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Rio Grande Games has released their thirty-fourth newsletter. The most immediate bit of excitement is the fact that Trans America, a new rail game, should be here within a week or so. Beyond that, most of the games described by the newsletter have already been announced, though the discussion of

It’s free game of the month time again at Invisible City Productions. This month’s creation is MetalTalon, a space combat wargame in which the battling ships are represented by stacks of coins built from a 26-cent reserve. The rules are short and simple, but the inclusion of multiple races and

Rogue Publishing has just released a new downloadable FUDGE adventure. This time around, it’s Dead Sea Murder, a Middle-Eastern mystery adventure for the “pulp archaeology” Terra Incognita setting. The $4 PDF file is 47 pages long, containing complete adventure details (including variants for different types of campaign) and the essentials

According to , sales of the re-released Fighting Fantasy gamebooks have been good enough to convince the publisher to pull forward some release dates. As a result, we’ll be getting House of Hell in addition to City of Thieves and Crypt of the Sorcerer before the year is out. Of

Rio Grande Games has released another newsletter. generic cialis lowest price The highlights of the newsletter are descriptions of two forthcoming games: Trans America, a railroad game due in late August, and Heave Ho!, a Scottish tug of war game (!) featuring Nessie (!!) due out in late August or

Invisible City Productions has released a larger-than-average game of the month this week: Treefort Nations. In this strategy game, players control territorial monkeys building treeforts in the Great Wood and attacking one another with catapults. The game can be played by two to eight players, takes anywhere from a couple

It’s the middle of a new month, so Invisible City Productions has once again released a free game. This time it’s Scoop!, a board game in which two to six players compete to be the first to sell three high-quality stories to the editor of the Action City Times. Solitaire

Project Aon has been working really efficiently lately. With record speed, they’ve released the free online edition of The Dungeons of Torgar, the tenth Lone Wolf gamebook. As with the last release, both online-playable and downloadable PDF editions are available, and all of the original illustrations are included.

The May game of the month from Invisible City is here. Ziggurat is a pleasant reminder (for two or four players) that dominoes are good for more than just knocking over in sequence — they’re also good for piling up strategically in an effort to score the most points. If

The latest newsletter from Rio Grande Games has some interesting announcements. For one thing, Dvonn, part of the Gipf series of interlocking abstract strategy games, has won a Mensa Select Award, making it the second Gipf entry to receive this distinction. Also interesting in a less braggy sort of way

It’s been ages since Project Aon last released a free Lone Wolf book, but it looks like their latest endeavor (The Cauldron of Fear, available here) has been well worth the wait. Not only is it fully-illustrated like its predecessor, The Jungle of Doom, but it’s also available as a

After another period of bandwidth-overload-induced downtime, has returned, and now they’ve posted . I for one am excited.

The Penny Games site has released a new free game: Alien Abduction, an entry in the Unequal Forces board game competition. This two-player strategy game pits a human player controlling two genetically-enhanced and well-armed individuals against a legion of replicating little alien monsters. You can play it with Chess and

Several days in advance of their April 15th release date, Invisible City Productions have added a new freebie to their just-redesigned monthly games page. The new release, Ice Market, is a sci-fi themed real-time trading game in which players take on the roles of crystal-collecting alien dolphins. It’s an interesting-looking

The latest monthly free game from Invisible City Productions is up and ready to be played. Syzygy, “the game of lunar connections,” is a board game in which players travel around (or on) the moons of Jupiter, trying to position themselves so that they can gain energy from lunar confluences.