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News Flash: Pina Pirata, Gloom 2nd Edition

Pina Pirata

  • IELLO's Pina Pirata will be available in the US in the next month or so. It's a pirate-themed family game for 2 to 6 players.
  • Atlas Games has announced it will be releasing a 2nd edition of Gloom this summer, featuring new artwork and improved rules.
  • The Cardboard Republic has written a review of several digital versions of well-known board games. Boards and Bees has published a list on the same subject.
  • Rahdo has created a list of the top ten worker placement games.
  • New reviews this week of Concept (The Game Aisle), Gosu Tactics (If You Give a Geek a Game), and Blue Prints (Boardgaming.com).
  • Matt Forbeck has written a piece on GeekDad about the flaws of Monopoly and the new House Rules edition set to be released.
  • Check out this interview with Matt Riddle, designer of Fleet, Fleet: Arctic Bounty and Eggs and Empires, on BoardGameGeek.
  • The nominees for the 2014 Origins Awards have been announced.