New Games for July 26 – July 31, 2010

BOARD & CARD GAMES

Sturgeon
Rule the lake! The biggest fish wins in this frenzied fish and feeding fun party card game!

Those Pesky Humans
Those Pesky Humans turns the tables and lets you play the role of the Monsters who are fighting off the annoying Humans who keep invading your dungeon. One player, as Those Pesky Humans, wants to delve into the depths of the Monster Lair and achieve fame, acclaim, and lots of cold, hard gold pieces by retrieving the Three Legendary Gem Stones…but at least one of them must make it out alive! The opposing player, as the Monster Lord and his minions, seeks to kill The Pesky Humans and protect his hard-attained hoard!

Perry Rhodan Cosmic League
Based on Perry Rhodan’s popular science fiction series! As commanders of the Cosmic League, the players use their spaceships to transport goods and passengers between the six planets. For this they receive a certain number of Megagalax. The players may spend the earned Megagalax to buy technologies to facilitate their tasks, however, the first player who reaches a total of 70 Megagalax wins the game

Swarm
Based on the best-selling book by Frank Schatzing! Around the world, researchers are confounded by a mystery: strange organisms are appearing in coastal waters and whales are behaving oddly. Is it all by chance — or are they signs of an impending catastrophe? At stake is the survival of the Earth’s fragile ecology – and ultimately, the survival of the human race itself! In The Swarm, players are tasked to discover the cause by setting up research stations and sending out ships in order to fathom out the secret from the ocean’s depths.

ROLE-PLAYING GAMES

Rifter #51
The Rifter is your doorway to unlimited imagination and numerous Palladium role-playing worlds. It offers new heroes, powers, weapons, magic and adventure for your games. It presents new villains, monsters and dangers to battle, and new ideas to consider. This issue features Rifts Triax 2 Weapon Locker, more Rifts Vehicle Construction Rules, Splicers: The Metamorph and Swarm Lord – two new O.C.C.s and a ton of powers for Splicers, the latest chapter of Hammer of the Forge fiction and more!