News Flash: Gates of Delirium and Trapper Keeper Game Announced

Gates of Delirium Pre-Order
Renegade Game Studios has announced Gates of Delirium and made it available for pre-order. It will be released this October. "Players will have a hand of split action cards: one side sane, and the other insane. Every round, one player will decide if it is a sane or insane round, and all players must play that side of their cards. During sane rounds, players will be searching for maps and lost pages to a secret tome, while assigning investigators to help them in their cause. During insane rounds, players collect ancient runes and work to build Gates to release the monstrosities that their sane selves have been trying so hard to understand and prevent."
Source: https://www.renegadegamestudios.com/news/2019/7/25/experience-the-horror-at-the-borders-of-sanity-in-gates-of-delirium

Trapper Keeper Game Announced
Trapper Keeper Game is a new card game, inspired by school in the ‘80s and ‘90s. "The game challenges players to school the competition by collecting cards with the most points and stashing them in their Trapper Keeper folders. Cards include homework, quizzes, parent signatures, report cards, detention slips, notes from classmates, and field trip slips. After the last bell card is played by the assigned Teacher’s Pet, the players tally up doodles and points to determine the winner."
Source: http://www.biggcreative.com/games/trapper-keeper-game/

Spyfall: Time Travel Announced
Cryptozoic and Hobby World have announced a new edition of their social deduction game series. It is available in limited amounts at Gen Con and will have a full release in September. "In Spyfall: Time Travel, you don’t just have to think about where a location is, but when in time it is, adding a whole new level of complexity and fun."
Source: https://www.cryptozoic.com/articles/cryptozoic-and-hobby-world-announce-release-spyfall-time-travel

The Aquicorn Cove Board Game
Renegade Game Studios has announced, The Aquicorn Cove, a 2-4 player cooperative game based on the graphic novel of the same name. "In the game, players take on the roles of members of a small fishing village struggling to survive while maintaining a balance with the natural world. To win, the villagers must feed and grow their village, and help restore the health of the reef and aquatic ecosystem."
Source: https://www.renegadegamestudios.com/news/2019/7/26/work-together-in-the-aquicorn-cove-board-game-to-save-your-town-and-the-ocean

Translating Board Game Rules
The Opinionated Gamers has posted an in depth look at how they set about translating games they want to play when there are no English rules available and they don’t know the original language. "I mostly talk about what I do to cobble together English language translations for Japanese games when I don’t speak, read, or write any Japanese and where I also hope that some folks will chime in with what they used to do to play the German imports."
Source: https://opinionatedgamers.com/2019/06/27/creating-translations-for-imported-games/

Reviews
Ubongo! (Sahm reviews): “It’s a quick game that can be played by young and old alike. Children learn the concept of tangrams during elementary school so this isn’t difficult to grasp for even the youngest of players. “
Source: http://www.sahmreviews.com/2019/07/kosmos-ubongo.html

Escape From Iron Gate (Everything Board Games): “While it is most definitely a party game, the inclusion of the set-collection and hand-management mechanism was a pleasant surprise and added a strategic element to a party game. The ease of the puzzles, while a weakness in certain crowds, makes the game more accessible to players of different ages and abilities.”
Source: http://www.everythingboardgames.com/2019/08/escape-from-iron-gate-review.html

Horrified (GeekDad): “The game’s variability and the very different ways each Monster plays ensures that the game won’t get stale. It’s definitely a fun addition to the cooperative genre, and hopefully will be more successful in keeping Universal’s Monsters in the cultural zeitgeist than the movies.”
Source: https://geekdad.com/2019/08/horrified-is-monstrously-fun/