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Headlines:
- New Tariffs Target Games and Toys
- Space Invaders The Board Game
- Terraforming Mars is in Beta on Android
- The Gaming Goat No Longer Able to Sell Stonemaier Games
Hotness:
- Kanagawa: Yokai
- Egizia: Shifting Sands
- Tiny Towns
- The 7th Continent
- Europe Divided
- De Vulgari Eloquentia
New/Upcoming Releases
- One Key
- Punto
- Rat-a-Tat Roll
- Rebel Nox
- Dicium
- Troll & Dragon
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- Magic the Gathering is complicated (link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.09828.pdf)
- Ashes: Rise of the Phoenixborn is concluding its run
- Origins 2019 Preview is live (link: https://www.boardgamegeek.com/geekpreview/17/origins-game-fair-2019)
- Shards of Infinity is now on digital
Hotness:
Headlines:
- The Origins Award Nominees are Announced (link: https://www.originsgamefair.com/origins-awards-nominees)
- Jim Henson's Labyrinth: The Adventure Game is Coming
- AEG Has Announced Some Changes (link: https://www.alderac.com/2019/04/25/publish-fewer-new-games)
- Charterstone is Coming to Digital
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Headlines:
- A followup on the suspended Kickstarters from last week
- Steve Jackson Games releases their annual report (link: http://www.sjgames.com/general/stakeholders/)
- Stronghold games sues Plan B over Great Western Trail
- Zombicide is now on mobile
Hotness:
Headlines:
- Mensa Announces the 2019 Mensa Select Awards
- Monopoly Lion King Releases for 25th Anniversary
- Game of Thrones Gets a Social Deduction Game
- Warhammer Champions Comes to the Switch
Hotness:
- The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-earth
- On Mars
- Folding Space
- Terraforming Mars: Turmoil
- Dungeonology: The Expedition
- Anachrony
- Hunt the Ravager
- Notre Dame
- Vampire: The Masquerade - Heritage
New/Upcoming Releases:
Headlines:
- A new version of Love Letter
- Catan is coming to the Switch
- Board games are the best way to learn science (article link: https://boardgamesforlearning.com/research-games-learn-science/)
- Special style of board games getting more popular (article link: https://www.komu.com/news/special-style-of-board-games-getting-more-popular)
Headlines:
- No headlines this week, they have been replaced with the Golden Geek Awards spoiled at the bottom of the notes.
Hotness:
- Blood on the Clocktower
- The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-earth
- Star Wars: Outer Rim
- Res Arcana
- Lorenzo il Magnifico
- Middara
- Museum
New/Upcoming Releases:
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Thanks to all of our awesome Patreon supporters, the Dukes are able to bring you additional interviews of publishers, designers and board game media personality for our Holding Court episodes.
This episode, Alex sits down with Emerson Matsuuchi - the designer of Specter Ops, Century Spice Road and the upcoming Metal Gear Solid from IDW Games! The two discuss board game design and of course what flavor of ice cream Emerson would be!