- Avalanche Press has a "moving" sale going on now, where you can get "20% off any item except downloads or recent publications" on a minimum $100 order until Monday, July 25, 2011.
- Bellica 3rd Generation is accepting pre-orders for Vienna or Death, a wargame set in the age of muskets.
- Lock ‘n Load Publishing has their Nations at War: White Star Rising game on sale for a limited time. Sale price is $49.99.
- Multiman Publishing plans to be at the World Boardgaming Championships in Lancaster, PA, from August 1-7.
- Operational Studies Group now offers "The Coming Storm Update Kit" which includes updated rules, study folders, and ancillary charts. You can download it for free as of this writing.
- Victory Point Games has released The Alamo Remembered.
- Wargamedownloads.com has released a number of sports related game products, including additional leagues for Just One Die Soccer, From Mud to Glory: American Football, and Heroes of the Slam (tennis).
Archive for Game Deals
Wargame News for July 22, 2011
Category: Game Deals, Wargames |
PC Game News for July 22, 2011
Paradox Interactive has released a demo and tutorial videos for their Supreme Ruler: Cold War game.
Shrapnel Games has an "eight games for eight days" sale going on. Titles available in the sale include Air Command 3.0, Brainpipe: A Plunge to Unhumanity, Bronze, Raging Tiger: The Second Korean War, Scallywag: In the Lair of the Medusa, Space HoRSE, War Plan Pacific, Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space, winSPWW2, and World Supremacy.
THQ has posted information and screenshots for their upcoming Company of Heroes Online game for the PC.
PC Strategy Game News – July 16, 2011
- 2K Games posted a question and answer topic on their forums for the upcoming sequel to their popular Darkness game. If you enjoyed the original game and want to have a say in what 2K does with the sequel, you may want to check this out.
- BradyGames announced that they will soon produce an official e-guide for the Captain America Super Soldier game for 360, PS3, and Wii.
- Broderbund is having a sale on several games as of this writing, including Hoyle Card Games 2011, Hoyle Casino 2011, Hoyle Puzzle and Board Games 2011, and Hoyle Slots 2011.
- HPS Simulations has released Future Force, a game designed for The Army Command and General Staff College to help train military leaders about force management and resource allocation. It’s priced at $19.95 until August 1, when it may increase.
- The intoxic8studio has posted some preview images from their upcoming CafeRama game, which has players competing for domination in a world of designer coffee, fruit juice, and pastry.
- Matrix Games reports that Gary Grigsby’s War in the East has received a major update.
- Paradox Interactive revealed its lineup for Gamescom 2011, which includes King Arthur II, Crusader Kings II, Naval War Arctic Circle, Salem, and Magna Mundi.
- Petroglyph announced that Rise of Immortals is now available for open beta testing.
- GamersFront has two specials this month: Air Assault Task Force for $33.95 and Salvo! for $33.95.
- Square Enix announced that those who pre-order Deus Ex: Human Revolution at Gamestop will have a chance to win $20,000 worth of living room "augmentations".
Category: Game Deals, PC Strategy Games |
Card Game News for July 13, 2011
- Giochix.it is having a a pre-release offer for pick up of their games at the company’s booth at the Essen Fair later this year. Titles are being offered at 25% off.
- The Spoils is looking for Article Writers for their site.
- Khalsa Brain Games announced that their Charcoal colored mats are back in stock.
- The Shadowfist web site announced that the July issue of The Inner Kingdom is available for reading, and that it includes all the winning decks from Origins and the latest entry in the on-going Shurikens and Six Guns fiction.
Category: Card-based Games, Game Deals |
Board Game News – July 13, 2011
- Three Crowns Productions (3CG) is already out of stock on Tannenberg 1914, Konigsberg ’45, and Plan West, but suggests that interested parties check with Noble Knight Games and World of Boardgames for availability.
- APBA Games is accepting pre-orders for the 1960 [R2] and 1964 [R2] Baseball Season Card Sets, as well as for the 2010 Football Season Card Set, 2010-11 Hockey Season Card Set, and 2010-11 EPL Soccer Season Card Set.
- Bruno Faidutti has posted rules to The Dwarf King board game on his web site in both French and English.
- Catan for Android is now available in the Android Market. I purchased a copy but haven’t taken the time to learn to play it yet. Hope to post a review when I do.
- Cheapass Games has made the Timeline strategy card game available for free download.
- Continuum Games has released Family Talk, a "fun portable conversation game designed to keep today’s busy families connected".
- Cryptozoic Entertainment posted an interesting article on how fans of Decipher’s long out of print Star Wars CCG have been keeping the game alive.
- Days of Wonder announced that Small World Underground is now available everywhere.
- DreamPunk Productions announced that they have been nominated for an ENnie award at this year’s Gen Con, for their game The Stork.
- Evertide Games playtested a revised version of their Nottingham game at Maxicon XI.
- Family Pastimes has released three new games this season: Let’s Make a Pizza, Gnightly Gnomes, and Let’s Go Digging.
- Fantasy Flight Games is hiring a Customer Support Associate out of the Minneapolis office.
- Gigamic won an award for their Kabaleo game, in which players try to change the majority of the pyramids on the board to their secretly chosen color.
- Googolplex Games has released Googolplex Solitaire, a game which combines "the elements of Vegas Style Solitaire and the easy play of Last Man Standing."
- Kalidasia Media Productions is celebrating summer with deals on the Legends of Kalidasia product line. Prices have been reduced by 20% or more.
- Mr. Bigshot is working on a massively multiplayer online version of the game as a way to conduct a nationwide tournament.
- Rio Grande Games announced that there will be a Dominion tournament at the Essen Spielfest with a 1,000 euro top prize. There will also be a tournament at Gen Con, with the winner receiving airfare, hotel accomodations, and entry to the fair at Essen.
- Sands of Time Games will soon receive the second printing of Catacombs and two expansions, and the game was nominated for the 2011 Diana Jones Award for excellence in gaming. It also won the Golden Geek Award from BoardGameGeek.com for innovation in 2010.
- Texotic Games, publishers of Twisted Pairs, has closed its business and is no longer selling the game.
- Truekid Games expects to have received their shipment of Grave Business from the printers in time for Gen Con (as they weren’t received in time for Origins).
Category: Board Games, Game Deals |
Wargame News – July 11, 2011
- Academy Games is running a Strike of the Eagle contest on Boardgamegeek, in which you learn about the game while making strategic decisions. You may even win a free copy.
- Avalanche Press reports that a number of their most popular game series’ boxed copies are back in stock, including Arctic Convoy, Cone of Fire, Coral Sea, Eastern Fleet, and Midway. They’re also offering free stuff with every $100 purchase.
- Bellica 3rd Generation is taking pre-orders for the Vienna or Death game.
- GMT Games has added three new games to their P500 list, including Mr. Madison’s War, Saints in Armor, and The Dark Valley.
- Grenadier Productions lowered the cost on the hardcopy version of “War in the South: Supplement 1” to $14.95 and the PDF version is $7.95.
- Lock ‘n Load Publishing has announced Tank on Tank East Front, a game that can be learned in under five minutes and played during a lunch break, depicting tactical ground combat in the latter years of World War II. World at War: Paris is Burning is shipping now as well.
- Victory Point Games announced that their popular two-player deck-building game For the Crown is now available for purchase. They’ve also released Keep Up the Fire, a game about the Boxer Rebellion.
- The League Of Augsburg site says that they are getting close to releasing the first 9 packs of their new range, which includes musketeers, pikemen, and grenadiers. Preordering will begin soon.
- Multiman Publishing has their Warriors of God 100 Years War game on sale as of this writing for $33.75 instead of the regular $45.00 list price.
- Capitan Games has released Master and Commander: Frigates.
Category: Game Deals, Wargames |
PC Game News–July 7, 2011
- 2K Games has released Duke Nukem Forever and a bunch of Duke Nukem merchandise.
- Advanced Gaming Systems has released some tutorial videos for Harpoon 3 ANW.
- CCP Games has released EVE: Online Incarna 1.0, the 14th free expansion to the game. It adds 3D avatars to the game world.
- Guild Wars 2 has added dungeons and underwater gameplay.
- Longbow Games has released Hegemony Gold as a boxed retail product.
- Matrix Games lists several new products, including Close Combat: The Longest Day, Close Combat: Last Stand Arnhem, and Close Combat: Cross of Iron. They’ve also set a release day of July 11 for Panzer Corps.
- Paradox Interactive announced that Supreme Ruler: Cold War has gone gold and that Hearts of Iron III: For the Motherland has been released. They’re also offering many of their titles on sale at solid discounts via the Steam system.
- Steam is having a Summer Sale that includes some incredible discounts on games.
- SEGA’s Virtua Tennis 4 is available via Steam now.
Category: Game Deals, PC Strategy Games |
Miniatures Gaming News–July 7 2011
- Black Orc Games has released two new MiniSculpts: the Dwarf Skeleton and the Horror Stump. They also released a 20mm square brick base.
- Furidion Games posted a status report for Unbridled Fury, promising the print edition “very soon indeed”.
- All the King’s Men Toy Soldiers is having a sale from now until the end of July. See their site for details.
- Alternative Armies posted images of their Dwarves of Brewswick miniatures.
- Darkson Designs has added three new items to their webstore, the Wendigo, Hell Host, and Walking Tank miniatures.
- Blacksburg Tactical Research Center (BTRC) is now accepting Paypal for their products purchased through their web site.
- Crocodile Games has put its Wargods of Aegyptus on sale for $10, a $19.95 discount.
- The Flames of War site has posted updates about its European Grand Tournament, Battlefront TV, and more.
- Warlord Games has added several new products to their range, including a Plastic Roman Scorpion Batter, Imperial Roman Legionnaires, Bolt Action SU-76, Roman slave girls, and more.
- Privateer Press reports that demand for its Warmachine and HORDES games is so high that its passed their production ability and they’re having to expand and take other measures to ensure adequate supplies to players.
- The Virual Armchair General is now offering a variety of “little” products to go with their Funny Little Wars game.
- Wargames Factory is offering Persian Infantry, Persian Cavalry, Skeleton Warriors, and a number of 20mm bases “at a competitive price” on their site.
- Paizo and WizKids revealed details of their Pathfinder Beginner Box Heroes fantasy miniature set, due out in October.
- Cipher Studios has begin shipping its new Anima releases.
- The Honourable Lead Boiler Suit Company announced that it is discontinuing its Cape Frontier War, Old West, Vignettes, and Paper Street Soap Company figure ranges due to rising costs for pewter.
- Mongoose Publishing has released books and miniatures in numbers too great to list here. Product releases include items for The Third Imperium, Ant Assault, Judge Dredd, Paranoia, and more.
Get Z-Man Games “Duel in the Dark” for $19.99
Tanga.com, as of this writing on June 23, 2011, is offering the Z-Man Games “Duel in the Dark” boardgame for $19.99 plus $6.99 shipping. This is the second edition of the game which includes the “Bag of Expansions”.
Duel in the Dark is a World War 2 air combat game depicting the nighttime air raids of British bombers hitting German cities.
Cheapass Games Releases Unexploded Cow FREE
The folks at Cheapass Games released Unexploded Cow, one of the most popular Cheapass Games titles of all time, as a free print-and-play game.
Unexploded Cow is a money game in which players invest in mad cows and reap rewards when the cows rid the French countryside of leftover bombs. The rules, cards, card backs, and money are all available for download as PDF files which can be printed and used immediately.
Lock ‘n Load Pre-Orders, Line of Fire 10
Mark H. Walker’s Lock ‘n Load Publishing LLC has made available their Line of Fire 10 downloadable PDF for purchase. This full-color PDF contains the rules, counters, and map of Line of Fire 10. It can be purchased online.
For Father’s Day, they’re offering a deal on Blood and Bridges. You can pick up the game for $27.49 from here.
Lock ‘n Load’s Heroes of the Pacific is available for pre-order. Also available for pre-order are Lock ‘n Load: Heroes of the Faith and Lock ‘n Load: Heroes of the Gap.
Card Game News Blitz
Here are the card game news items I found today:
- Blue Kabuto plans to debut Cookie Fu Fortune Decks at Gen Con 2011.
- Fireside Games plans to be at Origins 2011 to show off their upcoming Bears game, run demos of Castle Panic, and sell a limited supply of advance copies of Bloodsuckers.
- Gozer Games has released Vampire Werewolf Fairies following a successful Kickstarter campaign.
- Icepack Games is giving away promo cards they printed for this year’s conventions to those who order the Trade Fleet or Big Bag of Schwag game.
- Interaction Point Games will be at Gen Con Indy 2011 in booth 1954. They will have a number of events throughout the convention and participating in the Con Quest convention game.
- Plaid Hat Games is taking pre-orders for Dungeon Run, which is expected for an August 2011 release.
- Rightfast.com says that the Empire Cards game is gone for good.
- The Spoils Second Edition is planned for June 27th release.
Category: Card-based Games, Game Deals |
Shrapnel Games June 2011 Specials
Shrapnel Games announced on June 2 that they would be discounting two of their wargame titles: The Star and the Crescent and War Plan Pacific.
The Star and the Crescent features “the most detailed battlefield maps you’ll ever plan on in a commercial wargame” and very detailed combat. Reviewers have said that its AI is strong, the manual is comprehensive, and the high degree of customization makes it a gem. The game allows players to refight key battles of the Yom Kippur War using an enhanced version of the ATF engine. It also features battles from ‘56, ‘67, and January ‘73, along with two hypothetical future battles set in 2009. Normally priced at $39.95, it is currently on sale for $33.95. It is a Windows-only title.
War Plan Pacific puts players in the role of the supreme commanders of either the Japanese or Allied forces fighting for dominance of the Pacific during the Second World War. Players command the historical air, naval, and (abstractly) ground forces that fought in these battles. It is a Windows-only title. Normally priced at $39.95, it is currently on sale for $33.95.
Category: Game Deals, PC Strategy Games, Wargames | Tags: PC wargame, shrapnel games, Star and the Crescent, War Plan Pacific
Petroglyph Games 50% Off Board Game Special
For the month of June 2011, Petroglyph is offering a special deal of 50% off all their board games. Purchasers will also receive a copy of Guardians of Graxia for PC free.
Their board games include:
Frozen Synapse–Buy One, Give One Free to a Friend
Matrix Games recently released Frozen Synapse, a PC strategy game that brings the simultaneous turn-based strategy game up to date and lets you give detailed, accurate orders to your squad. Plan moves, test them out, and hit the "Execute” button. Both your turns and your enemy’s are executed simultaneously.
Each match is an intense tactical situation, with no “waiting around for the fun part”. If you can predict your opponent’s moves, you win the match. The game design rewards the superior tactics.
As of this writing, Matrix says that “as a special bonus, anyone who buys Frozen Synapse and registers an account on the multiplayer server will be given the opportunity to send a full copy of the game to a friend for free”.
The download edition is priced at USD $24.99. A boxed edition with free download is priced at $34.99. More details and screenshots can be seen on the Matrix Games web site at the link provided above (as well as ordering details).
Flat-Rate Shipping at Columbia Games
In honor of Father’s Day, Columbia Games is offering flat-rate shipping for every order, regardless of size. Orders shipping to the US and Canada ship for $4.99. Overseas orders ship for $9.99 regardless of size. The offer is good through June 20, 2011.
Free Book Shipping at Avalanche Press
Avalanche Press is currently offering free shipping “at least in the United States” on any order containing only books or supplements (any number of them). If you’ve been holding off on purchasing any of their products you may want to take advantage of the deal.
Category: Game Deals, Gaming Accessories, Wargames | Tags: avalanche press, free shipping, game deal
Free Promo Card with Order at IcePack Games
The IcePack Games web site says that they over-ordered on their 2011 Promo Cards and have some left over. According to the post on their site, “From now until we run out we will send you a Promo Card for Trade Fleet or Big Bag of Schwag when you order that game.”
Category: Card-based Games, Game Deals | Tags: Big Bag of Schwag, Icepack Games, promo card, Trade Fleet
