Shadows Of Brimstone Tops $1.3M

Another successful Kickstarter project, Flying Frog's first KS project Shadows of Brimstone raised $1,341,305 in a funding period that ended Sunday. A cooperative western horror dungeon-crawl board game, Shadows of Brimstone apparently hit enough hot spots to appeal to over 4,700 backers. The amount raised places Shadows of Brimstone into the top 10 tabletop Kickstarters of all time.

Promising backers a release date of August 2014, Shadows of Brimstone may be one of the first games announcing a release date to coincide  with Gen Con 2014.

Smash Up: Sci-Fi Expansion

Alderac Entertainment Group plans to release a sci-fi expansion to its hit card game Smash Up. Expected in March, Smash Up: Science Fiction Double Feature will bring four new decks to the game.

The Science Fiction Double Feature expansion comes with 88 cards and can be played right out of the box by two players. It also comes with a VP token sheet and a rulebook. It plays in 45 minutes and has a SRP of $19.99. Combine it with any Smash Up set and the game can be played by up to four players.

Each of the four new factions brings new abilities to the game. Time Travelers allow players to use their cards repeatedly. Cyborg Apes take actions that take players' minions to a whole new level. Super Spies can use their espionage skill to plot out not only the player's future but also the opponent's. Shapeshifters could be anybody.

The Smash Up base game was featured in Wil Wheaton's TableTop  and made ICv2's Top 10 Card/Building Games for the Fall of 2012.

More Bad Machinery

Bad Machinery Volume 1: The Case of the Team Spirit was recently named one of Publishers Weekly's best children's fiction books for 2013. Following on its heels, Oni Press announced that it will release the book's sequel, Bad Machinery Volume 2: The Case of the Good Boy, around March 12, 2014.

John Allison's webcomic also won the 2012 British Comic Award for Best Comic for The Case of the Fire Inside. Now, Bad Machinery Volume 2: The Case of the Good Boy will bring together another round of mysteries for the investigative children of Griswalds Grammar School in Tackleford, England.

Wondering if Bad Machinery Volume 2: The Case of the Good Boy is a good fit for your child or someone you know? Well, John Allison has shared a meta version of Bad Machinery with someplot details: