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The Village Square: August 19, 2019

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Dice in space
Renegade Game Studios announced the publication of Circadians: First Light. The game of sci-fi planetary development includes dice (crew) as worker placement, resource harvesting, research, upgrading, and exploring.
Source: https://www.renegadegamestudios.com/news/2019/8/8/announcing-circadians-first-light-and-raider-of-the-north-sea-digital-app-now-available

It’s baaaaaaack!
The street date for Puerto Rico Deluxe edition, from Rio Grande Games, is tomorrow, the 20th!
Source: http://riograndegames.com/Game/1346-Puerto-Rico-Deluxe-Edition

And so is thiiiiiiiiiiiiisss one!
Legendary: Revelations meanwhile hits the streets the next day, the 21st! The add-on to the Upper Deck Entertainment deck-building hit includes heroes Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, and War Machine, infamous Mastermind the Mandarin, and new keywords like Speed.
Source: https://www.upperdeckblog.com/2019/07/legendary-revelations-card-preview-coming-at-you-fast/

The returns just keep rolling in!
Another deluxe remake, Ravensburger’s Las Vegas Royale hits U.S. shelves this week, too. The classic game is updated bits and rules.
Source: https://www.ravensburger.us/products/games/strategy-games/las-vegas-royale-26918/index.html

Revolving revolution
Resonym will release Mechanica next month, a unique puzzle-piece revolving assembly line game of building robots.
Source: https://resonym.com/mechanica/

In the biz
Asmodee North America is partnering with Swiss games publisher Helvetiq to distribute their titles to this continent, including this year’s releases Kawaii and Misty.
Source: https://www.asmodeena.com/en/news/2019/8/16/asmodee-usa-to-distribute-helvetiq-games/

In more biz
And in more acquisition news, though a tad smaller, St. Louis based publisher of scientific titles, Genius Games, LLC, has acquired Massachusetts publisher Artana, LLC, producer of history and techonology themed board games. Genius is know for titles like Cytosis, while Artana released Tesla vs. Edison, among others.
Source: https://www.geniusgames.org/pages/news

New indie RPG
Next month Nocturnal Media’s new Upwind role-playing game releases. The imaginative world mixes a little magic, pirating and steampunk with a unique stakes-based, playing card-drive narrative system.
Source: http://acddistribution.blogspot.com/2019/08/upwind-releasesnew-from-nocturnal-media.html

That next great group?
One of the hardest parts of role-playing is finding the time and group to play with. There’s now a social app, Crawlr, currently in testing dedicated to matching RPG’ers with like-minded and like-scheduled gamers to play.
Source: https://crawlr.app/

Upcoming Board Game Conventions
August 24-25. MaricopaCon. Phoenix, AZ
August 30-September 1. GrandCon. Grand Rapids, MI
August 30-September 2. Gateway. Los Angelos, CA
September 5-8. Buckeye Game Fest. Columbus, OH
September 6-8. Lone Star Game Expo. Grapevine, TX
September 20-22. AppleCon1. Cornish, ME
September 27-29. Falcon 2019. Stamford, CT
October 4-6. TokenCon. Oklahoma City, OK
October 11-13. FlatCon. Bloomington, IL
October 11-13. CinCityCon. Cincinnati, OH.
October 25-27. Cardboard Caucus. West Des Moies, IA
October 31-November 3. Gamehole Con. Madison, WI
November 8-10. MACE. Charlotte, NC
November 14-17. Midwest GamesFest. Independence, MO
November 20-24. BGG Con. Dallas, TX
November 21-24. Chicago Toy & Game Fair. Chicago, IL
November 29-December 1. GobbleCon. San Francisco, CA
December 6-8. PAX Unplugged. Philadelphia, PA

Visit casualgamerevolution.com for more convention listings.

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