The Week In Gaming

Roleplaying Games

Rite Publishing has released Evocative City Sites: The Crossroads for the Pathfinder RPG. You can grab it from the Paizo store here.

Jonathan Roberts, cartographer for Kobold Quarterly, Sunken Empires, and The Breaking of Fostor Nagar, presents another Fantastic Map: “The Watchfire Keep”.

Rite Publishing has set up a prelaunch website for its upcoming kickstarter project The Demolished Ones FATE based adventure. It is a steampunk, noir, victorian quest for identity in the strange world of The Dome.

The creators of Villains & Vigilantes, Jeff Dee and Jack Herman, have filed a federal copyright lawsuit against the game’s longtime publisher Scott Bizar.

Wargames

New from GMT Games. Space Empires is a game in the finest tradition of 4X space games — eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate. Make no mistake. All four “X’s” are included in this game. This is a wargame where the purpose of building your empire is not to feel good about your achievement, but to destroy your enemies and burn their colonies. Price: $65.

No Retreat: The Russian Front is a new deluxe edition of the two-player Victory Point Games 2008 CSR Award Nominee wargame that retells the story of the titanic struggle between the invading armies of Nazi Germany versus Communist Russia during WW2 at a player-friendly and manageable level of scope and difficulty. Features six quick-playing scenarios plus a tournament scenario. Price: $60.

Worthington Games expects to have a new print run of Guns of August for Fall 2011.  There are no immediate plans on a reprint for Hearts and Minds.  The publisher also has issued a low stock alert on Boots on the Ground.

New from Valley Games. Commands and Colors: Napoleonics Dice are an attractive alternative to the dice that come with Commands and Colors Napoleonics. They are lacquered wood dice in black with embossed symbols. Price: $8.

Board Games

Steve Jackson stated that the upcoming sixth edition of Ogre won’t be out until earliest 2012.

The Spiel der Spiele (Austria’s prestigious Game of the Year award) – has been announced by the Wiener Spiele Akademie, and the winner is Wolfgang Kramer’s Asara, which was also a Spiel des Jahres nominee. The Akademie also dubbed several games as a “Spiele Hit”, those being split into four categories:

• For experts: The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game
• Among friends: 7 Wonders and Fortytwo
• For families: Mord im Arosa, Qwirkle, Uluru and Voll in Fahrt
• For children: LEGO’s Heroica series and Schusselhexe

CCGs

ChangYou.com (US), a leading publisher of free-to-play massively multiplayer online games (MMOG) in North America, announced Sword Girls, an all-new anime online collectible card game (CCG), will enter its closed beta phase on October 12, 2011. The first trailer is available for viewing on the official website at www.SwordGirlsOnline.com.