I received the following press release from WizKids Games:
“Quarmageddon” Expansion for Quarriors!™ for iPad® Available Now
Quarriors! goes free for a week, while its new expansion offers fresh monsters, cards, magic and gameplay updates
March 12, 2014, Hillside, N.J.– WizKids Games is pleased to announce Quarmageddon, the digital expansion to its incredibly popular dice “deck-building” game Quarriors! for iPad®, is now available for just $1.99 as an in-app purchase. Quarmageddon adds 40 additional dice to the base game, along with additional spells and new creatures to expand upon the humor and gameplay of the original. (Note:Quarriors! is required to play Quarmageddon.)
To celebrate the release of Quarmageddon, WizKids Games has made Quarriors! free for a week! That means for just $1.99, you get both Quarriors! (normally $3.99 USD) and Quarmageddon ($1.99 USD). Hurry though, as Quarriors! will return to full price in seven days.
As part of the Quarmageddon release, several gameplay updates have been made to Quarriors!, including new optional rule additions, an expanded tutorial play-through and more.
New in Quarmageddon
- 40 new dice to help power up a variety of novel monsters, heroes and spells.
- 26 never-before-seen cards powering 6 new creatures and 2 new spells.
- Novel “Immunity” ability for some creatures — watch as they laugh off your opponent’s attacks and spells!
Updates to Quarriors!
- Multiple difficulty settings allow you to tailor the AI to your skills.
- Optional rules (Advanced Capture and Expert Culling) to deepen the gameplay and boost the challenge in multiplayer modes.
- An improved and expanded tutorial that takes newcomers through multiple rounds of gameplay.
- Tweaks to multiplayer matchmaking and gameplay.
Quarriors! for iPad® offers single player and 2 to 4 player online and offline multiplayer along with “Pass-n-Play” action! For ages 14 and up, Quarriors! is a unique blend of strategy and chance featuring a revolutionary dice building game mechanic! As a Quarrior! – a mighty mystical warrior – only you have the power to capture dangerous Quarry from the untamed wilds! But your rivals plot against you! They will send their own Creatures and Spells to destroy your Quarry before you can deliver them to Empress Quiana and claim your reward! Summon your Creatures and protect them from your foes and you will earn Glory for yourself. The first player to earn enough Glory will be hailed as the Champion of the Empress. Deck-building strategy without the tedium of shuffling!
Features of Quarriors! include:
- Full and faithful transliteration of the original dice building board game Quarriors! by Mike Elliott and Eric M. Lang.
- Single player and up to four-player multiplayer and Pass-n-Play modes.
- Full tutorial included.
- Automatic scoring and rules enforcement.
- Challenging strategic gameplay.
- Immersive sounds, art and engaging special effects bring the tabletop game to life!
- Compatible with iPad (2nd Generation), iPad (3rd Generation), iPad (4th Generation), iPad Air, iPad Mini (standard and Retina) running iOS 5.1 or greater.
For more information on Quarriors! for iPad® and the Quarmageddon expansion, visitwww.quarriorsgame.com.
About WizKids Games
WizKids/NECA, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of NECA, is a New Jersey-based game developer and publisher dedicated to creating games driven by imagination. WizKids first pioneered the Combat Dial system featured in HeroClix, the leading collectible miniatures game on the market, with over 500 million miniature game figures sold worldwide. WizKids continues to produce new proprietary game platforms and properties including the award-winning fantasy board game Mage Knight, the groundbreaking Dice Building Game engine used in the critically-acclaimed game Quarriors and the soon-to-launch Dice Masters, as well as its widely hailed execution of Star Trek: Attack Wing. For additional information, visitwww.wizkidsgames.com.
