EXCLUSIVE OFFER FOR OUR MEMBERS

PLAYTEST ACT III: SOULRAGE... JOIN THE BATTLE!

Vinyl game board ACT III for only 8,25
We want to make you, as a loyal player and “early adapter” of X610Z, and exclusive offer: You can order a vinyl  version of the new game board of ACT III (50 x 50 cm) now for only 8,25! Shipping costs will be added to the price. This first vinyl edition will have a special printed text: “X610Z Veteran Player”.

This offer is valid until the end of September.
To order: http://www.x610z.com/webshop

Now here's an ACT you guys are all waiting for. A lot of new stuff is added to the game play. Lots of brutal summons with mind blowing abilities, amazing new crystals, fluxes (new wording for non permanent effect card) and catalysts (new wording for permanent effect card) and much, much more.
Now, we know the big questions you guys will have: 'when dude, when???'

We decided to first release the LCBG version of X610Z, that contains lots of cards of ACTIII. After that, we will release ACT III (+/- 125 to 130 cards), which is planned for the beginning of 2012. ACT III will be printed with the new design. As soon as our stock of Battle Tubes, ACT I or ACT II cards is getting “critical” we will reprint it in the new design.
To answer your next question: Yes, the “old” cards are tournament legal and I'm pretty sure they will become a wanted collectible item.

ACT III needs further testing, something that we will do in public testplays in gameshops in the Netherlands.
Until now, we only had public playtests at the Game Force in Eindhoven. This time, we extended the playtestst to two other shops: Purperendraak (Groningen) en de Tinnen Soldaat (Ede).

The playtests are open to all who are interested (14 players max per shop) and are held every Saturday between the beginning of August until the end of September. Next to the Saturdays, there will be 2 Sundays planned for playtesting in the Game Force. If you're up for a fun gathering, make sure to be there!
Every testplayer that participates in the testplays is offered 1 free drink per testplay. More information about the testplay is given on our forum and in the participating game shops. We hope we can count on your help!

UK GAMES EXPO BIRMINGHAM june 3rd – june 5th
First preview of X610Z Living card and board game 

On invitation of my British friend Mark Rivera we decided to participate in the UK Games Expo in Birmingham. Mark is a renowned game reviewer, member of Associated Gamers, the UK Gaming Network and partnered with G*M*S Magazine. Since we are in the finishing phase of the LCBG version of X610Z,  this would be a great opportunity to see the first response to it from the public and the professionals.

Bas (chief playtester), Bob (management) and I (chief Chaos) hopped on the plane on Thursday, packed with our luggage and all the stuff for the fair: big banner, posters, complete mock-up of the board game, decks (proxies), new game board and pawns. In spite of the fact that everyone was driving on the wrong side of the road, we arrived safely in the Quality Hotel, close to the UK Games Expo.

On Friday we prepare our little booth of three demo tables, two  for game play and one for displaying the contents of the LCBG. Since this only took us about an hour, we had the time to have a look around the fair, which was big fun. Lots of good stuff was going on the fair: big two-day table top tournament (Warhammer 40K), a special family zone, Doctor Who actors, Live Munchkin and much much more (http://www.ukgamesexpo.co.uk/).

Friday afternoon we hooked up with Mark Rivera, whom I got to know via Twitter. It was wonderful to meet Mark in person. The Internet is a great medium, but I must say that there's nothing better than a warm, real life handshake of a friend. During the fair we met a lot of nice people and Mark (Boardgames in Blighty) introduced us to the other game reviewers of the UK Gaming Network: Kevin O'Sullivan (social gaming), Michael Fox (Little Metal Dog Show) and Chris Bowler (Unboxed). All great extremely likeable guys and I'm happy to say I consider them all my friends. After we met, Michael interviewed me about the board game. You can watch the interview here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_L1kfLixrE

During the fair I also got to meet Dean Bowman of Rhythmcircus. He was very impressed by all the aspects of the game. He will give it a review as soon as it is released. Also we talked to some shopkeepers and most of them expressed their interest.
Last but not least I had a nice talk with Larry Roznai (president of Mayfair games, publisher of Colonists of Catan). We had a nice click and next time he visits Amsterdam I hoop to meet him again.

The show took 2 days and I must say that the response by the public and the professionals to the board game are overwhelmingly positive. Everyone was really impressed by the looks. The X610Z gaming tables were filled all the time, we even got people standing in line. We got a lot of compliments about game play and the balance of the decks. This strengthened our thought that we have something good going on here!

Hugs & Tally Ho!

Patrick Ruedisueli (Chaos), game designer