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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