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W. Eric Martin
United States
Apex
North Carolina
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• Justin Ziran at WizKids has told me that the publisher will have German-language editions of Quarriors! at Spiel 2011, along with the forthcoming Rise of the Demons expansion (although I suspect the expansion will be only in English). The Rise of the Demons expansion is scheduled for release in the U.S. in November 2011.
• Repos Production has announced preorders for Ghost Stories: Black Secret, with 666 copies (ho ho) being available at Spiel 2011. The preorder pack comes in a Classic edition (€30, with the game and a goodies pack: a signed print, a new curse die and Steven Qi-Gal, a new Wu-Feng incarnation) and a Totally Evil edition (€35, which adds a T-shirt to the lot).
• Fantasy Flight Games has announced a Mansions of Madness expansion – Forbidden Alchemy – that includes four new investigators, three new scenarios and more than 200 cards for release in Q4 2011.
• Rules are now available on the BGG game page in English, French and German for Québec, debuting at Spiel 2011 from Le Scorpion Masqué and Ystari Games.
• U.S. publisher Ascora Games, which debuted with a new edition of Kaigan in 2010, will have a new title from Donald X. Vaccarino at Spiel 2011. Well, that's the plan anyway, but Ascora's Scott Tepper says that production will go down to the wire in terms of having the game ready in time.
What is that game? Nefarious, for which I now present the de rigueur Vaccarino-flavored summary:
Quote: Your genius could have been such a boon to humanity. Your death ray had wonderful pest control applications, and your volcano activator was perfect for fighting global warming. But the fools at the institute, they wouldn't listen. They called you mad! You built a monster to rend them limb from limb, which your minions assured you was the very worst way to be rended. When it became clear that the only hope for the world was your own benign leadership, you took control of TV to announce this fact. But your broadcast was interrupted by someone else taking control of TV and announcing his own plan for world domination – and then that broadcast was interrupted by yet another interloper. So. Competition. Well, the world will never be as scared of these upstarts as it will be of you. Archimedes once said, "Give me a long enough lever and a place to stand, and I will move the world." You will be the most terrifying lever the world has ever seen.
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