Supers has players, you guessed it, playing superheroes trying to protect a city from super villains. Released at Essen Spiel by Stefan Pietraszak, Supers is a 2 – 6 player cooperative game with a seemingly good amount of diversity packed into the box. Even though the game is cooperative, there is still only one winner who’ll become the city’s “official protector.”

The box contains 25 villains, 22 super powers, a deck of event cards, and 25 city tiles.

No news on where the game will be available outside of the Essen Spiel, but we do know the price will be €29.95.

Everytime I hear the word “supers” I think of The Incredibles.  Judging from the box art, I think that’s what Stefan was going for.

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New from Bucephalus Games is Dogfight, an abstract game with a light aerial combat theme. Bucephalus describes this as a great coffee-table-display game and I think they’re right. The game is very easy to learn—roll dice to move your planes around the board, chasing those of your opponent—but still involves some thought and planning—like which planes to move with which dice, and how to avoid the enemy. Dogfight also looks extremely nice. It includes a real wood board and eight die-cast metal miniature airplanes modeled and hand-painted with historical accuracy in mind.

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Does anyone dispute that Munchkin is a light game, meant for the fun but let’s-not-take-it-too-seriously category? Despite 6,400 owners of the base game registered on Board Game Geek, as well as 123 plays logged so far this month, it has not a single post in the Strategy forum. Well, it looks like Seth Owen is going to correct that. He’s starting off with a survey of the cards in the Treasure Deck of Munchkin Impossible.

OK, that’s enough. Back to the silly side. Here’s a video of the Munchkin himself, playing Rock Band.

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Lucknow, India: Two killed in altercation over a card game. (source) This incident represents the type that has led to the arrest in the last few days of 225 people for gambling. (source)

Outside of Farmington Hill, CO: 4 passengers returning from the Austin, TX Magic Pro Tour cause a car accident due to lack of sleep. (source)

Atlanta, GA: Three people, including a 3 year old, shot dead over an argument over a game of Dominoes; this happened in September, but the reason for the killing has only come out recently. (source)

Fort Collins, CO: Chess Master Robert Snyder, convicted of sexually assaulting boys after luring them under pretense of teaching them Chess, will be featured on America’s Most Wanted for failing to properly register as a sex offender. (source)

Burely, ID: Man beaten up at a motel card game. (source)

Not exactly criminal … yet: Harare, Zimbabwe: Gambling over street Chess games is supposedly on the rise. (source)

Toronto, CA: A tractor trailer full of toys for needy families was stolen at the end of last month. Hasbro donated $50,000 in games and toys after hearing about the theft. (source)

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