Numenera: Strand is a new short film from Valdes/Eriksdotter (Sweden) based on the Ninth World setting of Monte Cook Games’ Numenera RPG.

The Numenera brings promise of power, of knowledge, of true understanding. But what happens when such things come to a man before he’s ready for them?

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Simple but highly appropriate for its straightforward educational purpose, Chemical Spill is a card game meant for high school students. Players draft a hand of element cards then assemble them in to molecules, along the way learning about covalent bonds, Lewis dot structures, and electron sub-shell configurations.

Based on Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Victory Point Games’ Nemo’s War is a solitaire adventure board game where the player, as Captain Nemo, pilots the Nautilus about the oceans’ depths. Exploration, scientific discovery, war, and anti-imperialism are the priorities from which the player may choose, and against which actions such as refitting the submarine, inciting local uprisings, and attacking surface ships are judged for victory points.

Empires: Galactic Rebellion from Eagle-Gryphon Games treats players to an epic-scale game set in conflict among the stars. A follow-up to Glen Drover’s Age of Empires, Galactic Rebellion incorporates development on economic, political, military, and technological fronts, as well as worker placement, in to gameplay. As a new feature, those workers are differentiated between rebels, scientists, troopers, smugglers, and diplomats, each of which is represented by a different miniature figure.

Calling it a “skill-building game”, Lone Shark’s The Ninth World is an adventure card game based on the Numenera RPG. Each player’s hand of cards represents their current set of skills. As better skills are developed, new cards replace old ones. Players then use the cards in bidding against each other to explore, collect relics, complete quests, and further improve their skills.

In CitiesUP, building is just the first step. Every structure, whether residential, commercial, or industrial, must be supplied with water and electricity. In return for that support, players are able to collect taxes for victory points. Field cards represent special events, including some natural disasters. And building out the city is market with vertical wooden cubes, so you get the image of a growing downtown as game progresses.

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The winners of the 2014 Origins Awards, as given out by The Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design at the Origins Game Fair, are:

• Best Game Accessory—Space Gaming Mat from HC and D Game Supplies
• Best Game-Related Publication—TableTop
• Best Historical Miniatures Rules—Fields of Fire from Proving Ground Games
• Best Historical Miniatures Figure or Line—Fate of a Nation: Arab Israeli Wars from Battlefront Miniatures
• Best Historical Board Game—1775: Rebellion from Academy Games
• Best Traditional Card Game—Love Letter from AEG
• Best Collectible Card Game or Expansion—Pokemon Black & White Legendary Treasures from Pokemon
• Best Miniatures Rules or Expansion—Marvel HeroClix Avengers vs. X-Men Starters from WizKids
• Best Miniatures Figure or Line—Malifaux: The Guild’s Judgement from Wyrd Miniatures
• Best Roleplaying Game—Numenera from Monte Cook Games
• Best Roleplaying Supplement or Adventure—Night’s Watch from Green Ronin
• Best Family, Party or Children’s Game—Three Little Pigs from Iello
• Best Board Game—Trains from AEG

[via Bleeding Cool and Ogre Cave]

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Reaper Minis launches a series of figures for Monty Cook Games’ Numenera RPG on June 16th. The metal miniatures will retail for $6-7 each.

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