Headlines

• Guinness is launching some games for the holidays
• Journeys in Middle-Earth gets an adventure mode
• Asmodee digital is having a sale

Hotness

• Tiny Towns
• Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon
• Paladins of the West Kingdom
•  Aeon’s End: Legacy
• Pax Pamir (2nd ed)
• Res Arcana
• Marvel Champions: The Card Game
• Tapestry
• The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-earth
• Wingspan

New/Upcoming Releases

• Into the Black Forest
• La Viña
• Paris
• Barrage
• Coffee Roaster

Kickstarters

• Unsettled
• Adventure Maze Flip Books

Headlines

• Terraforming Mars
• Takenoko
• Yellow & Yangtze
• Gang of Four and Dream Home
• Roll for the Galaxy (link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdIgSYSuWMqZboQBym1y5SKCd9JB4PyTsdfS7HnChd7G-XBOQ/viewform)
• Warhammer Underworlds: Online

Hotness

• Frosthaven
• Marvel Champions: The Card Game
• Terraforming Mars
• Cthulhu: Death May Die

New/Upcoming Releases

• Jim Henson's Labyrinth: The Card Game
• Flotilla
• Planetary Control!
• Gloom of Thrones
• Batasaurus

Kickstarters

• Car Wars: Sixth Edition
• Sherlock Holmes: Baker Street Irregulars

Headlines

• Another Gloomhaven expansion
• FFG makes an April fools day joke real
• Board games are good for our cognitive health

Hotness

• Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon
• Gloomhaven
• Cthulhu: Death May Die
• Marvel Champions The Card Game
• Maracaibo
• Brass: Birmingham

New/Upcoming Releases

• Miyabi
• First Contact
• Dragon Keepers
• Head of Mousehold
• Brew Dice

Kickstarters

• Necromolds: Monster Battles
• Totemic

Headlines

• Alexa can play ticket to ride
• The OP announced another licensed clue game
• 7 wonders duel is not available on mobile

Hotness

• Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon
• Marvel Champions The Card Game
• Tapestry
• Terraforming Mars
• Titan
• Nemesis
• Gloomhaven
• Maracaibo
• Wingspan
• Museum

New/Upcoming Releases

• Solar Draft
• Roam
• Cat Cafe
• Monsieur Carrousel
• Mutants

Kickstarters

• Vampire: the Masquerade - Blood Feud a Mega Board Game
• Ugly Christmas Sweaters

Headlines

• Magic: The Gathering enters the Toy Hall of Fame
• South Park plugs board games… again
• AEG and the OP team up for Smash Up
• Bonus news

Hotness

• Titan
• Museum
• Azul: Crystal Mosaic
• The Taverns of Tiefenthal

New/Upcoming Releases

• Dark Domains
• Coral Islands
• Rick and Morty: The Morty Zone Dice Game
• Dawn of Mankind
• Foothills
• Mandala

Kickstarters

• Chronicles of Drunagor: Age of Darkness
• Seven Bridges

Headlines

• A new World of Warcraft board game is announced
• The Magic the Gathering computer https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1332&v=pdmODVYPDLA
• The world is turning into Catan

Hotness

• Marvel Champions: The Card Game
• The Magnificent
• Maracaibo
• Nemesis
• Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon
• Trismegistus: The Ultimate Formula

New/Upcoming Releases

• Ishtar: Gardens of Babylon
• Manaforge
• Aquicorn Cove
• Europa Base Alpha
• Dragon Market
• Crystal Palace
• Cloaked Cats

Kickstarters

• Clash of Minds: Holmes vs Moriarty
• Grimm: A Card Game

Headlines

• Pandemic Gets Competitive with Reign of Cthulhu
• The Clue Mansion Gets a New Room
• King of Tokyo Goes Dark
• Essen is over and the numbers are in

Hotness

• The Magnificent
• Maracaibo
• Trismegistus: The Ultimate Formula
• Cooper Island
• Aquatica
• Marvel Champions: The Card Game
• Terramara
• Ecos: First Continent
• Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon

New/Upcoming Releases

• Silver Bullet
• Vindication
• Merlin's Beast Hunt
• Dune: The Board Game
• Bob's Burgers Belcher Family Food Fight
• Monster Baby Rescue

Kickstarters

• Spire’s End
• HUNTED

Headlines

• Cards Against Humanity will open a board game cafe in Chicago
• Minecraft is now a board game
• Horrible games, not so horrible anymore?

Hotness

• Maracaibo
• Wayfinders
• Dune
• Sanctum
• Terramara
• Clank Legacy: Acquisitions Inc

New/Upcoming Releases

• Visitor in Blackwood Grove
• Sojourn
• Deep Blue
• Magic Maze Kids

Kickstarters

• Gameboard-1
• Kohaku

Headlines

• Kickstarter users are vigilant in detecting fraudulent products
• Monopoly gets a theme park style attraction
• Fandom buys Cortex
• Exploding kittens raises another 30 million dollars

Hotness

• Sanctum
• Horrified
• Ishtar: Gardens of Babylon
• Tiny Epic Dinosaurs

New/Upcoming Releases

• Big Dig
• Gates of Delirium
• Era: Medieval Age
• Sushi Roll
• Letter Jam
• Ecos: First Continent

Kickstarters

• Zombicide 2nd ed
• The Zorro Dice Game

Headlines

• A new standalone version of Gloomhaven is announced
• Wendy’s has a role playing game https://www.feastoflegends.com/images/Feast_Of_Legends.pdf
• Codenames gets another theme
• Game culture continues to cross into media

Hotness

• Oathsworn: Into the Deepwood
• PARKS
• Marvel Champions: The Card Game
• Funkoverse Strategy Game
• Paladins of the West Kingdom
• Brass: Birmingham

New/Upcoming Releases

• Skulk Hollow
• Toy Story Obstacles & Adventures: A Cooperative Deck Building Game
• Dreams of Tomorrow
• Ghostbusters: Blackout
• Pralaya
• The Way of the Bear

Kickstarters

• Time of Legends: Destinies
• Calico

Headlines

• Cash Prizes for KeyForge
• Wingspan Expansion Announced
• Aeon's End Comes to Tablet

Hotness

• Tapestry
• Awkward Guests
• Wingspan: European Expansion
• Paladins of the West Kingdom
• Everdell
• Zona: The Secret of Chernobyl
• Rococo
• Nemesis

New/Upcoming Releases

• Hidden Panda
• Horrified
• The Menace Among Us
• Ceylon
• Paranormal Detectives

Kickstarters

• Root the Role Playing Game
• Labyrinthos

By the title you may have probably already guessed this is announcing an intermission to the show, but don’t worry, this is very brief.  This week and next. Kitty and I will be back at the beginning of October.

We apologize for the late notice, it wasn’t our intention to have to skip these weeks, but due to some unforeseen family issues and travel schedules, we just won’t have the time to prepare and record the show.

But I didn’t want to leave for two weeks without leaving you anything at all, so here is a 1 minute version of the normal show…

Headlines

• Gameboard-1 is the most recently announced digital board game platform
• Through the Ages gets an update
• The Hallmark Channel Celebrates it's 10th Anniversary with a Countdown to Christmas board Game
• Sam Healy is leaving the dice tower

Hotness

• Tapestry
• Black Angel
• Aeon Trespass: Odyssey
• Yedo
• Obscurio
• Aftermath
• Barrage

New Releases

• ArtSee
• Machi Koro: Legacy
• Homebrewers
• The King's Dilemma
• Point Salad
• Architectura

Kickstarters

• The Isofarian Guard
• Squire for Hire

Headlines

• Paranormal Detectives by Lucky Duck Games
• Terra Mystica: Merchants of the Seas
• Chocolate Factory
• RatVille

Hotness

• Tapestry
• Azul: Summer Pavilion
• Black Angel
• DUNE
• Underwater Cities: New Discoveries
• Barrage
• Mystery House: Adventures in a Box
• Kanban EV
• Gugong

New/Upcoming Releases

• Ragusa
• Bermuda Pirates
• Jaws
• Super Camelot
• Colors of Paris
• Legendary: A James Bond Deckbuilding Game
• Silver

Kickstarters

• The Board Game Book, Volume 2
• Carte Rouge — A Puzzle in 52 Parts

Headlines:

• The Digital Ludeme Project is Using AI to Recreate Rule Sets for Ancient Games (link: Ludii.games)
• Clue is Getting a Remodel (link: https://www.houzz.com/clue)
• The Mind: Extreme

Hotness

• Tapestry
• Successors
• Vampire: the Masquerade - Blood Feud
• Barrage
• Maracaibo (link: http://capsone-games.com)
• Undaunted: Normandy
• Hako Onna

New/Upcoming Releases

• Time Chase
• Pigasus
• Farm Rescue
• Old West Empresario
• Pinnacle
• Adventure Island

Kickstarters

• Shovel Knights: Dungeon Duels
• Windward

Headlines

• Monopoly Socialism Ed Starts Some Controversy
• Hasbro is Done With Plastic Packaging
• Contra, Bomberman, and Chocobos Are Coming to Tabletop

Hotness

• Tapestry
• Snowdonia: Deluxe Master Set
• Quirky Circuits
• Rune Stones
• Merchants Cove
• Clank! Legacy: Acquisitions Incorporated

New/Upcoming Releases

• The Artemis Project
• Lockup: A Roll Player Tale
• The Captain is Dead: Dangerous Planet
• Dune: The Board Game
• Horrified

Kickstarters

• Evil Dead 2: The Board Game
• Merchants Cove

Hotness

• Tapestry
• So, You’ve Been Eaten
• Ishtar: Gardens of Babylon
• Sleeping Gods
• Dune
• Black Angel

New/Upcoming Releases

• Imperial Settlers: Empires of the North
• Towers of Arkhanos
• The Walking Dead: Something to Fear
• Dragonrealm
• Welcome to DinoWorld
• Race for the Chinese Zodiac

Kickstarters

• Burgle Bros 2
• Pixel Demon's: REALM

Headlines

• GenCon numbers are in
• GenCon is over, so now it’s time to look toward Essen Spiel
• Board Game Geek gets a new logo
• Now a look at what’s going digital

Hotness

• Tapestry
• Ankh: Gods of Egypt
• Sleeping Gods
• Black Angel
• Roll for Adventure
• Ultra Tiny Epic Galaxies
• Marvel Champions: The Card Game
• City of the Big Shoulders
• Etherfields
• So you’ve been eaten

New/Upcoming Releases

• Sierra West
• Dead Man's Cabal
• Deadly Doodles
• Dizzle
• Passtally
• Scuttle!
• Tonari

Kickstarters

• Trudvang Legends
• Sleeping Gods

Headlines

• Fantasy Flight Announcements
• An Update to Zombicide
• Make a Wish and GenCon
• GenCon TV (link: https://mp3sandnpcs.com/home/gen-con-2019-announce-streaming-schedule)

Hotness

• Horrified
• Black Angel
• Edge of Darkness
• Terror Below
• Abomination: The Heir of Frankenstein
• Marvel Champions: The Card Game
• Machi Koro Legacy
• Ultra-Tiny Epic Galaxies

New Releases

• Roll For Adventure
• Imhotep The Duel
• ChronoTrek
• Zombicide: Invader

Headlines

• The Spiel des Jahres 2019 winners are announced
• IDW is talking orders for TMNT for CMON's Zombicide (link: https://zombicidetmnt.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders)
• The Diana Jones Nominees have been announced

Hotness

• Trudvang Legends
• Etherfields
• Black Angel
• Planet
• The North
• The King's Dilemma
• Just One

New Releases

• Die Hard: The Nakatomi Heist
• Choose Your Own Adventure: War with the Evil Power Master
• Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle - Defense Against the Dark Arts

Kickstarters

• One Small Step
• Knights of Glory
  

Headlines

• A new Alexa powered board game
• CMON is patterning with a company call Xplored to bring us the next generation of tabletop games
• There’s finally something to do with your Funko figures
•  Finally a quick digital round up.  And some bad news for Terraforming Mars.

Hotness

• Etherfields
• Love Letter (2019 ed)
• Pax Pamir (2nd ed)
• Middara: Unintentional Malum Act 1
• Yggdrasil Chronicles
• Set A Watch

New/Upcoming Releases

• Century: A New World
• Corinth
• Chill Out!
• Tiny Epic Mechs
• Crusader Kings
• Oh My Gold

Kickstarters

• Dice Throne Adventures
• Tasty Humans

Headlines

• A new edition and a new game for 7th continent
• Century Golem - Eastern Mountains is happening
• Gloomhaven will be on steam next week

Hotness

• Pret-a-Porter
• TINYforming Mars
• Sol Last Days of a Star
• Set a Watch
• Dune
• Deep Blue
• DinoGenics
• Through the Ages: New Leaders and Wonders
• Detective Club

New/Upcoming Releases

• Mindblock
• Beagle or Bagel
• Caravan
• Until Daylight
• Obscurio

Kickstarters

• Trial By Trolley

This episode is a little different from our normal shows.  This is all about the Dice Tower Awards that were announced yesterday, July 4th.

We'll be back to our normal format next week.

Headlines

• Game Toppers is doing a mystery giveaway
• D&D Essentials Kit exclusive at Target
• Big G Creative is bringing Kenny G to a board game
• The Starfarers of Catan is back as Catan Starfarers

Hotness

• Middara: Unintentional Malum
• Jaws
• Super Fantasy Brawl
• Dwellings of Eldervale
• Pax Pamir (2nd ed)
• Die Macher
• Altar Quest

New/Upcoming Releases

• Vinyl
• What? What!
• Game of Thrones: Oathbreaker
• Claim
• Among Thieves
• You caught me, there were only 5, not 6 like I said in the intro

Kickstarters

• Darwinauts
• Crypt X

Headlines

• Happy Gorilla Game Studios goes to Washington to talk tariffs
• Origins awards were announced last week

Hotness

• Little Town
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone The Game
• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: A Board Game of English Magic
• Black Angel
• Star Wars: Outer Rim
• Endeavor: Age of Sail

New/Upcoming Releases

• Imperial Settlers: Roll & Write
• Sorcerer
• Lanterns Dice: Lights in the Sky
• Wordsmith
• Shikoku

Kickstarters

• The Refuge: Terror from the Deep
• Untamed: Feral Factions

Headlines:

• We’ll see A Toy Story Board later this year
• Metal Gear Solid: Day One Edition Board Game pre-orders are live (https://www.amazon.com/Metal-Gear-Solid-Day-One/dp/B07QLNVCRR)
• Origins 2019 is this weekend
• Happy Birthday Sydnie

Hotness:

• The Ancient World 2nd Ed
• The Isle of Cats
• Arraial
• Star Wars: Outer Rim
• Too Many Bones
• Middara

New/Upcoming Releases:

• Star Wars: Outer Rim
• Tuki
• Once Upon A Castle
• Slide Quest
• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: A Board Game of English Magic
• Walls of York

Kickstarters:

• Dungeon Drop
• Waters Edge

Headlines:

• GenCon Badges are Selling Out
• A New Blockbuster Board Game
• Mike Selinker Writes an Opinion Piece (link: https://www.polygon.com/2019/6/5/18652411/trump-china-tariff-board-games)
• Mystic Vale Makes it to Mobile and Gloomhaven comes to Steam

Hotness:

• The 7th Continent
• Batman: Gotham City Chronicles
• Etherfields
• The Ancient World 2nd Ed
• Titans
• Time of Legends: Joan of Arc

New/Upcoming Releases:

• Untold Adventures Await
• Super Punch Fighter
• Crisis at Steamfall
• For the Queen
• Realm of Sand

Kickstarter:

• The Dungeon Royal Board Game
• The One Hundred Toril

Headlines:

• Gen Con Pop-Ups (link:https://www.gencon.com/pop-up) 
• Dice Tower Award Nominees

The Hotness Review:

• Etherfields
• Terra Mystica: Merchants of the Seas
• One Key
• Alter Quest
• Star Wars: Dark Side Rising
• Nuke Your Neighbor

New Releases:

• High Risk
• Tales of Glory
• KeyForge: Age of Ascension
• Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Core Set and Curese of the Crimson Throne
• Waters of Nereus

Kickstarters:

• Fickle
• Tussie Mussie
• Papillon

Headlines:

• The Spiel des Jahres nominees are announced
• The Elder Scrolls will come to the tabletop this Christmas (link:https://www.modiphius.com/elder-scrolls.html)
• Asmodee now has a publishing arm
• Three new games are on digital

Hotness:

• LAMA
• Just One
• Wingspan
• The 7th Continent
• Carpe Diem
• Egizia: Shifting Sands
• Pandemic: Rapid Response
• Fabulantica
• Werewords

New/Upcoming Releases:

• Wacky Races: The Board Game
• U-BOOT
• Guradian's Call
• Monsters Vs. Heroes: Cthulhu Mythos

Kickstarters:

• Icaion
• Kodama 3D

Headlines:

• New Tariffs Target Games and Toys
• Space Invaders The Board Game
• Terraforming Mars is in Beta on Android
• The Gaming Goat No Longer Able to Sell Stonemaier Games

Hotness:

• Kanagawa: Yokai
• Egizia: Shifting Sands
• Tiny Towns
• The 7th Continent
• Europe Divided
• De Vulgari Eloquentia

New/Upcoming Releases

• One Key
• Punto
• Rat-a-Tat Roll
• Rebel Nox
• Dicium
• Troll & Dragon

Kickstarters

• It's a Wonderful World
• Dice Upon a Time

Headlines:

• Magic the Gathering is complicated (link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.09828.pdf)
• Ashes: Rise of the Phoenixborn is concluding its run
• Origins 2019 Preview is live (link: https://www.boardgamegeek.com/geekpreview/17/origins-game-fair-2019)
• Shards of Infinity is now on digital

Hotness:

• Noctiluca
• Clinic
• Super Punch Fighter
• Tiny Towns
• Gloomhaven: Forgotten Circles
• Die Macher

New/Upcoming Releases:

• HellBoy: The Board Game
• Papua
• Battle for Biternia
• Monster Slaughter
• Dobbers: Quest for the Key
• Wooly Whammoth

Kickstarters:

• Starving Artist
• Matryoshka

Headlines:

• The Origins Award Nominees are Announced (link: https://www.originsgamefair.com/origins-awards-nominees)
• Jim Henson's Labyrinth: The Adventure Game is Coming
• AEG Has Announced Some Changes (link: https://www.alderac.com/2019/04/25/publish-fewer-new-games)
• Charterstone is Coming to Digital

Hotness:

• Noctiluca
• Tiny Towns
• Terraforming Mars
• Batman: Gotham City Chronicles
• Dungeonology: The Expedition
• Sekigahara: The Unification of Japan (link: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2019/04/29/meet-matt-calkins-billionaire-board-game-god-and-techs-hidden-disruptor/#4c25e85e6e77)
• The Island of El Dorado

New Releases:

• Subtext
• Godsforge
• Deep Space D-6
• Doppleganger

Kickstarters:

• Plague Inc: Armageddon Expansion
• CRYSTALLO

Headlines:

• A followup on the suspended Kickstarters from last week
• Steve Jackson Games releases their annual report (link: http://www.sjgames.com/general/stakeholders/)
• Stronghold games sues Plan B over Great Western Trail
• Zombicide is now on mobile

Hotness:

• The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-earth
• Bloodborne: The Board Game
• On Mars
• Bunny Kingdom: In the Sky
• Anachrony
• Escape Plan
• Terraforming Mars
• Batman: Gotham City Chronicles

New/Upcoming Releases:

• Museum
• Noctiluca
• Rice Dice
• Filler
• Murder on the Cosmic Express

Kickstarter:

• March of the Ants: Empires of the Earth
• Maquis

Headlines:

• Mensa Announces the 2019 Mensa Select Awards
• Monopoly Lion King Releases for 25th Anniversary
• Game of Thrones Gets a Social Deduction Game
• Warhammer Champions Comes to the Switch 

Hotness:

• The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-earth
• On Mars
• Folding Space
• Terraforming Mars: Turmoil
• Dungeonology: The Expedition
• Anachrony
• Hunt the Ravager
• Notre Dame
• Vampire: The Masquerade - Heritage

New/Upcoming Releases:

• Brides & Bribes
• Second Chance
• Nagaraja
• Cabo
• Space Gate Odyssey
• Downfall

Kickstarters:

• Anachrony: Fractures of Time
• Freshwater Fly: A Strategic Fly Fishing Game

Headlines:

• A new version of Love Letter
• Catan is coming to the Switch
• Board games are the best way to learn science (article link: https://boardgamesforlearning.com/research-games-learn-science/)
• Special style of board games getting more popular (article link: https://www.komu.com/news/special-style-of-board-games-getting-more-popular)

Hotness:

• Unpublished Prototype (Scramble for Africa)
• Sanctum
• The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-earth
• Dungeons and Dragons: Waterdeep, Dungeon of the Mad Mage
• Batman: Gotham City Chronicles
• Escape Plan

New/Upcoming Releases:

• Jurassic Park: Danger!
• Bugs in the Kitchen
• Inuit: The Snow Folk
• The Rise and Fall of Anvalor
• Proving Grounds
• Planet

Kickstarters:

• Kingdom Rush: Rift in Time
• Roam

Headlines:

- No headlines this week, they have been replaced with the Golden Geek Awards spoiled at the bottom of the notes.

Hotness:

• Blood on the Clocktower
• The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-earth
• Star Wars: Outer Rim
• Res Arcana
• Lorenzo il Magnifico
• Middara
• Museum

New/Upcoming Releases:

• Astro Drive
• Joust
• Magnastorm
• Impact: Battle of Elements
• Dream Catchers
• Incredibles Save the Day
• Sherlock Express
• U-BOOT
• Ring Master: Welcome to the Big Top

Kickstarter:

• Papillon
• Blume

Golden Geek Awards:

• Podcast: Ludology
• Print & Play: Orchard - A9 card solitaire game
• Wargame: Hannibal & Hamilcar
• Artwork & Presentation: Root
• Thematic Game: Root
• Innovative: Root
• Family Game: The Quacks of Quedlinburg
• Part Game: The Mind
• Card Game: The Mind
• Cooperative Game: The Mind
• Expansion: Scythe - The Rise of Fenris
• Solo Game: That's Pretty Clever
• Strategy Game: Brass - Birmingham
• Two Player Game: KeyForge
• Board Game App: Ganz Schon Clever
• Game of the Year: Listen or visit BGG to find out.  (Hint: It's on this list already.)

Headline:

• Timesunion.com looks at the growth of board game popularity (original article: https://www.timesunion.com/upstate/article/More-skill-than-luck-Board-games-are-coming-back-13722928.php)
• Cowboy Beebop is getting a board game
• Star Trek takes to flicking with Star Trek Conflick in the Neutral Zone
• China burns The Sassoon Files, a sourcebook for the Call of Cthulhu RPG

Hotness:

• Valley of the Kings: Premium Edition
• Cleopatra and the Society of Architects: Deluxe Edition
• Bus
• Inis: Seasons of Inis
• Folklore: The Affliction
• Oceans
• Tsukuyumi: Full Moon Down

New/Upcoming Releases:

• Dwar7s winter
• Underwater Cities
• Honga
• Saboteur: The Lost Mines

Kickstarter:

• Character Coins RPG Token Sets
• Handsome - An Elegant Wordgame
• Custom Game Mats by OvePowered

Headlines:

• The Golden Geek Award nominees have been announced (nominees link: https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2170977/13th-annual-golden-geek-awards-nominees-announced)
• Die Hard gets a board game
• Games Workshop announces Warcry
• Shards of Infinity digital is in open beta (sign up link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfPwsYiFEVpIDE70oCLNEx_jOO1H2GGuej2uVFeIvq3U1E_7g/viewform)

Hotness Review:

• Dune
• Tsukuyumi: Full  Moon Dawn
• The Silver River
• Call to Adventure
• Root
• At the Gates of Loyang
• Die Hard
• Carnival Zombie

News/Upcoming Releases:

• Res Arcana
• Munchkin: Warhammer 40k
• Call to Adventure
• Dice Masters: X-Men Forever
• Istambul: Big Box

Kickstarters:

• No Pun Included, Season 3

Headlines:

• The Pathfinder Adventure Card Game gets a makeover
• Wingspan Designer sits down with the NY Times (article link:  https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/11/science/wingspan-board-game-elizabeth-hargrave.html)
• Unmatched is announced by Restoration Games
• Tides of Time is available on iOS and Android

Hotness Review:

• Wingspan
• Tiny Towns
• Root: The Underworld Expansion
• Passtally
• Claustrophobia 1643
• Arraial
• Glen More 2: Chronicles
• Key Market
• Age of Steam

New/Upcoming Releases:

• Bad Maps
• Senators
• The Neverland Rescue
• Fine Sand
• Laws of Robotics

Kickstarters:

• Root: The Underworld Expansion
• Copenhagen

Headlines:

• WizKids has announced a licensing partnership with Hasbro
• Quirky Circuits is the next map-book style game from Plaid Hat Games
• USAopoly accidently spoils the 2nd Talisman IP
• Galaxy Trucker comes to Steam and Tides of Time might release soon?
• The GAMA trade show is next week

Hotness Review:

• Terraforming Mars: Turmoil
• Wingspan
• Paladins of the West Kingdom
• Iwari
• Middara
• On Mars
• Architects of the West Kingdom

New/Upcoming Releases:

• Human Era
• Impact: Battle of Elements
• K'uh Nah
• Planet Apocalypse
• Smash City
• The Grimm Masquerade

Kickstarters:

• Graphic Novel Adventures, Season 2
• Roland Wright - A Simultaneous Roll & Write (& Erase) Game

Headlines:

• Board Games Are Not Just for Geeks Anymore (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTOVCUF7MsA)
• USAopoly announces the first IP for Talisman
• Many upcoming releases were teased at the 2019 Festival International des Jeux in Cannes France
• Forbes covers 30 games from the 2019 New York Toy Fair (https://www.forbes.com/sites/andyrobertson/2019/02/21/30-amazing-board-games-not-to-miss-in-2019)
• The Castles of Burgundy is now on mobile

Hotness Review:

• Winterborne
• Teotihuacan: Late Preclassic Period
• Dice Forge: Rebellion
• Anachrony: Fractures of Time
• Waste Knights: Second Edition
• Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game

New/Upcoming Releases:

• Solenia
• Time Breaker
• Supernatural Socks
• Chiyo's Secret
• Pirate Tricks
• Penny Lane

Kickstarters:

• Winterborne
• Throw Throw Burrito

Headlines:

• The Orville is coming to HeroClix
• Disney Villainous Wicked to the Core wins the Toy of the Year at the New York Toy Fair
• Wizards of the Coast releases a Stranger Things D&D starter set
• Evolution the video game gets an update

Hotness Review:

• Hate
• Waste Knights 2nd Ed
• Consumption: Food and Choices
• Root
• Res Arcana
• Coloma
• Terramara

New/Upcoming Releases:

• Vadoran Gordens
• Judge Dredd: The Cursed Earth: An Expedition Game
• Tudor
• Bushido
• Ganymede

Kickstarters:

• Tiny Epic Tactics
• hexaGONE
• Aeon's End: The New Age

Headlines:

• Researchers at Baylor University study the effects of board games on couples
• Fantasy Flight has announced the next expansion to KeyForge
• Fantasy Flight announces Star Wars: Outer Rim
• North Star Games releases Evolution on mobile and steam

Hotness Review:

• Tiny Epic Tactics
• MegaCity: Oceania
• Sushi Roll
• Ghost Star
• Aeon's End: The New Age
• UBOOT

New/Upcoming Releases:

• Megaland
• The Great City of Rome
• Hokkaido
• The Game
• Fuji
• Herbaceous Sprouts
• KeyForge: Age of Ascension

Kickstarters:

• 1001 Odysseys
• Knitting the card game

Headlines:

• USAopoly will release two new licensed versions of Talisman
• T.I.M.E. Stories gets a robbot
• Steve Jackson Games is bringing back the 80's
• Wolfgang Warsch has a new game on Kickstarter

Hotness Review:

• The Castles of Burgundy
• Claustrophobia 1643
• The Quacks of Quedlinburg
• Alone
• Ghost Star
• High Rise
• In the Hall of the Mountain King

New/Upcoming Releases:

• Victorian Masterminds
• Narabi
• Black Skull Island
• Bumuntu

Kickstarters:

• Hyperspace
• PARKS: The Board Game

Headlines:

• Plan B Games announces Century: A New World
• Eggertspiele has announced Era: Medieval Age
• The Mind gets a soundtrack
• CMON launches the Munchkin Dungeon Kickstarter 
• Mystic Vale launches on Steam for PC

Hotness Review:

• Aftershock
• Prêt-à-Porter
• Era: Medieval Age
• Sleeping Gods
• DinoGenics
• Ganz schön clever
• Yokohama Duel

New/Upcoming Releases:

• Aeon's End: Legacy
• Blossoms
• Comanauts
• Star Trek: Conflick in the Neutral Zone
• Embark

Kickstarters:

• Gardens of Babylon: The Cascading Tile Laying Game
• Champions of Nexum
• Charty Party

Headlines:

• The Dice Tower is running their annual kickstarter
• There is a typo in Time Stories' Madame expansion
• Roll for the Galaxy is getting an expansion
• Dire Wolf Digital is bringing more games to digital
• The Legends of Andres is on iOS and Android

Hotness Review:

• The Board of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-earth
• Tuki
• Root
• Merchants of Muziris
• Crusaders: Thy Will Be Done
• Treasure Island
• Iwari
• Battle of the Bards

New/Upcoming Releases:

• Kodama Duo
• Root - Riverfolk Expansion (reprint)
• Forum Trajanum
• Raiatea

Kickstarters:

• The Clowdus Collection
• Tsuro: Phoenix Rising

Headlines:

• GenCon Badges are on sale
• Restoration Games announces their next game
• Time of Triumph announced for KeyForge
• The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-earth announced
• Gaming breaks records on Kickstarter

Hotness Review:

• War of the Worlds: The New Wave
• Wingspan
• Suburbia: Collector's Edition
• Onimaru
• Dopplet So Clever
• Neolithic
• New Frontiers

New/Upcoming Releases:

• Star Wars Legion, Priority Supplies Battlefield Expansion
• Concorida, the Venus Expansion
• Pathfinder Adventure Chest
• Teotihuacan: City of Gods
• Dragonfire Adventures: Ravaging The Sword Cost
• Arkham Horror LCG: The Circule Undone Deluxe Expansion

Kickstarters:

• War of the Worlds: The New Wave
• Suburbia Collector's Edition

Headlines

Neil Patrick Harris designs a board game

Tabletop Survey tells you what kind of gamer you are

Nine Year old goes pro in Go

Darwin Bromley passes away

Hotness

Wingspan

Inquisitor

Gloomhaven

Black Angel

New Frontiers

Nemesis

Terraforming Mars

Spirit Island

Root

Suburbia: Collector's Edition

New/Upcomming Releases

This War of Mine: Tales from the Ruined City

Vindication

Giant Queendomino

Space Crop 2025-2300 AD

Arkham Horror LCG: Return to Dunwich Legacy

Dixit 10th Anniversary Expansion

Kickstarters

Circadian: First Light

AVGhost Paranormal Investigation

Headlines

• Christian Peterson says farewell.
• Magic the Gathering is making it's way into mainstream podcasts.
• Carcassonne comes to the Switch
• Introducing your new Dice Tower News team

Hotness

• Wingspan
• New Frontiers
• Gloomhaven
• Terraforming Mars
• Root
• Spirit Island
• Underwater Cities
• Nemesis
• Teotihuacan: City of Gods
• Scythe

New/Upcoming Releases

• Concept Kids: Animals
• Fury of Dracula 4th Ed
• Mage Knight the Board Game: Ultimate Ed
• Munchkin: Harry Potter Deluxe
• Munchkin: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Deluxe

Kickstarters

• Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon
• Fences: A Tile Laying Game