Jess: Ohaiyo gozahiimas everybody!
There’s exciting news on the feudal Japan board game front! Fantasy Flight is reprinting Reiner Knizia’s Samurai. The area control game for 2-4 players has everyone competing as daimyo to control Japan through lesser lords, peasants, religious leaders, and of course, Samurai. Continue reading
Dark Moon is the new rendition of BSG Express which was a print and play, streamlined version of Fantasy Flight Games’ Battlestar Galactica. The highly popular game has been redesigned by Evan Derrick and produced by Stronghold Games. It will still include the hidden traitor and hidden dice-rolling mechanic that made the original game so compelling. Derrick has made the official rulebook available for download so you can take a look at the rules before picking up a copy.
The game is for 3-7 players of two teams: the infected and non-infected. The goal of the non-infected players is to survive the night, whereas the goal of the infected is to destroy the non-infected team. You’ll know if you are infected or not, but it will be a mystery as to who your teammates are.
Jess: The game sounds similar in Werewolf in some ways, but includes a “quarantine” effect that allows players to call out a suspected player and limit their ability to effect the game without revealing them one way or the other.
You can pre-order your copy from Stronghold Games for $41.97 before it is released and the price goes up to $59.95. Board Game Geek reports it is looking at a release at Origins in June.
Santa Ragione has starter taking pre-orders for a new edition of Escape From The Aliens In Outer Space (EFTAIOS). The Ultimate Edition is looking to print before the end of 2015 and preorder price will be is $34.99 including shipping. In the box you’ll be getting the content of both the the standard and limited edition previously released, including all the characters and the items and a few special surprises. Santa Ragione has also remade the game using higher quality materials to address some issues fans had with the original.
Jess: I’ve never played EFTAIOS, but apparently there is Print and Play Edition for FREE as a part of the Free Games pack on www.humblebundle.com when you sign up for emails. EFTAIOS is a 2 − 8 player horror party game where players must either become humans trapped on a derelict spaceship trying to escape or aliens bent on devouring those puny humans. It sounds like a delicious…I mean fun time!
You can pre-order Escape From The Aliens In Outer Space here.
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