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News Flash: StoryLine: Fairy Tales Released, New Edition of Flick'em Up Announced

StoryLine: Fairy Tales

  • The story telling board game StoryLine: Fairy Tales, from Asmodee, is now officially released and in stores.
  • Last year Pretzel Games released Flick'em Up, a fun dexterity based game. But due to its lovely wooden components it was also fairly expensive. Z-Man Games has announced that they'll be releasing a new edition with a lower price point, a 'wider audience edition' with a lower price point. The game will be out in July.
  • The digital adaptation for Castles of Mad King Ludwig will be hitting iOS, Android, and Kindle next Tuesday.
  • New reviews this week of Histrio (Geek Girl Authority), Coal Baron (Gameboygeek), and ManaSurge (iSlaytheDragon).
  • Ars Technica has written a piece on digitally augmented board games and the ways games have used technology in their mechanics.
  • Buzzfeed has suggested 26 games that 'you need to play before you die'.
  • An in-depth preview of Tak, Cheapass Games's new abstract board game, has been posted on BoardGameGeek.
  • Geek and Sundry suggests five games that kids can enjoy, which their parents can have fun with as well.