An online gaming table environment (at some point in the future)
Online tools, such as avatars, maps, etc…
But the real news is the price: $8 a month, or $60 a year. And that includes ONLY the web content, not the future online gaming table or other future features.
NECA has a new Harry Potter game: Hogwarts: House Cup Challenge, an adventure board game based on the first five Harry Potter films. The game allows 2 - 4 players to portray Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Neville in their quest to win the House Cup for Gryffindor.
With Hogwarts, we wanted to create an adventure board game with a lot of flavor, a decent amount of depth, and a minimum degree of luck. There are no dice in the game. Characters can move up to 3 spaces each turn, and once Characters have achieved a certain level of ability in a particular area, they can accomplish adventures of a certain difficulty automatically.
Even the Adventure Cards that the players encounter are often set up by the players themselves. We created a system where players attempt to build a “hand path” (i.e. a sequence of cards in their hands) so that they could encounter adventures in a certain order for greater efficiency. Of course, some adventures do pop onto the board randomly as well, and the players can also play difficult Adventure Cards on their opponents before they’re ready, especially if their opponents dare to wander the Forbidden Forest…
Gormiti - The Invincible Lords of Nature are small characters engaged in a struggle to conquer the Island of Gorm.
The magnificent island of Gorm was once inhabited by peaceful, nature loving people until Magmion, the Lord of Magma destroyed everything they knew. By awakening the sleeping volcano Fire Mountain, Magmion destroyed the entire island and all of its inhabitants.
Only the wise Old Sage survived and using his extraordinary powers he gave life to new creatures to rebuild their once great island. From the natural elements the Old Sage created the Gormiti tribes.
The Gormiti have magical powers taken from the tribes they are linked to:
Earth -Yellow figures
Forest - Green figures
Sea - Turquoise figures
Air - Blue figures
Magmion created the bad volcano tribes - Magma and Lava (Red figures). Which heroes will emerge in this titanic struggle? Who will survive and rule the island of Gorm?
Following a bunch of blister packs and playsets, you can now buy Gormiti - Island of Gorm, which is some sort of game. It’s not clear exactly what sort, but it might be something like Heroscape???
Parent Talk is a new discussion starting game that plays something like The Dating Game.
One of a couple tries to pick the answer his or her partner will pick. The main point is to raise awareness of attitudes toward various parenting issues.
And, as seems to be in vogue, it comes with a promotional video:
WizKids is offering new campaign options for the Solaris VII series of MechWarrior miniatures. The free materials include Campaign Rules, a Campaign Tracking Sheet, and a set of new Rally Cards. The cards add interesting maneuvers, trick shots, and battlefield mishaps.
Reality Deviant Publications brings Cyberpunk to the True20 roleplaying system with a new setting book. Interface Zero includes expanded rules for computers, viruses, cybernetics, and other classic elements of the genre. With the game players may confront the New Chinese Mandarinate, the Theocratic UCSA, the ancient triad lodge masters, and anarchist hackers.
Mark of CrystalMinds has finished his beta version of Settlers of Catan designed for a multi-touch computer system. You know, the kind where you play by dragging and moving pieces around on a flat horizontal screen.
He welcomes beta testers, but you have to have the hardware to try it out. When i asked what that meant, he pointed me here, which didn’t answer the question, but puts his work into context. You can see example applications here.
This past Thursday, Fantasy Flight Games hosted a preview screening for the final cut of Midnight Chronicles, a movie based on their Midnight roleplaying game. The movie has been entirely produced in-house at Fantasy Flight, a significant departure for the game company. As an RPG, Midnight is distinctly high-fantasy. In this setting the quintessential evil god has actually won in his battle to control the world.
From Lost Battalion Games comes Tyrants of Rome, a new card game for two to six players. Using the two decks of cards in the game, players build factions using legions, bribes, and assassins to seize control of the declining Roman Empire.
Reality Deviant Publications
Mark of CrystalMinds has finished his beta version of 
This past Thursday, 
