This episode is a little different from our normal shows.  This is all about the Dice Tower Awards that were announced yesterday, July 4th.

We'll be back to our normal format next week.

Headlines

• Game Toppers is doing a mystery giveaway
• D&D Essentials Kit exclusive at Target
• Big G Creative is bringing Kenny G to a board game
• The Starfarers of Catan is back as Catan Starfarers

Hotness

• Middara: Unintentional Malum
• Jaws
• Super Fantasy Brawl
• Dwellings of Eldervale
• Pax Pamir (2nd ed)
• Die Macher
• Altar Quest

New/Upcoming Releases

• Vinyl
• What? What!
• Game of Thrones: Oathbreaker
• Claim
• Among Thieves
• You caught me, there were only 5, not 6 like I said in the intro

Kickstarters

• Darwinauts
• Crypt X

Headlines

• Happy Gorilla Game Studios goes to Washington to talk tariffs
• Origins awards were announced last week

Hotness

• Little Town
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone The Game
• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: A Board Game of English Magic
• Black Angel
• Star Wars: Outer Rim
• Endeavor: Age of Sail

New/Upcoming Releases

• Imperial Settlers: Roll & Write
• Sorcerer
• Lanterns Dice: Lights in the Sky
• Wordsmith
• Shikoku

Kickstarters

• The Refuge: Terror from the Deep
• Untamed: Feral Factions

Headlines:

• We’ll see A Toy Story Board later this year
• Metal Gear Solid: Day One Edition Board Game pre-orders are live (https://www.amazon.com/Metal-Gear-Solid-Day-One/dp/B07QLNVCRR)
• Origins 2019 is this weekend
• Happy Birthday Sydnie

Hotness:

• The Ancient World 2nd Ed
• The Isle of Cats
• Arraial
• Star Wars: Outer Rim
• Too Many Bones
• Middara

New/Upcoming Releases:

• Star Wars: Outer Rim
• Tuki
• Once Upon A Castle
• Slide Quest
• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: A Board Game of English Magic
• Walls of York

Kickstarters:

• Dungeon Drop
• Waters Edge

Headlines:

• GenCon Badges are Selling Out
• A New Blockbuster Board Game
• Mike Selinker Writes an Opinion Piece (link: https://www.polygon.com/2019/6/5/18652411/trump-china-tariff-board-games)
• Mystic Vale Makes it to Mobile and Gloomhaven comes to Steam

Hotness:

• The 7th Continent
• Batman: Gotham City Chronicles
• Etherfields
• The Ancient World 2nd Ed
• Titans
• Time of Legends: Joan of Arc

New/Upcoming Releases:

• Untold Adventures Await
• Super Punch Fighter
• Crisis at Steamfall
• For the Queen
• Realm of Sand

Kickstarter:

• The Dungeon Royal Board Game
• The One Hundred Toril

Headlines:

• Gen Con Pop-Ups (link:https://www.gencon.com/pop-up) 
• Dice Tower Award Nominees

The Hotness Review:

• Etherfields
• Terra Mystica: Merchants of the Seas
• One Key
• Alter Quest
• Star Wars: Dark Side Rising
• Nuke Your Neighbor

New Releases:

• High Risk
• Tales of Glory
• KeyForge: Age of Ascension
• Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Core Set and Curese of the Crimson Throne
• Waters of Nereus

Kickstarters:

• Fickle
• Tussie Mussie
• Papillon

Headlines:

• The Spiel des Jahres nominees are announced
• The Elder Scrolls will come to the tabletop this Christmas (link:https://www.modiphius.com/elder-scrolls.html)
• Asmodee now has a publishing arm
• Three new games are on digital

Hotness:

• LAMA
• Just One
• Wingspan
• The 7th Continent
• Carpe Diem
• Egizia: Shifting Sands
• Pandemic: Rapid Response
• Fabulantica
• Werewords

New/Upcoming Releases:

• Wacky Races: The Board Game
• U-BOOT
• Guradian's Call
• Monsters Vs. Heroes: Cthulhu Mythos

Kickstarters:

• Icaion
• Kodama 3D

Headlines:

• New Tariffs Target Games and Toys
• Space Invaders The Board Game
• Terraforming Mars is in Beta on Android
• The Gaming Goat No Longer Able to Sell Stonemaier Games

Hotness:

• Kanagawa: Yokai
• Egizia: Shifting Sands
• Tiny Towns
• The 7th Continent
• Europe Divided
• De Vulgari Eloquentia

New/Upcoming Releases

• One Key
• Punto
• Rat-a-Tat Roll
• Rebel Nox
• Dicium
• Troll & Dragon

Kickstarters

• It's a Wonderful World
• Dice Upon a Time

Headlines:

• Magic the Gathering is complicated (link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.09828.pdf)
• Ashes: Rise of the Phoenixborn is concluding its run
• Origins 2019 Preview is live (link: https://www.boardgamegeek.com/geekpreview/17/origins-game-fair-2019)
• Shards of Infinity is now on digital

Hotness:

• Noctiluca
• Clinic
• Super Punch Fighter
• Tiny Towns
• Gloomhaven: Forgotten Circles
• Die Macher

New/Upcoming Releases:

• HellBoy: The Board Game
• Papua
• Battle for Biternia
• Monster Slaughter
• Dobbers: Quest for the Key
• Wooly Whammoth

Kickstarters:

• Starving Artist
• Matryoshka

Headlines:

• The Origins Award Nominees are Announced (link: https://www.originsgamefair.com/origins-awards-nominees)
• Jim Henson's Labyrinth: The Adventure Game is Coming
• AEG Has Announced Some Changes (link: https://www.alderac.com/2019/04/25/publish-fewer-new-games)
• Charterstone is Coming to Digital

Hotness:

• Noctiluca
• Tiny Towns
• Terraforming Mars
• Batman: Gotham City Chronicles
• Dungeonology: The Expedition
• Sekigahara: The Unification of Japan (link: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2019/04/29/meet-matt-calkins-billionaire-board-game-god-and-techs-hidden-disruptor/#4c25e85e6e77)
• The Island of El Dorado

New Releases:

• Subtext
• Godsforge
• Deep Space D-6
• Doppleganger

Kickstarters:

• Plague Inc: Armageddon Expansion
• CRYSTALLO