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W. Eric Martin
United States
Apex
North Carolina
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Video demonstrations of two games take up a lot of space in this post. Get something to drink before starting the second one...
• Rio Grande Games will release its own edition of alea's Die Burgen von Burgund, despite the alea version including rules in three languages. As for alea's Artus – due out at the start of April 2011 in Europe – RGG will distribute the tri-lingual alea version.
• Kevin G. Nunn's Rolling Freight – which has passed the halfway mark in funds raised via Kickstarter – has a number of expansions in the works, as often seems to be the pattern for train games. Kevin Brusky from APE Games shows off a preliminary map from the first expansion, which will feature Great Britian and India.
• The rules for Fantasy Flight's Lord of the Rings: The Card Game LCG have just been made public (PDF) in anticipation of the game's release in April 2011, but FFG has already posted info about the first two adventure packs, the second one being Conflict at the Carrock.
• Hans im Glück has posted rules ([url=German rules on the Hans im Glück website]PDF[/url]) for Pantheon.
• French publisher Gigamic has two new abstract strategy games coming in June 2011: Kabaleo, in which players want to have their secret color atop the most pyramids when the game ends, and Cubulus, with players trying to create a square of their color in a 3x3x3 playing area. Video demonstrations of both games are linked to the appropriate game pages.
• Jason Hill at Flying Frog Productions gives an overview of Fortune and Glory: The Cliffhanger Game at the GAMA Trade Show in March 2011:
• Designer Michael Schacht has posted additional variants for Mondo, due out before the end of March in Germany and most likely by May in the U.S. Schacht promises "something bigger" for the game in his April 2011 newsletter.
• Italian publisher Cranio Creations will release a second edition of its initial 2009 release Horse Fever in June 2011. Changes to the game include a six player upper limit, a rewritten rulebook, a larger game board, six wooden horse pawns and new assistant, horse, objective and action cards.
• Beasts of War posted a 30-minute overview of Dwarf King's Hold: Dead Rising in early Marach 2011:
• Recently released games include Néstor Romeral Andrés' self-published Coffee from nestorgames (an n-in-a-row game playable on either a hex or square grid in which the active player forces the opponent to play in a particular direction) and Runebound: Essential Collection (lots of individual Runebound expansions packaged together). Alderac's Nightfall and Nexus Games' Magestorm should both arrive in U.S. stores the week of March 21, 2011.
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