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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of January 2, 2024. This week, we dream of eclectic Greeks, Stefan Feld thinks he knows where he’s really really going to, Catan is reused and recycled, and the Big Bang becomes a Legend.

TOP STORIES (1:50)

• New Kemet coming in 2024 from Matagot
• Flatiron from Llama Dice
• Details on Feld City Collection #8 Kathmandu
• Catan: New Energies coming in 2024
• Three titles from Catch Up Games - Faraway, Rivages, Courtesans
• Neodreams from Ivan Lashin and Open Borders Studios
• New BANG! Expansion, Legends

CROWDFUNDING (11:15)

• Still no Campaigns

SPONSOR UPDATE (12:25)

• Lucky Duck History

THE HOTNESS (14:10)

1. Dune: Imperium
2. Wingspan
3. Forest Shuffle
4. The White Castle
5. Hegemony: Lead Your Class to Victory
6. Voidfall
7. Tiny Epic Game of Thrones
8. Ark Nova
9. Heat: Pedal to the Metal
10. Faraway

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of December 26, 2023. This week, amazon tosses a coin to your space marine, Spielworxx hits us right in the Gentes, Studio H visits the Splendor of the Middle Ages, and the Fellowship remembers Carcassonne.

TOP STORIES (2:00)

• Games Workshop inks Warhammer 40K deal with Amazon for TV series
• Quacks of Quedlinburg Duel
• Lord of the Rings: The Ringbearer from Carcassonne designer Klaus-Jürgen Wrede
• Daitoshi from Devir and Dani Garcia
• Epos: A Gentes Game coming from Spielworxx
• Ephipparius - A new Agricola expansion
• Publisher Studio H is remaking Majesty: For the Realm as Middle Ages
• Peaks from designer Sam Gray and Tangerine Games
• Tiny Epic Game of Thrones

CROWDFUNDING (11:05)

• Happy Holidays - no Crowdfunbding projects

SPONSOR UPDATE (11:45)

• Happy Holidays from Scott Morris

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of December 19, 2023. This week, we cover the news from Play to Z, we essentially take stock of veg, wonderful days get hot, heavy rain, and yeah. It’s true.

TOP STORIES (2:45)

• New publisher Play to Z from Zev Shlasinger
• Essen Spiel and Tokyo Game Market to team up
• US Postal Service does D&D stamps
• Heat Pedal to the Metal: Heavy Rain expansion described
• Gaia Project: The Lost Fleet expansion announced
• Splendor: Pokemon and Bag of Chips: Pokemon to be published in Korea
• River Valley Glassworks coming from AllPlay
• Ostia: Pirates expansion
• New version of El Grande by Hans im Glück
• New Unlock Extraordinary Adventures
• Sibilie by designers Luca Grippo and Paolo Raciti

CROWDFUNDING (17:40)

• Tiny Epic Cthulhu
• Party Panda Pirates
• Gudnak

SPONSOR UPDATE (23:55)

• Big News

THE HOTNESS (24:55)

1. Earthborne Rangers
2. Deliverance
3. Ark Nova
4. Earth
5. The White Castle
6. I C E
7. Heat: Pedal to the Metal
8. The Vale of Eternity
9. The Fox Experiment
10. Skara Brae

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of December 12, 2023. This week, Richard Garfield did it in the Conservatory with a Black Lotus, Australia goes radioactive, mutant guinea pigs get caffeinated, and Galileo Figaro Magnifico.

TOP STORIES (1:45)

• Lorcana sales to use virtual queue system on Amazon
• Dicebreaker website potentially up for sale
• Button Shy 18 card holiday design contest
• MtG Clue crossover coi9nciding with new release set
• Garphill teases two new titles in their Ancient Anthology line
• Nucleum Australia expansion annou8nced
• Two new announcements from Hachette
• Cafe Baras coming from KTBG and Roberta Taylor
• Galileo Galilei from Pink Troubadour and designer Tomáš Holek

CROWDFUNDING (11:00)

• Star Realms Deluxe Colonial Collection
• Stan Lee’s Genesis

SPONSOR UPDATE (15:00)

• Lucky Duck review

THE HOTNESS (17:00)

1. Brass: Birmingham
2. Anunnaki: Dawn of the Gods
3. Age of Innovation
4. Apiary
5. Ark Nova
6. Nucleum
7. Ironwood
8. The White Castle
9. Heat: Pedal to the Metal
10. Deliverance

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of December 5, 2023. This week, it's FAIR to say old games MAY come back, Wise Wizards go from White to Wacky, a peck of picky pixies pick potable poseys, and Cascadia rolls over hill and stream.

TOP STORIES (2:10)

• TCGplayer Employees Picket
• Mayfair Games to publish Empire Builder series
• Wise Wizard launches Wacky Wizard brand
• Mind Up!
• Picky Pixie
• Bezier Games - Bullet "F"
• Cascadia Roll & Writes
• Witcher Unmatched
• Stalingrad Roads by Ares
• Natera: A New Beginning
• Windmill Valley
• Trick Takers: Of What's Left and Short Zoot Suit
• How to Save a World
• Lairs by Kids Table

CROWDFUNDING (22:04)

• Nocturne
• Undergrove
• Moonrollers
• Heroes of Air, Land, and Sea
• Stakd
• Nemesis Retaliation

SPONSOR UPDATE (32:08)

• I bet Lucky Duck doesn't read the podcast notes, either

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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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