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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of August 29, 2022. This week, EBay buys a second hand company, Friedemann Friese fluffs his feathers, Feuerland declares the Age of Aquarius, and we hit episode 800!

TOP STORIES (2:55)

• EBay to aquire TCGPlayer for $295M
• Tilt 5 AR board game system getting CATAN
• Daybreak by Matt Leacock to be published by CMYK
• Come Together announced by Chillfox Games and designers Vegard Eliassen Stillerud, Åsmund Svensson, and Eilif Svensson
• Fancy Feathers and Findorff coming from Friedemann Friese
• Ark Nova: Aquarius details emerge
• Ancient Wonders expansion for Origins: First Builders announced
• New dlp title Rise from designers Remo Conzadori and Marco Pranzo
• Twilight Struggle: Red Sea – Conflict in the Horn of Africa coming late this year
• Repos Games announces Harry Potter: Stupefy! by Ludovic Maublanc
• Marvel Villainous Venom expansion coming
• New LotR coop dice game from Michael Rieneck and KOSMOS

CROWDFUNDING (13:35)

• Guns or Treasure
• Abducktion: A Weirdly Strategic Game of Duck Kidnapping
• Tiny Robot Love Doctors
• Barbaric
• Bako: Dig and Write
• Red Dragon Battle for Greyport: Chaos in Copperforge

SPONSOR UPDATE (21:30)

• Episode 800 contest

THE HOTNESS (23:55)

1. Ready Set Bet
2. Spirit Island
3. Dune: Imperium
4. Obsession
5. Oathsworn: Into the Deepwood
6. Woodcraft
7. Trudvang Legends
8. Sea of Legends
9. Ark Nova
10. Ark Nova: Aquarius
11. Revive

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of August 22, 2022. This week, Asmodee's sugar daddy gets into jewelry, Magic the Gathering will EXTERMINATE, the Wingspan designer experiments with foxes, and it's my birthday.

TOP STORIES (1:25)

• Embracer group acquires Middle Earth Enterprises
• Asmodee forms new studio Office Dog
• Frank West elected president of GAMA
• Mind Mgmt nominated for a Harvey Award
• Dr Who coming to MTG
• Noli announced by River Horse Games
• Birthday Burglary announced by Grand Gamers Guild
• Five Nights at Freddys: Nights of Frights coming from Funko Games
• Pandasaurus announces The Fox Experiment by designers Elizabeth Hargrave and Jeff Fraser
• Roll and write KunterPunkt coming from Frechverlag
• Waffle Time from AEG shown at GenCon
• Renegade Game Studios reveals new expansion for the Power Rangers Deck Building Game

CROWDFUNDING (9:50)

• Five Three Five
• Davy Jones Locker: The Kraken Wakes
• Aquarium and Eat Thy Neighbor
• Dungeons of Doria
• Little Flower Shop Duel

SPONSOR UPDATE (15:25)

• Corey and Barry play It's A Wonderful Kingdom

NEW RELEASES (18:05)

• Arrakis Dawn of the Fremen by Gale Force Nine and designers Bill Eberle, Jack Kittredge, Peter Olotka, Greg Olotka, and Jack Reda
• Streets by Sinister Fish Games and designer/artist Haakon Gaarder
• Dice Theme Park by Adrian Adamescu and Daryl Andrews, published by Alley Cat Games
• Cryptid Cafe by Chip Cole and published by 25th Century Games
• Don't LLAMA Dice, by Reiner Knizia, published by AMIGO
• Museum Suspects by Phil-Walker Harding and published by Blue Orange Games
• Neoville by Phil Walker-Harding and Blue Orange Games
• Brazil: Imperial, by Ze Mendes and published by Portal Games
• Star Wars: Villainous - Power of the Dark Side by the design team of Prospero Hall, published by Ravensburger

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of August 15, 2022. This week, GenCon runs by the numbers, Bezzerwizzer Bezzerwizzer Bezzerwizzer, and Fantasy Flight brings a dagger to a lightsaber fight.

TOP STORIES (2:20)

• GenCon had over 50,000 attendees
• Bezzerwizzer from Asmodee
• Ark Nova expansion named on German TV
• Marvel DAGGER and Star Wars Deck Building
• Devir announces Lacrimosa
• American Psycho from Renegade Games
• Dice Manor and Leylines by Arcane Wonders
• MojoMania for Marvel Champions

CROWDFUNDING (9:53)

• Paleo Vet
• Dodos Riding Dinos
• Utopia
• Dead Reckoning: Letters of Marque
• Foundations of Rome
• Atma Season 2

SPONSOR SHOUTOUT (18:20)

• FlameCraft wins Best of GenCon, It's a Wonderful Kingdom nominated for Best 2-Player

THE HOTNESS (19:52)

• 10: Akropolis
• 9: Spirit Island
• 8: Foundations of Rome
• 7: Cat in the Box: Deluxe
• 6: Oathsworn: Into the Deepwood
• 5: Turing Machine
• 4: Dead Reckoning
• 3: Twilight Inscription
• 2: Ark Nova
• 1: Tiletum

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of August 8, 2022. This week, Avalon Hill heroically changes the Scape of gaming, Burnt Island endeavors to go deep, Uwe Rosenberg travels the land of apples and honey, and John Clair dreams of an End to the Empire.

TOP STORIES (2:54)

• Avalon Hill announces return of Heroscape
• War of the Ring: The Card Game
• The Wolves from Pandasaurus
• Endeavor Deep Sea
• WordCraft from Artipia
• Applejack by Uwe Rosenberg
• Starry Night Sky from Emma Larkins and Buffalo Games
• Legendary Encounters: The Matrix
• La Famiglia: The Great Mafia War
• Swindler from Pegasus Speile
• Loose Caboose by Gamewright
• Reiner Knizia's Zoo Vadis
• Empires End by John D Clair
• Aegean Sea by Carl Chudyk
• Ark Nova Map Pack 1

CROWDFUNDING (15:10)

• Weird Little Elf
• Western Legends: Mountain Range
• Star Realms: Rise of Empire
• Moonrakers: Binding Ties
• Return to Dark Tower: Covenant

SPONSOR SHOUTOUT (24:12)

• Lucky Duck Games announces Destinies expansion: Witchwood

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of August 1, 2022. This week, everyone gets a pinball for christmas, Kolossal is Almost Innocent, we Flatout compare Cities to Salads, and I'm in Colorado!

TOP STORIES (2:00)

• North Star Games rebrands
• WizKids announces Super Skill Pinball Holiday Special
• Dice Hunters of Therion coming from Richard Garfield
• Munchkin Turtle Carnage coming from Steve Jackson Games
• Marvel Legendary expansions 29, 30, and 31 detailed
• HeroQuest Frozen Horror expansion on Hasbro Pulse
• Magic the Gathering UnFinity announced
• Cranio Creations My Shelfe from Phil Walker-Harding and Matthew Dunstan
• Dulce coming from Stronghold Games and Julio E. Nazario
• Almost Innocent from Kolossal Games and designer Philippe Attali
• Fantasy Flight announces last physical expansion for Journeys in Middle Earth
• Flatout Games making Point City
• Galileo Project will be sequel to Ganymede from Hachette
• Hachette making party game Oh Really
• Smash Up 10th Anniversary Edition coming from AEG
• Insecta: Ladies of Entomology coming from Mont Tàber

CROWDFUNDING (14:15)

• Taverns and Dragons
• Copperdale
• Euthia: Fierce Powers
• Isle of Trains: All Aboard
• Shu's Tactics

SPONSOR UPDATE (20:20)

• New hires at Lucky Duck

NEW RELEASES (22:25)

• Cosmic Encounter: Cosmic Odyssey Campaign by Fantasy Flight Games
• So, You've Been Eaten by Scott Almes and Ludicreations
• It's a Wonderful Kingdom by Frédéric Guérard, published by Lucky Duck
• Viticulture World: Cooperative Expansion designed by Mihir Shah and Francesco Testini, published by Stonemaier Games
• Ice Hoppers by Oussama Khelifati, published by Blue Orange Games
• EXIT: The Lord Of The Rings - Shadows Over Middle-Earth by Inka and Markus Brand, published by Thames Kosmos

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of July 25, 2022. This week, it's summertime, summertime, sum sum summertime, and it's just spectacular. Plus more Spirits on the Horizon, and Dice Tower Awards.

TOP STORIES (2:00)

• Dice Tower Awards
• The Great Split by Horrible Guild
• Tesseract from Smirk & Laughter
• Hickory Dickory from Plaid Hat
• Deal With the Devil by CGE
• Prophets of Doom and Reavers of Midgard Expansion from Grey Fox
• Dune Imperium: Immortality from Dire Wolf
• Peter Pan from Matagot
• 3000 Scoundrels by Unexpected Games
• Meadow Adventure Book, Chronicles of Avel Expansion, and Avel deckbuilding card Game from Rebel Studios
• Caldera Park and Spaceship Unity from Pegasus Spiele
• Space Craft from Granna
• Raising Robots by Nauvoo Games
• Enola Holmes: Finder of Lost Souls from Gale Force 9
• Mosaic: Wars and Disasters Expansion by Forbidden Games
• Horizons of Spirit Island from Greater Than Games
• Planet B by Hans im Glück

CROWDFUNDING (19:15)

• Splintered Lands
• Snap Ship Tactics
• Burncycle New Recruits
• Aquamarine
• Moon
• Halves

SPONSOR UPDATE (27:25)

• Chronicles of Time

LIGHTNING ROUND NEWS (30:05)

• Arcane Wonders Logo Change
• CoraQuest: Keep on Questing Expansion
• Stranger Things Upside Down from Rob Daviau and CMoN
• Basilica reprint from Portal Games
• Ascending Empire: Zenith Edition from WizKids
• Undaunted: Battle of Britain by Osprey Games
• Pocket Sized Foriferous by Pencil First Games
• Race to the Raft from Frank West and City of Games

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of July 18, 2022. This week, Cool Mini takes the war to Mount Dune, Hasbro spells Mastermind, Disney's villains makes us cry, WizKids goes through some Super Damage Control, and Spiel Spiel Spiely Spiel.

TOP STORIES (2:05)

• Spiel des Jahres winners announced
• PHD acquires British distributor Bliss
• CMoN nnounces Dune: War for Arrakis
• The Boys themed Zombicide packs available from CMoN
• Wordle the Party Game coming from Hasbro Pulse
• Blind Box game Disney Kingdomania coming from Funko
• Disney Villains card game by Leo Colovini and Ravensburger
• Parks: Wildlife expansion coming from Keymaster
• AEOLOS coming from Arve D. Fühler amd Guido Eckhof
• Discordia from from Bernd Eisenstein and publisher Irongames
• Asmodee making 3 games based on Netflix shows Ozark, Squid Game, and Stranger Things
• Marvel: Damage Control from Amari Akil and WizKids
• La Boca being reimagined as Recto Verso from Tiki Editions and Super Meeple
• Animal Espionage from Twin City Games and designer Joe Hout

CROWDFUNDING (14:40)

• Stardust Coffee
• Grand Carnival: On the Road
• Neko Boss
• One Hundred Torii: Diverging Paths and Hanafuda Deck
• Amun Re

SPONSOR UPDATE (22:05)

• Corey dominates at Banner Festival

THE HOTNESS (24:50)

1. Ahoy
2. Isle of Trains: All Aboard
3. Spirit Island
4. My Father's Work
5. Oathsworn: Into the Deepwood
6. Moon
7. Beyond the Sun
8. Ark Nova
9. Puerto Rico 1897
10. Revive

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of July 11, 2022. This week, the cat is both in and out of the box, Days of Wonder is going off the rails on a Ghost Train, Uwe reframes Nova Luna, and all hail the Cosmoctopus.

TOP STORIES (2:30)

• Kazuki Takahashi passes, creator of Yu Gi Oh
• Ticket to Ride: Ghost Train
• Sanssouci
• Sabika
• Framework by Uwe Rosenberg
• Mistwind by Daryl Andrews
• 1001 Islands from Asmodee
• Cosmoctopus
• Cat in the Box Deluxe Edition

CROWDFUNDING (10:33)

• Cheese Factory
• Flick Fleet: Xeno Wars
• Dice Throne: Santa vs Krampus
• Company of Heroes 2E
• Summit: Sanity + Big Box

SPONSOR UPDATE (17:35)

• Lucky Duck to publish Turtle Splash

NEW RELEASES (19:31)

• Bullet Star
• Streets
• Messina 1347
• Smash Up: Disney
• Yak
• Feed the Kraken

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of July 4, 2022. This week, KeyForge travels to a Ghost Galaxy through some Strange Stars, Dire Wolf's Catacombs get decidedly noisier, Wingspan has the opposite of Empty Nest, and Days of Wonder gives it the Heat.

TOP STORIES (2:05)

• Capstone+ subscription service detailed
• 2022 Cardboard Edison Award winners announced
• Fantasy Flight sells KeyForge IP to Ghost Galaxy
• Dire Wolf announces Clank! Catacombs
• Twisty Tracks coming from Rio Grande and Jeffrey D. Allers
• Stonemaier Games announces Wingspan: Asia and the Nesting Box storage solution
• Reflecto coming from Mandoo Games and Roberto Fraga
• Euthia: Torment of Resurrection from DIEA Games being co-published by Steamforged
• Hand management racing game Heat: Pedal to the Metal coming from Days of Wonder
• Ravensburger re-theming Puerto Rico to Puerto Rico: 1897
• Wolfgang Warsch's fourth clever game, Clever 4Ever revealed

CROWDFUNDING (14:05)

• Cyberpunk 2077: Gangs of Night City from CMoN, designed by Andrea Chiarvesio, Eric M. Lang, Alexio Schneeberger, and Francesco Rugerfred Sedda
• Bretwalda by designer Leo Soloviey and PHALANX Games
• Compounded: Peer Reviewed and Lab Notes from Greater Than Games and Darrell Louder
• Amygdala by Wolfgang Kramer and Michael Kiesling, published by Game Brewer
• Helsinki by designers Asger Harding Granerud and Daniel Skjold Pedersen
• Beyond Humanity: Astrominers by designer Pawel 'Bloski' Suski and Three Headed Monster
• Joey Games from Phil and Meredith Walker-Harding
• Clash of Galliformes by Kim Åberg and Kim Jansson
• Globetrotting by Jeff Chin and Andrew Nerger

SPONSOR UPDATE (23:40)

• Flamecraft up for pre-order

THE HOTNESS (25:55)

1. Spirit Island from Greater than Games
2. Company of Heroes
3. Blood on the Clocktower by Steven Medway and The Pandemonium Institute
4. Rush Out! from Thomas Dupont and publisher Sit Down!
5. Bretwalda from PHALANX Games
6. Stars of Akarios by Out of My Mind Games
7. Oathsworn: Into the Deepwood by Shadowborne Games
8. Heat: Pedal to the Metal from Days of Wonder
9. Ark Nova from Capstone Games and Mathias Wigge
10. Clank! Catacombs from Dire Wolf and designer Paul Dennen

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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of June 27, 2022. This week, Arcane Wonders celebrates the period between furnaces, Matagot has a futuristic renaissance, Ludonaute peers into the future of cards, and RAGE!

TOP STORIES (3:20)

• Magic Mountain won Kinderspiel
• GAMA releases numbers for origins 2022
• Railroad Madness from Holy Grail Games
• Furnace Interbellum from Arcane Wonders
• Marvel Champions LCG: Cyclops
• Galactic Renaissance from Matagot
• Thiefdom from Karma Games
• Precognition from Ludonaute

CROWDFUNDING (10:50)

• First in Flight
• Tsuro Luxury Edition
• Skyrise
• Septima
• Bot Factory

SPONSOR UPDATE (17:51)

• Lucky Duck co-Publishes Tidal Blades: Banner Festival with Druid City Games

NEW RELEASES (19:37)

• Dungeons Dice and Danger
• Make It Happen
• World Z League
• Hibachi
• Next Station: London
• Crescent Moon
• Gutenberg
• Outer Rim: Unfinished Business

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