4A Games, the studio behind the popular Metro series, will be present at this year's Gamescom event as an exhibitor.
Board Game News Round-up 7/19
19.07.2023 - 19:11 / boardgamequest.com
This week in our news round-up we’ve got a few different items on the docket.
The Spiel des Jahres is Germany’s annual Game of the Year award and it’s given out to a typically very accessible game. It’s also one of the most coveted awards in tabletop gaming as the winner tends to go on to sell a plethora of copies of the game. This year Dorfromantik: The Board Game (Pegasus Spiel) has taken home the prize. It’s based on the video game of the same name, which already kind of felt like a board game.
“In Dorfromantik: The Board Game, up to six players work together to lay hexagonal tiles to create a beautiful landscape and try to fulfill the orders of the population, while at the same time laying as long a track and as long a river as possible, but also taking into account the flags that provide points in enclosed areas. The better the players manage to do this, the more points they can score at the end. In the course of the replayable campaign, the points earned can be used to unlock new tiles that are hidden in initially locked boxes. These pose new, additional tasks for the players and make it possible to raise the high score higher and higher.”
Troubled board game publisher Petersen Games has been operating as a skeleton crew since last June when they had to lay off most of their staff. Since then, they’ve been slowly trying to get their much-delayed Kickstarter for Cthulhu Wars out the door. Funded in 2019, it is now 3 years past its original, estimated delivery date. The most recent trouble for the campaign came from Petersen Games lacking the funds to get the games from the fulfillment house to backers’ doors. Well good news has arrived. In a recent Kickstarter update, Petersen Games has revealed:
“We have secured
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venturebeat.com
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pcgamer.com
03.08.2023 / 23:37
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pcgamer.com
03.08.2023 / 17:51
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03.08.2023 / 14:25
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pcmag.com
03.08.2023 / 13:35
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gameranx.com
02.08.2023 / 17:01
Xbox Goes Over Their Gamescom 2023 Lineup
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gamesradar.com
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pcgamesn.com
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Microsoft announces Gamescom 2023 plans
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Microsoft bringing Starfield and Forza to Gamescom via theatre presentations
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