Today Fantasy Flight Games revealed a new website and the mystery behind Jinteki Corp. The secret emails, videos, and other clues turn out to have been the lead-in to a new board game by the name of Android. I didn’t catch much in the way of specifics, but it appears that the game is a detective mystery set in a world reminiscent of Asimov’s Robot series. A growing population of androids angers the human population of New Angeles and Moon colony Heinlein, while corporations Jinteki and Haas Bioroid compete with organic and cybernetic models.

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Though I understand he continues to work on supplements for Houses of the Blooded, John Wick has in the meantime produced for your enjoyment a spy-genre RPG. Unlike most heroic adventure roleplaying, however, in Wildnerness of Mirrors characters don’t waste time building their skills. Instead they start as experts. This game is also more in the style of the James Bond novels than the James Bond movies—players earn rewards for actions that betray the group or compromise the mission.

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Baltimore, MD: Man sentenced to four additional years in prison after killing his friend over a Monopoly game. (source)

Miami, FL: Elderly couple disturbed by wild behavior of dominoes players in adjacent park. (source)

Danville, VA: Man pleads guilty to shooting and robbing his friends at a dice game. (source)

Moscow, Russia: Two met meet in a shared taxi ride. One invites the other into his house, and then asks to play backgammon for money. When the invitee indicates he has no money, inviter says the stakes are his life. Invitee accepts, thinking it’s a joke. I think you know where this is going. Inviter’s words to the police: “Boss, judge for yourself, how could I do otherwise? My word is my word.” (source)

Raleigh, NC: Video cameras indicate that hospital employees joked and played cards while a man died a few feet away over the course of 24 hours (from choking on pills, hitting his head, and then being ignored) . The employees then falsified the records and reports. (source)

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After some sales of early copies at recent conventions, Municipium and Supernova have been released into general distribution by publisher Valley Games. In Municipium, players vie for influence and power among the local institutions of an up-and-coming Roman provincial town. Supernova sees players competing to expand and develop their sectors of space before disaster strikes in the form of an exploding star.

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