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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of January 2, 2024. This week, we dream of eclectic Greeks, Stefan Feld thinks he knows where he’s really really going to, Catan is reused and recycled, and the Big Bang becomes a Legend.
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New Kemet coming in 2024 from Matagot Flatiron from Llama Dice Details on Feld City Collection #8 Kathmandu Catan: New Energies coming in 2024 Three titles from Catch Up Games - Faraway, Rivages, Courtesans Neodreams from Ivan Lashin and Open...
Published 01/03/24
This is Dice Tower Now for the week of December 26, 2023. This week, amazon tosses a coin to your space marine, Spielworxx hits us right in the Gentes, Studio H visits the Splendor of the Middle Ages, and the Fellowship remembers Carcassonne.
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Games Workshop inks Warhammer 40K deal with Amazon for TV series Quacks of Quedlinburg Duel Lord of the Rings: The Ringbearer from Carcassonne designer Klaus-Jürgen Wrede Daitoshi from Devir and Dani Garcia Epos: A Gentes Game...
Published 12/26/23
This is Dice Tower Now for the week of December 19, 2023. This week, we cover the news from Play to Z, we essentially take stock of veg, wonderful days get hot, heavy rain, and yeah. It’s true.
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New publisher Play to Z from Zev Shlasinger Essen Spiel and Tokyo Game Market to team up US Postal Service does D&D stamps Heat Pedal to the Metal: Heavy Rain expansion described Gaia Project: The Lost Fleet expansion announced Splendor: Pokemon and Bag of Chips: Pokemon to...
Published 12/19/23
This is Dice Tower Now for the week of December 12, 2023. This week, Richard Garfield did it in the Conservatory with a Black Lotus, Australia goes radioactive, mutant guinea pigs get caffeinated, and Galileo Figaro Magnifico.
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Lorcana sales to use virtual queue system on Amazon Dicebreaker website potentially up for sale Button Shy 18 card holiday design contest MtG Clue crossover coi9nciding with new release set Garphill teases two new titles in their Ancient...
Published 12/12/23
This is Dice Tower Now for the week of December 5, 2023. This week, it's FAIR to say old games MAY come back, Wise Wizards go from White to Wacky, a peck of picky pixies pick potable poseys, and Cascadia rolls over hill and stream.
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TCGplayer Employees Picket Mayfair Games to publish Empire Builder series Wise Wizard launches Wacky Wizard brand Mind Up! Picky Pixie Bezier Games - Bullet "F" Cascadia Roll & Writes Witcher Unmatched Stalingrad Roads by Ares Natera: A...
Published 12/05/23
This is Dice Tower Now for the week of November 28, 2023. This week, Ravensburger gets a Disney Denial of Service, John Clair is a Mistborn, there's a very special holiday murder, and Love Letter gets historical accuracy from Netflix.
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Hasbro Announces winners of Women Innovators of Play Challenge Ravensburger hit with DDoS for Rise of the Floodborn launch Sanderson’s Mistborn books turning into a deckbuilding game from Brotherwise Games Sonic Roll coming from...
Published 11/28/23
This is Dice Tower Now for the week of November 21, 2023. This week, there’s trouble in forbidden universities, Martin Wallace is truly powered by steam, theOP proves those lawn gnomes are hollow, and the trick is sumo.
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University Games and Forbidden Games sue each other for breach of contract Hex & Co to become first Unionized Board Game Cafe Steam Power by Martin Wallace Azul World Tournament by Plan B and Board Game Arena Sumo Trick Taking Game Bricolage Heads...
Published 11/22/23
This is Dice Tower Now for the week of November 14, 2023. This week, there's an Elf Creek on the Shelf Creek, Kratos says “CMoN”, Beadle and Grimm goes chaotic, and Renegade hits the books.
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Tabletop Board Game Designer’s Association formed God of War board game coming from CMoN Matthew Lillard’s Beadle & Grim to release Ring of Chaos Penny Dreadfuls of Victorian London: Sensational Tales of Terror coming from Giochi Elf Creek Games publishing new version of...
Published 11/14/23
This is Dice Tower Now for the week of November 7, 2023. This week, Othello - a minute to learn 52 years to master, every eye has a silver lining, AllPlay moves into a High Rise for ferrets, and Devir gets sand in their Kemushi.
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Othello has been solved by AI Diablo board game and RPG coming from Glass Cannon Unplugged Bezier Games announces 5th Silver title, Silver: Eye Dice Realms Trades Expansion from Tom Lehmann and Rio Grande New Games from Oink - DroPolter and...
Published 11/07/23
This is Dice Tower Now for the week of October 31, 2023. This week, we experience the marvel of magic, Richard Garfield explores his monstrous origins, Iello flips for the circus, and Asmodee gives the generations a good smack.
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Magic the Gathering and Marvel team up CMoN announces The Dead Keep Skybound’s Garima Sharma elected to GAMA Board of Directors Toko Island wins Children’s Game of the Year in Spain King of Tokyo: Origins Flip Circus coming from IELLO...
Published 10/31/23
This is Dice Tower Now for the week of October 24, 2023. This week, Avalon Hill finds the spirit of Christmas, Elzra hits the battlefields, University does the time warp again, Devir Rocks Hard with a runaway, and Cora yells SPOON!
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Annabelle and the Sorcerer’s Spoon, A Children’s book in the Coraquest World Betrayal at House on the Hill getting a Yuletide expansion Dexterity title Battlefields from Elzra Wizards of the Coast to consolidate Magic: The Gathering...
Published 10/24/23
This is Dice Tower Now for the week of October 17, 2023. This week, top prizes go to the unknown planet, 7 Wonders earns a medal, Tom Lehmann admits winter is coming, and an epic designer makes fishy preserves.
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Essen Spiel reports numbers as biggest ever Planet Unknown wins Deutscher Spiele Preis Dune: Imperium Uprising invitational tournament Winter Court by Tom Lehmann 7 Wonders: Architects Medals expansion Koinobori by designer David Bernal and Perro Loko Games...
Published 10/17/23
This is Dice Tower Now for the week of October 10, 2023. This week, Camilla and Corey barely get home from Germany, Barry helps slap together an episode, and this is what a podcast sounds like at 3am.
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Spiel uses AI in ads and Backerkit bans AI from projects And Mattel announces Pictionary vs AI Undaunted 2200 Callisto from Osprey Games Aqua by Dan and Tristan Halstad with Sidekick Games Kronologic from Yoann Levet and Fabien Gridel and Supermeeple New edition of...
Published 10/10/23
This is Dice Tower Now for the week of October 3, 2023. This week, Capstone gets more Cranial, the pyramids sparkle in silver and gold, Wingspan fans rebel, and there’s just a bit less cool stuff in the world.
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CoolStuff Inc to phase out board games and RPGs Rebel Moon RPG sues Netflix Arcane Wonders Contest Capstone Games to print Cranio Creations titles Flat River Group to release Lunar Rush Mayfair increases their catalog…kind of Wingspan Fan Art Pack Mayan Curse...
Published 10/03/23
This is Dice Tower Now for the week of September 26, 2023. This week, there's a space duel above catan, Van Ryder has another final finale, Yokohama fires on all synapses, and every Rose has its sworn.
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Terraforming Mars becomes hotbed of AI artwork The Rose Gauntlet Foundation Pegasus Publishing gets rights to Paizo and Steve Jackson merchandise Daily Magic Games to longer be a traditional retailer, but instead a boutique publisher 2001's Starship Catan reimagined as...
Published 09/26/23
This is Dice Tower Now for the week of September 19, 2023. This week, there's no money in yellow boxes, Cowboys gain Perspective, Knizia constructs a coordinated couplet, IV manages more mischief, and Wallace Wallace Wallace.
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HABA files for bankruptcy Designers of Heat form Sidekick Games Cthulhu Dark Providence announced by CMoN at Expo Perspectives: Orange Box from Space Cowboys Newsboys from Saashi and Saashi New Edition of Kraftwagen Cascadito and Cascadero from...
Published 09/19/23
This is Dice Tower Now for the week of September 12, 2023. This week, the Spice Road gets real big, Stonemaier is infested with bees, the Dutch produce a very odd shop, space heroes are waiting for Godot, and … Tequila!
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Dig Your Way Out: Dig In Expansion Century Spice Road Big Box Apiary by Stonemaier Games Ravensburger plans to combat Disney Lorcana stock shortage DreamEscape Galactic Heroes: My First Social Deduction Game Tequila Odd Shop Burn the Witch Cuvée Barrio...
Published 09/12/23
This is Dice Tower Now for the week of September 5, 2023. This week, PHALANX feels wistful and civil, Pegasus draws out bonus crime, Oaken experts declare war on Bones, and Sit Down declares Open Season on Adventurers.
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Boundless Stride: Into the Denlands by Incredible Dream Studios Micro Macro: Crime City - Showdown and Micro Macro Bonus Box The Night Cage: Shrieking Hollow Expansion Ultimate Voyage from Little Monks Bone Wars by designer Wim Goossens Junk Drawer from...
Published 09/05/23
This is Dice Tower Now for the week of August 29, 2023. This week, it’s baby viking kitten time, we fall under the influence of towering patricians once again, Wolfgang Warsch makes a new version of the Same Game, and Reiner Knizia phones it in at the office.
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Hasbro Women Innovators of Play Virtual Global Event Pax Viking Junior by Ion Game Design Tanz der Hornochsen reprinted as Dance of the Ibexes Patrician Towers of Influence coming to KS Dr. Frankenstein from...
Published 08/29/23
This is Dice Tower Now for the week of August 22, 2023. This week, trading card games are forever altered, there is a French Diluvium of Nuts, Loosey Goosey moves from butts to frogs, and DV screams Bonsai.
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Altered TCG from Régis Bonnessée and Equinox House of 1000 Corpses Board Game from Rob Zombie and Trick or Treat Studios Publisher Nuts! announces Diluvium, designed by Antoni Guillen Robo Alarm by publisher Pegasus Spiele Grand Austria Hotel announces a roll and...
Published 08/22/23
This is Dice Tower Now for the week of August 15, 2023. This week, friendly skeletons rise out of deep water, maracaibo is full of pirates, Twonky is a transformer, Orleans hosts plague at the cathedral, and Dire Wolf has an uprising.
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Deep Water Games rebrands as Friendly Skeleton Webbed Sphere's new Mayfair acquires Mr B. Games Pirates of Maracaibo from Alexander Pfister Boonlake: Artifacts expansion from dlp Games Stand alone sequel title Dune: Imperium - Uprising...
Published 08/15/23
This is Dice Tower Now for the week of August 8, 2023. This week, hashtag Linecana, colossal boxes for colossal cats, we’re above board about Above Board, and mah wife!
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Linecana GenCon Card Theft Above Board Colossal Cat in the Box
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Published 08/08/23
This is Dice Tower Now for the week of August 1, 2023. This week, Chinatown becomes a water park, why would anyone camp on bear mountain, we Unexpectedly overflow with Scoundrels, and a GenCon Summer is truly Spectacular.
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Many Summer Spectacular Announcements War of the Ring expansion Kings of Middle Earth Helvetiq is releasing On the Road by Gabriele Bubola and Leo Colovini Repos announces Waterfall Park, a retheming of Chinatown Unrest coming from Pandasaurus Double...
Published 08/01/23
This is Dice Tower Now for the week of July 25, 2023. This week, duels are romantik, we open the floodgates to name everything ever, Skybound is doubly invincible, and monkey poo smells like bananas.
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Enoch Fryxelius reveals solo only expansion to Terraforming Mars Dorfromantik: the Duel Corvids from DVC Games Funforge announces cooperative tower defense title Runemasters Keymaster Games creating new version of Harvest Draw and Race title Turbo Kidz coming from...
Published 07/25/23