New Heavies Incoming from Anvil Industry

Like Escape Rooms? Murder Mystery Parties? Star Trek? Well, if you’ve answered ‘Yes’ to those then Beadle & Grimm have got a couple of games coming that will definitely be of interest.

The Spiel des Jahres (Game of the Year) awards were first created in 1978, celebrating the best in board and card game design. Even being nominated for the award can bring in a massive sales boost for the games, with the winner often selling 500,000+ copies. It is one of the few awards in the games industry that has a major effect on sales and exposure. The awards, and nominations, are usually covered in the mainstream news in Germany.

Crooked Dice Game Design Studio have released 32 new miniatures in their 28mm sci-fi Colony 87 range. The figures are a mix of alien, human, and non-human colonists, including the Amphirans, The Pale, The Masque, and the Homo Canid.

Actual play shows, such as Critical Role and Dimension 20 have been massively popular over the last ten years. Episodes can attract millions of viewers and Critical Role have sold out arenas across the globe, including Wembley Arena shows that sold out in under an hour. Dungeons & Dragons has often been the game of choice for shows and now D&D publisher Wizards of the Coast is getting in to the act with a new actual play series called ‘Dungeon Masters’ launching on YouTube on 22nd April.

It’s been almost forty years since Ereb Altor was first introduced to the world in the Swedish Sinkadus magazine. It became the first major campaign world for the Dragonbane RPG and, thanks to Helmgast AB and Astrolab Game Studios, will be seeing an English-language release later this year after a crowdfunding campaign due this summer.