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In an age of great battles, valiant leaders, and unscrupulous mercenary armies, fortune lies within your grasp. Ventura is a board game of nobility and conquest for 2-4 players. Set in 14th century Italy, Ventura puts players in control of warring noble houses, each vying for control of the countries growing wealth. Balance your house’s earnings and maintain your hired soldiers to keep your family’s noble standing. Remember, the best armies are also the ones that cost the most! With more than 120 plastic pieces, 40 Territory tiles, 4 Family Boards, a scoring...

Phil Ekland via his American Megafauna Yahoo group, http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/Megafauna/, has announced the release date of American Megafauna 3rd edition. The game is now being called Bios: Megafauna and has had it's previous editions' lack luster components pumped up substantially. The list of improvements include a giant rules update, a mounted board, more colorful and simplified tiles, and most importantly 128 wooden meeplesaurus-es. If you're too cheap to buy it or can't wait for the game to ship he's released the new rules, parts list, new map, and tiles on his yahoo group for anyone to make their...

Steve Jackson games plans "single printing" of Ogre 6th Edition, a deluxe boardgame version of their classic hex wargame with no "plastic toys".  Ogre 6th Edition will be "huge" and will include: All the rules and units from Ogre, G.E.V., and Shockwave "Things" previously only released with miniatures and in magazines Three "huge" double sided maps with 1.5" hexes "Huge" full color counters "Giant "constructible 3D Ogres  

The Curse of the Dark Pharaoh (Revised Edition) is an updated version of the original The Curse of the Dark Pharaoh expansion released in 2006. The original Curse of the Dark Pharaoh was the first of Arkham Horror's many successful expansions, and has seen a great number of printings since it was originally published almost five years ago. However, as FFG developed the Arkham Horror play experience over the years, this expansion came to become the one that deviated most from our later Arkham Horror design vision, and over time came to stand apart from the Arkham...