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Resident Evil Alliance Announced

RESIDENT EVIL DBG: ALLIANCE is a stand-alone expansion that can be played on its own or with the top selling RESIDENT EVIL DBG. Play with new additional characters such as Hunk, Carlos Oliveira, Steve Burnside, Josh Stone or Billy Coen. New weapons, actions and infected have been added to this set to create even more powerful combinations and dangers. ALLIANCE also introduces the new PARTNER Mode of play where you take on the Mansion with not just one character but two!

Game contents:

Game manual and 250 cards
Demographics: Based on a Rated M for Mature video game
Suggested Retail Price $29.99

Pre-Order the game and be entered into a drawing to win a Resident Evil Playmat.

Betrayal at House on the Hill

Now Available

The creak of footsteps on the stairs, the smell of something foul and dead, the feel of something crawling down your back – this and more can be found in the exciting refresh of the Avalon Hill favorite Betrayal at House on the Hill. This fun and suspenseful game is a new experience almost every time you play – you and your friends explore “that creepy old place on the hill” until enough mystic misadventures happen that one of the players turns on all of the others!

Designed for 3–6 players aged 12 and up, this boardgame features multiple scenarios, a different lay-out with every game, and enough chills to freeze the heart of any horror fan.

This game includes the following components:

• 6 pre-painted plastic Character miniatures and corresponding Character cards

• 80 cards (Event, Omen, and Item decks)

• Rulebook • Traitors Tome booklet

• Secrets of Survival booklet

• Game dice • 45 Room tiles

• Over 100 game tokens

The Haunt books have been refreshed with 8 new haunts – some of which feature a new “hidden traitor” game mechanic.
The Item cards have been updated with 5 new items!
The die-cut game play tokens have been redesigned making them easier to identify.
Exciting and compelling new art and design on the box.

Webs from Packing Tape

Viennese/Croatian design collective For Use/Numen make large web sculptures from packing tape. They use nothing but packing tape to create huge, self-supporting cocoons that visitors can climb inside and explore.

They’ve done several smaller works in the past, but their latest is the largest and coolest. At the last installation inside Odeon, a former stock exchange building in Vienna, the group used nearly 117,000 feet and 100 pounds of tape.

Check Fast Company to see a video of how it was done.

Thanks to Geekologie for the link.

Ghostbusters, the Premake

We seem to be on a Ghostbusters kick here of late. In any case the smart folks over at Premakes have given us this very cool and funny premake of Ghostbusters.

Thanks for the link to Wil Wheaton, who ain’t afraid of no ghost.

Who ya gonna call?

The New York Public Library is facing a 37 million dollar budget cut. So, in order to draw some attention to their cause, they invited Improve Everywhere to do a scene in the library.