Board Game News Bites–April 14, 2011

Following on the heels of yesterday’s post of a series of small news bites about board games, here are more for today:

  • Fundex Games is featuring "Gassy Gus" this month, a game where you feed Gus all sorts of gaseous foods from broccoli to baked beans.  The goal is to feed Gus all your food without him breaking wind.
  • Games for the World has reduced the price of its World Cup 2010 card game to GBP 1.95 plus packaging and postage.
  • Garphill Games is featuring Capek, a 2-4 player card game released in February in which players work for a robotics company and are competing to complete their robot first and win.
  • Gen42 has released Army of Frogs for the iPad, iPod, and iPhone.
  • Gut Bustin’ Games, creators of Redneck Life and Trailer Park Wars, is taking pre-orders for a new board game entitled "Oh Gnome You Don’t".
  • Hot Stove Games is moving all their products over to Lulu.com for sale and shipping.
  • KenMGames posted a free downloadable game "Behind the 8 Ball" which combines math and pool.
  • Knight Works appears to have put Shadow Wars 2nd Edition on hold for a bit and is working on a Wild West themed game about area control and resources.
  • Looney Labs is shipping Pirate Fluxx now.
  • Mayfair Games’ "The Catan Dice Game" is shipping to retailers and distributors.  It’s expected to hit store shelves on April 21.
  • Merlin’s Games and Books is taking orders for a couple of new CDs and two games "Mister Rice and Lady Sushi" and "The Rice Queen Game".
  • Minion Games has released four new print and play games for 2011:  Grave Business, Dice – Street Racing, Five Fingered Severance, and Nile.
  • Nethercottage Games released Blocks & Bombs for the iOS and Android.
  • The Numbskull Games web site is featuring its newest release, Blockade Runner, a Euro style resource trading game.
  • Out of the Box announced "Shake ‘n Take", a game about capturing aliens that are on the loose.
  • Pair-of-Dice Games has released R.U.M.B.L. (which is short for RoboUltimateMechaBattleLeague), a game in which players battle robots in an arena and try to defeat the other players.
  • Replay Sports Games is accepting pre-orders for the 1975-76 ABA season, has new 2010 baseball products available, a 1993 yearbook for baseball, and more.
  • Rio Grande Games has released Famiglia, Glen More, Power Grid: Russia and Japan, and Zooloretto: The Boss.
  • Sands of Time Games announced that their Catacombs board game has sold out of its first print run.  The second run will ship alongside two expansions:  Catacombs: Cavern of Soloth and Catacombs: Dark Passageways.
  • Simply Fun Games has added several family titles to their line, including Share a Berry, Telling Time With Tibbar, Tibbar’s Tangrams, Clover Leaf, and Bringing Down the House.
  • Smart Zone Games has added Trickey Monkey and Cobra Twist to their line.
  • Sophisticated Games has released The Hobbit board game by Reiner Knizia.  In it, players are competing to win as much treasure as they can, while Smaug the Dragon closes in on LakeTown.
  • Spiral Galaxy Games is taking pre-orders for the second edition of Alien Frontiers.
  • TableStar Games has its Scoops (ice cream) card game available in print form and on iOS devices.
  • Tasty Minstrel Games has been giving away a free game each Friday.
  • Wattsalpoag Games announced that their first expansion set for Jet Set, entitled Distant Lands, will be released this spring.
  • White Wolf currently lists two upcoming titles:  Night Horrors – Unbidden and Glories of the Most High
  • Winning Moves Games has released The Game of Life: It’s a Dog’s Life, a canine take on the classic game of Life.
  • Zombie Buddy Productions has released a line of "post-apocalyptic wear" that appears to consist of brightly colored fishnet clothing.  Not my thing, but if it’s yours, go for it…

That’s all we have for you now.

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