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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of December 26, 2023. This week, amazon tosses a coin to your space marine, Spielworxx hits us right in the Gentes, Studio H visits the Splendor of the Middle Ages, and the Fellowship remembers Carcassonne.

TOP STORIES (2:00)

• Games Workshop inks Warhammer 40K deal with Amazon for TV series
• Quacks of Quedlinburg Duel
• Lord of the Rings: The Ringbearer from Carcassonne designer Klaus-Jürgen W...

This is Dice Tower Now for the week of December 19, 2023. This week, we cover the news from Play to Z, we essentially take stock of veg, wonderful days get hot, heavy rain, and yeah. It’s true.

TOP STORIES (2:45)

• New publisher Play to Z from Zev Shlasinger
• Essen Spiel and Tokyo Game Market to team up
• US Postal Service does D&D stamps
• Heat Pedal to the Metal: Heavy Rain expansion described
• Gaia Project: The Lost Fleet expansi...

This is Dice Tower Now for the week of December 12, 2023. This week, Richard Garfield did it in the Conservatory with a Black Lotus, Australia goes radioactive, mutant guinea pigs get caffeinated, and Galileo Figaro Magnifico.

TOP STORIES (1:45)

• Lorcana sales to use virtual queue system on Amazon
• Dicebreaker website potentially up for sale
• Button Shy 18 card holiday design contest
• MtG Clue crossover coi9nciding with new rele...

This is Dice Tower Now for the week of December 5, 2023. This week, it's FAIR to say old games MAY come back, Wise Wizards go from White to Wacky, a peck of picky pixies pick potable poseys, and Cascadia rolls over hill and stream.

TOP STORIES (2:10)

• TCGplayer Employees Picket
• Mayfair Games to publish Empire Builder series
• Wise Wizard launches Wacky Wizard brand
• Mind Up!
• Picky Pixie
• Bezier Games - Bullet "F"
• Cascadia Roll & ...

This is Dice Tower Now for the week of November 28, 2023. This week, Ravensburger gets a Disney Denial of Service, John Clair is a Mistborn, there's a very special holiday murder, and Love Letter gets historical accuracy from Netflix.

TOP STORIES (2:10)

• Hasbro Announces winners of Women Innovators of Play Challenge
• Ravensburger hit with DDoS for Rise of the Floodborn launch
• Sanderson’s Mistborn books turning into a deckbuild...

This is Dice Tower Now for the week of November 21, 2023. This week, there’s trouble in forbidden universities, Martin Wallace is truly powered by steam, theOP proves those lawn gnomes are hollow, and the trick is sumo.

TOP STORIES (2:00)

• University Games and Forbidden Games sue each other for breach of contract
• Hex & Co to become first Unionized Board Game Cafe
• Steam Power by Martin Wallace
• Azul World Tournament by Plan B a...

This is Dice Tower Now for the week of November 14, 2023. This week, there's an Elf Creek on the Shelf Creek, Kratos says “CMoN”, Beadle and Grimm goes chaotic, and Renegade hits the books.

TOP STORIES (2:40)

• Tabletop Board Game Designer’s Association formed
• God of War board game coming from CMoN
• Matthew Lillard’s Beadle & Grim to release Ring of Chaos
• Penny Dreadfuls of Victorian London: Sensational Tales of Terror coming f...

This is Dice Tower Now for the week of November 7, 2023. This week, Othello - a minute to learn 52 years to master, every eye has a silver lining, AllPlay moves into a High Rise for ferrets, and Devir gets sand in their Kemushi.

TOP STORIES (2:20)

• Othello has been solved by AI
• Diablo board game and RPG coming from Glass Cannon Unplugged
• Bezier Games announces 5th Silver title, Silver: Eye
• Dice Realms Trades Expansion from To...

This is Dice Tower Now for the week of October 31, 2023. This week, we experience the marvel of magic, Richard Garfield explores his monstrous origins, Iello flips for the circus, and Asmodee gives the generations a good smack.

TOP STORIES (2:05)

• Magic the Gathering and Marvel team up
• CMoN announces The Dead Keep
• Skybound’s Garima Sharma elected to GAMA Board of Directors
• Toko Island wins Children’s Game of the Year in Spain
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This is Dice Tower Now for the week of October 24, 2023. This week, Avalon Hill finds the spirit of Christmas, Elzra hits the battlefields, University does the time warp again, Devir Rocks Hard with a runaway, and Cora yells SPOON!

TOP STORIES (2:50)

• Annabelle and the Sorcerer’s Spoon, A Children’s book in the Coraquest World
• Betrayal at House on the Hill getting a Yuletide expansion
• Dexterity title Battlefields from Elzra
• W...

This is Dice Tower Now for the week of October 17, 2023. This week, top prizes go to the unknown planet, 7 Wonders earns a medal, Tom Lehmann admits winter is coming, and an epic designer makes fishy preserves.

TOP STORIES (1:55)

• Essen Spiel reports numbers as biggest ever
• Planet Unknown wins Deutscher Spiele Preis
• Dune: Imperium Uprising invitational tournament
• Winter Court by Tom Lehmann
• 7 Wonders: Architects Medals expans...

This is Dice Tower Now for the week of October 10, 2023. This week, Camilla and Corey barely get home from Germany, Barry helps slap together an episode, and this is what a podcast sounds like at 3am.

TOP STORIES (1:50)

• Spiel uses AI in ads and Backerkit bans AI from projects
• And Mattel announces Pictionary vs AI
• Undaunted 2200 Callisto from Osprey Games
• Aqua by Dan and Tristan Halstad with Sidekick Games
• Kronologic from Yoa...

This is Dice Tower Now for the week of October 3, 2023. This week, Capstone gets more Cranial, the pyramids sparkle in silver and gold, Wingspan fans rebel, and there’s just a bit less cool stuff in the world.

TOP STORIES (3:19)

• CoolStuff Inc to phase out board games and RPGs
• Rebel Moon RPG sues Netflix
• Arcane Wonders Contest
• Capstone Games to print Cranio Creations titles
• Flat River Group to release Lunar Rush
• Mayfair incre...

This is Dice Tower Now for the week of September 26, 2023. This week, there's a space duel above catan, Van Ryder has another final finale, Yokohama fires on all synapses, and every Rose has its sworn.

TOP STORIES (2:40)

• Terraforming Mars becomes hotbed of AI artwork
• The Rose Gauntlet Foundation
• Pegasus Publishing gets rights to Paizo and Steve Jackson merchandise
• Daily Magic Games to longer be a traditional retailer, but in...

This is Dice Tower Now for the week of September 19, 2023. This week, there's no money in yellow boxes, Cowboys gain Perspective, Knizia constructs a coordinated couplet, IV manages more mischief, and Wallace Wallace Wallace.

TOP STORIES (2:39)

• HABA files for bankruptcy
• Designers of Heat form Sidekick Games
• Cthulhu Dark Providence announced by CMoN at Expo
• Perspectives: Orange Box from Space Cowboys
• Newsboys from Saashi and ...

This is Dice Tower Now for the week of September 12, 2023. This week, the Spice Road gets real big, Stonemaier is infested with bees, the Dutch produce a very odd shop, space heroes are waiting for Godot, and … Tequila!

TOP STORIES (2:27)

• Dig Your Way Out: Dig In Expansion
• Century Spice Road Big Box
• Apiary by Stonemaier Games
• Ravensburger plans to combat Disney Lorcana stock shortage
• DreamEscape
• Galactic Heroes: My First Soc...

This is Dice Tower Now for the week of September 5, 2023. This week, PHALANX feels wistful and civil, Pegasus draws out bonus crime, Oaken experts declare war on Bones, and Sit Down declares Open Season on Adventurers.

TOP STORIES (2:25)

• Boundless Stride: Into the Denlands by Incredible Dream Studios
• Micro Macro: Crime City - Showdown and Micro Macro Bonus Box
• The Night Cage: Shrieking Hollow Expansion
• Ultimate Voyage from L...

This is Dice Tower Now for the week of August 29, 2023. This week, it’s baby viking kitten time, we fall under the influence of towering patricians once again, Wolfgang Warsch makes a new version of the Same Game, and Reiner Knizia phones it in at the office.

TOP STORIES (2:00)

• Hasbro Women Innovators of Play Virtual Global Event
• Pax Viking Junior by Ion Game Design
• Tanz der Hornochsen reprinted as Dance of the Ibexes
• Patric...

This is Dice Tower Now for the week of August 22, 2023. This week, trading card games are forever altered, there is a French Diluvium of Nuts, Loosey Goosey moves from butts to frogs, and DV screams Bonsai.

TOP STORIES (2:00)

• Altered TCG from Régis Bonnessée and Equinox
• House of 1000 Corpses Board Game from Rob Zombie and Trick or Treat Studios
• Publisher Nuts! announces Diluvium, designed by Antoni Guillen
• Robo Alarm by publ...