Steve Jackson Games‘ Phil Reed was happy to tease us at the GAMA Trade Show with news of an upcoming Hellboy Board Game planned for the fourth quarter. No other details or images, though. Grrr!

So what else did he reveal?

Muertoons Mix-Up, a card game for tweens based on the the Mexican Day of the Dead book and cartoon series, is scheduled for a summer release at $13. It’s a redesign of SJG’s earlier game, Spooks.

Ogre Operation 218, a two player card game based on Battle for Hill 218 published by Your Move Games, will follow in the fall at $15.

GURPS Mars Attacks, a full-color, hard-cover RPG supplement, should hit retail in October at $25.

And on the Car Wars front, SJG isn’t yet ready for the promised new edition of the base game. However, the company is planning a Kickstarter project later this month for Car Wars Arenas, a package of five map sheets and an arena rule book. With stretch goals, the map sheets could be double-sided.

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Tuesday at the GAMA Trade show, Renegade Game Studios and Steve Jackson Games announced a patnership to produce Munchkin Trading Cards. To be clear, these cards, available in the fall, are not a game, just trading cards of the kind with images on one side and character facts on the other. However, in addition to the typical sticker and autograph cards, inserted in to random packs will be actual unique playtest cards from the Munchkin game development team, new one-off rule cards, and original hand drawn sketch cards (at least one per box of 24 packs). While the total number of cards in a pack has not yet been set, MSRP per pack should be $3.50.

Also announced at the show were Munchkin Gloom from Atlas Games, Munchkin Smash Up from AEG, and Munchkin Zombies Walking Dead and Munchkin The Nightmare Before Christmas from USAopoly. The last is an October release and the rest are set for Gen Con.

Coming direct from Steve Jackson are Munchkin Steampunk (a hobby channel exclusive through December), Star Munchkin 3 (with a single extra card, for a total of 113, only in the first print run), and Munchkin Stocking Stuffers (a bundle of five Christmas-themed packs plus some gift stickers).

And possibly in the works are Munchkin vending machines, either for game cards or for tchotchkes, like mini figures and dice. At the moment, no concrete steps have yet been taken for these. However, the retailers at the show voiced strong support.

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This could not have come at a better time seeing as I just recently received a copy of Munchkin Adventure Time. Munchkin: Adventure Time 2: It’s a Dungeon Crawl! is a small expansion that requires the base game to play. The real deal here is not the 90 extra cards it comes with, but the 12 Adventure Time themed dungeons!

Unfortunately we’ll have to wait until April 15th to get out hands on this. MSRP will be $19.99, which seems a bit high for a small expansion.

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Steve Jackson Games is opening a pop-up Munchkin store in New York City, February 13-15, right around the time of Toy Fair 2015. The store will be called Munchkin World NYC, and will be at 353 West 46th Street, New York, NY 10036.

Steve Jackson games has posted a schedule of events taking place at the store on their website.

Since I’ll be in the area, I’m going to try and make it over to check it out, get some pictures, and see what kind of craziness SJG has in store.

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Get it?

Sigh.

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Steve Jackson Games has promoted Philip J. Reed to CEO, vacating the Chief Operation Officer position. The new COO of the company is Samuel Mitschke, formerly the company’s Production Manager. In early September the company’s founder and president, Steve Jackson, wrote in his yearly Report to the Stakeholders that he was stepping down from daily operations for “about six months”, handing over the running of the company to Mr. Reed. In the statement, Mr. Jackson joked that “[Phil has] been doing it for months already”.

Mr. Reed joined Steve Jackson Games in February, 2008, as Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Mitschke has been at the company since May, 2011, as an art director and production manager.

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Steve Jackson Games has announced a pop-up store in New York City to coincide with Toy Fair NY 2015. In addition to items in the Munchkin line, the store at 353 W. 46st (between 8th and 9th Avenues) will feature a open gaming space, a three-day Munchkin Invitational event, and signings by Steve Jackson, John Kovalic, and Andrew Hackard.

Munchkin World NYC will open on Friday, February 13, 2015 and close Sunday the 15th. Toy Fair NY 2015 runs from February 14th through the 17th.

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Oh dear, more Munchkin.

Munchkin: Princess is a 15 card booster pack that contains cards compatible with any version of Munchkin (though the card backs match the original.)

The 15 cards contain new monsters. new treasures, and 2 princesses! A small rule sheet is also packaged inside with everything you need to add these 15 cards into the game.

Do you love Munchkin? Do you love princesses? This set is for you! … Then again, this set it probably for you even if you just love Munchkin. You know that. Steve Jackson knows that. Now give him your money.

Munchkin: Princesses will be available this month for $4.95.

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Remember that HUGE $100 version of OGRE that weighed 18 pounds. Remember how you couldn’t afford it, and wept so hard you had to replaced the water-logged floorboards at your place?

Well now you can get in on OGRE Pocket Edition! For only $2.95 you can have it all like Steve Jackson originally released it, including his hand drawn maps. The best part (other than the price) is that you get everything you need to play all five of the “Ogre vs. Command Post” scenarios.

Think off all the fun you’ll have and all the money you’ll have saved. Think of all the money you’ll save by not having to replaced tear-soaked floorboards! Your tear ducts, and your wallet, will thank you.

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