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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of October 24, 2023. This week, Avalon Hill finds the spirit of Christmas, Elzra hits the battlefields, University does the time warp again, Devir Rocks Hard with a runaway, and Cora yells SPOON!

TOP STORIES (2:50)

• Annabelle and the Sorcerer's Spoon, A Children's book in the Coraquest World
• Betrayal at House on the Hill getting a Yuletide expansion
• Dexterity title Battlefields from Elzra
• Wizards of the Coast to consolidate Magic: The Gathering boosters
• Magic the Gathering - Fallout Set
• Magical Athlete Reprint coming from CMYK
• Rocky Horror Picture Show Boardgame from University Games
• RoboRally Master Builder Expansion
• Funko releasing 6 I.P. based childrens games
• Rock Hard: 1977 from Jackie Fox
• Photo Tour: North America by Timashov Publishing
• 2 Player title Lost Lights from Daniel Board Game Circus
• Barton in Bloom by Dan Bate
• Cosca: Take Over the Mafia

CROWDFUNDING (22:00)

• Hello Kitty: A Day at the Park
• Keyforge: Grim Reminders
• Obsession: New Characters and Coins expansion
• Taiki Shinzawa's Charms and Inflation
• Davy Jones Locker: Curse of the Ghost Ships
• The Shivers Triple Terror Expansion

SPONSOR UPDATE (33:30)

• The luck-duck, run-amok, dice-chuck con

THE HOTNESS (35:55)

1. Dune: Imperium – Uprising
2. Obsession
3. Ark Nova
4. Heat: Pedal to the Metal
5. Voidfall
6. Molly House
7. Nucleum
8. Sky Team
9. Zoo Vadis
10. The White Castle

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of October 17, 2023. This week, top prizes go to the unknown planet, 7 Wonders earns a medal, Tom Lehmann admits winter is coming, and an epic designer makes fishy preserves.

TOP STORIES (1:55)

• Essen Spiel reports numbers as biggest ever
• Planet Unknown wins Deutscher Spiele Preis
• Dune: Imperium Uprising invitational tournament
• Winter Court by Tom Lehmann
• 7 Wonders: Architects Medals expansion
• Koinobori by designer David Bernal and Perro Loko Games
• Salton Sea from designer David Bernal, published by Devir
• Evil Corp by designer Jérémy Ducret and La Boîte de Jeu
• Alpenglow by designer Sean Wittmeyer and Waterworks Games
• Epochs: Course of Culture coming from publisher ICE Makes
• Coral successor Islet from 2Tomatoes Games and designer Thomas Dagenais-Lespérance
• Conservas by Scott Almes and Salt and Pepper Games
• Manifest Destiny by designers Jay Cormier and Sen-Foong Lim
• Cryptid Cafe: Chefs Apprentice from Devon Mettlin and Squatchy Games

CROWDFUNDING (14:25)

• Kavango
• The Night Cage Shrieking Hollow
• Aberration
• Forage
• Cretaceous Rails
• Diatoms

SPONSOR UPDATE (24:10)

• The Lucky Duck booth at Essen

THE HOTNESS (26:30)

1. Moon
2. Heat: Pedal to the Metal
3. Dune: Imperium – Uprising
4. Kutná Hora: The City of Silver
5. Voidfall
6. Evacuation
7. Nucleum
8. Ancient Knowledge
9. The White Castle
10. Space Marine: The Board Game

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of October 10, 2023. This week, Camilla and Corey barely get home from Germany, Barry helps slap together an episode, and this is what a podcast sounds like at 3am.

TOP STORIES (1:50)

• Spiel uses AI in ads and Backerkit bans AI from projects
• And Mattel announces Pictionary vs AI
• Undaunted 2200 Callisto from Osprey Games
• Aqua by Dan and Tristan Halstad with Sidekick Games
• Kronologic from Yoann Levet and Fabien Gridel and Supermeeple
• New edition of Medici from Steamforged Games
• Renegade to bring Mandoo's Vale of Eternity to North America
• Portal Games co-publishing AI: Space Puzzle

SPONSOR UPDATE (10:25)

• Go Lucky Duck

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of October 3, 2023. This week, Capstone gets more Cranial, the pyramids sparkle in silver and gold, Wingspan fans rebel, and there's just a bit less cool stuff in the world.

TOP STORIES (3:19)

• CoolStuff Inc to phase out board games and RPGs
• Rebel Moon RPG sues Netflix
• Arcane Wonders Contest
• Capstone Games to print Cranio Creations titles
• Flat River Group to release Lunar Rush
• Mayfair increases their catalog…kind of
• Wingspan Fan Art Pack
• Mayan Curse
• DetoNations
• Portals by CrowD
• The Big Five & Obelisk
• Illuminatus
• Sneferu
• Silver and Gold Pyramids
• Sixto

CROWDFUNDING (23:26)

• Lands of the Mesozoic
• Mycelia
• Creature Caravan
• Millennia
• Dragon Eclipse
• Fromage

SPONSOR UPDATE (34:13)

• Visit Lucky Duck at Essen!

THE HOTNESS (35:22)

• 10: Ark Nova
• 9: Hegemony
• 8: Kutna Hora
• 7: Expeditions
• 6: Yokohama
• 5: SpellBook
• 4: The White Castle
• 3: Voidfall
• 2: Deep Rock Galactic
• 1: Heat: Pedal to the Metal

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of September 26, 2023. This week, there's a space duel above catan, Van Ryder has another final finale, Yokohama fires on all synapses, and every Rose has its sworn.

TOP STORIES (2:40)

• Terraforming Mars becomes hotbed of AI artwork
• The Rose Gauntlet Foundation
• Pegasus Publishing gets rights to Paizo and Steve Jackson merchandise
• Daily Magic Games to longer be a traditional retailer, but instead a boutique publisher
• 2001's Starship Catan reimagined as Catan Starfarers Duel
• Final Girl Season 1 Franchise Box
• Similo gets two new titles including Lord of the Rings
• Evergreen Expansion: Pines and Cacti
• Yokohama 2nd Edition announced by Synapses Games
• CMoN teases Zombicide DCeased
• Haunted Lands coming from Ludus Magnus Studios
• Marajoara from Brazilian game design group Glyptodon Game Studio

CROWDFUNDING (18:40)

• Hoplomachus Pandora Expansions
• World of Midgard
• The Isofarian Guard
• Mythic Mischief vol II
• Unreliable Wizard
• Haggis and Tricktakers

SPONSOR UPDATE (29:15)

• Fast Food Magnate Deluxe Edition

THE HOTNESS (31:45)

1. Kutná Hora: The City of Silver
2. Nucleum
3. The Castles of Burgundy: Special Edition
4. The Vale of Eternity
5. Age of Innovation
6. The White Castle
7. Ark Nova
8. Food Chain Magnate
9. Heat: Pedal to the Metal
10. Printing Press
11. Evacuation
12. Lords of Ragnarok
13. Voidfall
14. Yokohama
15. Dragon Eclipse

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of September 19, 2023. This week, there's no money in yellow boxes, Cowboys gain Perspective, Knizia constructs a coordinated couplet, IV manages more mischief, and Wallace Wallace Wallace.

TOP STORIES (2:39)

• HABA files for bankruptcy
• Designers of Heat form Sidekick Games
• Cthulhu Dark Providence announced by CMoN at Expo
• Perspectives: Orange Box from Space Cowboys
• Newsboys from Saashi and Saashi
• New Edition of Kraftwagen
• Cascadito and Cascadero from Reiner Knizia
• Wild Duo
• Mythic Mischief vol II
• Chaos Cove from Martin Wallace
• Steam Power from Martin Wallace
• Inferno
• Karvi
• FFG Posts 9-24 player rules to Twilight Inscription
• 5 Towers
• The Great Harbor
• Byline

CROWDFUNDING (22:46)

• More Terraforming Mars
• Barrage New Lands
• Colossal Cat in the Box
• Flapjacks, Sasquatches, Rockets & More
• Potions of Azerland

SPECIAL REPORT (32:43)

• Board Game Designer Horror Story: Part 4

SPONSOR UPDATE (41:44)

• New Flamecraft Minis!

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of September 12, 2023. This week, the Spice Road gets real big, Stonemaier is infested with bees, the Dutch produce a very odd shop, space heroes are waiting for Godot, and … Tequila!

TOP STORIES (2:27)

• Dig Your Way Out: Dig In Expansion
• Century Spice Road Big Box
• Apiary by Stonemaier Games
• Ravensburger plans to combat Disney Lorcana stock shortage
• DreamEscape
• Galactic Heroes: My First Social Deduction Game
• Tequila
• Odd Shop
• Burn the Witch
• Cuvée
• Barrio
• Endangered Flash Kickstarter

CROWDFUNDING (18:39)

• Innovation Ultimate
• Harvest
• Worms
• Peacemakers: Horrors of War

SPONSOR UPDATE (26:22)

• Crime Zoom: 55 card deduction games

SPECIAL REPORT (28:48)

• Board Game Designer Horror Story: Part 3

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of September 5, 2023. This week, PHALANX feels wistful and civil, Pegasus draws out bonus crime, Oaken experts declare war on Bones, and Sit Down declares Open Season on Adventurers.

TOP STORIES (2:25)

• Boundless Stride: Into the Denlands by Incredible Dream Studios
• Micro Macro: Crime City - Showdown and Micro Macro Bonus Box
• The Night Cage: Shrieking Hollow Expansion
• Ultimate Voyage from Little Monks
• Bone Wars by designer Wim Goossens
• Junk Drawer from 25th Century Games
• Secret Identity and Times Up! Family Edition from R&R Games
• A Very Civil Whist being published by PHALANX
• Statecraft by Do It Games
• Open Season from Sit Down Games
• Marvel Dice Throne: XMen and Marvel Dice Throne: Missions teased by Roxley and TheOP

CROWDFUNDING (16:40)

• Spectral & A Trailblazers Expansion
• Joyride: Survival of the Fastest
• Fire and Ice the Miniatures Game
• Guilty Gear Strive the Boardgame
• To the Moon: Bestest Memories
• Farms Race

SPONSOR UPDATE (27:00)

• Corey and Camilla's Top 3 Lucky Duck Games

SPECIAL REPORT (31:00)

• Best of Dice Tower Now - A Board Game Horror Story part 2

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of August 29, 2023. This week, it's baby viking kitten time, we fall under the influence of towering patricians once again, Wolfgang Warsch makes a new version of the Same Game, and Reiner Knizia phones it in at the office.

TOP STORIES (2:00)

• Hasbro Women Innovators of Play Virtual Global Event
• Pax Viking Junior by Ion Game Design
• Tanz der Hornochsen reprinted as Dance of the Ibexes
• Patrician Towers of Influence coming to KS
• Dr. Frankenstein from Michael Schacht
• Pyramidice by Ares Games
• Schmidt Spiele releases "For One" solo game line, including Kniffel by Reiner Knizia
• The Element by Vatcharis Thanomsub, published by DNR Boardgame
• The Same Game from Wolfgang Warsch
• At the Office by Reiner Knizia
• Exoworld Survivor from Starling Games
• 1902 Méliès from Eloi Pujadas and Ferran Renalias
• Cookie Champion by Stefan and Louis Malz
• River of Gold coming from Office Dog

CROWDFUNDING (18:00)

• Cyber City and Chick Maze
• Perch
• Snow Planner
• Algomancy
• Dungeon Kart

SPONSOR UPDATE (26:00)

• Destinies Witchwood

SPECIAL REPORT (28:00)

• Best of Dice Tower Now - A Board Game Horror Story part 1

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of August 22, 2023. This week, trading card games are forever altered, there is a French Diluvium of Nuts, Loosey Goosey moves from butts to frogs, and DV screams Bonsai.

TOP STORIES (2:00)

• Altered TCG from Régis Bonnessée and Equinox
• House of 1000 Corpses Board Game from Rob Zombie and Trick or Treat Studios
• Publisher Nuts! announces Diluvium, designed by Antoni Guillen
• Robo Alarm by publisher Pegasus Spiele
• Grand Austria Hotel announces a roll and write Grand Austria Hotel: Hochsaison
• Lunar Laser Frogs by designer Andreas Preiss and publisher Loosey Goosey Games
• Announcing Tucana Builders, the spiritual sequel to Trails of Tucana, by Eilif Svenson and Kristian Amundsen Østby
• Havalandi coming from Dr. Reiner Knizia
• Spielworxx announces the first title in the 'Italian Trilogy', Dolcissima Vita
• Patterns: A Mandala Game by Trevor Benjamin and Brett J. Gilbert
• DV Games' Bonsai by designers Rosaria Battiato, Massimo Borzi, and Martino Chiacchiera

CROWDFUNDING (14:50)

• Vampire the Masquerade Milan Uprising
• Marrakesh: Camels and Nomads expansion
• Ascendancy
• Bear Mountain Camping Adventure
• Mistwind
• Crumbs! The Sandwich Filler Game

SPONSOR UPDATE (25:20)

• Cosmoctopus, Kids Chronicles, and Senjutsu

NEW RELEASES (27:40)

• Cosmoctopus by Henry Audubon and Lucky Duck Games
• Chronicles of Avel: New Adventures by Przemek Wojtkowiak and Rebel Studios
• After Us by Florian Sirieix and Pandasaurus Games
• Number Drop by Florian Sirieix and Benoit Turpin, published by AEG
• Marvel Champions Next Evolution by Michael Boggs, Nate French, and Caleb Grace, published by Fantasy Flight Games
• Aurum by Shreesh Bhat and Pandasaurus Games
• Castles by the Sea by Jon Benjamin and Michael Xuereb, published by Brotherwise Games
• Scram! by Ted Alspach and Bezier Games
• Freelancers: A Crossroads Game by Donald Shults and Plaid Hat Games
• Fika by Kwibus Gamedesign and Board Game Circus
• Spots by Alex Hague, Jon Perry, and Justin Vickers, published by CMYK
• Next Station Tokyo by Matthew Dunstan and Blue Orange Games
• Mists Over Carcassonne by Klaus-Jürgen Wrede and Z-Man Games
• Shake That City by Mads Fløe and Kåre Torndahl Kjær, published by AEG

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