Ares Games will be at UK Games Expo this week (June 3rd-5th, 2022, Birmingham-UK, stands #1-302/1-305) presenting the new arrivals The Thing: The Board Game and Quartermaster General: 1914, and a host of recent releases and “evergreen” lines – War of the Ring, Wings of Glory and Sword & Sorcery. Two special events will be host at Ares’ booth: on Saturday, the worldwide preview of the …
The engine building, worker placement card game Star Scrappers Orbital, designed by Jacob Fryxelius – the author of Terraforming Mars, will start to hit the US shelves on May 25th. The game is published by Hexy Studios and distributed by Ares Games in North America. Another game set in the Star Scrappers Universe, Cave In, becomes available in US retail – released in 2018, it hasn’t …
The Thing – The Board Game, the board game inspired by the 1982 cult movie. The Thing – The Board Game, a ‘hidden role’ game for 1-8 players based in the 1982 horror sci-fi cult movie directed by John Carpenter, is now arriving in US stores, and will be available in other countries in the coming weeks. The base game releases alongside the expansion Norwegian Outpost, …
The Downloads page of Euro & Thematic Games section is now updated with the English rules of Quartermaster General: 1914 and Quartermaster General WW2 Prelude, recently released. Quartermaster General: 1914 is a new game of Quartermaster General series that recreates the “Great War”, with mechanics reflecting the military, economy, and politics of the time. To see and download its rulebooks, click here. Quartermaster General WW2 Prelude …
On May 4th, 100 years ago, the game designer Alex Randolph was born. Alex’s brilliant mind gave birth to the 1982 “Spiel des Jahres”-winner Sagaland, Twixt, and many other games. Alex (1922-2004) had a long and intense life, spent living and traveling in many countries of the World, – until he settled in Venice, creating there a “school” of game design which, to this day, includes …
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