EXPLORE EXTRAPLANAR WORLDS OF IMAGINATION WITH PAIZO’S JUNE PRODUCT RELEASES

Game adventures and accessories take players from pubs and villages to distant dimensions.

REDMOND, WASHINGTON (June 28, 2018): Paizo has released seven new game products for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Starfinder Roleplaying Game and Pathfinder Adventure Card Game to expand the boundaries of your imagination. These products are available for purchase at game retailers and paizo.com now.

• Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Planar Adventures
• Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Distant Realms
• Pathfinder Adventure Path: The Reaper’s Right Hand (War for the Crown 5 of 6)
• Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Bigger Village
• Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Pub Crawl
• Starfinder Adventure Path: Empire of Bones (Dead Suns 6 of 6)
• Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Ultimate Equipment Add-On Deck

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Planar Adventures

From Heaven to Hell

There are worlds beyond the one we know: Planes of Fire and Water, Heaven and Hell, Dimensions of Dreams and Time. These are the realms of angels and demons, gods and goddesses—entire new realities where anything can happen!

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Asmodee Digital and Fantasy Flight Interactive Announce Early Access Release Date and Collector’s Edition for The Lord of the Rings™: Living Card Game on SteamTM

Immersive cooperative card game journeys to PC and Mac for a narrative-driven experience

ROSEVILLE, Minnesota – JUNE. 21, 2018 – Asmodee Digital and Fantasy Flight Interactive today announced that The Lord of the Rings™: Living Card Game™ will be available in Early Access on Steam for PC and Mac on August 28, 2018. The Early Access release will be available initially as a single-player only experience but will add cooperative play in the coming months. Players can access the Early Access release by purchasing one of three Founder’s Packs, the Shire pack, priced at $7.99, the Steward of Gondor Pack, priced at $15.99, and the Istari Pack, priced at $29.99. Each of these Founder’s Packs come with a suite of cards, in-game currency, and custom cosmetic items that will start adventurers off on their quest through Middle-earth.  Players can opt to buy all three Founder’s Packs in a bundle as the MITHRIL™ Founder’s Pack Bundle for $47.99.

Additionally, players may pre-order The Lord of the Rings: Living Card Game in a Collector’s Edition that features a unique 2-player starter edition of The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game, a brass replica of The One Ring, individual art prints of four heroes from the game, and digital codes for the Mithril Founder’s Pack Bundle, custom cosmetic items and the Original Soundtrack as mp3 files available now.

Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/509580/

The Lord of the Rings: Living Card Game tasks players with leading a fellowship of three heroes through a series of narrative campaigns across Middle-earth as they face off against the dark forces of Sauron. Players will forge their own fellowships and build decks comprised of ally, event, and equipment cards to face challenges that test their spirit, lore, tactics, and leadership.

An adaptation of Fantasy Flight Games’ tabletop card game, which pioneered the narrative experience

The Lord of the Rings: Living Card Game is inspired by the best-selling The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game, a Living Card Game® from Fantasy Flight Games.  This digital adaptation is inspired by the original tabletop game, taking the best aspects of that experience and adapting them for the digital medium while adding all new features in a player-vs-AI experience built from the ground-up, featuring:

• An intuitive user interface

• Unique and fully detailed environments depicting the world of Middle-earth

• Fully-narrated story interludes

• Branching narrative paths based on player choices

• Visual and audio effects tied to every hero, card, and action

• A dynamic AI that adapts to player’s triumphs—and mistakes

The Lord of the Rings: Living Card Game delivers an immersive narrative-driven experience that will connect players with Tolkien’s fiction like never before. Beyond Early Access, The Lord of the Rings: Living Card Game will be expanded to support co-op play, allowing two players to bring their fellowships together and fight through quests side-by-side!

Deck Building

Each hero is assigned a Sphere of Influence, indicated by the color of the card.

• Purple for Leadership,

• Green for Lore

• Blue for Spirit

• Red for Tactics

• Grey for Neutral

Each sphere supports its own unique strategy and playstyle, giving each deck in The Lord of the Rings: Living Card Game strategic depth that will keep players invested well beyond their first Quest through Middle-earth.  With fellowships of three heroes, players can either diversify the Spheres within their decks for the widest possible array of cards or select two or three heroes from the same Sphere in order to access more powerful cards within each Sphere.

Friday, June 22, 2018 – For immediate release

Chaosium, Inc., publisher of the celebrated roleplaying games Call of Cthulhu and RuneQuest, announces the relaunch of their fiction program.

The Chaosium fiction line originally launched in 1992 and was suspended in 2015 during a general company restructuring. Subsequently, Chaosium management brought on publishing and gaming industry veteran James Lowder as a consulting editor to help resolve any outstanding contract and payment issues with authors, editors, and artists.

Cover by R.J. Ivankovic.

In OCTOBER, Sisterhood: Dark Tales and Secret Histories, a trade paperback anthology of horror and Mythos stories set in female religious communities around the globe and across the centuries.

Sisterhood is edited by Nate Pedersen and features stories penned by some of the genre’s leading female voices, including Nadia Bulkin, Livia Llewellyn, Molly Tanzer, Sun Yung Shin, Penelope Love, and Damien Angelica Walters.

Cover by Liv Rainey-Smith and Inkspiral Designs.

From Asmodee Digital

Carcassonne Coming First, Winter 2018

PARIS — June 6, 2018 — Asmodee Digital, the industry leader in digital board game entertainment, announced today it will soon begin publishing games on Nintendo Switch. The first release in Asmodee Digital’s console development strategy will be Carcassonne, the digital version of the award-winning, tile-laying board game, already available for Android, PC and Mac via Steam. The Nintendo Switch™ adaptation will be available in Winter 2018.

“Carcassonne is the first Asmodee Digital title of many to follow on Nintendo’s platforms,” says Pierre Ortolan CEO of Asmodee Digital. “This partnership is based on Nintendo’s need for new user experiences, and Asmodee Digital’s continued goal of bringing great board game IPs to new platforms.”

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CMON Limited Announces Narcos: The Board Game Based on Netflix Original Series

Friday, May 11, 2018 – CMON Limited announced today that they have teamed with Gaumont, the oldest film company and producer of Narcos to design and publish Narcos: The Board Game, based on the Golden Globe and Emmy ® award-nominated television series

Currently in production for season 4, Narcos chronicles the true-life rise to power of drug lords and the explosion of cocaine trafficking in the world. Narcos continues to grow in popularity around the world, with season 3 premiering as the most in-demand digital original in the U.S. and one of the top five worldwide according to Parrot Analytics. Available for viewing on the world’s most popular streaming service, Netflix, the show is currently available in over 130 countries.

Narcos: The Board Game, designed by Fel Barros and Renato Sasdelli, puts two to five players in the roles of the series’ most powerful characters and factions as they rewrite the story behind the rise and fall of El Patrón. One person acts as El Patrón, managing a growing narcotics empire while trying to keep their location on the board a secret. The remaining players lead the Hunter Factions: the DEA, Policía Nacional de Colombia, Cali Cartel, and the guerrilla extremist group. These seemingly disparate groups are united in their common interest to discover the hidden position of El Patrón, sharing information and discussing strategies. If the El Patrón player manages to complete their secret objectives without being captured by the Hunters, they win. However, if the Hunters are able to uncover El Patrón’s location, they succeed in their mission and win.

“Working with Gaumont to bring Narcos to the tabletop has been an incredible adventure,” commented David Preti, CMON’s Creative Director. “Every aspect of this game is carefully coordinated with the Gaumont team to ensure that the show fans love is brought to life on the tabletop unlike anyone could have imagined, while also appealing to players who have never seen the show.”

“CMON is known for its focus on high-quality and engaging games and we trust them to develop and design the first Narcos board game title that will allow our millions of Narcos fans to immerse themselves within the storylines and characters of the show” added Tim Stephen, Head of Legal and Business Affairs at Gaumont.

Narcos: The Board Game is scheduled for release in Q4 of 2018 with an SRP of $54.99. Those attending CMON Expo 2018 will be able to see the game firsthand from May 11 to May 13 in Atlanta, GA.

About CMON Limited

CMON Limited is an international publisher of board games, tabletop games and apps. Beginning from small hobbyist roots, CMON Limited has grown into a multinational group that publishes several award-winning games, including Zombicide, Arcadia Quest, Blood Rage and more. CMON Limited can be found on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange Growth Enterprise Market under stock code “08278.” Follow CMON on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

About Gaumont

Formed in 1895, Gaumont is the first and oldest film company in the world, with offices in Paris and Los Angeles. In the past few years, the company’s release schedule has continued to increase across film and television production, in both the French and English languages.

The film library now encompasses over 1100 titles including films from such prestigious directors as Luc Besson, Matthieu Kassovitz, Francis Veber, Jean-Jacques Beineix, Federico Fellini, Maurice Pialat and Jean-Luc Godard, and more recently Toledano and Nakache for The Intouchables, the highest-grossing French language movie ever with over $450 million in revenue to date.

Gaumont produces and distributes high-quality TV programming worldwide. Key drama series include the award-winning Narcos for Netflix; the critically acclaimed Hannibal; the winner of “Best Series” (Festival of Fiction TV) The Frozen Dead and The Art of Crime, amongst many others.

The animated catalog comprises over 800 half-hours, broadcast in over 130 countries. Current productions include Noddy (season two) co-produced with Dreamworks, Trulli Tales, Belle & Sebastian, Furiki Wheels, and F is For Family (season three) for Netflix. In development is the series Do, Re & Mi with the multi-talented Kristen Bell.

About Narcos

This raw, gritty series chronicles the gripping real-life stories of the drug kingpins of the late 1980s and the corroborative efforts of law enforcement to meet them head on in brutal, bloody conflict. It details the many, often-conflicting forces – legal, political, police, military and civilian – that clash in the effort to control cocaine, one of the world’s most valuable commodities.