This is Dice Tower Now for the week of January 17, 2023. This week, WizKids seeks the holy grail, Mad King Ludwig goes back to the drawing board, Pretzel’s Camels are up for their fourth race, and Cool Mini declares Spider-geddon on retail.

 

TOP STORIES (3:01)

  • Formal Ferret and Gil Hova leaving board gaming
  • Arthurian Knights from WizKids and Andrew Parks
  • Terra Pyramides
  • Blueprints of Mad King Ludwig
  • Stampfarm
  • Featherweight Fiesta
  • Camel Up the Card Game
  • Marvel United Spidergeddon
  • MATRX GIPF

 

SPECIAL REPORT (9:22)

  • D&D, WotC, OGL 2.1

 

CROWDFUNDING (14:05)

 

SPONSOR SHOUTOUT (20:14)

  • Once Upon a Line
  • The Dice Tower Kickstarter

 

HOTNESS (21:28)

  • 10 - Aeon Trespass: Odyssey
  • 9 - OrcQuest WarPath
  • 8 - Wingspan
  • 7 - Dune: Imperium
  • 6 - Among Cultists: A Social Deduction Thriller
  • 5 - Zoo Vadis
  • 4 - Ark Nova
  • 3 - Frosthaven
  • 2 - Heat: Pedal to the Metal
  • 1 - Once Upon a Line

 

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Category:Weekly News from the DTNow Team -- posted at: 3:00am EDT

This is Dice Tower Now for the week of January 10, 2023. This week, Cosmic Frogs rise up out of the Muck, Reiner Knizia expands another masterwork, Avalon Hill falls into a Yawning Portal, and I’m on a boat!

 

TOP STORIES (2:04)

  • New Eden
  • Chaos in Gotham City
  • Cosmic Frog: Find Muck
  • D&D: Yawning Portal
  • Mille Fiori: Die Meisterwerke
  • Noch Mal Deluxe
  • Pyramido
  • Goblin Vaults
  • DreamQuest
  • Time Capsules
  • Magician's Maze

 

CROWDFUNDING (12:01)

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (17:50)

  • Once Upon a Line
  • Kickstarter: January 17

 

NEW RELEASES (19:22)

  • The Loop: Fur Brigade
  • Precognition
  • Undaunted: Stalingrad
  • Woodcraft
  • Dice Kingdoms of Valeria
  • Siege of Valeria
  • Deal with the Devil

 

 

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Category:Weekly News from the DTNow Team -- posted at: 3:00am EDT

This is Dice Tower Now for the week of January 3, 2023. This week, WizKids lives their very best lives, Darwin apparently apologizes for being French, Doomtown is better off in a pine box, and Rio Grande Games plays hooky.

 

TOP STORIES (2:30)

  • Your Best Life by WizKids
  • Velonimo by 25th Century Games and Bruno Cathala
  • Doomtown: Weird West Edition from Pine Box Entertainment
  • New edition of 1974 classic Kingmaker announced
  • In the Footsteps of Darwin coming from Sorry We Are French
  • Publisher Rio Grande announces trick taking game Hooky from designer James Miller
  • Seas of Strife by Rio Grande Games confirmed for 2023
  • Andy Deso and Indian publisher Kheo Games announce Panchayat
  • Woodcraft Roll and Write available by print and play
  • Floe from Henry Audubon and Pika Games coming to Kickstarter March 28

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (11:00)

 

HOTNESS (11:50)

  1. Lost Ruins of Arnak
  2. Flamecraft
  3. Cascadia
  4. Endless Winter: Paleoamericans
  5. Wingspan
  6. Frosthaven
  7. Dune: Imperium
  8. Aeon Trespass: Odyssey
  9. Ark Nova
  10. Heat: Pedal to the Metal

 

 

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Category:Weekly News from the DTNow Team -- posted at: 3:30am EDT

This is Dice Tower Now for the week of December 27, 2022. This week, Capstone declares A-zero is just for one, Lookout uses boxes as big as the Skye, and a single unit Fluxx is just downright Looney.

 

TOP STORIES (2:10)

  • Designers behind Darkest Dungeon form new publishing company Fabled Games
  • Solo deck deconstruction game Aleph Null coming from Capstone
  • Looney Labs releases solo rules for Fluxx titles
  • Fantasy Flight offers The Council Keleres faction card for Twilight Inscription
  • Isle of Skye Big Box coming from Lookout Games
  • Vampire: The Masquerade – Milan Uprising is next title for Teburu system
  • Age of Rome designers announce next title coming from Teetotum Game Studios, Restart
  • The Secret of the Pharaoh expansion coming for Mystery House

SPECIAL REPORT (9:20)

  • Ice Cool is released on Roblox. An interview with an 11 year old.

 

CROWDFUNDING (13:00)

 

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (19:25)

  • Holiday Contest and Thank Yous
  • https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=713479823551533&set=a.565688314997352

 

 

 

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Category:Weekly News from the DTNow Team -- posted at: 3:30am EDT

This is Dice Tower Now for the week of December 20, 2022. This week, Board Game Tables says all the play belongs to us, it’s end of the Trac for Trics, Portland is the new home for Haggis, and CMoN expands into the Multiverse.

 

TOP STORIES (2:20)

  • US Edition of new cooperative Lord of the Rings game announced by KOSMOS
  • French boardgame news center Tric Trac closing its doors
  • BoardGameTables.com renaming itself to AllPlay
  • Gardeners coming from Sit Down! Games
  • Deities by Mandoo Games and Gary Kim
  • The Portland Game Collective to reprint trick taker Haggis
  • Minerva Tabletop Games releasing Crumbs!: The Sandwich Filler Game
  • Space Base Genesis expansion free to test via print and play
  • Woodcraft Roll and Write available by print and play
  • Dicebreaker reports on Oath expansion and Root followup
  • Marvel United: Multiverse teased by CMoN

 

CROWDFUNDING (13:15)

 

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (21:45)

  • Once Upon a Line

 

HOTNESS (25:05)

  1. Wonderland's War
  2. Splendor: Duel
  3. Endless Winter: Paleoamericans
  4. Wayfarers of the South Tigris
  5. Flamecraft
  6. Ark Nova
  7. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim – The Adventure Game
  8. Aeon Trespass: Odyssey
  9. Frosthaven
  10. Heat: Pedal to the Metal

 

 

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Category:Weekly News from the DTNow Team -- posted at: 3:30am EDT

This is Dice Tower Now for the week of December 13, 2022. This week, Kosmos works on an Inside Job, there’s a sale of Mythic proportions, and we teach AI to take over the world.

 

TOP STORIES (2:05)

  • CMoN and Monolith aquire properties from Mythic Games
  • The Inside Job from KOSMOS
  • Quilts and Cats of Calico on Steam
  • Iki: Akebono expansion by Koota Yamada
  • Descent: Legends of the Dark part 2 teased by Fantasy Flight
  • Ares releases Fighters of the Pacific to retail
  • Science reports CICERO AI from Meta playing Diplomacy
  • The Hunt from designers Matthias Cramer and Engin Kunter
  • Fish and Katz from Heidelbar

 

CROWDFUNDING (10:05)

 

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (18:35)

  • PAX, Flamecraft, Empire's End, and Oros

 

NEW RELEASES (20:35)

  • Dice Hunters of Therion by Amiga Spiel and Richard Garfield
  • King of Monster Island by publisher IELLO and, once again, Richard Garfield
  • Elder Scrolls V Skyrim the Adventure Game designed by Javier Angeriz-Caburrasi, Juan Echenique, Stefano Guerriero, and Rob Harris, published by Modiphius Entertainment
  • Orichalcum by Bruno Cathala and Johannes Goupy, published by Pandasaurus
  • Saboteur: The Dark Cave by Frederic Moyersoen and Amigo Spiel
  • Boop by Smirk & Laughter Games and Scott Brady
  • My Lil’ Everdell by Starling Games, designed by James A. and Clarissa A. Wilson
  • The Wolves by Ashwin Kamath and Clarence Simpson, published by Pandasaurus
  • Warp’s Edge Anomaly Expansion by Scott Almes and Renegade Games
  • Wingspan Asia expansion by Stonemaier Games and Elizabeth Hargrave

 

 

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Category:Weekly News from the DTNow Team -- posted at: 3:30am EDT

This is Dice Tower Now for the week of December 6, 2022. This week, Corey’s slacking off in the city of Brotherly Love, the red planet meets the silver screen, I’m in charge and nobody can stop me, MPC got their greasy fingers all over your cards, and we’re Haven a good time, Gloomhaven a good time!

 

TOP STORIES (1:13)

  • Terraforming Mars getting screen adaptation
  • Gloomhaven RPG
  • My Lil' Everdell
  • Deep Dive and Defenders of the Wild
  • Across America Fluxx
  • Savernake Forest
  • Fried chicken scented playing cards

 

CROWDFUNDING (8:18)

 

SPONSOR SHOUTOUT (12:09)

  • Y'know, Chronicles of Crime is a pretty good game

 

HOTNESS (13:14)

  • 5 - Undaunted: Stalingrad
  • 4 - Heat: Pedal to the Metal
  • 3 - Pax Hispanica
  • 2 - Aeon Trespass: Odyssey
  • 1 - My Lil' Everdell

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of November 29, 2022. This week, Buttonshy explores the legacy of 18 cards, a haunted mist descends over Carcassonne, and Rio Grande reaches Terminal Velocity.

 

TOP STORIES (2:15)

  • WildTails: a Pirate Legacy from Button Shy Games
  • Planepita from publisher SzpiLAB with designers Eisuke Fujinawa and Kazunori Hori
  • Mists over Carcassonne coming from Z-Man Games
  • Trivial Pursuit Dungeons and Dragons Ultimate Edition
  • Jump Drive expansion Terminal Velocity announced
  • Saigon 75 coming from Ares
  • 25th Century Games has announced the card game Gasha
  • Publisher Grand Gamers Guild announces Holiday Hijinks #6 The Groundhog Gambit

 

CROWDFUNDING (9:25)

 

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (18:30)

  • Oros

 

THE HOTNESS (21:05)

  1. Flamecraft
  2. Elden Ring: The Board Game
  3. Dune: Imperium
  4. Weather Machine
  5. Pest
  6. Frosthaven
  7. Ark Nova
  8. Endless Winter: Paleoamericans
  9. Heat: Pedal to the Metal
  10. Undaunted: Stalingrad

 

 

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Category:Weekly News from the DTNow Team -- posted at: 3:30am EDT

This is Dice Tower Now for the week of November 22, 2022. This week, Star Wars builds and Shatters, CMoN describes some Stranger Things, we Tether Broccoli together with cards, and what better gift for Weird Giraffes than Tulips?

 

TOP STORIES (2:55)

  • Star Wars Shatterpoint announced by Atomic Mass Games
  • KennerSpiel winner Living Forest gets expansion
  • Hasbro fails to crowdfund HeroScape
  • CMoN details Rob Daviau cooperative title Stranger Things Upside Down
  • Tether by Mark McGee and publisher How to Steam Broccoli
  • World Exchangers and World Splitters by Emperor S4
  • Weird Giraffe Games announces Gift of Tulips
  • Lost Ruins of Arnak second expansion
  • Lots of Hachette Announcements
  • Qawale from Gigamic
  • Vaalbara and Vivarium from Studio H
  • Tribes of the Wind from La Boîte de Jeu
  • Rauha from GRRRE
  • Daryl Andrews wins Game Innovator of the Year at TAGIES

 

CROWDFUNDING (16:10)

 

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (25:10)

  • Nimalia

 

NEW RELEASES (27:50)

  • Spots by Alex Hague, Jon Perry, and Justin Vickers, published by CMYK
  • Brazil Imperial by Portal Games and Ze Mendes
  • Lacrimosa by Gerard Ascensi and Ferran Renalias, published by Devir
  • Topic_ by designer Luffy and Sit Down! Games
  • Circadians: Chaos Order by S J Macdonald and Zach Smith, published by Renegade Games
  • Endless Winter: Paleoamericans by Stan Kordonskiy published by Fantasia Games
  • Ragnarocks, designed by Gord!, published by Grey Fox
  • Splendor Duel by Marc Andre and Bruno Cathala, published by Asmodee
  • Village Rails by Matthew Dunstan and Osprey Games
  • Bargain Basement Bathysphere by Scott Slomiany and WizKids

 

 

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Category:Weekly News from the DTNow Team -- posted at: 3:30am EDT

This is Dice Tower Now for the week of November 15, 2022. This week, there’s just too much Magic, ironically Embracer’s Z-Man embraces Tragedy, Libellud finds kids a real mystery, and the news is all CATAN all the time.

 

TOP STORIES (2:05)

  • Hasbro stock suffers
  • Tragedy Looper New Tragedies from Z-Man
  • Triggs by Karin Hetling and Nürnberger-Spielkarten-Verlag (NSV)
  • Mysterium Kids announced by llibelud
  • Time of Empires from Pearl Games
  • Bruno Cathala's Oh My Brain coming to English from 25th Century Games
  • Siliconvania coming from WizKids
  • Cubosaurs coming from Catch Up Games
  • Lots of CATAN news

 

CROWDFUNDING (10:55)

 

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (20:10)

  • My Shelfie

 

THE HOTNESS (22:20)

  1. Dune Imperium
  2. Tiletum
  3. Weather Machine
  4. FlameCraft
  5. Oathsworn: Into the Deepwood
  6. Ark Nova
  7. Heat: Pedal to the Metal
  8. Endless Winter: Paleoamericans
  9. Unconscious Mind
  10. Frosthaven

 

 

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