▪️ Paul Dennan's Clank!: A Deck-Building Adventure turns ten in 2026, so publisher Dire Wolf — which originally released the game with Renegade Game Studios — has announced an anniversary edition that will debut at Gen Con 2026.
Clank! Master Thief Edition will feature visual updates, card adjustments, updated endgame mechanisms, ghosts (?), a refreshed game board that's now split into multiple boards, and a Wandering Monsters mini-expansion. From the publisher: "This optional module includes new cards and mechanics related to the tunnel monsters on the board, which are now marked with different colors and icons."
If nothing else, I'm glad Dire Wolf is redoing the game board as the original one looked like someone ran out of time and just crammed the rage track in the corner to make it to press on schedule.
▪️ To celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of Star Trek, Looney Labs plans to reprint Star Trek Fluxx, Star Trek: The Next Generation Fluxx, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Fluxx, and Star Trek: Voyager Fluxx, returning them to the retail market on October 20, 2026.
Many more Star Trek series exist, of course, not to mention movies and animated series, so perhaps more will come in time.
▪️ On April 29, 2026, Amabel Holland introduced the world to a game-related project unlike any other, writing:
ANNOUNCING: Swords Against Beginner's Box Replica Edition
Coming in June, this is a reproduction of a specific, incomplete, unplayable copy of this 1979 game found at an estate sale in 2016, including replicas of personal effects of the former owner.
If you were ever a fan of Found Magazine, then this project might be for you. (Coincidentally, Found Magazine was based out of Ann Arbor, Michigan, which is less than an hour's drive from publisher Hollandspiele in Dearborn, Michigan.)
For an overview of what's in the box and how this project originated, turn to the story Holland tells on the back cover of this project:
