This is Dice Tower Now for the week of November 28, 2023. This week, Ravensburger gets a Disney Denial of Service, John Clair is a Mistborn, there's a very special holiday murder, and Love Letter gets historical accuracy from Netflix.

 

TOP STORIES (2:10)

• Hasbro Announces winners of Women Innovators of Play Challenge
• Ravensburger hit with DDoS for Rise of the Floodborn launch
• Sanderson’s Mistborn books turning into a deckbuilding game from Brotherwise Games
• Sonic Roll coming from publisher Kess
• Final Girl holiday expansion with Krampus
• Algae Inc from Game Brewer
• Bridgerton Love Letter version announced
• Bark Avenue by Good Games Publishing

 

CROWDFUNDING (14:20)

• DCeased
• Kelp
• Ahoy: New Horizons
• Food Chain Magnate Special Edition
• Firefighters on Duty
• Wasabi: A Game of Raw Skill

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (26:10)

• PAX Unplugged

 

THE HOTNESS (27:35)

1. Voidfall
2. Dune: Imperium
3. Dune: Imperium - Uprising
4. Heat: Pedal to the Metal
5. Ark Nova
6. The White Castle
7. Apiary
8. Nemesis: Retaliation
9. Food Chain Magnate
10. Last Light

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of November 21, 2023. This week, there’s trouble in forbidden universities, Martin Wallace is truly powered by steam, theOP proves those lawn gnomes are hollow, and the trick is sumo.

 

TOP STORIES (2:00)

• University Games and Forbidden Games sue each other for breach of contract
• Hex & Co to become first Unionized Board Game Cafe
• Steam Power by Martin Wallace
• Azul World Tournament by Plan B and Board Game Arena
• Sumo Trick Taking Game
• Bricolage Heads from Ramble Odd Potato
• Mavka: Between Two Worlds by Ukrainian publisher Rozum
• Lockdown coming to retail from Asmodee
• Gnome Hollow being brought to retail by The OP
• The Crew gets a Swiss Family Robinson re-theme
• Puppy Pile from Thing12 Games

 

CROWDFUNDING (18:40)

• Perseverance Chapter 3&4
• Calimala 2nd Edition
• Saw: The Jigsaw Trials
• Wild Duo
• Gates of Niflheim

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (27:40)

• Nestlings

 

THE HOTNESS (30:15)

1. Food Chain Magnate
2. Nucleum
3. Dune: Imperium
4. Heat: Pedal to the Metal
5. Dune: Imperium – Uprising
6. Ark Nova
7. Apiary
8. 20 Strong
9. The White Castle
10. Food Chain Magnate: Special Edition

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of November 14, 2023. This week, there's an Elf Creek on the Shelf Creek, Kratos says “CMoN”, Beadle and Grimm goes chaotic, and Renegade hits the books.

 

TOP STORIES (2:40)

• Tabletop Board Game Designer’s Association formed
• God of War board game coming from CMoN
• Matthew Lillard’s Beadle & Grim to release Ring of Chaos
• Penny Dreadfuls of Victorian London: Sensational Tales of Terror coming from Giochi
• Elf Creek Games publishing new version of Santa's Workshop
• City of the Living from Trick or Treat Studios
• Ex Libris Revised Edition plus expansion from Renegade Games
• Fortify from Zenwood Games
• West Story: A Town Building Game by designer Piotr Dachtera
• Flying Gang by designer Dirk Blech

 

CROWDFUNDING (16:20)

• The Gilded Realms
• The Morrison Game Factory
• Dragons Down
• Dracula's Curse
• Charcuterie
• The Old King's Crown

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (26:55)

• Tranquility

 

THE HOTNESS (29:15)

1. Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West
2. Heat: Pedal to the Metal
3. Calimala
4. Apiary
5. Ark Nova
6. Dune: Imperium – Uprising
7. The White Castle
8. Voidfall
9. 20 Strong
10. Nucleum

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of November 7, 2023. This week, Othello - a minute to learn 52 years to master, every eye has a silver lining, AllPlay moves into a High Rise for ferrets, and Devir gets sand in their Kemushi.

 

TOP STORIES (2:20)

• Othello has been solved by AI
• Diablo board game and RPG coming from Glass Cannon Unplugged
• Bezier Games announces 5th Silver title, Silver: Eye
• Dice Realms Trades Expansion from Tom Lehmann and Rio Grande
• New Games from Oink - DroPolter and Rafter Five
• AllPlay to fulfill High Rise KS and sell select Formal Ferret titles
• Dori Dino by Pegasus Spiele
• Hope: Chronicles of Osmae by screenwriter Fabien Suarez and game designer Christophe Janin
• Lindyhop by new publisher Flat Cap Games
• Sand by Devir
• Cities by Phil Walker-Harding
• Seeker Chronicles
• Operation Barclay by Maurice Suckling
• The Last Lighthouse from Button Shy Games and Scott Almes
• Bunny Boom from Guime and Ruse Games

 

CROWDFUNDING (22:50)

• Molly House
• Takenoko Oyako
• Spirit Fire
• Through the Desert, A Message From the Stars, Switchbacks
• Critter Kitchen
• DreamEscape

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (35:45)

• Flamecraft new minis

 

THE HOTNESS (38:10)

1. Dune: Imperium – Uprising
2. The Old King’s Crown
3. Voidfall
4. Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West
5. Heat: Pedal to the Metal
6. Apiary
7. Ark Nova
8. The White Castle
9. Nucleum
10. Tiny Epic Cthulhu

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of October 31, 2023. This week, we experience the marvel of magic, Richard Garfield explores his monstrous origins, Iello flips for the circus, and Asmodee gives the generations a good smack.

 

TOP STORIES (2:05)

• Magic the Gathering and Marvel team up
• CMoN announces The Dead Keep
• Skybound’s Garima Sharma elected to GAMA Board of Directors
• Toko Island wins Children’s Game of the Year in Spain
• King of Tokyo: Origins
• Flip Circus coming from IELLO
• #Inconversible: Magnificent Yomi from Underdog Games
• Dutch InterCity by Rio Grande Games
• Renegade to reprint Axis & Allies: Guadalcanal
• Generational trivia game Gensmak from Asmodee
• Machines to the Sky by The Moongrel
• Jakarta Traffic by designer Simon Schmieder

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (14:50)

• Scott Morris responds

 

CROWDFUNDING (17:30)

• Ezra and Nehemia
• Cascadero and Cascadito
• Marvel Dice Throne X-Men
• The Witcher: Paths of Destiny

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of October 24, 2023. This week, Avalon Hill finds the spirit of Christmas, Elzra hits the battlefields, University does the time warp again, Devir Rocks Hard with a runaway, and Cora yells SPOON!

 

TOP STORIES (2:50)

• Annabelle and the Sorcerer’s Spoon, A Children’s book in the Coraquest World
• Betrayal at House on the Hill getting a Yuletide expansion
• Dexterity title Battlefields from Elzra
• Wizards of the Coast to consolidate Magic: The Gathering boosters
• Magic the Gathering - Fallout Set
• Magical Athlete Reprint coming from CMYK
• Rocky Horror Picture Show Boardgame from University Games
• RoboRally Master Builder Expansion
• Funko releasing 6 I.P. based childrens games
• Rock Hard: 1977 from Jackie Fox
• Photo Tour: North America by Timashov Publishing
• 2 Player title Lost Lights from Daniel Board Game Circus
• Barton in Bloom by Dan Bate
• Cosca: Take Over the Mafia

 

CROWDFUNDING (22:00)

• Hello Kitty: A Day at the Park
• Keyforge: Grim Reminders
• Obsession: New Characters and Coins expansion
• Taiki Shinzawa's Charms and Inflation
• Davy Jones Locker: Curse of the Ghost Ships
• The Shivers Triple Terror Expansion

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (33:30)

• The luck-duck, run-amok, dice-chuck con

 

THE HOTNESS (35:55)

1. Dune: Imperium – Uprising
2. Obsession
3. Ark Nova
4. Heat: Pedal to the Metal
5. Voidfall
6. Molly House
7. Nucleum
8. Sky Team
9. Zoo Vadis
10. The White Castle

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of October 17, 2023. This week, top prizes go to the unknown planet, 7 Wonders earns a medal, Tom Lehmann admits winter is coming, and an epic designer makes fishy preserves.

 

TOP STORIES (1:55)

• Essen Spiel reports numbers as biggest ever
• Planet Unknown wins Deutscher Spiele Preis
• Dune: Imperium Uprising invitational tournament
• Winter Court by Tom Lehmann
• 7 Wonders: Architects Medals expansion
• Koinobori by designer David Bernal and Perro Loko Games
• Salton Sea from designer David Bernal, published by Devir
• Evil Corp by designer Jérémy Ducret and La Boîte de Jeu
• Alpenglow by designer Sean Wittmeyer and Waterworks Games
• Epochs: Course of Culture coming from publisher ICE Makes
• Coral successor Islet from 2Tomatoes Games and designer Thomas Dagenais-Lespérance
• Conservas by Scott Almes and Salt and Pepper Games
• Manifest Destiny by designers Jay Cormier and Sen-Foong Lim
• Cryptid Cafe: Chefs Apprentice from Devon Mettlin and Squatchy Games

 

CROWDFUNDING (14:25)

• Kavango
• The Night Cage Shrieking Hollow
• Aberration
• Forage
• Cretaceous Rails
• Diatoms

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (24:10)

• The Lucky Duck booth at Essen

 

THE HOTNESS (26:30)

1. Moon
2. Heat: Pedal to the Metal
3. Dune: Imperium – Uprising
4. Kutná Hora: The City of Silver
5. Voidfall
6. Evacuation
7. Nucleum
8. Ancient Knowledge
9. The White Castle
10. Space Marine: The Board Game

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of October 10, 2023. This week, Camilla and Corey barely get home from Germany, Barry helps slap together an episode, and this is what a podcast sounds like at 3am.

 

TOP STORIES (1:50)

• Spiel uses AI in ads and Backerkit bans AI from projects
• And Mattel announces Pictionary vs AI
• Undaunted 2200 Callisto from Osprey Games
• Aqua by Dan and Tristan Halstad with Sidekick Games
• Kronologic from Yoann Levet and Fabien Gridel and Supermeeple
• New edition of Medici from Steamforged Games
• Renegade to bring Mandoo’s Vale of Eternity to North America
• Portal Games co-publishing AI: Space Puzzle

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (10:25)

• Go Lucky Duck

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of October 3, 2023. This week, Capstone gets more Cranial, the pyramids sparkle in silver and gold, Wingspan fans rebel, and there’s just a bit less cool stuff in the world.

 

TOP STORIES (3:19)

• CoolStuff Inc to phase out board games and RPGs
• Rebel Moon RPG sues Netflix
• Arcane Wonders Contest
• Capstone Games to print Cranio Creations titles
• Flat River Group to release Lunar Rush
• Mayfair increases their catalog…kind of
• Wingspan Fan Art Pack
• Mayan Curse
• DetoNations
• Portals by CrowD
• The Big Five & Obelisk
• Illuminatus
• Sneferu
• Silver and Gold Pyramids
• Sixto

 

CROWDFUNDING (23:26)

• Lands of the Mesozoic
• Mycelia
• Creature Caravan
• Millennia
• Dragon Eclipse
• Fromage

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (34:13)

• Visit Lucky Duck at Essen!

 

THE HOTNESS (35:22)

• 10: Ark Nova
• 9: Hegemony
• 8: Kutna Hora
• 7: Expeditions
• 6: Yokohama
• 5: SpellBook
• 4: The White Castle
• 3: Voidfall
• 2: Deep Rock Galactic
• 1: Heat: Pedal to the Metal

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of September 26, 2023. This week, there's a space duel above catan, Van Ryder has another final finale, Yokohama fires on all synapses, and every Rose has its sworn.

 

TOP STORIES (2:40)

• Terraforming Mars becomes hotbed of AI artwork
• The Rose Gauntlet Foundation
• Pegasus Publishing gets rights to Paizo and Steve Jackson merchandise
• Daily Magic Games to longer be a traditional retailer, but instead a boutique publisher
• 2001's Starship Catan reimagined as Catan Starfarers Duel
• Final Girl Season 1 Franchise Box
• Similo gets two new titles including Lord of the Rings
• Evergreen Expansion: Pines and Cacti
• Yokohama 2nd Edition announced by Synapses Games
• CMoN teases Zombicide DCeased
• Haunted Lands coming from Ludus Magnus Studios
• Marajoara from Brazilian game design group Glyptodon Game Studio

 

CROWDFUNDING (18:40)

• Hoplomachus Pandora Expansions
• World of Midgard
• The Isofarian Guard
• Mythic Mischief vol II
• Unreliable Wizard
• Haggis and Tricktakers

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (29:15)

• Fast Food Magnate Deluxe Edition

 

THE HOTNESS (31:45)

1. Kutná Hora: The City of Silver
2. Nucleum
3. The Castles of Burgundy: Special Edition
4. The Vale of Eternity
5. Age of Innovation
6. The White Castle
7. Ark Nova
8. Food Chain Magnate
9. Heat: Pedal to the Metal
10. Printing Press
11. Evacuation
12. Lords of Ragnarok
13. Voidfall
14. Yokohama
15. Dragon Eclipse

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of September 19, 2023. This week, there's no money in yellow boxes, Cowboys gain Perspective, Knizia constructs a coordinated couplet, IV manages more mischief, and Wallace Wallace Wallace.

 

TOP STORIES (2:39)

• HABA files for bankruptcy
• Designers of Heat form Sidekick Games
• Cthulhu Dark Providence announced by CMoN at Expo
• Perspectives: Orange Box from Space Cowboys
• Newsboys from Saashi and Saashi
• New Edition of Kraftwagen
• Cascadito and Cascadero from Reiner Knizia
• Wild Duo
• Mythic Mischief vol II
• Chaos Cove from Martin Wallace
• Steam Power from Martin Wallace
• Inferno
• Karvi
• FFG Posts 9-24 player rules to Twilight Inscription
• 5 Towers
• The Great Harbor
• Byline

 

CROWDFUNDING (22:46)

• More Terraforming Mars
• Barrage New Lands
• Colossal Cat in the Box
• Flapjacks, Sasquatches, Rockets & More
• Potions of Azerland

 

SPECIAL REPORT (32:43)

• Board Game Designer Horror Story: Part 4

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (41:44)

• New Flamecraft Minis!

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of September 12, 2023. This week, the Spice Road gets real big, Stonemaier is infested with bees, the Dutch produce a very odd shop, space heroes are waiting for Godot, and … Tequila!

 

TOP STORIES (2:27)

• Dig Your Way Out: Dig In Expansion
• Century Spice Road Big Box
• Apiary by Stonemaier Games
• Ravensburger plans to combat Disney Lorcana stock shortage
• DreamEscape
• Galactic Heroes: My First Social Deduction Game
• Tequila
• Odd Shop
• Burn the Witch
• Cuvée
• Barrio
• Endangered Flash Kickstarter

 

CROWDFUNDING (18:39)

• Innovation Ultimate
• Harvest
• Worms
• Peacemakers: Horrors of War

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (26:22)

• Crime Zoom: 55 card deduction games

 

SPECIAL REPORT (28:48)

• Board Game Designer Horror Story: Part 3

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of September 5, 2023. This week, PHALANX feels wistful and civil, Pegasus draws out bonus crime, Oaken experts declare war on Bones, and Sit Down declares Open Season on Adventurers.

 

TOP STORIES (2:25)

• Boundless Stride: Into the Denlands by Incredible Dream Studios
• Micro Macro: Crime City - Showdown and Micro Macro Bonus Box
• The Night Cage: Shrieking Hollow Expansion
• Ultimate Voyage from Little Monks
• Bone Wars by designer Wim Goossens
• Junk Drawer from 25th Century Games
• Secret Identity and Times Up! Family Edition from R&R Games
• A Very Civil Whist being published by PHALANX
• Statecraft by Do It Games
• Open Season from Sit Down Games
• Marvel Dice Throne: XMen and Marvel Dice Throne: Missions teased by Roxley and TheOP

 

CROWDFUNDING (16:40)

• Spectral & A Trailblazers Expansion
• Joyride: Survival of the Fastest
• Fire and Ice the Miniatures Game
• Guilty Gear Strive the Boardgame
• To the Moon: Bestest Memories
• Farms Race

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (27:00)

• Corey and Camilla's Top 3 Lucky Duck Games

 

SPECIAL REPORT (31:00)

• Best of Dice Tower Now - A Board Game Horror Story part 2

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of August 29, 2023. This week, it’s baby viking kitten time, we fall under the influence of towering patricians once again, Wolfgang Warsch makes a new version of the Same Game, and Reiner Knizia phones it in at the office.

 

TOP STORIES (2:00)

• Hasbro Women Innovators of Play Virtual Global Event
• Pax Viking Junior by Ion Game Design
• Tanz der Hornochsen reprinted as Dance of the Ibexes
• Patrician Towers of Influence coming to KS
• Dr. Frankenstein from Michael Schacht
• Pyramidice by Ares Games
• Schmidt Spiele releases “For One” solo game line, including Kniffel by Reiner Knizia
• The Element by Vatcharis Thanomsub, published by DNR Boardgame
• The Same Game from Wolfgang Warsch
• At the Office by Reiner Knizia
• Exoworld Survivor from Starling Games
• 1902 Méliès from Eloi Pujadas and Ferran Renalias
• Cookie Champion by Stefan and Louis Malz
• River of Gold coming from Office Dog

 

CROWDFUNDING (18:00)

• Cyber City and Chick Maze
• Perch
• Snow Planner
• Algomancy
• Dungeon Kart

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (26:00)

• Destinies Witchwood

 

SPECIAL REPORT (28:00)

• Best of Dice Tower Now - A Board Game Horror Story part 1

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of August 22, 2023. This week, trading card games are forever altered, there is a French Diluvium of Nuts, Loosey Goosey moves from butts to frogs, and DV screams Bonsai.

 

TOP STORIES (2:00)

• Altered TCG from Régis Bonnessée and Equinox
• House of 1000 Corpses Board Game from Rob Zombie and Trick or Treat Studios
• Publisher Nuts! announces Diluvium, designed by Antoni Guillen
• Robo Alarm by publisher Pegasus Spiele
• Grand Austria Hotel announces a roll and write Grand Austria Hotel: Hochsaison
• Lunar Laser Frogs by designer Andreas Preiss and publisher Loosey Goosey Games
• Announcing Tucana Builders, the spiritual sequel to Trails of Tucana, by Eilif Svenson and Kristian Amundsen Østby
• Havalandi coming from Dr. Reiner Knizia
• Spielworxx announces the first title in the 'Italian Trilogy', Dolcissima Vita
• Patterns: A Mandala Game by Trevor Benjamin and Brett J. Gilbert
• DV Games’ Bonsai by designers Rosaria Battiato, Massimo Borzi, and Martino Chiacchiera

 

CROWDFUNDING (14:50)

• Vampire the Masquerade Milan Uprising
• Marrakesh: Camels and Nomads expansion
• Ascendancy
• Bear Mountain Camping Adventure
• Mistwind
• Crumbs! The Sandwich Filler Game

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (25:20)

• Cosmoctopus, Kids Chronicles, and Senjutsu

 

NEW RELEASES (27:40)

• Cosmoctopus by Henry Audubon and Lucky Duck Games
• Chronicles of Avel: New Adventures by Przemek Wojtkowiak and Rebel Studios
• After Us by Florian Sirieix and Pandasaurus Games
• Number Drop by Florian Sirieix and Benoit Turpin, published by AEG
• Marvel Champions Next Evolution by Michael Boggs, Nate French, and Caleb Grace, published by Fantasy Flight Games
• Aurum by Shreesh Bhat and Pandasaurus Games
• Castles by the Sea by Jon Benjamin and Michael Xuereb, published by Brotherwise Games
• Scram! by Ted Alspach and Bezier Games
• Freelancers: A Crossroads Game by Donald Shults and Plaid Hat Games
• Fika by Kwibus Gamedesign and Board Game Circus
• Spots by Alex Hague, Jon Perry, and Justin Vickers, published by CMYK
• Next Station Tokyo by Matthew Dunstan and Blue Orange Games
• Mists Over Carcassonne by Klaus-Jürgen Wrede and Z-Man Games
• Shake That City by Mads Fløe and Kåre Torndahl Kjær, published by AEG

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of August 15, 2023. This week, friendly skeletons rise out of deep water, maracaibo is full of pirates, Twonky is a transformer, Orleans hosts plague at the cathedral, and Dire Wolf has an uprising.

 

TOP STORIES (1:40)

• Deep Water Games rebrands as Friendly Skeleton
• Webbed Sphere's new Mayfair acquires Mr B. Games
• Pirates of Maracaibo from Alexander Pfister
• Boonlake: Artifacts expansion from dlp Games
• Stand alone sequel title Dune: Imperium - Uprising coming from Dire Wolf
• Horrified Greek Monsters announced by Ravensburger
• Renegade Games bringing out Tranbsformers Roborally and GI Joe Axis and Allies
• Sea Salt and Paper - Extra Salt expansion
• The Cathedral of Orléans announced by dlp
• Orléans: the Plague expansion
• Colosseum and Colosseum: Ave Titus coming from Fantasia Games
• Humanity from Bombyx and designer Yoann Levet
• Evenfall announced by dlp

 

CROWDFUNDING (17:10)

• License to Grill
• War of the Three Sanchos
• Zombie Chickens Prepare for the Bok-Bok-Alypse
• Chatuchak
• Call of Duty: the Board Game

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (24:50)

• GenCon wrap up

 

THE HOTNESS (27:10)

1. Mistwind
2. Ark Nova
3. Great Western Trail: New Zealand
4. Horrified: Greek Monsters
5. Nucleum
6. Pirates of Maracaibo
7. Sky Team
8. Ascendancy
9. Disney Lorcana
10. Dune: Imperium – Uprising

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of August 8, 2023. This week, hashtag Linecana, colossal boxes for colossal cats, we’re above board about Above Board, and mah wife!

 

TOP STORIES

• Linecana
• GenCon Card Theft
• Above Board
• Colossal Cat in the Box

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of August 1, 2023. This week, Chinatown becomes a water park, why would anyone camp on bear mountain, we Unexpectedly overflow with Scoundrels, and a GenCon Summer is truly Spectacular.

 

TOP STORIES (1:30)

• Many Summer Spectacular Announcements
• War of the Ring expansion Kings of Middle Earth
• Helvetiq is releasing On the Road by Gabriele Bubola and Leo Colovini
• Repos announces Waterfall Park, a retheming of Chinatown
• Unrest coming from Pandasaurus
• Double Thieves from publisher Melobodo
• SweaterBear Games announces Bear Mountain Camping Adventure
• ThinkFun publishing Goats Day Out and Meet Mahjong
• Art Society by Mighty Boards and Mitch Wallace
• New Pathfinder board game Elemental Stones from Paizo
• Critical Role Season 3 adapted to a card game by Manny Vega
• 3000 Scoundrels Double or Nothing Expansion
• Libellud announces Dixit MNK expansion with Polish museum art
• Paper Dungeons Side Quest Expansion

 

CROWDFUNDING (24:40)

• Ding Dong
• Cyclades Legendary Edition
• Baron von Zom’s Dice of the Undead
• Wizards and Co

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (23:05)

• Lucky Duck at GenCon

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of July 25, 2023. This week, duels are romantik, we open the floodgates to name everything ever, Skybound is doubly invincible, and monkey poo smells like bananas.

 

TOP STORIES (2:05)

• Enoch Fryxelius reveals solo only expansion to Terraforming Mars
• Dorfromantik: the Duel
• Corvids from DVC Games
• Funforge announces cooperative tower defense title Runemasters
• Keymaster Games creating new version of Harvest
• Draw and Race title Turbo Kidz coming from Scorpion Masque
• EmperorS4 announcves Walking in Burano Roll and Write
• Realtime game Firefighters on Duty from designers of Project Elite
• Monkey See Monkey Poo
• Family title Expedition into the Word Kingdom from Asmodee
• Green Team Wins designer announces Everything Ever
• Two titles based on Invincible announced at Comicon
• Belgian Beers Race Dice coming from BYR Games
• Risk Strike released by Hasbro

 

CROWDFUNDING (19:15)

• Shards of Infinity Saga Collection
• Shadows of Brimstone Lost Tombs and The Hell Train
• Planet Unknown Supermoon
• Crisis 1914
• Serengeti Sanctuary
• Stonespine Architects

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (29:00)

• Flamecraft GenCon promo card

 

THE HOTNESS (30:40)

• Heat: Pedal to the Metal
• Challengers!
• Dune: Imperium
• The Castles of Burgundy: Special Edition
• Ark Nova
• The Witcher: Old World
• Expeditions
• Dorfromantik: The Board Game
• My Gold Mine
• Horror on the Orient Express: The Board Game

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of July 18, 2023. This week, children's games involve teeth and butts, Nature is the end to Evolution, in the 25th century we all ride sheep, and award shows are a challenge.

 

TOP STORIES (2:10)

• Keymaster Games lawsuit
• Spiel des Jahres winners announced
• GAMA Horizons Foundation Applications due July 31
• Exploding Kittens to do childrens games under Kitten Games
• English edition of Splito coming from 25th Century Games
• Eila and Something Shiny coming from North Star Games
• Nature, final game in Evolution series, from North Star Games
• Karma Games announces Clans of Caledonia expansion and flip & write title Penninsula
• Horror on the Orient Express board game announced by Chaosium
• Mutton Bustin’ by publisher 25th Century Games
• Savage Bowl Trick Taking Games from Ninja Star Games and Burekeke Games
• Making Board Games - The CGE Documentary docuseries on YouTube

 

CROWDFUNDING (17:10)

• Tanares Adventures
• Nestlings
• Ovation
• RPG Quest-a-Day desk calendar
• Hamlet by the Lake
• Mordred

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (26:40)

• Sunjutsu haiku series

 

NEW RELEASES (29:10)

• Rome in a Day by Evgeny Petrov and Alley Cat Games
• Oltree: Undead and Alive expansion by Antoine Bauza and John Grumph, published by Studio H
• Clever 4Ever by Wolfgang Warsch and Stronghold Games
• Marvel DAGGER by Dane Beltrami, published by Fantasy Flight Games
• Skoventyr by Morten Monrad Pedersen and inPatience
• Guns or Treasure by Bryce Brown and Castillo Games
• Dubious by Dave Neale and Arcane Wonders
• Happy Bee by Maxime Rambourg and Theo Riviere, published by Helvetiq

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of July 11, 2023. This week, Cephalofair finally does something about 40 pound games, the fertile crescent may be returning, Everdell goes from superfluous tree to superfluous lighthouse, and say aah for doctor rat.

 

TOP STORIES (2:10)

• Everdell Farshore coming from Tabletop Tycoon
• Doctor Rat from Challengers! Designer Johannes Krenner and Blue Orange Games
• Schmidt Spiele is bringing us to Kuhfstein
• Mandoo Games announces The Vale of Eternity
• Jokkmokk coming from WizKids
• Tigris and Euphrates might have a mysterious reprint at Essen
• Rummy title Romi Rami coming from Randolph and Hachette
• Japanese card game Nana coming to West as Trio from Cocktail Games
• Explorers of Navoria from designer/illustrator Meng Chunlin and Dranda Games
• Reiner Knizia title Sunrise Lane coming from Horrible Guild
• Exploding Kittens releasing new party game

 

CROWDFUNDING (15:20)

• Phantom Epoch
• Eldfall Chronicles: Northern Wind
• Burning Banners: Rage of the Witch Queen
• Mystery of the Abbey
• Gloomhaven: Grand Festival
• Coloma New Prospects

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (26:00)

• Flamecraft available on Lucky Duck web store

 

THE HOTNESS (27:55)

1. Expeditions
2. Heat: Pedal to the Metal
3. Dune: Imperium
4. Mr. President: The American Presidency, 2001-2020
5. The Witcher: Old World
6. 頼りない魔法使い (Unreliable Wizard)
7. The White Castle
8. Gloomholdin'
9. Everdell Farshore
10. Gloomhaven: Buttons & Bugs

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of July 4, 2023. This week, all hail Essy the Ocicat, that which was lost was found, Arcane opens a world of wonders, and Board and Dice goes on a side quest.

 

TOP STORIES (2:30)

• Essen Spiel gets a mascot
• Origins 2023 attendance numbers released
• The One Ring card for Magic the Gathering has been found
• CMoN announces Mordred
• CDSK Trivia game coming from Hachette and Randolph
• Mech A Dream from Blue Orange Games
• World Wonders by Zé Mendes releasing at GenCon from Arcane Wonders
• Unlocked Kids titles based on Secret of Kell movies
• Sidequest Escape Room Games based on Nemesis and 7th Sea coming from Board & Dice
• Skoventyr published by InPatience and Asmodee
• Mixlore announces Bridgerton - The High Society Game
• Avatar - Crossroads of Destiny announced by Funko and Prospero Hall
• Hund by Klaus Geis and BoardM Factory
• Noobs in Space coming from Challengers! designers Johannes Krenner and Markus Slawitscheck

 

CROWDFUNDING (19:50)

• Firefly 10th Anniversary Edition
• Faeries and Magical Creatures
• Inventions: Evolution of Ideas
• Crossbows and Catapults
• The Glade
• Shipwrights of the North Sea Redux

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (30:05)

• Nestlings from Tangerine Games

 

THE HOTNESS (32:10)

1. World Wonders
2. Mystery of the Abbey
3. Dune: Imperium
4. Earth
5. Ark Nova
6. Heat: Pedal to the Metal
7. The Witcher: Old World
8. Cyclades: Legendary Edition
9. Mr. President: The American Presidency, 2001-2020
10. Barcelona

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of June 27, 2023. This week, wonder-ful designers play with punk, old webs spotlight the Mayfair, Road To Infamy Games cuts the cheese, and Cool Mini is a rather silly place.

 

TOP STORIES (1:45)

• Play Punk Studio founded by Antoine Bauza and Thomas Provoost
• Mayfair Games returns as Webbed Sphere
• Diana Jones Awards finalists announced
• Monty Python expansion for Zombicide coming from CMoN
• Forest Shuffle from Lookout Games
• Sushi Go - Spin Some for Dim Sum
• Gloomhaven digital is coming to consoles in September
• Exploding Kittens rethemes Dobble/Spot It as Anarchy Pancake
• Archeologic from Ludonaute and Yoann Levet
• Doggerland from Laurent Guilbert and Jérôme Daniel Snowrchoff
• Knarr from Bombyx and designer Thomas Dupont
• Fromager coming from Road To Infamy Games with designers Matthew O'Malley and Ben Rosset
• KTBG revisiting Wasabi

 

CROWDFUNDING (16:05)

• Loam
• Castellans of Valeria
• Adventure Party
• Groo the Board Game
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R. the Board Game
• Witchcraft

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (24:45)

• Scott Morris monologues

 

THE HOTNESS (26:25)

1. Archeos Society
2. Dune: Imperium
3. Mystery of the Abbey
4. Scarface 1920
5. Ark Nova
6. Heat: Pedal to the Metal
7. The Castles of Burgundy: Special Edition
8. The Witcher: Old World
9. Pyramido
10. Mr. President: The American Presidency, 2001-2020

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of June 20, 2023. This week, some call PWH a Space Cowboy, it’s spelled M-O-N-O-P-O-L-Y, trick or treaters get DWARVEN GOLD, and Spain has one Paella to rule them all. And in the darkness bind them.

 

TOP STORIES (2:45)

• Spanish game store Gremio de Dragones offering $2M and a Paella for the One Ring MtG card
• Spellbook coming from Phil Walker Harding and Space Cowboys
• Quartermaster Direct bringing Last Resort by Oliver Brooks
• Alpaca from Christian Giove and Gate on Games
• Treasure of the Dwarves by Bruno Faidutti and Trick or Treat Studios
• Pythagoras Games announces Gods of Rome and Lata
• Ravensburger update on fixes coming to Puerto Rico 1897
• Monopoly Scrabble. Yes, Monopoly Scrabble.
• Clue Conspiracy

 

CROWDFUNDING (13:10)

• Conquest Priness: Fashion is Power
• Sanssouci
• Kartini From Light to Darkness and Third Crusade
• Tiny Epic Boxes
• Stroganov Turukhan
• Monsters of Loch Lomond

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (23:30)

• Frosthaven Companion App

 

NEW RELEASES (25:30)

• Taelmoor by Eli Delventhal, Willem Delventhal and Zac Delventhal, self published by Delve Brothers
• Archaeos Society by Paolo Mori, published by Asmodee
• Hair of the Dog by Alexander Jerabek and Cherry Picked Games
• Seas of Strife by Mark Major and Rio Grande
• GAP by Rico Besteher and Frank Noack, published by Arcane Wonders
• Tiny Epic Vikings by Scott Almes and Gamelyn Games
• Books of Time by Filip Glowacz, published by Board and Dice
• Dorfromantik by Michael Palm and Lukas Zach, published by Pegasus Spiele
• Vaalbara by Olivier Cipiere and Studio H
• Stranger Things: Upside Down by Rob Daviau and Cool Mini or Not
• Inside Job by Tanner Simmons, published by Thames and Kosmos
• My City: Roll and Build by Reiner Knizia, published by Thames and Kosmos
• Tribes of the Wind by Joachim Thôme and Hachette

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of June 13, 2023. This week, Hasbro is a true Renegade, Ravensburger gets the Upper Hand, Mantic reanimates vermicelli, and the Kaedama team smurfily smurfs the smurfing smurf.

 

TOP STORIES (2:00)

• Upper Deck suing designer Ryan Miller and publisher Ravensburger over Lorcana
• Renegade publishing Heroscape
• Maestro Media to work on a cooperative Smurfs Game in 2024 with team Kaedama
• Beacon Patrol by designer/illustrator Torben Ratzlaff and publisher Pandasaurus Games
• Terraria Boad Game coming from publisher Paper Fort Games
• Finish Line from Queen Games
• Queen Games re-implementing DungeonQuest for Dragonquest: Fantasy Dice Game
• Lacuna by Mark Gerrits and CMYK
• Comet coming from Peter Prinz and Funtails
• Coney by Giampaolo Razzino and Little Rocket Games
• String Railway by Hisashi Hayashi coming to crowdfunding
• Worms Board Game coming from Team 17 and Mantic Games
• Lands of the Mesozoic coming from Ander Guinea and Worthington Publishing

 

CROWDFUNDING (18:45)

• Asteroid Dice
• Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood of Venice - Apocalypse
• The Last Spell
• AEG Expansion Extravaganza
• French Quarter
• Roll on the Range

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (29:00)

• Into the Godsgrave

 

THE HOTNESS (30:50)

1. Dune: Imperium
2. Sanssouci
3. Ark Nova
4. Gloomhaven: Second Edition
5. Earth
6. Ark Nova
7. Heat: Pedal to the Metal
8. Galactic Cruise
9. Beast
10. Inventions: Evolution of Ideas
11. The Witcher: Old World

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of June 6, 2023. This week, restoration arms themselves from my childhood, challengers challenge one more time, distillation gets luthier and luthier, and the gloom is back baby.

 

TOP STORIES (1:55)

• Gloomhaven second edition announced
• Zev Shlasinger leaves WizKids Games
• Steve Jackson Games sales up from past 2 years
• First info on Restoration Games’ Crossbows and Catapults
• More Ticket to Ride Legacy news
• Challengers 2 coming from 1 More Time Games and Z-Man
• Luthier from Paverson Games
• Djinn from H@ll Games and Benjamin Schwer coming Spiel 2023
• Hamlet: By the Lake expansion coming to crowdfunding in July
• Rats of Wistar by Simone Luciani and Danilo Sabia, published by Cranio Creations
• Demon Loop, first video game by designer Alexander Pfister

 

CROWDFUNDING (14:35)

• Age of Steam Deluxe Expansion Set IV
• Uncharted Stars
• El Burro: A La Granja Game
• Carson City Big Box
• Ruse: Instincts of the Den
• Into the Godsgrave

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (24:50)

• Hosting a Lucky Duck Game Night

 

THE HOTNESS (26:30)

1. Frosthaven
2. Gloomhaven
3. Dune: Imperium
4. Darwin's Journey
5. The Witcher: Old World
6. Ark Nova
7. Stranger Things: Upside Down
8. Earth
9. Aeon Trespass: Odyssey
10. Heat: Pedal to the Metal
11. Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West
12. Gloomhaven: Second Edition

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of May 30, 2023. This week, Asmodee goes by the numbers, CATAN continues where no one has gone before, we explore the legacy of TTR, and Lucky Duck crawls old school - on paper.

 

TOP STORIES (2:15)

• Golden Gate Gamemakers
• Asmodee publishes The Number by Hisashi Hayashi
• CATAN Starfarers New Encounters expansion
• Edison Award Winners announced
• Legacy Ticket to Ride teased by Days of Wonder
• CMoN to publish Emerson Matsuuchi's cancelled Metal Gear Solid title
• Tom Brinton's Paper Apps Dungeon being published by Lucky Duck
• Amritsar: The Golden Temple by David Heras Pino and Ludonova
• Neotopia coming from Arcane Wonders
• 17th Neuroshima Hex army announced - Merchants Guild
• New Oniverse title Cyberion coming from InPatience

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (14:00)

• Scott Morris Update and Nimalia

 

CROWDFUNDING (16:15)

• Wishland: Dreams from America
• 9th Circle
• Detective: Saints and Sinners
• Axe-A-Lot-L
• Escape: Family Box
• Thunder Rolls: The Garage Expansion
• Apex Legends the Board Game

 

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of May 23, 2023. This week, F F fondles flippers for Freaky Frogs, Red Raven rides a Creature Caravan, a Renegade bears Good Omens, and Indie Gloms on.

 

TOP STORIES (2:10)

• Spiel des Jahres nominees
• Stonespine Architects from Jordy Adan and Thunderworks Games
• Stonespine Architects by Friedemann Friese
• Creature Caravan from Ryan Laukat and Red Raven
• Spectral from Ryan Courtney and Bitewing Games
• Sirens:The Deep Sea by designer Florian Molzahn and publisher Forgotten Tales
• Focus from designers Antonin Boccara and Romaric Galonnier
• War of the Ring Card Game expansion Against the Shadow
• Glom from Indie Boards & Cards
• Sushi Boat by Japanime Games, Dario Massarenti, and Francesco Testini
• Good Omens: An Ineffable Game designed by Matt Hyra and published by Renegade Games Studios

 

CROWDFUNDING (12:45)

• Clank Legacy 2: Acquisitions Incorporated — Darkest Magic
• Botany: Flower Hunting in the Victorian Era
• Raising Robots
• Leviathan Wilds
• Dead Cells
• Monster Hunter World: Iceborne

 

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (22:40)

• Kiri-Ai by designer Kamibayashi

 

NEW RELEASES (24:50)

• Horizons of Spirit Island by R. Eric Reuss and Greater than Games
• Bamboo by German P. Millan and Devir
• Grand Austria Hotel: Let's Waltz Expansion by Virginio Gigli and Simone Luciani, published by Lookout Games
• Nimalia by William Lievin and Lucky Duck Games
• Tuned by Alessandro Cuneo and Thundergryph Games
• Around the World Fluxx from Andrew Looney and Looney Labs
• The One Hundred Torii: Diverging Paths by Eduardo Baraf and Scott Caputo, published by Pencil First Games
• 51st State Ultimate Edition by Ignacy Trzewiczek and Portal Games
• My Shelfie by Matthew Dunstan and Phil Walker-Harding, published by Lucky Duck

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of May 16, 2023. This week, Indie announces a true Prelude to a Prelude, Next Move says that's still their fish, Whales now make extreme pig noises, and Mindclash continues to Persevere.

 

TOP STORIES (2:15)

• Indie Board and Cards announces 6th Terraforming Mars expansion, Prelude 2
• Star Wars: Unlimited TCG coming from Fantasy Flight
• New edition of Hey That's My Fish coming from Next Move Games
• Coloma reprint and expansion coming to Gamefound
• House of Fado by Vital Lacerda and João Quintela Martins
• Faiyum Priviledges expansion announced by 2F Spiele
• Ticket to Ride: Berlin coming in August
• Old King’s Crown by designer/illustrator Pablo Clark
• Oink Games announces Whale to Look and Nine Tiles Extreme
• Perseverance Chapters 3 and 4 coming to Gamefound
• House of Cats from William Attia and Kristian Amundsen Østby
• Grimlord Games goes into insolvency
• Kavango by designers Matt Brown and Zara Reid, published by Mazaza Games
• Bruno Cathala's digital title Insert being printed by FunForge as Donuts

 

CROWDFUNDING (16:50)

• Pies, Mori, Lunar, and Bacon
• Astro Knights Eternity
• They Live: The Card Game
• The Hunters AD 1492
• Guards of Atlantis II
• Cysmic

 

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (26:30)

• Cosmoctopus

 

THE HOTNESS (28:10)

1. Ark Nova
2. 6: Siege – The Board Game
3. Frosthaven
4. Ark Nova: Marine Worlds
5. Applejack
6. Raising Robots
7. Earth
8. Star Wars: Unlimited
9. Heat: Pedal to the Metal
10. Terraforming Mars: Prelude 2

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of May 9, 2023. This week, Ravensburger expands a hive of Scum and Villainy, adorable merchant animals experience the Horrors of War, and Dire Wolf channels its best Artemus Gordon.

 

TOP STORIES (2:16)

• Star Wars™ Villainous: Scum and Villainy
• Scram - team based shedding game from Ted Alspach and Bezier
• Hello Kitty Game coming from Maestro Media
• Pacific Ocean
• Fika
• Peacemakers: Horrors of War
• Wild Tiled West
• Emerge
• Ascending Empires Zenith Edition
• Renature Valley Expanion from Capstone
• Small City Deluxe Edition
• CMON Expo Returns in 2023

 

CROWDFUNDING (13:25)

• Teotihuacan Deluxe Master Set
• To Glory
• Milkman
• Pioneer Rails
• Herdvana
• Endeavor: Deep Sea
• Chai Garam

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (23:26)

• Lucky Duck's first: Vikings Gone Wild

 

THE HOTNESS (25:33)

• Dune: Imperium
• Frosthaven
• Darwin's Journey
• The Isofarian Guard
• Ark Nova
• Heat: Pedal to the Metal
• Wishland
• Earth
• 6: Siege
• Ark Nova: Marine Worlds

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of May 2, 2023. This week, the smartypants smartypraise some smartyplays, AMIGO plants beans and gets flowers, Adam’s Apple says “that’s no moon…”, and Rebel ups the cuteness with kitty cats IN SPACE.

 

TOP STORIES (2:00)

• Mensa Select Award Winners announced
• Bohnanza rethemed to Dahlias with Beth Sobel artwork
• Holloween the Board Game from Emerson Matsuuchi
• Pitagoras by designer Reiner Knizia and publisher Egmont Polska
• Planet Unknown: Supermoon expansion announced
• Dance the Tango in Tanguero from Roberto Fabbroni
• Bark Manor House published by Pug and Duck Games
• MLEM Space Agency from Reiner Knizia and Rebel Studio
• Revive expansion: Call of the Abyss coming in October
• Cover Your Cookies published by Grandpa Beck’s Games and Crumbl Cookies
• The ART Project by Florian Sirieix and Benoit Turpin, published by Lumberjack Studios
• Trick Taker Aurum announced by Pandasaurus
• Glass of Venice coming from Aske Christiansen
• Star Trek: Discovery - Black Alert teased by WizKids

 

CROWDFUNDING (13:45)

• Dice Barons
• Taiwan Night Market
• Tactigon
• Weirdwood Manor
• Forges of Ravenshire

 

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (21:20)

• Into the Godsgrave

 

NEW RELEASES (24:30)

• Axis and Allies 1942 (Second Edition) and Axis and Allies 1940: Pacific (Second Edition) by Larry Harris, Jr. and Renegade Games
• Star Fighters Rapid Fire by Michael Dunsmore and Jordan Nichols, published by Alley Cat Games
• Beast by Aron Midhall and Elon Midhall, published by Pegasus Spiele
• Distilled by Dave Beck and Paverson Games
• Steam Up: A Feast of Dim Sum by Pauline Kong, Haymen Lee, and Marie Wong, published by Kids Table Board Games
• Autobahn by Fabio Lopiano and Nestore Mangone, published by Alley Cat Games
• Catapult Feud by Kristian Fosh and IELLO
• Hooky by Friends of Aseema and James Miller, published by Rio Grande Games
• Beyond the Sun: Leaders of the New Dawn by Dennis K. Chan and Joseph Summa, published by Rio Grande Games

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of April 25, 2023. This week, Arcane Wonders proves they have a sense of duty, Garphill documents an exodus, Groo wanders back in after a quarter century, and Wolfgang Kramer proves he’s still the biggest boss around.

 

TOP STORIES (2:07)

• Dice Tower Awards nominees
• Call of Duty
• Garphill Games
• Darrington Press deck-builder: Queen by Midnight
• New Youk Times article on Energetic
• Lucky Duck Global Publishing Network
• Groo the Game back after 25 years
• CGE releases Kutna Hora: City of Silver
• Funko republishing Wolfgang Kramer's Big Boss
• 2023 American Table Top Award Winners
• Barcelona from Dani Garcia
• Star Trek Cryptic
• Carson City reprint coming to Gamefound
• Mission Control: Critical Orbit

 

CROWDFUNDING (16:35)

• Thorgal
• Santorini
• Flutter
• Paperback 10th Anniversary

 

THE HOTNESS (23:24)

• Expeditions
• Hegemony: Lead Your Class To Victory
• Frosthaven
• Kutna Hora: The City of Silver
• Ark Nova
• Teotihuacan: City of Gods - Deluxe Master Set
• Worldbreakers: Advent of the Khanate
• Darwin's Journey
• Heat: Pedal to the Metal
• Earth

 

SPECIAL REPORT (27:01)

• Games played at the Gathering of Friends

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (29:38)

• Senjutsu: Battle for Japan

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of April 18, 2023. This week, apples are the new vikings, Flatout constructs a landmark, Alderac goes expansion crazy, and … it's a bird, it's a plane, it's a tuber!

 

TOP STORIES (2:11)

• Quartermaster Direct
• First draft of Paizo's new OGL
• Cascadia Landmarks
• Potato Man!
• Fantasia Games reprinting Colosseum
• Sky Team
• Marvel Champions: NeXt Evolution
• New expansions KS coming in May from AEG
• Planta Nubo from GameBuilders
• Border Reivers
• New 10 year anniversary edition of Firefly coming from GF9
• Biohack
• Pacifica
• Funko announces 4 Indiana Jones games

 

CROWDFUNDING (19:51)

• Wild Gardens
• Ecosfera
• Mycology
• Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era
• Terminus
• Zombicide White Death

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (28:35)

• Paranormal Detectives

 

SPECIAL REPORT (31:24)

• The Gathering of Friends

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of April 11, 2023. This week, Asmadi develops the ultimate innovation, we evacuate for delicious sushi, last night has only the finest fish, and Reiner Knizia just has to wait to get his new island.

 

TOP STORIES (2:20)

• Unmatches Suns Origin and Unmatched Brains and Brawn coming in 2023
• Publisher Inside the Box sells inventory and IPs to Naylor Games
• New releases and re-releases from Vladimir Suchý
• WizKids’ Unboxed explores ancient games
• Finest Fish coming from Last Night Games
• Legends of Andor: Eternal Frost from Michael Menzel and KOSMOS
• Reiner Knizia's My Island delayed to Q3 2023
• Sequel to Resist!, Witchcraft! launching on GameFound in June
• Halloween Boooop! coming from Smirk and Laughter
• Alien Frontiers Edition X announced by Starling Games
• Capstone takes pre-orders for Age of Innovation, more complex followup to Terra Mystica
• Innovation Ultimate edition from Carl Chudyk announced by Asmadi
• Trifecta: Fancy Dancing announced by Zoran Dobrijevic and Tabletop Tycoon
• New Edition of Reiner Knizia's Through the Desert now coming from AllPlay
• Pies by Matthias Cramer coming from AllPlay
• New digital Easter MicroMacro demo on Pegasus Spiele website

 

CROWDFUNDING (21:55)

• Project L Phoenix
• Tír Na NÓg: Between Worlds
• The Last Kingdom
• Point City and Deep Dive
• Dice Cards
• Woodland Wizards

 

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (30:45)

• Yummy Yummy Monster Tummy and no sport cars

 

THE HOTNESS (32:20)

1. Hegemony: Lead Your Class to Victory
2. Heat: Pedal to the Metal
3. Ark Nova
4. Frosthaven
5. Beast
6. Evacuation
7. Terminus
8. Ierusalem: Anno Domini
9. Earth
10. Age of Innovation

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of April 4, 2023. This week, dlp drills their new title into our head, Magic finds one to rule them all, Fantasy Flight sharpens their dagger, and Alley Cat Games were not built in a day.

 

TOP STORIES (1:25)

• Joe Manganiello to head a Dragonlance Adaptation
• The one and only one ring in Magic the Gathering
• Plaid Hat announces Freelancers, the sequel to Forgotten Waters
• Marvel D.A.G.G.E.R. from Fantasy Flight detailed
• Drachenhüter from Michael Menzel announced by Kosmos
• Magic Rabbit coming from Alley Cat Games
• Rome in a Day coming from Alley Cat Games
• Trepanation announced by Robin David and dlp Games
• Setup announced by Bezzerwizzer and Jacob Berg
• Nunatak revealed from Kane Klenko and KOSMOS
• Sauscharf card game coming to US from Wolfgang Kramer and Christian Stöhr
• Racing Hedgehogs, a retheming of Bucket Brigade, coming from Reiner Knizia

 

CROWDFUNDING (15:45)

• Townsfolk Tussle: Foul Neighbors and Odd Jobs
• D.E.I. - Divide Et Impera (Expansion & Reprint)
• Let’s Go to Japan
• Unmatched Adventures: Tales to Amaze
• Galactic Renaissance
• Nekojima

 

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (26:05)

• The great variety of Lucky Duck titles

 

NEW RELEASES (28:30)

• Exit: The Professor’s Last Riddle designed by Inka and Markus Brand, published by Thames & Kosmos
• Tapestry: Fantasies and Futures Expansion by Stonemaier Games, designed by Chris Scaffidi and Mike Young
• Legendary Marvel Black Panther and Legendary Marvel Black Widow published by Upper Deck, designed by Devin Low
• Rolling Heights published by AEG, designed by John D Clair
• Revive designed by Helge Meissner, Eilif Svensson, Anna Wermlund, and Kristian Amundsen Østby, published by Aporta and Asmodee
• Betrayal at House on the Hill: The Werewolf's Journey - Blood on the Moon published by Hasbro, designed by Dave Chalker, Banana Chan, Noah Cohen, Bruce Glassco, Brian Neff, Will Sobel, and Jabari Weathers
• Horseless Carriage published by Splotter Spellen, designed by Jeroen Doumen and Joris Wiersinga
• Karak published by Thames & Kosmos, designed by Roman Hladik and Petr Miksa
• La Famiglia: The Great Mafia War published by Capstone Games, designed by Maximilian Maria Thiel
• Disney Villains: the Card Game designed by Leo Colovini, published by Ravensburger
• Fancy Feathers by Rio Grande Games and designer Friedemann Friese

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of March 28, 2023. This week, Boardcubator is back and reborn, the legacy of Clank goes on, Devir and CGE both get monkeys, and Osprey moves from Merv to Mansa Musa.

 

TOP STORIES (1:55)

• New Eric Summerer Podcast Right Brain Rollers
• Rebirth of the new Boardcubator
• Clank Legacy 2 coming to crowdfunding by Dire Wolf
• Sankoré: The Pride of Mansa Musa coming from Osprey Games
• New Arnak Expansion - The Missing Expedition
• Rio Grande newsletter announcements
• Wizards and Co coming from Sinister Fish
• Tír na nÓg by Isaac Shalev and Jason Slingerland
• Wandering Towers by Kramer and Kiesling coming from Capstone
• Fraggle Rock and Dark Crystal card games coming from River Horse
• Munchkin Squids announced by Steve Jackson Games
• Deadly Dowagers by Sarah Shipp and Tabletop Tycoon
• 3 Ring Circus by Remo Conzadori and Fabio Lopiano coming from Devir
• Tetris style roll and write Number Drop coming to US from AEG

 

CROWDFUNDING (19:20)

• Sally Face: Strange Nightmares
• Star Tycoon
• 5 Games from Legendary Designers
• Secrets in the Sand
• The Hunt
• Maladum: Dungeons of Enveron

 

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (28:25)

• Animalia

 

THE HOTNESS (30:05)

1. Wild Gardens
2. Galactic Renaissance
3. Lost Ruins of Arnak
4. Heat: Pedal to the Metal
5. Let's Go! To Japan
6. Ark Nova
7. Frosthaven
8. Darwin's Journey
9. Distilled
10. Earth
11. Lost Ruins of Arnak: The Missing Expedition

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of March 21, 2023. This week, the office dog brings in 3 new toys, Century Spice Road makes it big, Exploding Kittens blocks, and Reiner Knizia officially prints a classic.

 

TOP STORIES (1:45)

• Asmodee's Office Dog announces its first three titles
• Century Spi8ce Road Big Box Edition announced
• Throw Throw Burrito expansion Block Block Burrito
• Line Dice from publisher Sunny Bird
• Carlo A Rossi's Ab in die Tonne coming as Mountain 53
• Restoration Games announces 3rd Unmatched Marvel set - Teen Spirit
• Puerto Rico 1897 Woes and Solutions
• Reiner Knizia Members Only coming back as Classic Art
• Blind Business designed by Andrew Roy, published by Devir
• We're Sinking coming from Joseph Frederick and Ludamus Games
• Nervos announced by Kentaiki and Taiki Shinzawa

 

CROWDFUNDING (14:30)

• Kuiperium
• From the Moon
• An Age Contrived
• The Quest Kids Giant Adventure
• Totem Hoarder
• Abujarras and Fisheries of Gloucester

 

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (25:10)

• Flamecraft and My Shelfie back in stock

 

THE HOTNESS (28:05)

1. General Orders: World War II
2. Ark Nova
3. Heat: Pedal to the Metal
4. Frosthaven
5. Darwin's Journey
6. Let's Go! To Japan
7. Distilled
8. Star Wars: The Deckbuilding Game
9. Earth
10. Townsfolk Tussle

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of March 14, 2023. This week, AEG does shrooms, The great western trail moves 6500 miles southeast, Zombicide misspells Brazil's second biggest city, and CATAN scores a goooooal.

 

TOP STORIES (2:27)

• AEG Sneak Peeks
• FunAgain to Close Webstore
• Great Western Trail New Zealand
• Diced Veggies
• Yokai Sketch
• Zombicide: Rio Z Janeiro
• Misconceptions by Rabble Games Studio
• Waffle Time
• Overboss Duel
• Free Solo Content for 3000 Scoundrels
• Catan Football Fever
• New Disney Titles from Funco
• Jasco no Longer Exclusive to Asmodee
• Obituary: Herb Levy, Founder of Gamers Alliance

 

CROWDFUNDING (15:08)

• Scholars of the South Tigris
• Red Dragon Inn 9: The Undercity
• Soda Pop Collection
• Cloud Nine
• River Wild and Ancient Realm
• Tether

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (24:49)

• Corey tells us about Lucky Duck and sounds terrible doing it

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of March 7, 2023. This week, CMoN plays some classic White Zombie…cide, Scott Almes claims the Angels Share, Osprey is under General Orders, and Awaken Realms retaliates.

 

TOP STORIES (2:20)

• CMoN announces Zombicide: White Death
• Nemesis Retaliation coming from Awaken Realms
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R. the board game coming from Awaken Realms
• Art shown for Renegade's new editions of Acquire and RoboRally
• General Orders: World War II coming from Osprey
• Angel's Share teased from Spielworxx and Scott Almes
• Unmatched Adventures: Tales to Amaze detailed by Restoration Games
• Roll and Stamp title Papillon Gardens coming from Kolossal
• Cardboard Edison Award finalists listed

 

CROWDFUNDING (9:35)

• Agueda, Color Field, and Donut Shop
• Blacksmiths of Steinnheimr
• Ascension Tactics: Inferno
• Street Fighter V Champion Edition Legend
• Alice is Missing: Silent Falls

 

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (16:10)

• Scott Morris part 2

 

NEW RELEASES (19:30)

• Dice Manor by Garrett Herdter and Arcane Wonders
• Blazon by David Conklin and 25th Century Games
• Joan of Arc Orleans Draw and Write by Ryan Hendrickson and Reiner Stockhausen, published by Capstone Games
• Order Overload: Cafe from Jun Sasaki and Oink Games
• Caldera Park designed by Michael Kiesling and Wolfgang Kramer, published by Pegasus Spiele
• Swindler from Matthias Cramer and Pegasus Spiele
• Findorff by Friedemann Fries and Rio Grande Games
• Crossing Oceans by Mac Gerdts and Rio Grande Games
• Star Wars: the Deckbuilding Game by Caleb Grace and Fantasy Flight Games
• Monster Inn by Roman Pelek and Pegasus Spiele
• Stack n Stuff designed by Uwe Rosenberg and Marianne Waage published by Lookout Games
• Really Loud Librarians by Ken Gruhl and Quentin Weir, published by Exploding Kittens

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of February 28, 2023. This week, the Akropolis is truly made of gold, all the animals escape Cartagena, Ethnos goes to the frontier of Space, and everything’s got a butt.

 

TOP STORIES (2:45)

• As d'Or Award winners announced
• Apex Legends the Board Game coming from Glass Cannon, Electronic Arts, and Respawn
• Trick or Trick Games to release new version of Gold West
• Cartagena: Escape Diaries coming from Pretzel Games and Leo Colovini
• Sea Dragons announced by Fractal Juegos
• Publisher Devir and designer Carmen García Jiménez announce Ierusalem Anno Domini
• Card game Mantis released by Exploding Kittens
• Gamewright launches children's IP card game Butts on Things
• Concordia by Mac Gerdts gets new expansion Roma/Sicilia
• New expansion coming to Reiner Knizia's deck builder, Quest for El Dorado
• Ethnos by Paolo Mori getting rethemed to Archeos Society by Space Cowboys
• Druids coming from Rio Grande Games and first time designer Federico Marcucci

 

CROWDFUNDING (12:40)

• The Search for Lost Species
• Chomp, Sail, Couture, and Mind Space
• TenTricks
• Homeworld: Fleet Command
• Stefan Feld City Collection: Vienna and Cuzco
• Blueprints of Mad King Ludwig

 

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (22:15)

• Scott Morris

 

THE HOTNESS (24:15)

1. Twilight Struggle: Red Sea – Conflict in the Horn of Africa
2. Heat: Pedal to the Metal
3. Ethnos
4. Gloomhaven
5. Ark Nova
6. Frosthaven
7. Brass: Birmingham
8. HUANG
9. Archeos Society
10. Earth

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of February 21, 2023. This week, gaming loses its holy grail, Birmingham is finally number one, the gods of cyclades are legendary, and John Clair invades the Last Kingdom.

 

TOP STORIES (2:20)

• Holy Grail Games closes it's doors
• Brass: Birmingham reaches #1 on BGG board game rankings
• Cyclades: Legendary Edition announced from Open Sesame Games
• Restoration Games puts two Unmatched sets in the vault
• Munchkin South Park announced from TheOP and Steve Jackson Games
• Licensed title The Last Kingdom coming from John D Clair and Gamelyn Games
• Potions of Azerland teased by Grayden Baker and Warped Reality Games
• Disney Lorcana promo sets fetching high price at auction
• Coffee Rush announced by Euijin Han and Korea Boardgames Co
• Roller Coaster Rush coming to retail from Pandasaurus and Scott Almes
• Bruno Faidutti and John Kovalic working on Grail Cup for Matagot Games
• Children's title Cat and Co coming from designer Carlo A Rossi

 

CROWDFUNDING (10:55)

• Andromeda's Edge
• Witchbound
• Set a Watch: Forsaken Isles
• StoneSaga
• Tricktakers: Kings
• FORK: Fox Owl Rabbit Kale

 

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (18:20)

• It's a Wonderful World: Leisure and Decadence campaign expansion

 

THE HOTNESS (20:00)

1. Expeditions
2. Frostpunk: The Board Game
3.  
4. Cyclades
5. Cyclades Legendary Edition
6. Enclyclopedia
7. Dune: Imperium
8. Heat: Pedal to the Metal
9. Ark Nova
10. Forbidden Jungle
11. The Last Kingdom Board Game
12. Gloomhaven
13. Frosthaven
14. Sail
15. Brass: Birmingham

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of February 14, 2023. This week, gamewright welcomes Leacock to the jungle, there's a dispiration move from sentinels, and Jekykll and Hyde fight Scotland Yard.

 

TOP STORIES (1:50)

• Maestro Media hires designers
• Gears of War the Card Game
• Dungeon Scrawlers Heroes of Waterdeep
• Tricktakers
• Jekyll and Hyde vs. Scotland Yard
• Forbidden Jungle
• New Scotland Yard
• Next Station: Tokyo
• Sentinels Dispiration
• Bamboo
• New Smash Up Expansion - Excellent Movies, Dudes

 

CROWDFUNDING (11:07)

• Hollywood 1947
• Coal Baron Deluxe
• Hero Realms: Dungeons
• Zoo Vadis
• Trolls and Princesses
• Deep Shelf

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (19:34)

• Kids Chronicles DLC: The Portal

 

NEW RELEASES (21:37)

• Agricola 15th Anniversary Box
• New Puerto Rico 1897
• Keydom’s Dragons
• Twilight Struggle: Red Sea - Conflict in the Horn of Africa
• Lofoten
• Detective Rummy
• Power Plants
• Fly Home

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of February 7, 2023. This week, the tapestry grows larger, acquire’s acquisition from acquire accurate acquisitioner acquires accuity, the crew goes literary, and Disney goes Dixit.

 

TOP STORIES (2:25)

• Stonemaier Games announces Scythe sequel and Tapestry expansion
• Renegade Games partners with Hasbro to acquire Acquire
• Two player Quartermaster General East Front coming from Ares
• Pegasus Spiele announces Istanbul: Choose and Write
• Disney and Ravensburger announce new titles
• Publisher 25th Century Games has announced Grand Central Skyport
• Saashi and Saashi reveal stand alone expansion Get on Board: Paris and Rome
• District Noir by designers Nobutake Dogen and Nao Shimamura nominated for the As d'Or - Jeu de l'Année
• Dixit Disney coming Autumn 2023 from Libellud
• The Crew adventure book shown off at Nuremberg
• Wehrlegig Games makes 5 new game announcements
• Deep Print Games announces Triqueta from Stefan Dorra and Ralf zur Linde
• Nautilus Island coming from designers Johannes Goupy and Théo Rivière, published by Hachette
• 2p tile digging title Tanis announced from designer Phil Walker-Harding and Eagle Gryphon Games

 

CROWDFUNDING (17:25)

• All In
• Arborea
• Counter Warfare
• Fairy of Perfume

 

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (22:30)

• Scott Morris Special Message

 

THE HOTNESS (24:10)

1. Scythe
2. Tapestry: Fantasies & Futures
3. Frostpunk: The Board Game
4. Dune: Imperium
5. Ark Nova
6. Dwellings of Eldervale
7. Frosthaven
8. Heat: Pedal to the Metal
9. Andromeda's Edge
10. Lofoten
11. Expeditions

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of January 31, 2023. This week, the biggest oyster loses a Pearl, Twisted Villains grow while Azul shrinks, and Exploding Kittens make a top 10 list.

 

TOP STORIES ()

• Pearl Games Closes
• Next Move Games announces Azul Mini
• Ravensburger announces The Lord of the Rings Adventure Book Game
• Designers Luca Sanfilippo and Ugo Tomasello and Peekwick Dreams reveal Ynaros Fallin’
• Spiel nominee Top Ten coming to English from Exploding Kittens
• Ravensburger announces third Marvel Villainous expansion,Twisted Ambitions
• Café del Gatto by Lena Burkhardt and Julia Wagner
• Ulm designer Günter Burkhardt announces Tipperary
• Cantaloop book 3 - Against All Odds revealed by Lookout Games

 

CROWDFUNDING ()

• Wiz-War 9th Edition
• Among Cultists
• Once Upon a Line The Butterfly's Breath
• Mage Noir
• Batman: Escape From Arkham Asylum
• Marvel United: Multiverse

 

 

SPONSOR UPDATE ()

• Official Frosthaven Companion App

 

NEW RELEASES ()

• Micromacro Crime City - All In by Johannes Sich, published by Pegasus Spiele
• Magna Roma: Deluxe Edition from Matteo De Nardis and Archona Games
• Rattus Big Box designed by Ase and Henrik Berg, published by Z-Man Games
• Bad Company by Kenneth Minde, Eilif Svensson and Kristian Amundsen Ostby, published by Aporta Games
• Bonfire: Trees and Creatures expansion from Stefan Feld and Pegasus Spiele
• Pan’s Island by Marc Paquien and Matagot
• Isle of Skye Big Box designed by Andreas Pelikan and Alexander Pfister, published by Lookout Games
• Mystery House: The Secret of the Pharaoh by Vincent Cornette, Perinne Kurtz, and Antonio Tinto, published by Cranio Creations
• Fuse: Countdown from Kane Klenko and Renegade Game Studios
• Atiwa by Uwe Rosenberg and Lookout Games
• Sabika by Germán P. Millán and Ludonova

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of January 24, 2023. This week, Portal switches to the Imperial system, 7 wonders finds a vast edifice of cardboard, more exists beyond the sun and Uwe finds some really big fish.

 

TOP STORIES (2:15)

• Funagain Logistics closes its doors
• Imperial Miners coming from Portal Games
• The Mind Soulmates announced by NSV
• Black Hole Buccaneers coming from Pegasus Spiele and Peter Langkjær Møller
• Roll and write title Château coming from Rolling Rhino Games
• New expansion Edifice coming to 7 Wonders
• Kingdomino spiritual successor Moon River announced by Blue Orange Games
• AllPlay reveals 4 new titles for 2023
• Beyond the Sun getting Leaders of the New Dawn expansion
• Publishers Hasbro and Funko collaborating on 25th anniversary Cranium
• Nusfjord Bix Box coming from Lookout Games
• Shadows Over Camelot designer Serge Laget passes

 

CROWDFUNDING (11:40)

• The Dice Tower 2023 Fundraiser

 

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (13:35)

• Oros and My Shelfie

 

HOTNESS (14:50)

1. Wingspan
2. Coal Baron
3. Sleeping Gods
4. Dune: Imperium
5. Ark Nova
6. Arborea
7. Frosthaven
8. Heat: Pedal to the Metal
9. Hollywood 1947
10. Horseless Carriage

 

 

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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)

• OrcQuest War Path
• Circadians First Light Specialists Expansion
• Powerline
• Chesney

 

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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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)

• Circus Break
• Find the Source
• One Week Till Christmas
• Master Sweets

 

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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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

 

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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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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)

• Douc in Danger
• Dungeons and Co
• Emotional Intelligence
• Pole Position

 

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (19:25)

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

 

 

 

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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)

• Cube Monster
• Gin Crafters
• Goldblivion
• Aelderman
• Axon Protocol
• Re;Act - The Arts of War

 

 

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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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)

• Bazaars of Ubar
• Shake That City
• Empire's End
• Pest
• Numbsters
• Mycelium

 

 

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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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)

• Creature Comforts: Maple Valley
• Tiny Epic Crimes
• Runar

 

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)

• Copan: Dying City
• Werewolf the Apocalypse: Retaliation
• Ceres
• Elden Ring the Board Game
• The Last of Us: Escape the Dark
• Peanut Butter Belly TIme

 

 

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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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)

• Itten Funbrick Series
• Words of a Feather
• Survival of the Fattest
• Heroes of Might and Magic III the Board Game
• On the Underground Paris/New York
• Mad King Ludwig: Renovations

 

 

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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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)

• Spirit Island: Nature Incarnate
• Explosion in the Laboratory
• Chicken!
• Slay the Spire
• Tabriz
• Unconscious Mind

 

 

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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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of November 7, 2022. This week, Ravensburger wants a big family, Llama Dice and Devir go to White Castle, Exploding Kittens is a lying sack, and Legendary discovers there is no spoon.

 

TOP STORIES (2:10)

• Ravensburger is looking for the Next Big Family Game
• The White Castle by Devir and Llama Dice
• Takenoko roll and Write Takenokolor teased by Bombyx
• Telecraft by Oink Games and Geo Games
• OxEye sued by designer
• Rustling Leaves by Paolo Mori coming to English
• You Lying Sack by Exploding Kittens and Penn Jilette
• Retrograde by publisher Resonym and designers Mary Flanagan and Max Seidman
• Tiny Epic Crimes announced by Gamelyn Games
• Legendary: Matrix detailed by Upper Deck

 

CROWDFUNDING (11:25)

• Race to the Raft
• Pampero
• Cosmoctopus
• Life of the Amazonia
• The Queen's Dilemma
• Tesseract
• Mosaic: Wars and Disasters
• Cancas Finishing Touches
• Oathsworn Into the Deepwood Second Edition

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (23:45)

• Destinies: Witchwood

 

THE HOTNESS (26:10)

1. Tiny Epic Crimes
2. FlameCraft
3. Oathsworn: Into the Deepwood
4. The Castles of Mad King Ludwig: Renovations
5. ISS Vanguard
6. Endless Winter: Paleoamericans
7. King of Monster Island
8. Ark Nova
9. Slay the Spire: The Board Game
10. Unconscious Mind

 

 

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This week, Vagrants sing a song of seance, we discuss masters of IELLO cheese, the zoo craze reaches Canada, and TheOP says Hola gatito.

 

TOP STORIES (2:20)

• Vagrantsong mini-expansion Seance Scenario
• Ancient Knowledge by designer Rémi Mathieu and IELLO Games
• Hellton Palace by Jean-Baptiste Pigneur and IELLO
• Cheese Master from designers Johan Benvenuto and Alexandre Droit
• IELLO Microexpansions
• Naasii, A Coyote and Crow Game, by designer Connor Alexander
• Alhambra: The Red Palace by Dirk Henn and Queen Games
• Miller Zoo from Randolph and designer Thomas Dagenais-Lespérance
• Loteria: Hello Kitty® and Friends from TheOP
• Judge Dredd being reprinted by Rebellion Unplugged
• Monolyth from Phil Walker-Harding and CMoN
• FORK - Fox. Owl. Rabbit. Kale. A food chain trick taking game from designer Ta-Te Wu
• Hans Niemann sues Magnus Carlsen for $100 Million

 

SPECIAL REPORT (13:15)

• Cheating in Chess
• Chess.com report on Hans Niemann

 

CROWDFUNDING (16:55)

• Rising Waters
• Roll to the Top, Pollen, and Big Top
• The Stifling Dark
• Dreadful Meadows
• Ten Plagues the Card Game
• Roll and Rails

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (26:10)

• Destinies: Myth and Folklore

 

NEW RELEASES (28:05)

• Carcassonne Big Box 2022 by Klaus-Jurgen Wrede and Z-Man Games
• Sidereal Confluence Bifurcation expansion by TauCeti Deichmann and WizKids
• Smash Up 10th Anniversary Box by Paul Peterson and AEG
• Solforge Fusion Booster Kit from Richard Garfield and Justin Gary, published by Stone Blade Entertainment
• Evergreen by Hjalmar Hach and Horrible Games
• Vagrantsong designed by Kyle Rowan, Justin Gibbs, and Matt Carter, published by Wyrd Miniatures
• Block and Key by David Van Drunen and Inside Up Games
• Get on Board: New York and London from Saashi and Saashi
• Ultimate Railroads from designers Helmut Ohley and Leonhard Lonny Orgler, published by Z-Man Games
• Sobek: 2 Players from Bruno Cathala and Sebastien Pauchon, published by Pandasaurus Games
• Tusk! Surviving the Ice Age from designers Sean Goodison and Mike Haught, published by Gale Force 9

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of October 24, 2022. This week, Asmodee proffers a glorious Welcome, AEG takes a vacation to Japan, Hachette goes from 0 to 100, and the Luzas are in the house!

 

TOP STORIES (3:00)

• Welcome by Asmodee
• Underdog Games releases HerStory by designers Nick Bentley, Emerson Matsuuchi, and Danielle Reynolds
• Lets Go to Japan by Josh Woods and AEG
• Jenga Kool Aid by TheOP
• Publisher Board&Dice announces Teotihuacan Deluxe
• Boop from Smirk and Laughter coming November 2022
• Smash Up 10th Anniversary dated for October
• Grand Gamers Guild releases print and play Artemis: First Contact
• Zero to 100 by Antonin Boccara gets English language release from Hachette
• Fir is next title after Feudum for Odd Bird Games
• Forage, by Mark Tuck, is the final game in the Grove Trilogy

 

CROWDFUNDING (12:20)

• Redwood: Into the Wild/a>
  
• One Two Many Rabbits
• Harrow County: The Game of Gothic Conflict
• Wonderlands War: Shards of Madness
• Portents
• Patriot

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (20:50)

• Destinies: Witchwood Modules

 

THE HOTNESS (22:40)

1. Dune: Imperium
2. Mosaic: A Story of Civilization
3. Ark Nova
4. John Company: Second Edition
5. The Wolves
6. Endless Winter: Paleoamericans
7. ISS Vanguard
8. Spirit Island
9. Spirit Island: Nature Incarnate
10. Oathsworn: Into the Deepwood

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of October 17, 2022. This week, Terra Mystica innovates, WizKids rebuilds the Emerald City, CMoN runs to the hills, and someone in the Aegean lost their marbles during the bronze age.

 

TOP STORIES (1:55)

• Ancient game pieces discovered in the Aegean
• 2 new city titles from Stefan Feld and Queen
• More details on Terra Mystica: Age of Innovation
• Books of Time by by Filip Głowacz
• Isle of Cats Miniatures Pack announced
• Lost Lights from Julius Hsu and Board Game Circus
• Make the Difference from Oink Games
• WizKids announces Rebuilding Seattle by designer Quinn Brander
• CMoN announces Iron Maiden character packs
• Flutter by Phase Shift Games and Matthew Bahntge
• Mojito Studios bringing back Mystery of the Abbey
• Agueda: City of Umbrellas from 25th Century Games
• Update on Yu-Gi-Oh Creator Kazuki Takahashi

 

CROWDFUNDING (11:50)

• Fortify
• Daybreak
• Lunar Rush
• Leaf
• Matches
• Frozen Frontier

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (19:45)

• Destinies: Witchwood

 

NEW RELEASES (22:10)

• Basilica by Lukasz M. Pogoda and Portal Games
• Knight Fall by T. Alex Davis and Ryan Laukat, published by Red Raven Games
• Virtù by Pascal Ribrault, published by Super Meeple
• Star Trek: Super Skill Pinball published by WizKids designed by Geoff Engelstein
• Ticket to Ride - Ghost Train by Alan R. Moon, published by Days of Wonder
• Ready, Set, Bet by designer John D Clair, published by AEG
• 3000 Scoundrels by Corey Konieczka and Unexpected Games
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars by Alexandar Ortloff, published by Z-Man Games
• San Francisco by Reiner Knizia, published by Rebel Studio
• Skymines by Alexander Pfister and Viktor Kobilke, published by Pegasus Spiele

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of October 10, 2022. This week, Bezier does some renovations, Dead Death Dies for a third time, and Essen, essen, essen, essen, ESSEN.

 

SPECIAL REPORT: ESSEN (1:41)

 

TOP STORIES (5:14)

• Renegade Games expands licensing with Hasbro
• GIC: Britain's first game industry conference
• Persona 5 Royal card game by Matsuuchi
• Castles of Mad King Ludwig: Renovations
• Cluedo murder mystery boxes
• Cthulhu: Death May Die season 3 - Fear of the Unknown

 

CROWDFUNDING (9:59)

• Factions of Sol
• Terraforming Mars: The Dice Game
• Rise and Fall
• Elevenses: The Guilty Party
• Tainted Grail: Kings of Ruin
• Age of Comics

 

SPONSOR SHOUTOUT (18:22)

• Lucky Duck Games picks up Cosmoctopus for release

 

THE HOTNESS (20:4)

• 11 - Endless Winter: Paleoamericans
• 10 - Flamecraft
• 9 - Lacrimosa
• 8 - Woodcraft
• 7 - Horizons of Spirit Island
• 6 - Ark Nova
• 5 - John Company 2E
• 4 - ISS Vanguard
• 3 - Revive
• 2 - Starship Captains
• 1 - Wingspan: Asia

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of October 3, 2022. This week, the hottest news is from 2004, pigs gobble fruit quickity pickity, Phalanx runs out of river names, and we agree - an arcane manor of dice is essential.

 

TOP STORIES (2:30)

• Deep Water Games becomes independant of parent company OxEye Media
• CMoN to be excludsive distributor for Lucky Duck Games in Asia
• HeroScape: Age of Annihilation crowdfunding on Hasbro Pulse
• Reiner Knizia's Yellow and Yangtze rebranded by Phalanx as Huang
• Dice Manor is newest Dice Tower Essential title from Arcane Wonder
• Railway Boom coming from OKAZU Brand and designer Hisashi Hiyashi
• More details on Isle of Cats followup, Race to the Raft
• Artipia Games and designer Gustaf Sundström announce Ceres
• Itten Funbrick series of pocket games detailed
• Quickity Pickity is newest title from from Oink Games
• Grease Monkey Garage by designer Fedor Sosnin getting published copy
• Flowar coming from Llama Dice and publisher Primigenio

 

CROWDFUNDING (13:15)

• USC Reach
• Atlas Lost: Rise of the New Sovereigns
• Naturopolis
• Pueblo
• Age of Inventors
• Fateforge: Chronicles of Kaan

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (21:45)

• Andromeda's Edge

 

THE HOTNESS (24:50)

1. Starship Captains from CGE and designer Peter B. Hoffgaard
2. FlameCraft by Manny Vega and Lucky Duck
3. Oathsworn: Into the Deepwood
4. Yellow and Yangtze by Reiner Knizia
5. Deal with the Devil from designer Matúš Kotry and CGE
6. Village Rails from Osprey Games, designed by Matthew Dunstan and Brett J. Gilbert
7. Terraforming Mars the Dice Game from Stronghold Games
8. Ark Nova by Mathias Wigge
9. ISS Vanguard by Awaken Realms
10. Everdell: The Complete Collection

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of September 26, 2022. This week, the news is full of chips and guac, a new Pandemic game there is, we forage with our pretty new gauntlet, and Knizia brings on the Claritin.

 

TOP STORIES (2:30)

• IELLO purchased by French company Media Participations
• Z-Man announces Star Wars The Clone Wars, a Pandemic System title
• More details emerge on The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era
• Rose Gauntlet announces Wild Gardens by Isaac Vega
• WizKids announces Marvel: Age of Heroes
• Publisher Sylex bringing second edition of Yinzi Ming
• Reiner Knizia's new title is Pollen
• 20Strong is a new solo adventure dice game from Chip Theory
• Atlas Games announces 2 expansions for Godforge
• Arborea coming from Alley Cat Games and designer Dani Garcia
• 12 Rivers is the new title from Romain Caterdjian and BGNations
• Trampoline Park by Hassan Hekmat getting an English release
• Hachette is bringing the French word game Ole Guacamole to English
• Breaking News: Details emerge on Terraforming Mars the Dice Game

 

CROWDFUNDING (15:15)

• Merchants Cove: Master Craft
• Weavlings in the Wild
• Forsaken
• The Fox Experiment
• Sagrada Artisans
• Cholas

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (23:50)

• Tidal Blades: Banner Festival how to play

 

THE HOTNESS (27:30)

1. Oathsworn: Into the Deepwood from Shadowborne Games
2. Tiletum by Simone Luciani and Daniele Tascini, published by Board & Dice
3. Flamecraft designed by Manny Vega, from Cardboard Alchemy and Lucky Duck Games
4. Lacrimosa by Devir
5. Dune: War for Arrakis from CMoN designed by Marco Maggi and Francesco Nepitello
6. Ark Nova by Mathias Wigge and Capstone Games
7. Twilight Inscription from Fantasy Flight Games
8. Star Wars: The Clone Wars by Z-Man Games and Alexandar Ortloff
9. ISS Vanguard by Awaken Realms
10. Beer & Bread by Pegasus Spiele and designer Scott Almes

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of September 12, 2022. This week, video game conversions are romantik, Ares Games is both Rich and Good, and Catan is nominated right alongside sand.

 

TOP STORIES (2:00)

• Catan nominated to National Toy Hall of Fame
• Tails on Fire by HeidelBÄR
• Deep Print Games announces Beer and Bread
• Dorfromantik coming from Pegasus Spiele
• Steamforged Games announces Elden Ring board game
• Hab & Gut creturning as The Rich and the Good
• Wonderful World Board Game bringing Touch It
• Steve Jackson Games announces 2 Christmas titles
• Disney: Space Mountain coming from Ravensburger
• Publisher Pegasus Spiele announces Monster Inn

 

CROWDFUNDING (10:15)

• Prehistories Evolutions and Space Explorers Age of Ambition
• Fugitive 2nd Edition and Run
• Dune: War for Arrakis
• Weimar: The Fight for Democracy
• Philosophy
• KeyForge Winds of Exchange
• Dawn of Ulos
• Winchester Mystery House Centennial Edition

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (21:10)

• Flamecraft how to play

 

NEW RELEASES (24:35)

• Twilight Inscription by James Kniffen, published by Fantasy Flight Games
• Star Trek Ascendancy Breen Confederacy and Dominion War designed by Andrew Haught and Phil Yates, published by Gale Force 9
• Little Flower Shop the Dice Game by Dr Finns Games, designed by Steve Finn
• Parks: Wildlife by Henry Audubon and Mattox Shuler, published by Keymaster Games
• The Spill by designer Andy Kim, published by Smirk and Dagger
• Antematter by Bardshark Games
• Dulce by Stronghold Games, designed by Julio E. Nazario
• Studies in Sorcery by Chris Glein, published by Weird Giraffe Games
• Red Cathedral: Contractors by Isra C. and Shei S., published by Devir

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of September 12, 2022. This week, after 10 years, we are smitten with Stonemaier, Just One publisher learns some Fun Facts, Matagot uses St Patrick to banish snakes, and we relive the Winter of 2016.

 

TOP STORIES (2:20)

• Meeple Design official authorized accessory partner with City of Kings
• Stonemaier celebrates 10th anniversary with new coop 2p title Smitten
• Repos follows up Just One and So Clover with Fun Facts
• Devir and designers Maria Blasco Arnandis and Enrique Blasco announce Winter
• Saint Patrick coming from Matagot
• alea announces Council of Shadows by Martin Kallenborn and Jochen Scherer
• Lubee Edition with designers Mareva Beauchamps and Florian Sirieix announce Time Collectors
• Cryptozoic announces Rotten Tomatoes: The Card Game
• IELLO announces followup to King of Tokyo, King of New York - King of Monster Island
• Horrible Guild bringing out Similo Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
• Air Mail coming from Ludonova and designer Toni Lopez

 

CROWDFUNDING (11:00)

• Sea of Legends: Vengeance of the Empires
• Legacy of Yu
• Trailblazers
• Robomon
• Full Sun
• Diamond Dig

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (18:55)

• Flamecraft and Tidal Blades: Banner Festival coming to Essen

 

HOTNESS (21:15)

1. Oathsworn: Into the Deepwood
2. Legacy of Yu
3. Astra
4. Meltscape
5. War of the Ring: The Card Game
6. Flamecraft
7. The Fox Experiment
8. Pueblo
9. Ark Nova
10. Forsaken

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of September 5, 2022. This week, Ravensburger hopes to have a mouse problem, Trick or Treat’s remain Tasty, Rio Grande Plunders a new Dominion, and Eagle-Gryphon discovers Toole use to be Vital for Inventions.

 

TOP STORIES (2:15)

• Disney announces new Disney TCG Lorcana
• Trick or Treat Games bringing back old TMG classics
• Asmodee brings Tokaido Deluxe into US retail
• Rio Grande announces new Dominion expansion, Plunder
• FUSE stand-alone expansion Countdown coming from Renegade
• Mac Gerdts announces Crossing Oceans, spiritual successor to Transatlantic
• Inventions: Evolution of Ideas coming from Vital Lacerda, Ian O'Toole and Eagle-Gryphon
• Mindclash Games bringing lighter title Astra direct to retail
• Underdogs from 1 More Time Games retitled Challengers and being published by Z-Man
• Catch Up Games has announced After Us by Florian Sirieix
• Pictures XMas expansion coming from PD-Verlag
• All Roads coming from designer Markus Kettunen and Lautapelit.fi
• Deep Print Games announces Match of the Century from designer Paolo Mori
• Good Game Studio publishing Korean title Vegetable Stock from Zong-Hua Yang

 

CROWDFUNDING (15:55)

• Doomensions
• Ivion Season 2: Winters Bite
• The Comic Book Bubble
• Powerline
• Small Kingdoms: Oak Campaign
• Nanolith

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (24:20)

• Episode 800 contest and Flamecraft pre-orders

 

NEW RELEASES (26:55)

• Wormholes by Peter McPherson, published by AEG
• Zombicide: Gear Up designed by Jordy Adan and Marco Portugal, published by CMoN
• Crusaders: Thy Will Be Done - Divine Influence expansion by Seth Jaffee and Renegade Games
• FYFE designed by Kosch, published by Pegasus Spiele
• Animotion by Bruno Faidutti and Nathalie Grandperrin, published by Pegasus Spiele
• Disney Big Thunder Mountain Railroad by Prospero Hall, published by Funko Games
• My Little Pony: Adventures in Equestria Deck-Building Game published by Renegade Games
• Dominion: Seaside 2nd Edition by Donald X Vaccarino, published by Rio Grande
• Skull Canyon Ski Fest by Jason Klinke, published by Pandasaurus
• Cat in the Box Deluxe Edition by Muneyuki Yokouchi, published by Bezier Games

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of August 29, 2022. This week, EBay buys a second hand company, Friedemann Friese fluffs his feathers, Feuerland declares the Age of Aquarius, and we hit episode 800!

 

TOP STORIES (2:55)

• EBay to aquire TCGPlayer for $295M
• Tilt 5 AR board game system getting CATAN
• Daybreak by Matt Leacock to be published by CMYK
• Come Together announced by Chillfox Games and designers Vegard Eliassen Stillerud, Åsmund Svensson, and Eilif Svensson
• Fancy Feathers and Findorff coming from Friedemann Friese
• Ark Nova: Aquarius details emerge
• Ancient Wonders expansion for Origins: First Builders announced
• New dlp title Rise from designers Remo Conzadori and Marco Pranzo
• Twilight Struggle: Red Sea – Conflict in the Horn of Africa coming late this year
• Repos Games announces Harry Potter: Stupefy! by Ludovic Maublanc
• Marvel Villainous Venom expansion coming
• New LotR coop dice game from Michael Rieneck and KOSMOS

 

CROWDFUNDING (13:35)

• Guns or Treasure
• Abducktion: A Weirdly Strategic Game of Duck Kidnapping
• Tiny Robot Love Doctors
• Barbaric
• Bako: Dig and Write
• Red Dragon Battle for Greyport: Chaos in Copperforge

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (21:30)

• Episode 800 contest

 

THE HOTNESS (23:55)

1. Ready Set Bet
2. Spirit Island
3. Dune: Imperium
4. Obsession
5. Oathsworn: Into the Deepwood
6. Woodcraft
7. Trudvang Legends
8. Sea of Legends
9. Ark Nova
10. Ark Nova: Aquarius
11. Revive

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of August 22, 2022. This week, Asmodee’s sugar daddy gets into jewelry, Magic the Gathering will EXTERMINATE, the Wingspan designer experiments with foxes, and it's my birthday.

 

TOP STORIES (1:25)

• Embracer group acquires Middle Earth Enterprises
• Asmodee forms new studio Office Dog
• Frank West elected president of GAMA
• Mind Mgmt nominated for a Harvey Award
• Dr Who coming to MTG
• Noli announced by River Horse Games
• Birthday Burglary announced by Grand Gamers Guild
• Five Nights at Freddys: Nights of Frights coming from Funko Games
• Pandasaurus announces The Fox Experiment by designers Elizabeth Hargrave and Jeff Fraser
• Roll and write KunterPunkt coming from Frechverlag
• Waffle Time from AEG shown at GenCon
• Renegade Game Studios reveals new expansion for the Power Rangers Deck Building Game

 

CROWDFUNDING (9:50)

• Five Three Five
• Davy Jones Locker: The Kraken Wakes
• Aquarium and Eat Thy Neighbor
• Dungeons of Doria
• Little Flower Shop Duel

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (15:25)

• Corey and Barry play It's A Wonderful Kingdom

 

NEW RELEASES (18:05)

• Arrakis Dawn of the Fremen by Gale Force Nine and designers Bill Eberle, Jack Kittredge, Peter Olotka, Greg Olotka, and Jack Reda
• Streets by Sinister Fish Games and designer/artist Haakon Gaarder
• Dice Theme Park by Adrian Adamescu and Daryl Andrews, published by Alley Cat Games
• Cryptid Cafe by Chip Cole and published by 25th Century Games
• Don’t LLAMA Dice, by Reiner Knizia, published by AMIGO
• Museum Suspects by Phil-Walker Harding and published by Blue Orange Games
• Neoville by Phil Walker-Harding and Blue Orange Games
• Brazil: Imperial, by Ze Mendes and published by Portal Games
• Star Wars: Villainous - Power of the Dark Side by the design team of Prospero Hall, published by Ravensburger

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of August 15, 2022. This week, GenCon runs by the numbers, Bezzerwizzer Bezzerwizzer Bezzerwizzer, and Fantasy Flight brings a dagger to a lightsaber fight.

 

TOP STORIES (2:20)

• GenCon had over 50,000 attendees
• Bezzerwizzer from Asmodee
• Ark Nova expansion named on German TV
• Marvel DAGGER and Star Wars Deck Building
• Devir announces Lacrimosa
• American Psycho from Renegade Games
• Dice Manor and Leylines by Arcane Wonders
• MojoMania for Marvel Champions

 

CROWDFUNDING (9:53)

• Paleo Vet
• Dodos Riding Dinos
• Utopia
• Dead Reckoning: Letters of Marque
• Foundations of Rome
• Atma Season 2

 

SPONSOR SHOUTOUT (18:20)

• FlameCraft wins Best of GenCon, It's a Wonderful Kingdom nominated for Best 2-Player

 

THE HOTNESS (19:52)

• 10: Akropolis
• 9: Spirit Island
• 8: Foundations of Rome
• 7: Cat in the Box: Deluxe
• 6: Oathsworn: Into the Deepwood
• 5: Turing Machine
• 4: Dead Reckoning
• 3: Twilight Inscription
• 2: Ark Nova
• 1: Tiletum

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of August 8, 2022. This week, Avalon Hill heroically changes the Scape of gaming, Burnt Island endeavors to go deep, Uwe Rosenberg travels the land of apples and honey, and John Clair dreams of an End to the Empire.

 

TOP STORIES (2:54)

• Avalon Hill announces return of Heroscape
• War of the Ring: The Card Game
• The Wolves from Pandasaurus
• Endeavor Deep Sea
• WordCraft from Artipia
• Applejack by Uwe Rosenberg
• Starry Night Sky from Emma Larkins and Buffalo Games
• Legendary Encounters: The Matrix
• La Famiglia: The Great Mafia War
• Swindler from Pegasus Speile
• Loose Caboose by Gamewright
• Reiner Knizia's Zoo Vadis
• Empires End by John D Clair
• Aegean Sea by Carl Chudyk
• Ark Nova Map Pack 1

 

CROWDFUNDING (15:10)

• Weird Little Elf
• Western Legends: Mountain Range
• Star Realms: Rise of Empire
• Moonrakers: Binding Ties
• Return to Dark Tower: Covenant

 

SPONSOR SHOUTOUT (24:12)

• Lucky Duck Games announces Destinies expansion: Witchwood

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of August 1, 2022. This week, everyone gets a pinball for christmas, Kolossal is Almost Innocent, we Flatout compare Cities to Salads, and I’m in Colorado!

 

TOP STORIES (2:00)

• North Star Games rebrands
• WizKids announces Super Skill Pinball Holiday Special
• Dice Hunters of Therion coming from Richard Garfield
• Munchkin Turtle Carnage coming from Steve Jackson Games
• Marvel Legendary expansions 29, 30, and 31 detailed
• HeroQuest Frozen Horror expansion on Hasbro Pulse
• Magic the Gathering UnFinity announced
• Cranio Creations My Shelfe from Phil Walker-Harding and Matthew Dunstan
• Dulce coming from Stronghold Games and Julio E. Nazario
• Almost Innocent from Kolossal Games and designer Philippe Attali
• Fantasy Flight announces last physical expansion for Journeys in Middle Earth
• Flatout Games making Point City
• Galileo Project will be sequel to Ganymede from Hachette
• Hachette making party game Oh Really
• Smash Up 10th Anniversary Edition coming from AEG
• Insecta: Ladies of Entomology coming from Mont Tàber

 

CROWDFUNDING (14:15)

• Taverns and Dragons
• Copperdale
• Euthia: Fierce Powers
• Isle of Trains: All Aboard
• Shu's Tactics

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (20:20)

• New hires at Lucky Duck

 

NEW RELEASES (22:25)

• Cosmic Encounter: Cosmic Odyssey Campaign by Fantasy Flight Games
• So, You've Been Eaten by Scott Almes and Ludicreations
• It’s a Wonderful Kingdom by Frédéric Guérard, published by Lucky Duck
• Viticulture World: Cooperative Expansion designed by Mihir Shah and Francesco Testini, published by Stonemaier Games
• Ice Hoppers by Oussama Khelifati, published by Blue Orange Games
• EXIT: The Lord Of The Rings - Shadows Over Middle-Earth by Inka and Markus Brand, published by Thames Kosmos

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of July 25, 2022. This week, it's summertime, summertime, sum sum summertime, and it’s just spectacular. Plus more Spirits on the Horizon, and Dice Tower Awards.

 

TOP STORIES (2:00)

• Dice Tower Awards
• The Great Split by Horrible Guild
• Tesseract from Smirk & Laughter
• Hickory Dickory from Plaid Hat
• Deal With the Devil by CGE
• Prophets of Doom and Reavers of Midgard Expansion from Grey Fox
• Dune Imperium: Immortality from Dire Wolf
• Peter Pan from Matagot
• 3000 Scoundrels by Unexpected Games
• Meadow Adventure Book, Chronicles of Avel Expansion, and Avel deckbuilding card Game from Rebel Studios
• Caldera Park and Spaceship Unity from Pegasus Spiele
• Space Craft from Granna
• Raising Robots by Nauvoo Games
• Enola Holmes: Finder of Lost Souls from Gale Force 9
• Mosaic: Wars and Disasters Expansion by Forbidden Games
• Horizons of Spirit Island from Greater Than Games
• Planet B by Hans im Glück

 

CROWDFUNDING (19:15)

• Splintered Lands
• Snap Ship Tactics
• Burncycle New Recruits
• Aquamarine
• Moon
• Halves

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (27:25)

• Chronicles of Time

 

LIGHTNING ROUND NEWS (30:05)

• Arcane Wonders Logo Change
• CoraQuest: Keep on Questing Expansion
• Stranger Things Upside Down from Rob Daviau and CMoN
• Basilica reprint from Portal Games
• Ascending Empire: Zenith Edition from WizKids
• Undaunted: Battle of Britain by Osprey Games
• Pocket Sized Foriferous by Pencil First Games
• Race to the Raft from Frank West and City of Games

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of July 18, 2022. This week, Cool Mini takes the war to Mount Dune, Hasbro spells Mastermind, Disney’s villains makes us cry, WizKids goes through some Super Damage Control, and Spiel Spiel Spiely Spiel.

 

TOP STORIES (2:05)

• Spiel des Jahres winners announced
• PHD acquires British distributor Bliss
• CMoN nnounces Dune: War for Arrakis
• The Boys themed Zombicide packs available from CMoN
• Wordle the Party Game coming from Hasbro Pulse
• Blind Box game Disney Kingdomania coming from Funko
• Disney Villains card game by Leo Colovini and Ravensburger
• Parks: Wildlife expansion coming from Keymaster
• AEOLOS coming from Arve D. Fühler amd Guido Eckhof
• Discordia from from Bernd Eisenstein and publisher Irongames
• Asmodee making 3 games based on Netflix shows Ozark, Squid Game, and Stranger Things
• Marvel: Damage Control from Amari Akil and WizKids
• La Boca being reimagined as Recto Verso from Tiki Editions and Super Meeple
• Animal Espionage from Twin City Games and designer Joe Hout

 

CROWDFUNDING (14:40)

• Stardust Coffee
• Grand Carnival: On the Road
• Neko Boss
• One Hundred Torii: Diverging Paths and Hanafuda Deck
• Amun Re

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (22:05)

• Corey dominates at Banner Festival

 

THE HOTNESS (24:50)

1. Ahoy
2. Isle of Trains: All Aboard
3. Spirit Island
4. My Father's Work
5. Oathsworn: Into the Deepwood
6. Moon
7. Beyond the Sun
8. Ark Nova
9. Puerto Rico 1897
10. Revive

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of July 11, 2022. This week, the cat is both in and out of the box, Days of Wonder is going off the rails on a Ghost Train, Uwe reframes Nova Luna, and all hail the Cosmoctopus.

 

TOP STORIES (2:30)

• Kazuki Takahashi passes, creator of Yu Gi Oh
• Ticket to Ride: Ghost Train
• Sanssouci
• Sabika
• Framework by Uwe Rosenberg
• Mistwind by Daryl Andrews
• 1001 Islands from Asmodee
• Cosmoctopus
• Cat in the Box Deluxe Edition

 

CROWDFUNDING (10:33)

• Cheese Factory
• Flick Fleet: Xeno Wars
• Dice Throne: Santa vs Krampus
• Company of Heroes 2E
• Summit: Sanity + Big Box

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (17:35)

• Lucky Duck to publish Turtle Splash

 

NEW RELEASES (19:31)

• Bullet Star
• Streets
• Messina 1347
• Smash Up: Disney
• Yak
• Feed the Kraken

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of July 4, 2022. This week, KeyForge travels to a Ghost Galaxy through some Strange Stars, Dire Wolf’s Catacombs get decidedly noisier, Wingspan has the opposite of Empty Nest, and Days of Wonder gives it the Heat.

 

TOP STORIES (2:05)

• Capstone+ subscription service detailed
• 2022 Cardboard Edison Award winners announced
• Fantasy Flight sells KeyForge IP to Ghost Galaxy
• Dire Wolf announces Clank! Catacombs
• Twisty Tracks coming from Rio Grande and Jeffrey D. Allers
• Stonemaier Games announces Wingspan: Asia and the Nesting Box storage solution
• Reflecto coming from Mandoo Games and Roberto Fraga
• Euthia: Torment of Resurrection from DIEA Games being co-published by Steamforged
• Hand management racing game Heat: Pedal to the Metal coming from Days of Wonder
• Ravensburger re-theming Puerto Rico to Puerto Rico: 1897
• Wolfgang Warsch's fourth clever game, Clever 4Ever revealed

 

CROWDFUNDING (14:05)

• Cyberpunk 2077: Gangs of Night City from CMoN, designed by Andrea Chiarvesio, Eric M. Lang, Alexio Schneeberger, and Francesco Rugerfred Sedda
• Bretwalda by designer Leo Soloviey and PHALANX Games
• Compounded: Peer Reviewed and Lab Notes from Greater Than Games and Darrell Louder
• Amygdala by Wolfgang Kramer and Michael Kiesling, published by Game Brewer
• Helsinki by designers Asger Harding Granerud and Daniel Skjold Pedersen
• Beyond Humanity: Astrominers by designer Pawel 'Bloski' Suski and Three Headed Monster
• Joey Games from Phil and Meredith Walker-Harding
• Clash of Galliformes by Kim Åberg and Kim Jansson
• Globetrotting by Jeff Chin and Andrew Nerger

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (23:40)

• Flamecraft up for pre-order

 

THE HOTNESS (25:55)

1. Spirit Island from Greater than Games
2. Company of Heroes
3. Blood on the Clocktower by Steven Medway and The Pandemonium Institute
4. Rush Out! from Thomas Dupont and publisher Sit Down!
5. Bretwalda from PHALANX Games
6. Stars of Akarios by Out of My Mind Games
7. Oathsworn: Into the Deepwood by Shadowborne Games
8. Heat: Pedal to the Metal from Days of Wonder
9. Ark Nova from Capstone Games and Mathias Wigge
10. Clank! Catacombs from Dire Wolf and designer Paul Dennen

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of June 27, 2022. This week, Arcane Wonders celebrates the period between furnaces, Matagot has a futuristic renaissance, Ludonaute peers into the future of cards, and RAGE!

 

TOP STORIES (3:20)

• Magic Mountain won Kinderspiel
• GAMA releases numbers for origins 2022
• Railroad Madness from Holy Grail Games
• Furnace Interbellum from Arcane Wonders
• Marvel Champions LCG: Cyclops
• Galactic Renaissance from Matagot
• Thiefdom from Karma Games
• Precognition from Ludonaute

 

CROWDFUNDING (10:50)

• First in Flight
• Tsuro Luxury Edition
• Skyrise
• Septima
• Bot Factory

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (17:51)

• Lucky Duck co-Publishes Tidal Blades: Banner Festival with Druid City Games

 

NEW RELEASES (19:37)

• Dungeons Dice and Danger
• Make It Happen
• World Z League
• Hibachi
• Next Station: London
• Crescent Moon
• Gutenberg
• Outer Rim: Unfinished Business

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of June 20, 2022. This week, crowdfunding gets some backup, Orléans draws some famous names, Merchants Cove gets craftier, and this city goes all-in for Crime.

 

TOP STORIES (2:10)

• BackerKit announces intention to start crowdfunding platform
• Funko Inc purchases Mondo from Alamo Drafthouse
• Tabletop Tycoon enters publishing partnership with Rock Manor Games
• Joan of Arc: Orléans Roll Draw and Write announced by dlp
• TheOP announces Harry Potter: Mischief in Diagon Alley
• Big Box edition of Village coming from Eggertspiele
• Merchants Cove getting MasterCraft expansion
• Animalia: Preventing Extinction released by Quined Games
• Planted from Phil Walker-Harding comes to Target stores
• MicroMacro Crime City gets third title - All In

 

CROWDFUNDING (13:40)

• Court from B5 Productions
• Aeon's End Past and Future by Sydney Engelstein, Nick Little, and Kevin Riley
• Fluffy Frontier from Björn Ekenberg and ION Game Design
• Heroes and Wizards by Jof Croxford and Jof Games
• Umbrella Academy from Mantic Games

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (20:55)

• What a Wonderful Kingdom

 

THE HOTNESS (23:40)

1. Village by Markus and Inka Brand
2. Carnegie by Xavier Georges and Quined Games
3. Spirit Island from Greater than Games
4. The Clash of Galliformes from Todys Games
5. Metropolys by Sébastien Pauchon
6. Ark Nova by Mathias Wigge and Capstone Games
7. Bretwalda by PHALANX Games
8. Septima by Mindclash Games
9. Village: Big Box by Markus and Inka Brand from Eggertspiele
10. Skyrise from Roxley Games

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of June 13, 2022. This week, CMoN flips some zombies, Vienna and Cuzco are tossed into the point salad, and little Asmodee’s parents make a Savvy move.

 

TOP STORIES (3:05)

• Saudi national fund invests $1B in Asmodee parent company
• Devir and Schmidt Spiel enter publication agreement
• Flip and write Zombicide: Gear Up coming from CMoN
• Cancelled Kickstarter Rift Knights being redone as Knight Fall by Red Raven Games
• Targi Bonus Box coming from KOSMOS
• New version of Hive Mind by Richard Garfield coming from Calliope
• Gloomhaven fan expansion Crimson Scales to be printed non-profit
• UNO Star Wars announced by Mattel
• Floodgate Games releasing cooperative sand timer title Kites
• Red Cathedral: Contractors detailed and dated by Devir
• New expansion to Disney's Sorcerers Arena - Thrills and Chills
• Stefan Feld City Collection games 5 and 6 announced by Queen Games
• Racing game Gemini Gauntlet coming from Lynnvander Studios

 

CROWDFUNDING (15:15)

• Bananya by Japanime Games and designer Chelsea Schwartz
• Hacktivity from Stéphane Vachon and publisher Acolyte Cooperative Board Games
• Keydoms Dragons from designer Richard Breese and R&D Games
• The Gig by designers Jamie Gray, Dann May, Robb Smigielski, and Lewis Shaw
• Unmatched Storage System from Restoration Games

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (22:10)

• Destinies wins UK Games Expo Award

 

THE HOTNESS (24:20)

1. Wonderland’s War, from Druid City Games and designers Tim Eisner, Ben Eisner, and Ian Moss
2. Arcs by Cole Wehle and Leder Games
3. Carnegie by Carson City designer Xavier Georges and Quined Games
4. Space Station Phoenix by Gabriel Cohn
5. Star Wars: Outer Rim Unfinished Business
6. Castles of Burgundy by Ravensburger and Stefan Feld
7. My Father’s Work by T. C. Petty III
8. Terra Nova by Capstone Games
9. Ark Nova by Mathias Wigge and Capstone Games
10. War of the Ring: The Card Game from Ares Games

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of June 6, 2022. This week, we explore gran sendero del oeste, more details emerge on teeny tiny terra, the newest patchwork play is you know stacks and stuff, and the next thingavellir for nidavellir is idavellir.

 

TOP STORIES (2:15)

• FunForge Kickstarter troubles
• Great Western Trail Argentina detailed by Eggertspiele
• Terra Nova detailed by Capstone Games
• Atiwa by Uwe Rosenberg announced by Lookout Games
• Splendor Duel shown by Space Cowboys
• ReMEmber coming from Pegasus Spiele
• Tidal Blades: Banner Festival announced by Druid City Games
• Second expansion to Nidavellir, Idavoll, announced
• Patchwork Express variant Stack'N Stuff announced by Lookout Games

 

CROWDFUNDING (11:15)

• Kabuto Sumo and so much more by LBoardGameTables.com
• Union Stockyards from Designer Duane Wulf and Solid Rock Games
• Runescape Kingdoms: Shadow of Elvarg from Steamforged Games
• Arcs by designer Cole Wehrle and Leder Games
• Castles of Burgundy Special Edition by Awaken Realms and Ravensburger designed by Stefan Feld
• Bark Avenue by designers Mackenzie and Jonathan Jungck with TerreDice Games

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (20:25)

• Destinies Community Editor Contest and Origins

 

NEW RELEASES (23:05)

• Eco: Coral Reef by Izik Nevo and Unique Board Games
• Ouch! By Romain Caterdjian and Théo Rivière, published by Devir
• Mystic Paths by Brian Leet and Kevin Worden, published by R&R Games
• eXplorers by Phil Walker-Harding and Ravensburger
• Batman: Everybody Lies by Weronika Spyra and Ignacy Trzewiczek, published by Portal Games
• Guild of Merchant Explorers by Matthew Dunstan and Brett J Gilberts, published by AEG
• Mortum - Medieval Detective by Sergey Minevich and Arcane Wonders
• Creature Comforts by Roberta Taylor and Kids Table Board Games
• Space Base - The Mysteries of Terra Proxima by John D. Clair and AEG
• Cartaventura: Lhasa and Cartaventura: Vinland by Thomas Dupont and Arnaud Ladagnous, published by KOSMOS
• Air, Land, & Sea: Spies, Lies, & Supplies by Jon Perry and Arcane Wonders
• Prehistories by Alexandre Emerit and Benoit Turpin, published by 25th Century Games

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of May 30, 2022. This week, CGE boldly goes, Cathala and Maublanc hit the target, Viva tres Guano, and Germany “plays” after another trip around the sun.

 

TOP STORIES (3:00)

• Spiel des Jahres nominees announced
• Terra Nova teased from Capstone Games
• CGE announces Starship Captains
• Pencil First Games to crowdfund a hanafuda deck with One Hundred Toriis expansion
• Roll and write Kyudo coming from Bruno Cathala and Ludovic Maublanc
• Twilight Inscription is open for pre-orders from Fantasy Flight
• Fire and Stone: Siege of Vienna announced by Capstone Games
• Lucha Wars coming from Backspindle Games
• Guano Guano Guano! by Kate Bertram and Fort Circle Games
• The Great British Baking Show Game announced by Ravensburger

 

CROWDFUNDING (14:10)

• Pirates Dragon Treasure by Luke Plikaitis and Caleb Bieranowski
• The Flood from Elijah and Natalie Morar with publisher Bedouin Games
• The Artemis Project: Satellites and Commanders from Grand Gamer’s Guild and designer Daniel Rocchi
• Resist designed by Trevor Benjamin, Roger Tankersley, and David Thompson with Salt and Pepper Games
• Trailblazer: The John Muir Trail by Designer Dan R Rice III and Mariposa Games
• Hunters of the Lost Creatures from Publisher Wonderbow and designer Sönke Schmidt

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (21:40)

• UK Games Expo!

 

THE HOTNESS (23:45)

1. Living Forest by Aske Christiansen and Ludonaute
2. Dune: Imperium from Paul Dennen and Dire Wolf
3. SCOUT by Kei Kajino
4. Quacks & Co. by Wolfgang Warsch
5. Sniper Elite: The Board Game by Roger Tankersley and David Thompson
6. Crescent Moon by Steven Mathers
7. Ark Nova by Capstone Games
8. Castles of Burgundy: Special Edition
9. Starship Captains by Peter B. Hoffgaard and CGE
10. Arcs by Leder Games

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of May 23, 2022. This week, cute little pikas go with the floe, the greater part of games is no longer the dice, big potatoes are worth ZILLIONS, and Plan B moves their aesthetic from Starburst to Ghiradelli.

 

TOP STORIES (2:00)

• Floe coming from new studio Pika Games and designer Henry Audubon
• Greater than Games and Dice Hate Me Games part ways
• Kuzooka by Leo Colovini announced by Pegasus Spiele
• Gloomhaven digital coming to consoles in 2023
• Mutant Genesis expansion for Marvel Champions, dfeaturing X-Men
• War of the Ring card game coming from Ares
• Game of 49 being remade from Big Potato Games as Zillionaires on Mars
• Horrible Guild announces abstract game Evergreen
• Tokaido Duo teased by Antoine Bauza
• Legend of Andor: The Eternal Cold announced by KOSMOS
• Tribes of the Wind from designer Joachim Thôme and La Boîte de Jeu
• Next Move Games shows off Azul Master Chocolatier
• GAMA reinstates mask policy at Origins

 

CROWDFUNDING (13:00)

• RA by Reiner Knizia and 25th Century Games
• Damask from designer Barbara Burfoot and Radical 8 Games
• Through Ice and Snow from Fernando Eduardo Sánchez and 2Tomatoes Games
• Grab Your Breakfast by Lim Ming Liang and Amoeba Games
• Tiny Epic Vikings by Scott Almes and Gamelyn Studios
• Anunnaki from Cranio Creations by designers Simone Luciani and Danilo Sabia

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (20:50)

• Lucky Duck expands into Italian

 

THE HOTNESS (22:40)

1. Spirit Island from Greater Than Games
2. Get On Board: New York and London
3. Carnegie from Quined Games
4. Arcs by Leder Games
5. Longboard from Reiner Knizia 25th Century Games
6. RA by Reiner Knizia and 25th Century Games
7. Marvel Champions: The Card Game from Fantasy Flight
8. Blazon by David Conklin and 25th Century Games
9. burncycle from Chip Theory Games
10. Ark Nova from Capstone Games

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of May 16, 2022. This week, the best cuisine comes from CATAN, Steve Jackson brings back wizards from 1983 for the 9th time, and Blue Orange Games - you can’t eat just one.

 

TOP STORIES (3:00)

• Rollacrit to provide accessories for both CATAN and GenCon
• Asmodee and Ulysses Press announce cookbooks based on CATAN and Ticket to Ride
• Fog of Love: Lockdown Expansion announced
• Tabriz coming from Cascadia designer Randy Flynn and Crafty Games
• New editions of Groo and Wiz-War crowdfunding soon from Steve Jackson Games
• Asmodee creates Access+ Studio
• Annapurna tournament to be held at PAX Unplugged
• Lunar Outpost announced by Ravensburger and designer Michael Mulvihill
• Blue Orange Games announces Bag of Chips
• Crescent Moon coming from Osprey Games and designer Steven Mathers

 

CROWDFUNDING (11:05)

• Glitch Squad by designers Mary Flanagan and Max Seidman with Resonym Games
• Fliptown from Steven Aramini and Write Stuff Games
• Age of Steam Deluxe Expansions from Eagle Games
• Broken and Beautiful by Patrick Rauland and Left Justified Studio
• Cytress by by designer Sean Lee and Tress Games
• Desperation from Jason Morningstar and Bully Pulpit Games

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (19:30)

• When the cat is away, Lucky Duck designs a Frosthaven app

 

NEW RELEASES (22:30)

• Platypus by Phil Walker-Harding published by Arrakis Games
• The Thing: The Boardgame by Giuseppe Cicero and Andrea Crespi, published by Pendragon Studios
• Dice Realms by Thomas Lehmann published by Rio Grande Games
• Chronicles of Avel by Przemek Wojtkowiak published by Rebel Studio
• Squid Inc by Ivan Turner published by WizKids
• Unlock Kids: Detective Stories by Cyril Demaegd, Marie Fort, and Wilfried Fort, published by Space Cowboys
• Terra Mystica Big Box by Jens Drögemüller and Helge Ostertag published by Capstone Games
• Décorum by Charlie Mackin, Harry Mackin and Drew Tenenbaum published by Floodgate Games
• Founders of Teotihuacan by Filip Głowacz published by Board and Dice

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of May 9, 2022. This week, Asmodee’s Embrace now includes even more video games, Gamers Brew up an Amygdala abstract, Mandoo invents Pokemon Salad, and there’s a new Moon over San Francisco.

 

TOP STORIES (1:45)

• Embracer Group purchases assets from Eidos
• Investor Group led by The Chernin Group and eBay purchases 25% of Funko
• 2021 Golden Geek Awards announced
• Catherine: The Cities of the Tsarina coming to the west from Capstone
• Two expansions announced for Picture Perfect
• Abstract game Amygdala coming from Michael Kiesling and Wolfgang Kramer published by Game Brewer
• Mandoo Games announces Point Salad: Eevee edition
• Pioneer Rails coming from Dranda Games by designers Matthew Dunstan and Jeffrey D Allers
• Choose and Write title Distant Suns by IELLO
• 2-player Lofoten coming by Sébastien Dujardin and Pearl Games
• Ticket to Ride: San Francisco announced
• Floodgate Games reveals Sagrada: Glory by Adrian Adamescu and Daryl Andrews
• Rob Daviau and Stephen Baker working on DragonLance: Warriors of Krynn

 

CROWDFUNDING (12:10)

• Autobahn by designers Fabio Lopiano and Nestore Mangone
• Wayfarers of the South Tigris by Garphill Games and designers Shem Phillips and S J Macdonald
• Sleeping Gods: Distant Skies by designer Ryan Laukat and Red Raven Games
• Oranienburger Kanal by Uwe Rosenberg and Spielworxx
• Waste Knights: Beyond the Horizon by publisher Galakta with designers Marek Mydel and Paweł Szewc
• Kingdom Builder: Empire Edition by Donald X Vaccarino and Queen Games

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (21:00)

• The Dark Quarter crowdfunds for €1,000,000

 

THE HOTNESS (22:55)

1. Gloomholdin’ by Joe Klipfel
2. Ark Nova by Matthias Wigge
3. Euthia: Torment of Resurrection by Markéta Bláhová and Tadeáš Spousta
4. RA by designer Reiner Knizia and Ravensburger
5. Arcs by Cole Wehrle and Leder Games
6. Age of Steam Deluxe Edition by Martin Wallace
7. Radlands from designer Daniel Piechnick and Roxley Games
8. Wonderlands War by Druid City Games from designers Tim Eisner, Ben Eisner and Ian Moss
9. Carnegie by Xavier Georges and Quined Games
10. Cascadia from Randy Flynn and Flatout Games

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of May 2, 2022. This week, This week, Phil Walker-Harding moves from platypus to kangaroos, Hachette has got you in the palm of their hand, and all bets are in for the great T-Rex versus botanist matchup.

 

TOP STORIES (2:25)

• Phil and Meredith Walker-Harding start Joey Games
• Gale Force 9 announces Starfinder: Pirates of Skydock
• Creature Comforts: Maple Valley coming from KTBG
• Ready Set Bet and That Old Wallpaper coming from AEG
• In the Palm of Your Hand coming from designer Timothée Decroix and La Boîte de Jeu
• Origins announces COVID restrictions
• Restoration Games releases Unmatched promo Jurassic Park: Dr Sattler vs T Rex
• Fantasy Flight announces Sp//Dr Hero pack for Marvel Champions

 

CROWDFUNDING (11:00)

• Castles by the Sea by Designers Jon Benjamin and Michael Xuereb
• The Dark Quarter by Lucky Duck and Van Ryder Games designed by Evan Derrick
• Birds of a Feather by Teale Fristoe and Snowbright Studio
• Last Light by designer Roy Cannaday and Grey Fox Games
• Anastyr by publisher Mythic Games and designer Philippe Ville
• Explorers of the Woodlands by From the Woods Studio and designer Geoffrey Wood

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (20:05)

• King of 12

 

THE HOTNESS (23:10)

1. Ark Nova by Matthias Wigge
2. Oranienburger Kanal by Spielworxx and Uwe Rosenberg
3. Through Ice and Snow by Fernando Eduardo Sánchez
4. Anunnaki: Dawn of the Gods from designers Simone Luciani and Danilo Sabia and Cranio Creations
5. Wonderland’s War from Tim and Ben Eisner, with Ian Moss
6. The Great Wall by Awaken Realms
7. Wayfarers of the South Tigris by Shem Phillips and Garphill Games
8. Uprising: Curse of the Last Emperor by Nemesis Games
9. Cryptid: Urban Legends by Hal Duncan and Ruth Veevers
10. The Thing by Pendragon Game Studio

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of April 25, 2022. This week, Netflix explodes with kittens, FFG spends its 25th anniversary scribbling all over TI4, Ticket to Ride improves on a 6½, and Maui beaches are definitely the Next Move.

 

TOP STORIES (1:45)

• Exploding Kittens announces digital game and animated series from Netflix
• Fantasy Flight teases roll-and-write Twilight Inscription
• BoardGameTables.com prepares crowdfunding for 4 expansions
• Catherine: The Tsarina's Cities coming from dlp
• Greater then Games announces Spirit Island: Feathers and Flame
• Gale Force 9 announces deck builder Firefly: Misbehavin'
• Party game Topic coming from Luma Imports
• Hangman Games starts DecaDesign micropublishing project
• The Gig jazz themed roll-and-write coming from Braincrack Games
• Save Patient Zero announced from Helvetiq
• Ticket to Ride: Poland coming from Days of Wonder
• Stellarion, the sixth Oniverse title announced by InPatience Publishing
• Beach area control title Maui coming from Next Move Games

 

CROWDFUNDING (14:00)

• Legacy of Thracks by Balázs Svéda and Svéda Studio
• Aldarra by designers Matt Fantastic and Benny McLennan, published by Arcane Minis
• Paradox Initiative by designer Brian Suhre and Elf Creek Games
• For Northwood! by designer/artist Wilhelm Su and published by Sideroom Games
• Fujiyama and Ajisai by designer and publisher Nanatsumu
• MagLev: Metro, Mechs, and More by Ted Alspach and Bezier Games

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (22:45)

• Destinies Community Editor released on Steam

 

NEW RELEASES (25:35)

• Murano: Light Masters by Carlo Camarotto and Francesco Testini, published by Matagot
• Darwinauts by designer Chris Bryan and Green Couch Games
• Dr. Who: Don't Blink by Dylan Birtolo, Josh Derksen, and Thomas M. Gofton, published by Gale Force 9
• Familiar Tales by Jerry Hawthorne and Plaid Hat Games
• Zapotec by designer Fabio Lopiano, published by Board and Dice
• Golem by designers Flaminia Brasini, Virginio Gigli, and Simone Luciani, published by Cranio Creations
• Azul: Queen’s Garden by designer Michael Kiesling and publisher Next Move Games
• Katarenga by designer David Parlett and Rio Grande Games
• Long Shot: The Dice Game by Chris Handy and Perplext

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of April 18, 2022. This week, Stonemaier decides wine is for everyone, Saashi and Saashi moves from elevators to housecleaning, and Hasbro goes to D&D and beyond.

 

TOP STORIES (2:00)

• Asmodee makes new label “Unbox Now” for best seller titles
• Hasbro purchases D&D Beyond
• Dice Tower Awards Nominations
• American Tabletop Awards Winners
• Funforge cancels Far Cry board game campaign
• New Cooperative Viticulture expansion from Stonemaier
• Turing Machine from Le Scorpion Masque
• New Cosmic Encounter expansion Cosmic Odyssey
• Rio Grande acquires rights to Strife/Texas Showdown
• Before the Guests Arrive from Saashi and Saashi
• The Search for Lost Species
• Septima from Mindclash

 

CROWDFUNDING (12:54)

• Kingdoms: Rise and Fall: Dorian
• The Big Pig Game
• Dead by Daylight
• Maul Peak
• Kaikoro
• Silicon Valley

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (20:50)

• It's a Wonderful Kingdom, August 2022
• Flamecraft, Q4 2022

 

THE HOTNESS (22:34)

• 10: Cascadia
• 9: Dune: Imperium
• 8: Merchants of the Dark Road
• 7: The Dark Quarter
• 6: The Paradox Initiative
• 5: Tiny Epic Vikings
• 4: Ark Nova
• 3: Arcs
• 2: Viticulture World
• 1: Septima

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of April 11, 2022. This week, Reiner Knizia continues to turtle forward, Matagot has decided to never grow up, Burgundy gets some major bling, and Pegasus mines for helium in the sky.

 

TOP STORIES (2:01)

• Skymines coming from Alexander Pfister and Victor Koblike
• Bureau of Investigation from Space Cowboys
• Orichalque from Bruno Cthala and Johannes Goupy
• Reiner Knizia Turtle Mania coming to retail
• D&D Three Dragon Ante expansion
• Sa-Rê from Francois Bachelart
• Peter Pan by Matagot
• MetroX expansion map pack 2
• Castles of Burgundy deluxe edition
• Rattus Big Box

 

CROWDFUNDING (9:31)

• Bad Karmas and Teburu
• ONUS! Traianus
• Encyclopedia
• Nightmare Cathedral
• Age of Rome
• Mercurial

 

NEW RELEASES (17:04)

• Free Radicals
• Bohnanza 25th Anniversary Edition
• First Empires
• Key to the Kingdom
• Deckscape: Dracula's Castle

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (19:57)

• Pocket Detective
• Dark Quarter Kickstarter April 12

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of April 4, 2022. This week, WizKids plays rock, paper, Spider-Man, Agricola is nearly old enough to drive, and ION Games covers the alphabet from Vendel to Viking.

 

TOP STORIES (3:45)

• Gamefound opens its doors for all creators
• Marvel Age of Heroes teased by WizKids
• Marvel Rock, Paper, Heroes coming from WizKids
• Agricola15 announced by Lookout Games
• Prequel to Pax Viking, Vendel to Viking, coming from ION Games
• Chip Theory Games opens a Curio store
• Stonemaier Games selling Disc Golf Discs for April Fools
• 2-player skirmish game Dungeons and Dragons Onslaught announced by WizKids
• Tragedy Looper: New Tragedies coming from WizKids
• Cholas the Sculptors coming from Mad4Fun Games

 

CROWDFUNDING (11:35)

• Route East by designers Jonny Hale, George Vernon-Hunt, and Petra Opelova
• Habitats, BasketBoss, and 9 Lives by BoardGameTables.com
• Terraforming Mars Ares Expedition expansions by designers Sydney Engelstein, Jacob Fryxelius, and Nick Little
• Oak by designer Wim Goossens and publisher Game Brewer
• Tidal Blades: Rise of the Unfolders from Druid City Games along with designers Tim and Ben Eisner
• Jurassic World: The Legacy of Isla Nublar by Prospero Hall and Funko Studios

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (21:10)

• Chronicles of Netflix

 

THE HOTNESS (23:45)

1. Ark Nova by designer Mathias Wigge and Capstone Games
2. Nightmare Cathedral from designer Błażej Kubacki
3. Darkest Doom by Mario Zattini
4. Age of Rome by Vangelis Efthimiou and Antonios Yannopoulos
5. Dead Reckoning by John D. Clair and AEG
6. Dune: Imperium by designer Paul Dennen and Dire Wolf
7. Encyclopedia by designers Eric Dubus and Olivier Melison
8. Cascadia from designer Randy Flynn and Flatout Games
9. Agricola 15 by Uwe Rosenberg and Lookout Games
10. Return to Dark Tower from Restoration Games

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of March 28, 2022. This week, the good doctor Knizia upgrades from a city to an island, another obscure IP from the 80s goes tabletop, and Oink gets Overload from Order 66.

 

TOP STORIES (2:10)

• Catan Studios announces Catan: Dawn of Humankind
• My Island coming from Reiner Knizia and KOSMOS
• Rails to the North expansion coming for second edition of Great Western Trail
• New details for Star Wars Outer Rim expansion Unfinished Business
• Mortum Medieval Detective coming from Arcane Wonders
• Mobile Markets: A Smartphone Inc Game coming to retail after GenCon 2022
• Keepers announced from Van Ryder
• Northgard: Uncharted Lands coming to retail from Studio H
• Escape From New York crowdfunding from Pendragon Studios in late 2022
• My Little Pony deckbuilding game coming from Renegade
• Two new Oink Games titles announced

 

CROWDFUNDING (11:45)

• Solar 175 by designers Joseph N and Madeleine Adams, published by Cogito Ergo Meeple
• Small City by designer Alban Viard
• Monster Pit from Elzra with designers Aron West and Nick Seddon
• Motor City by Ben Pinchback and Matt Riddle
• Library Labyrinth from designers Jessica Metheringham and Mill Goble along with Dissent Games
• Island Alone by designer Radosław Ignatów
• Tamashii: Chronicle of Ascend by designers Kamil Cieśla, Łukasz Włodarczyk, and Robert Plesowicz with Awaken Realms Lite

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (21:35)

• The Dark Quarter

 

NEW RELEASES (25:10)

• Siege of Runedar by Reiner Knizia, published by Asmodee
• Blaze by the HeidelBÄR Games Team, published by HeidelBÄR Games
• Happy City by Airu Sato and Toshiki Sato, published by Gamewright
• Rulebenders by Tom Vandeweyer, published by Game Brewer
• Dungeon Drop: Wizards and Spells by Scott R. Smith, published by Phase Shift Games
• Museum: Pictura by Eric Dubus and Olivier Melison, published by Holy Grail Games
• Wise Guys by Phil Yates and Gale Force 9

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of March 21, 2022. This week, Flat River gets fatter, Portals appear in Brazil, Smirkin’ Boopin’ Cats fall off the bed, and GAMA LAMA BOBAMA.

 

TOP STORIES (2:10)

• AEG announces Shake That City
• Empire's End coming from John D Clair and Brotherwise Games
• Planet Unknown from Adam's Apple Games coming to retial
• Hybrid deck builder SolForge Fusion coming from Justin Gary and Richard Garfield
• Tile placement game Akropolis announced by Hachette
• Flat River Group acquires distributor Luma and Synapses Games
• Smirk and Dagger releasing abstract game Boop
• Portal Games to co-publish Brazil: Imperial by Zé Mendes
• Ahoy is next asymmetrical title from Leder Games
• Marvel: Remix is WizKid's next IP version for Fantasy Realms
• Grand Gamers Guild selling Ukraian Ambassador promo card to help support refugees
• Stonewall: Uprising, a historical treatment of the gay rights movement in America, coming from Taylor Shuss

 

CROWDFUNDING (13:35)

• Alice in Wordland: Curiouser and Curiouser from DrawLab Entertainment
• Illiterati from designers Gary Alaka, Rob Chew, and Jon Kang
• Rumors and Legends by designer Reuben Brunson and BIGABOT Games
• Small Samurai Empires: Rise of Tokugawa by Milan Tasevski and Archona Games
• Hamlet from designer David Chircop and publisher Mighty Board
• Tiwanaku by designer Olivier Grégoire and Sit Down Games

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (21:50)

• Sherlock: Case Connection gameplay from GAMA

 

NEW RELEASES (22:50)

• The Smoky Valley by Claude Sirois, published by Spielworxx
• Marvel Champions: Sinister Motives from Fantasy Flight Games
• Marvel Legendary: Doctor Strange & The Shadows of Nightmare from Upper Deck Entertainment
• Iki from designer Koota Yamada and publisher Sorry We Are French
• Caper: Europe from Keymaster Games and designer Unai Rubio
• Ginkgopolis: The Experts 3rd edition from Pearl Games and designer Xavier Georges
• Dune: CHOAM and Richese Expansion from Gale Force 9
• Glory Islands by Arve D. Fühler, published by Rio Grande Games

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of March 14, 2022. This week, Wild Leviathan moon crabs channel spirits of Pandemics past, Ravensburger turns to the dark side, sinister streets and villagers head to the moon, and AEG Smashes it with Disney.

 

TOP STORIES (2:00)

• Moon Crab Games forms from ex- ZMan and FFG designers, announces Leviathan Wilds
• Star Wars Villainous: Power of the Dark Side announced from Ravensburger
• Renegade publishing Crusaders: Thy Will Be Done by Seth Jaffee
• Sinister Games announces Moon
• BoardGameTables.com is publishing Habitats from Cwali
• Funko announces Rear Window game
• 3 upcoming Expansions to Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition detailed
• Sheddin/Climbing card game 535 being brought to US by Portland Game Collective
• Disney Smash Up announced by AEG
• Village Rails coming from designers Brett J. Gilbert and Matthew Dunstan
• Designer Chip Cole, 25th Century Games, and Squatchy Games bringing Cryptid Cafe to retail

 

CROWDFUNDING (11:45)

• Tang Garden: Seasons by designers Francesco Testini and Pierluca Zizzi
• Behext from Smirk and Dagger
• Ahau Rulers of Yucatan from Oláh Tamás
• Pilgrim from designer Nick Case and A-Muse-Ment Games
• Twin Palms from designer Kristi B and publisher Bink Ink
• The Lost Code by designer Leo Colovini
• Way Too Many Cats by Carla Kopp and Weird Giraffe Games

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (22:10)

• Dark Quarter Kickstarter coming April 14

 

THE HOTNESS (23:40)

1. Hamlet by designer David Chircop and Mighty Boards
2. Ark Nova by Mathias Wigge and Feuerland Spiele
3. Borderlands from designers Bill Eberle, Jack Kittredge, and Peter Olotka
4. Long Shot: The Dice Game from Chris Handy and Perplext Games
5. Arrakis: Dawn of the Fremen from Gale Force 9
6. Star Wars Villainous: Power of the Dark Side from Ravensburger
7. Batman: Everybody Lies from Portal Games
8. Dune: Imperium from Dire Wolf and designer Paul Dennen
9. Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition by Stronghold Games
10. Cascadia from designer Randy Flynn

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of March 7, 2022. This week, Por-tal woos Thor-gal, the gods over San Francisco are also sleeping, and Capstone likes big box and they cannot lie.

 

TOP STORIES (1:35)

• GTS becomes exclusive distributor for Stonemaier
• Portal Games bringing Thorgal to Gamefound in May 2022
• New details on Betrayal House on the Hill 3rd edition
• Terra Mystica Big Box coming from Capstone
• Endangered: Monarch Butterflies
• Sequel for The LOOP announced from Pandasaurus
• Dying Light board game teased
• Parks and Rec Party game coming from Funko
• Dune Arrakis: Dawn of the Fremen
• Sleeping Gods: Distant Skies
• New “Rising” game - Fire Nation Rising
• Teburu computerized board game system gets Sword & Sorcery

 

CROWDFUNDING (11:07)

• Trinity of Reign
• Waterline
• Crabs in a Bucket
• Starship Interstellar
• Circuitry
• Lobotomy 2: Manhunt

 

SPONSOR SHOUTOUT (18:31)

• Lucky Duck Games makes a showing at Dice Tower West

 

NEW RELEASES (20:26)

• Mystic Vale: Essential Edition
• Rest in Peace
• Pictures: Orange Expansion
• Set a Watch: Swords of the Coin Expansion
• Gloomier: A Night at Hemlock Hall
• Agricola: Consul Dirigens Expansion

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of February 28, 2022. This week, a box of games gets the hatchet, Herr Doktor Knizia hangs 10, the house up on that hill is once again betrayed, and Carcassonne is lost in the fog.

 

TOP STORIES (2:00)

• Hachette Livre acquires La Boîte de Jeu
• Cardboard Edison award finalists announced
• Longboard coming by Reiner Knizia and publisher 25th Century Games
• 3rd edition of Betrayal at House on the Hill teased by Avalon Hill
• Lord of the Rings EXIT game has release date
• Multiple Disney titles coming
• New cooperative Carcassonne stand-alone expansion announced
• Wizard of Oz Adventure Book game coming from Ravensburger
• Gamewright releasing Scratch and Play, a series of solitaire game sheets

 

CROWDFUNDING (9:05)

• Hand to Hand Wombat by designers Matthew Inman and Elan Lee
• Deep Rock Galactic designer Ole Steiness and MOOD Publishing
• Iron Forest from Brain Games and designer team Brian Gomez
• Tindaya by designer Lolo González
• 51st State Ultimate Edition by Ignacy Trzewiczek and Portal Games
• Earth from designer Maxime Tardif and Inside Up Games
• Kingdoms Forlorn from Marcin Welnicki and Into the Unknown Publishing

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (19:20)

• Chronicles of Crime Millenium Series

 

NEW RELEASES (21:40)

• Voices in my Head by Corey Konieczka and Unexpected Games
• Welcome to the Moon by Alexis Allard and Benoit Turpin, published by Blue Cocker Games
• Port Royal Big Box by Alexander Pfister and Pegasus Spiele
• Star Wars: Jabba's Palace – A Love Letter Game by Justin Kemppainen and Z-Man Games
• Full Throttle by Friedemann Friese and Rio Grande Games
• A Game of Thrones: B’twixt from Fantasy Flight Games

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of February 21, 2022. This week, Kickstarter chain blocks blockchain, Ravensburger plans to put its money where its mouth is, and board games finally help us learn to tie our shoes.

 

TOP STORIES (1:29)

• Kickstarter is backing off of blockchain
• Ravensburger plans on crowdfunding a few games through Gamefound
• Investors trying to split WotC from Hasbro
• San Francisco by Reiner Knizia
• Eyelet by Amabel Holland
• The Border by Keisling and Staupe
• Lucky Duck - Sherlock Case Connection
• StoneSaga from Out of My Mind Games
• Route East from LostVenture Games
• Gloomhaven digital getting Jaws of the Lion DLC
• Sidereal Confluence: Bifurcation
• Goofy Movie Game

 

CROWDFUNDING (11:06)

• Jiangnan: Life of Gentry
• Astro Knights
• Seas of Havoc
• Evolution New World
• Trekking Through History
• Floating Floors

 

SPONSOR SHOUTOUT (20:11)

• Tranquility on a tranquil cruise, Small Islands on a small island

 

THE HOTNESS (21:43)

• Earth
• Ark Nova
• Ostia
• Kingdoms Forlorn
• Voices in my Head
• Tindaya
• Dune: Imperium
• Tiny Epic Dungeons
• Lost Ruins of Arnak
• Terraforming Mars

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of February 14, 2022. This week, Gamefound finds a German sugar daddy, the courts decide matters of Life and Life, and Holy Munchkin Batman!

 

TOP STORIES (1:59)

• Ravensburger buys into Gamefound
• Game of Life lawsuit
• Hamlet coming March 8 to KS from Mighty Boards
• Yosemite from WizKids
• Moonbases and Mars expansions for Maglev Metro
• Rest in Peace
• Munchkin Batman!
• Marvel Champions: Nova

 

CROWDFUNDING (9:30)

• Jungleball by designer Biagi Calicchia and Orto Games
• Ostia by designer Totsuca Chuo and Japanese publisher Uchibacoya
• Chang'an by Deer Park, with designers Carlo Camarotto and Nestore Mangone
• Wreckland Run y Renegade Games and designer Scott Almes
• Rolling Heights by John D Clair and AEG
• UnFair CHKO Expansion from Joel Finch and Good Games Publishing

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (18:20)

• Sherlock: Case Connection

 

NEW RELEASES (20:04)

• Paris L’Etoile from Michael Kiesling and Wolfgang Kramer, published by Game Brewer
• Stroganov by Andreas Steding, published by Game Brewer
• Hippocrates by Alan Orban, published by Game Brewer
• Journeys in Middle Earth: Spreading War by Nathan I. Hajek and Grace Holdinghaus, published by Fantasy Flight
• Shinkansen: Zero Kei by Llama Dice, published by Ludonova
• Tales from the Loop the Board Game by Rickard Antroia and Martin Takaichi, published by Free League Publishing

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of February 7, 2022. This week, Stonemaier goes rogue for liberty, the lightest of games gets the most extravagant of editions, and Queen’s new project is falling down, falling down, falling down.

 

TOP STORIES (2:05)

• Snowbright Studios hires T Caires
• Libertalia: Winds of Galecrest announced by Stonemaier Games
• Old London Bridge coming from Queen Games
• Exploding Kittens crowdfunding Hand-to-Hand-Wombat
• Revive coming from Aporta Games with designers Helge Meissner, Eilif Svensson, Anna Wermlund and Kristian Amundsen Østby
• Gale Force 9 announces Tusk!
• Space Station: Phoenix coming from Rio Grande Games
• Legendary: The Spy Who Loved Me expansion coming in February
• Wavelength digital app coming from CMYK
• Tsuro Luxury Edition coming from Calliope
• Gale Force 9 and Paizo team up for three new games in 2022
• Dominion: Seaside getting second edition from Rio Grande

 

CROWDFUNDING (13:45)

• Sync or Swim from Lucas Divya Hedgren, published by Bezier Games
• Thunder Road Vendetta from Restoration Games
• Hike! from designers Blaž Hribar and Nika Mlinarič
• Skate Summer by Pandasaurus and designer Randy Reiman
• La Granja Deluxe Master Set from Board&Dice with Andreas “ode” Odendahl and Michael Keller
• Purple Haze from PHALAX and designer Bernard Grzybowski

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (23:05)

• What a Wonderful World

 

NEW RELEASES (25:25)

• Now or Never from Red Raven Games and artist/designer Ryan Laukat
• Three Sisters, by Ben Pinchback, Matt Riddle, and Motor City Gameworks
• BoonLake by Capstone Games and designer Alexander Pfister
• Maracaibo: Uprising by Capstone Games and designer Alexander Pfister
• Squaring Circleville by Spielworxx and designer Matt Wolfe
• Bequest by WizKids Games and designer Marek Tupy

 

 

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This week, The Elder Scrolls has a new flavor of Chip, we root for the Underdogs 1 More Time, Rebel Studios floats downstream, and Funko phones home.

 

TOP STORIES (2:05)

• Chip Theory announces Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era
• Quirky Circuits: Penny and Gizmo’s Snow Day coming from Plaid Hat
• Rio Grande bringing Pictures expansion Orange into retail
• Meadow: Downstream expansion announced
• APE Games and designer Julián Pombo announce Pampero
• Die wandelnden Türme, The Wandering Towers, coming from Kramer and Kiesling
• Hungry Monkey coming from Heidelbär and designer Erik Andersson Sundén
• Mysterium designer Oleksandr Nevskiy announces Oneironauts from IGames Studio
• Pretzel Games and designer Michael Luu announce Yak
• 1 More Time Games bringing Underdogs from designers Johannes Krenner and Markus Slawitscheck
• Funko and Prospero Hall bringing E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial: Light Years From Home

 

CROWDFUNDING (12:45)

• Adorablins by Tim Devine
• Final Girl 2 from Van Ryder Games
• White Hat from designers Thomas Klausner and Timo Multamäki
• CoLab from producer Portal Dragon by designers Jonathan Gilmour and Jon Mietling
• Total War: Rome from designer Simon Hall and PSC Games
• Yokai Septet from designers Muneyuki Yokouchi and yio

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (21:45)

• Baron Voodoo

 

THE HOTNESS (24:00)

1. Ark Nova by Mathias Wigge and Feuerland Spiele
2. Final Girl from Van Ryder Games
3. Dwellings of Eldervale by Breaking Games and Luke Laurie
4. Dune: Imperium from Dire Wolf and Paul Dennen
5. Lost Ruins of Arnak from CGE by Elwen and Mín
6. La Granja: Deluxe Master Set by Andreas "ode" Odendahl and Board&Dice
7. The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game – Revised Core Set from Fantasy Flight
8. Spirit Island by R. Eric Reuss and Greater than Games
9. Cascadia from Flatout Games and Randy Flynn
10. Purple Haze by Bernard Grzybowski and PHALANX

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of January 24, 2022. This week, the IELLO river is flat, Everybody Lies in Gotham, theOP makes Mountains out of Molehills, and Huch runs circles around the Crew.

 

TOP STORIES (2:20)

• Tabletop Simulator apologizes for LGBTQ+ transgressions
• IELLO chooses Flat River Group LLC for distribution
• Shem Phillips and Garphill Games announce Legacy of Yu
• Portal Games teams up with DC to make Everybody Lies, a Batman Dectective game
• Portal announces 51st State Ultimate Edition
• Redcliff Bay Mysteries coming from Thames and Kosmos
• Thomas Sing and Huch making roulette-style title Circles
• TheOP announces Mountains out of Molehills
• Oak coming from Game Brewer
• Isle of Trains All Aboard! coming to crowdfunding from Seth Jaffe, Dan Keitner, and Dranda Games
• Dr Who: Don't Blink coming from Gale Force 9
• Pachamama from Sit Down! changes name to Tiwanaku

 

CROWDFUNDING (13:30)

• Dice Tower 2022
• Viscounts of the West Kinghdom Expansions from Garphill Games
• Skytear Horde from designers Giacomo Neri and Riccardo Neri
• Dirty Laundry from Quokka Games and designers Quokka Ando and Quokka Jono
• Yucatan from designer Guillaume Montiage and publisher Matagot Games
• Boba Mahjong from designer Ta-Te Wu and Sunrise Tornado Game Studio

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (22:30)

• Divinus

 

NEW RELEASES (24:30)

• Onitama Light and Shadow Expansion by Collin Meller, Bryan Pope, Robert Geistlinger and Shimpei Sato, published by Arcane Wonders
• High Score: Challenge Accepted by Reiner Knizia, published by KOSMOS
• Marvel Legendary: Messiah Complex by Devin Low published by Upper Deck
• Marvel Champions: Vision Hero Pack from Fantasy Flight Games
• Lost Ruins of Arnak: Expedition Leaders by Elwen and Min, published by CGE

 

 

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This week, Spiel is sold, Engelstein’s Encyclopedia evolves, there’s less box per bones, and Wolfgang wows the wee ones.

 

TOP STORIES (2:00)

• The Dice Tower Kickstarter for 2022 is up and running
• Spielwarenmesse eG purchases Internationale Spieltage SPIEL
• Nuremberg Toy Fair and New York Toy Fair cancelled
• Gutenburg to be distributed to US by Portal Games
• Second Edition of Geoff Engelstein's Building Blocks of Tabletop Game Design
• Chip Theory Games' Too Many Bones getting a smaller box
• CATAN Studio's US and International Championship schedule announced
• Children's versions of Quacks of Quedlinberg and Ganz Schon Clever coming
• Asmodee bringing Eriantys by Cranio Creations to US
• Phil Walker-Harding and Blue Orange Games announce Museum Suspect
• Anunnaki: Dawn of the Gods coming from Cranio by designers Danilo Sabia and Simone Luciani
• Gondolieri announced from Huch and designers Kiesling and Schmidt
• Pearl Games announces Time of Empires by David Simiand and Peter Voye
• First Empires coming from Sand Castle Games and designer Eric B. Vogel
• Dire Wolf doing digital adaptation of Everdell

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (15:25)

• The Dark Quarter

 

CROWDFUNDING (17:00)

• Prognosis Death from Cameron Faulks and Flying Man Games
• Rise of the Necromancers by designers Thorbjørn Christensen and Christoffer Kyst, with Mythic Games and Sole Loser Games
• Ham's Sandwich Shop by Kengo Ōtsuka, published by Graphic335
• Dom Pierre by Costa and Rôla with R&R Games

 

 

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This week, Wizards takes over Hasbro, the Voices in my Head tell me to expect the Unexpected, and the Guild makes an escape plan for Valentine's Day.

 

TOP STORIES (1:55)

• Wizards of the Coast COO Chris Cooks named CEO of Hasbro
• Ian Livingstone, co-founder of Games Workshop, knighted by the Queen
• Unexpected Games announces Voices in my Head
• New Cartographer map packs teased on twitter
• 18-card escape room game The Cupid Crisis from Grand Gamer's Guild announced
• Mantic working on Umbrella Academy board game
• 20th Anniversary Edition of Amun-Re coming from Alley Cat Games
• Huch announces Witchstone expansion Full Moon
• 2nd Edition of Santa's Workshop coming from Elf Creek Games

 

CROWDFUNDING (10:50)

• Ancient Blood - The Order of Vampire Hunters from Filippo Chirico
• Master Sweets by Tihomir Yunakov and Board Games Yunak
• Catapult Feud: Hydra by Kristian Fosh and Vesuvius Media
• Blazon by designer David Conklin and 25th Century Games

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (17:00)

• It's kids week at Lucky Duck

 

NEW RELEASES (18:55)

• Corrosion by Stefan Bauer, published by Capstone Games
• Glow by Cédrick Chaboussit, published by Bombyx
• Lorenzo il Magnifico 2nd Edition by Flaminia Brasini, Virginio Gigli, and Simone Luciani, published by Cranio Creations
• Tabannusi: Builders of Ur by David Spada and Daniele Tascini, published by Board and Dice
• Res Arcana: Perlae Imperii Expansion by Thomas Lehmann, published by Sand Castle Games
• Living Forest by Aske Christiansen, published by Ludonaute
• Origins: First Builders by Adam Kwapiński, published by Board and Dice
• The Taverns of Tiefenthal: Open Doors by Wolfgang Warsch, published by Schmidt Spiele and CMYK

 

 

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of January 3, 2022. This week, rumors rise around wood and brass, WizKids holds its breath and solos an SAT word, and Cooper Island gets skilled labor.

 

TOP STORIES (2:10)

• Cooper Island gets a mini-expansion
• Designer Gavan Brown comments on sequel to Brass
• Woodcraft by Ross Arnold and Vladimír Suchý teased from Delicious Games
• Ticket to Ride Play Pink project raised $184,000
• WizKids announces solo campaign roll and write Bargain Basement Bathysphere
• PSI makes distribution deal with CMoN for Asia and the Middle East
• Cascadia and Lost Ruins of Arnak win Gouden Ludo Flemish Game Award
• Framework coming from Uwe Rosenberg and Pegasus Spiele
• FYFE announced from Pegasus Spiele and designer Kosch
• Solo campaign expansion for Empires of the North coming from Portal Games

 

CROWDFUNDING (9:10)

• Call of Kilforth by designer Tristan Hall
• The Big Shuffle from Previously Pluto and designers James Ellerby, Evan Hitchings, and Kenneth Oum
• Space Time from Quirky Co and designer Joshua Mason
• The Book of Lost Things from Jay Scott Nolte

 

SPONSOR UPDATE (15:15)

• Tranquility for the New Year

 

THE HOTNESS (16:35)

1. Ark Nova from Feuerland Spiele and Capstone Games
2. Lost Ruins of Arnak by CGE
3. Townsfolk Tussle by Stephen Louis, Tony Mayer, and Rachel Rusk
4. Dune: Imperium by Dire Wolf Digital
5. Sleeping Gods from Red Raven Games
6. Wingspan by Elizabeth Hargrave and Stonemaier Games
7. Radlands from Roxley Games and designer Daniel Piechnick
8. Cascadia from Flatout Games and designer Randy Flynn

 

 

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