An update to Steve Jackson’s first person shooter computer game without the computer is on its way to retailers. Frag: Gold Edition is the same game as the original base card game but includes upgraded components such as a two-sided rigid gameboard, plastic figures, erasable character cards, and 18 dice. Just the ticket if you might enjoy a quick session of mindless violence but don’t want to invest in the high-end graphics processor.

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Geoff Canyon presents Senket, a game played on a Go board which looks nearly as complex and nearly as elegant.

- Each round, you can place a stone and then as many “fences” as you like.

- Fences can only connect two stones of the same color that are exactly a knight’s move away from each other.

- At the end of the game, you score the square of (the number of squares inside any area you have fenced + any opponent’s posts within that area).

- You can only claim an area that does not contain any area claimed by your opponent.

- If you connect areas with a line of posts, you can sum the total areas before squaring (this is not clearly stated in the rules, but in the examples).

Though it’s not clearly stated, I assume you can only connect your own fences on your turn.

Check out the game play on his site.

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From Palladium Books, Dyval: Hell Unleashed (or maybe “Hell on Earth” if you believe the product page instead of the cover) is further descriptions of Hell for the Rifts, Phaseworld, and Heroes Unlimited systems. This follows a previous item called Hades: Pits of Hell.

The book contains area descriptions, weapons, spells, artifacts, scenarios, spells, and so on. And creatures. And they’re not happy.

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