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October 20, 2020 Munchkin Land #348: Patchwork's New Skins
Dan Patriss is back with even more news from the gaming world.
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NEWS
Patchwork is getting 3 new skin versions of the game Patchwork: Winter Edition, Patchwork: Folklore Taiwan and Patchwork: Folklore China Lookout will release
500-copy limited edition version of each one, with these being available through the Lookout online shop starting on October 22, 2020.
Also out this week by Uwe Rosenberg, and Lookout games is Hallertau

Q-Workshop is doing a very cool Dice Advent Calendar. ( $40)
Grand Gamers Guild has the pre-orders up for The Kringle Caper -- Pre-order now! ($12)
An 18 card escape room game.
Andrew Parks and Quixotic Games has acquired the rights to Core Worlds from Indie Game Studios and the IP, and is going to release a new game Core Worlds:Empires which looks to be coming to Kickstarter early next year.
One such game that Eric Martin did a nice preview for the new Stefan Feld called Bonfire last week. Also look for other great previews from Speil Digital later this week on Boardgame Geek
And Finally Mondo and Restoration games have released all the info for their Unmatched: Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
You can currently order it from the Mondo site for $50
Digital BG News--
A Game of Thrones Digital Edition now up on Steam $20
kICKSTARTER
Freedom Five: A Sentinels Comics Board Game Oct 20th
Frost Punk:The Board Game
Crescent City Cargo + Captains of the Gulf Reprint
For Sale Autorama -- With Advisors as well
15 min
October 06, 2020Munchkin Land #347: Origins Award Winners
Dan Patriss is back to share news from the world of gaming in this week's Munchkin Land.
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NEWS
Origins award winners announced- Usually announced during the show in June
Best Board Game/Game of the Year: Tiny Towns by AEG

Best Card Game: Point Salad by AEG

Best Family Game: The Quacks of Quedlinburg by North Star Game
Renegade Game Studios announced expanding their existing partnership with Hasbro to bring more games in the G.I. Joe, Transformers, and My Little Pony brands.

Upper Deck will release ALIENS: Bug Hunt, Q4 $40. This is a co-op card and dice game
Gale Force 9 is releasing 2 more expansions to their Aliens Board Game later this year
ALIENS: Ultimate Badasses $30
ALIENS: Get Away from Her You Bitch $60
CMON has reached a licensing deal with Sony Interactive Entertainment to produce The Last of Us: The Board Game
Funko Games will release Disney's Haunted Mansion: Call of the Spirits Game, in October.
Sticking with Funko Games
Groundhog Day: The Game, a 2-6 player 15-25 minutes.
Eagle Gryphon Games recently announced an expansion for For Sale.
For Sale: Advisors
Digital Game News
Wingspan officially released on Steam

Scythe released on Mobile

Lorenzo Il Magnifico officially releasing on steam this week

Charterstone Digital releasing on switch any day now

Root is out now on Mobile
Kickstarter!
Grand Austria Hotel coming to KS end of October.

HeroQuest --

Dungeon Fighter Throwing dice/Dungeon Crawler

Cascadia -- Also has an online implementation if you want to try it out

Deck of Dungeons -- Cards to help make maps

Thunderstone Quest -- Quest 10 and 11

Automated Alice --
15 min
September 15, 2020Munchkin Land #346: Heroquest countdown clock is ticking
For those of you who are into Heroquest, a countdown clock has appeared!
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NEWS
Big Tease for Heroquest! --->Avalon Hill has put out a page that has a countdown clock

More info on Mondo games Disney Shadowed Kingdom which is due out in full release October $20

Pair of Roll and Write games were announced this week to be coming soon.

Troyes Dice and Rajas of the Ganges :The Dice Charmers

Warhammer Quest Blackstone Fortress: Ascension will be the final Expansion for BF.
Pre-order available and is $110

Portal is taking pre-orders for their Robinson Crusoe Treasure chest (collection of promos and tons of extras)
Digital news
Portal games has released Neuroshima Convoy on the App Store and android 3.99
Kickstarter News
Monsters on Board

The Reckoners Steel Slayer -- Expansion to the Co-op Reckoners
17 min
September 01, 2020 Munchkin Land #345: Arkham Noir Case #2
This week, Dan Patriss is here to share news from the gaming world.
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NEWS
Asmodee releasing Arkham noir Case # 2 Called Forth by Thunder, which is a solitaire detective card game designed by Yves Tourigny, in September
Asmodee also announced they will be bringing Mysterium Park over to trade in the US in Q4.
Rio Grande Games announced that they are releasing Beyond the Sun in Q4 this year.
Capstone Games has announced they will release CloudAge by Alex Pfister in Q4.
1-4 Players 1-2 hours $60
Dire Wold Digital is teaming with Galeforce 9 to release Dune:Imperium
FFG Dwellers in Darkness Figure Pack, for The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle Earth, to be released in October $15
APPS
Root by Leder games is now available on Steam 14.95 and coming soon to iOS and Switch/Google Play
Cartographers:A Roll Player Tale iOS $3.99
Coming soon by capstone games Maricaibo by Alex Pfister to iOS and Android Q4 2020
Kickstarters
Queen Games Feld “City Collection”
Galaxy Hunters by IDW
Uprising Curse of the Last Emperor by Nemesis Games Co-op 4x game
ButtonShy Games: Haul Bag -- 25$ Dice Towers and Dice Vault by Mystic Wood Forge
17 min
August 18, 2020 Munchkin Land #344: Cosmic Colonies
Dan is here to a couple of games and share some Kickstarters of note in this week's Munchkin Land.
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Cosmic colonies=
Scarabya
Update on Umbrella Academy Game -- They have decided to make stretch goals available for ALL pledges including the base game which is $25.
Western Legends: Blood Money
Endangered:New Species
17 min
August 05, 2020 Munchkin Land #343: Gen Con (Online)
Dan gives a rundown of some of the big news out of GenCon 2020.
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Get well soon to AEG’s CEO John Zinzer, he had surgery to remove a mass in his brain and we are wanting to wish him a speedy recovery.
Twilight Imperium 4th edition big expansion Prophecy of Kings
--7 new Factions
-- 40 new space tiles
-- Expanded game play to 8
--New leaders, new powers, a new lad unit a Mech, a new discoveries deck action cards, agenda cards, objectives, technologies, promissory notes, legendary planets, and more
4th Set for Keyforge “Dark Tidings”
Marvel Champions Announced 4 new heroes-- Ant Man and Wasp, Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch.
Guardians of the Galaxy Scenario box coming soon-- Galaxy’s Most Wanted
New Title from Richard Launius and Brandom Perdue called X:Men Mutant Insurrection
Decent Legends of the Dark,
Expansion for Sid Meiers Civilization: A New Dawn called Terra Incognita $35
In not so happy news Wizards of the coast is putting Cybertron to rest for good after this next set of Transformers TCG.
Asmodee USA will release Mystery House - Back to Tombstone, the first expansion of Mystery House by Cranio Creations, on August 21. $15
Floodgate Games started taking pre-orders for Sagrada:The Great Facades-Life
Renegade Game Studios announced that soon they will launch the KS for the upcoming Embarcadero--
Hasbro and Wizards of the coast are continuing to bring DnD to the whole world adding a new family experience to the mix called Dungeons and Dragons:Adventure Begins ($25)
Instructional Video
Santorini:New York
Kickstarter
The Umbrella Academy Game
Arcana Rising
Vampire the Masquerade: Rivals ECG
20 min
July 21, 2020Munchkin Land #342: Pandemic Season 0
Dan Patriss is here to drop the news about all the cool gaming news coming down the pipe, including the prequel to Pandemic!
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NEWS
Z-Man announced Pandemic Season 0 for release later this year. (Rob Daviau and Matt Leacock)

Queen Games to release the Stephan Feld “City Collection”.

Renegade Announces More Details on Vampire the Masquerade Expandable Card Game

Asmodee Acquires Libellud

Asmodee USA will be releasing Al Leduc’s Yukon Airways in Mid August.

Mid Weight Euro 1-4 players 90 mins retail $50

Pegasus Spiele will release Hansa Teutonica: Big Box, Q3. It will include all expansions $59.99.

Blue Orange has announced Meeple Land a game where you are building a theme $35 to be released in Q3

Finally in Marvel Champions news! there’s a scenario pack coming soon and it will be Kang The Conquerer. MSRP for $20
Kickstarters
Whaler Riders

Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria

Studio X Mobile Mini Painting Studio
18 min
July 07, 2020 Munchkin Land #341: Stephen Buonocore Retires
Dan Patriss runs down some of the big news items in gaming in this week's Munchkin Land.
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NEWS
A Big Congratulations to Stephen Buonocore on his announced Retirement!

Stronghold Games announced that Stephen Buonocore, founder and longtime President of the company, will be stepping down from his role effective on August 1.
CGE Announced Lost Ruins of Arnak
Q4 1-4 players 1-2 hours $60
Stonemeier Games Announced Pendulum --
August release 1-5 players 60-90 mins but no price set yet
Brotherwise is putting out a small expansion for Boss Monster:Vault of Villains
Oct ‘20 $12
More Munchkin!
Munchkins and Mazes-- August 3-6 players 1-2 hours $25
Munchkin Disney (Fall Release) (along with the OP) $25
2 Quick hits for Ares Games a company over in europe
Masters of Night == November release
Co-op 1-5 players, ages 13 and up, plays in 45 minutes, and will retail for $49.90.
Tales of Evil -- September release
Co-op Kid investigators on bikes in this highly thematic games
1-5 players 60-90 mins 45-50 ? (not official but think i saw some pre-orders?)
FFG announced that in Q4 2020 they will be releasing a 20th anniversary of Knizia’s Lord of the Rings
Kickstarter! A Whole bunch of them this week.
7-7
Dead Reckoning and Ascension Tactics
Catapult Kingdoms-- Vesuvius Media
Roll Player Adventures-- Thunderworks Games
Ragna-Rok Star --
Canopy-- Tim Eisner
RallyMan:Dirt -- Holy Grail Games
Sorcerer:Endbringer-- Expansion to Sorcerer 6 new factions , White Wizard Games
Alhambra Roll and Write --Queen Games
17 min
June 16, 2020Munchkin Land #340: The Freedom Five are coming!
Dan breaks down the latest gaming news, including Freedom Five: A Sentinel Comics Board Game.
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NEWS
Arcane Wonders and Greater Than Games announced Freedom Five: A Sentinel Comics Board Game.

What they are calling the next evolution of the Defenders of the Realm Series.

Warhammer 40k BIG BOX RELEASE called Warhammer 40k Inodomitus

Space Marines and the Necrons,the box as well as Core Rule book and more!

AEG Announced they will be releasing a new game by John D. Clair in November called Cubitos.

The OP has licensed Spot it From Asmodee to release some new games in the line this fall ($15 each)

Asmodee will be releasing The Magnificent, in US in July . I first covered this back in Nov, when it was one of the hotnesses from Essen Spiel last year.

Z-Man is putting out their Pandemic: Hot zone: North America in July $20.

Steve Jackson Games revealed Munchkin: Something Fishy ($12) and Munchkin: Tails of the Season ($7)

The Op and Steve Jackson Games also announced Munchkin: Critical Role for release in Fall 2020 $25
Digital
Monster Train -- Steam Deckbuilding rogue-like (Think of Slay the Spire)
Kickstarter
Mini Rogue

DIE in the Dungeon

Merchants of the Dark Road
14 min
June 02, 2020Munchkin Land #339: Gen Con Cancelled
Dan runs down gaming convention cancellations and more in this week's Munchkin Minute.
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NEWS
Gen Con 2020 and Spiel 2020 Cancelled
SDJ and KDJ Announced

CMON announced Masters of the Universe Board Game

Justin Gary, Stoneblade entertainment and Ultra Pro have announced a little more info on my eagerly awaited Ascension Tactics. This will be on KS on July 7th

Funko Inc. Announce Marvel Battleworld-- Mystery of the Thanostones.
a micro collectible, tabletop gaming system

Z-man games Infinity Gauntet: A Love Letter Game (July-- $15)

In Part of celebrating the 40 Year Anniversary of The Shining, The OP will release The Shining: Escape from the Overlook Hotel
Later this year $30

CGE announced they are publishing the 9 card print and play winner as a full solo game later this year Under Falling Skies by Thomas Uhlir $30 Q3 30 mins
App News
Imperial Settlers roll and write App was released on the google store and ios app store. 3.99 in both.
Kickstarter
Bullet by Level 99 Games Shoot-em-up Puzzle Action Board Game

Tantrum House Season 7 Great video reviews previews and other great coverage
15 min