported by hobby retailer news website ICv2.com.
“We are now working on a new (large box with 400 cards) expansion we expect to have available in the spring (2015),” Rio Grande’s Jay Tummelson said in a recent Board Game Geek forum post.
“We expect then to be able to release the game in late spring – dare I say March or April or May. We will send more information as we have it,” Tummelson also said in another post.
As for future Dominion plans, he also stated, “We may replace the original Treasure and Victory cards (already available separately) in the base set and/or Intrigue at some point, and are also looking at offering a set of the metal tokens (the Treasure and Victory tokens) later in 2015.”
The original Dominion card game, released in 2008, won the 2009 Spiel des Jahres Game of the Year award, the 2009 Origins Award for Best Card Game, and a Mensa Award. The popular card game last appeared on the Top 10 Card/Dice Games chart in Fall 2013. Dominion likewise can take credit for spawning a series of other deck-building board games, including Ascension, Thunderstone, DC Deckbuilding, Legendary, and many others.
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Queen’s Games Announces New Board Game ‘Greed’
Wednesday, September 10th, 2014
Photo courtesy of ICv2.com.
Award-winning game designer Donald X. Vaccarino (Kingdom Builder, Dominion)’s card-drafting game Greed was on display at the Queen Games booth at last week’s Gen Con, according to hobby news website ICv2.com. Another Kickstarter-funded project for Queen, it is expected to ship into the trade channels soon.
Queen Games USA’s Executive Director Keith Blume described the game. “You take the role of a late-60’s crime boss, and basically try to acquire the most wealth and become the crime boss of the city. That’s one that’s a little bit darker theme for us, relative to the usual family fair. It’s been getting a lot of play here.”
Players can invest in various legal business “holdings,” hire “thugs” to collect revenue, and engage in criminal activities against other players. Game play is simultaneous, with players drafting and playing cards each round at the same time. Greed can be played by two to five players and plays in about 45 minutes.
Queen’s Kickstarter drive for Greed gathered $26,208 in pledges from 822 backers ($31.88/backer average), well over the modest $5,000 goal.
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Rio Grande Games & ‘Dominion’ Creator Announce New Board Game
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014
Photo courtesy of ICv2.com.
According to hobby channel news website ICv2.com, Rio Grande Games has teamed up with Donald X. Vaccarino (Dominion, Kingdom Builder) yet again, this time for the time-travel board game Temporum.
In Temporum, players assume the role of time travellers, manipulating both subtle and major events in history in a bid to gain the most power at the moment that time travel is invented. The game board shows different “paths” that history can take, and players use their hand of cards to travel through time and alter this course of events. Two to five can play, and each game lasts between 30 and 60 minutes.
Temporum is expected to release later this year and will definitely be a highly anticipated release! Look forward to seeing it at your local Battleground Games & Hobbies!
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