Today’s Board Game News:

• 4th Street Software is now shipping the 2009 version of 4th Street Football, 4th Street Computer Football Version 6, and the 2009-10 4th Street Hockey season.
• Baksha Games has released a new strategy game called “Good Help” which they claim combines “Evil Doctors, Revenge, and beer.”
• The Catan web site says that Settlers of America – Trails to Rails is now available.
• The Days of Wonder web site says they’ll be at Gen Con next week, and they’re taking pre-orders for Memoir ’44 Battle Maps Volume 4.
• Drumond Park has added several new games, including: Articulate Your Life, Animatazz, Best of British, Countdown, Don’t Laugh, Pumpaloons, and Wordsearch.
• Evertide Games has posted art from its Lords of Scotland game.
• Fantasy Flight Games announced the upcoming release of Arkham Horror Investigator Figures, and they’re counting down to the launch of Dust Tactics.
• Gamewright appears to have added “Order’s Up” and “Hide and Eeek!” games to their product line.
• Gen42 has announced a Ladybug expansion to their “Hive” game.
• Inside Sports Games has released the 2009 NFL season for thier Inside Blitz Football game.
• Looney Labs announced the release of “Back to the Future: The Card Game” on September 3, 2010.
• Phalanx Games reports that the graphics for Rise of Empires are almost complete, testing of Automobile has been done, Steam is in production, and more.
• The Lensman Game site says that Phil Pritchard will be at their booth at WBC on Saturday August 7.
• Portal Publishing says that at Essen this year they will have an expansion for Stronghold and a card game called 51st State.
• Sierra Madre Games is taking pre-orders for High Frontier and Expansion, which will be published in October 2010.
• Steve Jackson Games says their Zombie Dice app for the iPhone is available through the App Store.
• Strat-O-Matic Games will ship its Hockey Cards on Monday August 2 and says they’re soon ending their diskette exchange policy.
• Z-Man Games has Primordial Soup and Agricola in stock and will have a Pandemic LARP at Gen Con.