Today in our ongoing previews of the new Marvel Heroclix: Galactic Guardians set, we check in with a former herald of Galactus, the executioner Morg!

Morg begins play with Hypersonic Speed allowing him set up a good first strike.  Invulnerability will protect him from most counter attacks.  On his second click, Morg changes tactics a bit as he can use Charge with his 4 damage to engage a single foe, or use his attack special power, Axe Swipe, allowing Morg to use Quake. When he uses Quake and hits, instead of replacing his damage value, roll a d6 and subtract 2, minimum 2.  Each hit character is dealt damage equal to the result.  Toughness protects him on these two clicks of his dial.  On his third click, Morg gains Exploit Weaknessfor his next four clicks, making the damage from his close combat actions stick.

Happy New Year of the Dragon! We are pleased to share with you that the Infinity Gauntlet Organized Play program has taken the worldwide HeroClix scene by storm! With January 2012 soon coming to a close, we wanted to share with you all some exciting information!

Many of you have availed yourselves to the WizKids Event System to schedule your Infinity Gauntlet events using the pre-generated templates for Months One and Two, and we are pleased to announce that all Infinity Gauntlet event templates have been fully uploaded into the WES.  That’s right, you can now schedule your Infinity Gauntlet Months Two through Eight events now using our recommended event templates.

Of course, Venues are still free to digress from our recommended templates and schedule their own Infinity Gauntlet event ideas but we wanted to let everyone know they had the option!

One thing eagle-eyed Venues and players will notice is that we’ve re-branded the summer Marvel HeroClix release.  Formerly announced as Mighty Avengers, our summer Marvel HeroClix set will now be known as Marvel HeroClix: Chaos War.  Chaos War will be the third Marvel HeroClix installment of the Infinity Gauntlet Organized Play program, and we will have more information in the weeks and months to come.

Last but not least, we wanted to officially share with you all what you’ll be fighting for in February during your Infinity Gauntlet Month Two events! We are happy to share with you all The In-Betweener!

The In-Betweener is the competitive prize for the Month Two Infinity Gauntlet events.  The participation prize for February Infinity Gauntlet events is the Soul Gem!

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Underworld: Awakening has been doing well at the box office this weekend. Director Len Wiseman was doing press for that film, and gave an update on his Total Recall remake in an interview with Collider (via CBM). Wiseman talked about his editing process for the remake, and revealed that he is currently working on the director’s cut – which is about two hours long. He also talked about when fans will finally see a trailer for the film, and why they will be excited. 

Below is an excerpt from the interview:

Do you know when we’ll see the first trailer for Total Recall? 

I’ve seen it, and it’s great. I believe it will hit in March. I could be wrong, but I think March.

Where are you at now in the editing process? 

I am two days away from turning in my director’s cut. I’m actually just doing some finishing touches on it. So, I’m done with that, and the studio takes a look at it fairly soon. So far, it’s actually been a very fun process. There’s a lot of excitement around it, and I’m very happy with it.

How long is your cut at this point? 

I think we’re close to two hours, but it’s not all completely assembled. We still have a lot of the visual effects shots that we’re putting in, last minute. I’ll be here for about 20 hours today, and another 20 hours tomorrow.

Is there anything that you’re most excited for fans to see? 

I would say how much it really plays with fantasy versus reality, in a way that I wanted to dive into a little bit more. It’s a thing I’ve always been fascinated about with Philip K. Dick’s story and the concept itself. It really has to operate on two playing fields, at any given time. It’s either the fantasy or reality. That’s the thing that I think is the most exciting. It’s got a load of really funaction sequences and visuals, and a whole new world to experience as well, that is really fun, but what makes that all super-engaging is this constant mystery of what world we’re existing in, whether it’s his fantasy or reality.

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by W. Eric Martin

• German publisher Queen Games has passed along details of nine titles on its 2012 schedule, and while info is scarce for a number of them, here’s what I know so far. As I receive more updates from Queen or as info comes in from the Nürnberg trade fair in early February 2012, I’ll update the various game pages to provide more details about game play.

January 2012
—–• 3 in 1: Mückenstich, Danger, Zwickern, which is – as the title suggests – a three-pack of older card games from Queen in a new package for those who weren’t around ten years ago when these games were originally released.

February 2012
—–• Kingdom Builder: Nomads, which I posted about earlier in January 2012. This expansion includes bits for a fifth player, four new game boards (and consequently four new powers), three new scoring cards, and a bunch of nomad and location tiles of which I don’t yet know the use. Soon!

March 2012
—–• Maharani, a tile-laying game from Wolfgang Panning in which players take mosaic tiles from a rondel in order to build a palace. Seems like an incredibly inefficient way to build a palace, but I have no experience doing such things, so what do I know?

April 2012
—–• Edo, which I previewed in a November 2011 post following a demo at BGG.CON.
—–• Kairo, in which you try to maneuver customers to different-colored stalls by competitors keep popping up in their way and the customers themselves keep disappearing.

May 2012
—–• Urbanization from newcomer Johnny Ebsen in which “the players follow the development of a rural area, from the beginning of the industrial revolution to modern times. They guide their villages through hard times and try to attract citizens by building houses. Later, factories are erected and the villages grow into prospering cities.”

June 2012
—–• Thebes: The Tomb Raiders, a card game version of Peter Prinz’ Thebes, with players once again spending time to dig for glory.

July 2012
—–• Escape, which I also previewed following a BGG.CON demo.

August 2012
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• Jay Tummelson at Rio Grande Games has posted a general news update, mentioning that the English edition of the Puerto Rico: Anniversary Edition is sold out at the publisher level and not coming back, so what’s on the market is all there will be – at least for the English version.

• In news of upcoming games from Rio Grande, Tummelson says that Upon a Salty Ocean, Lamborghini, Leader 1: Hell of the North, Hawaii, Last Will, Stone Age: Style Is the Goal and Roll to the South Pole – a dice game from Kristian A. Østby and Eilif Svennson – will be available “in a few weeks”, which puts them as February releases on Gone Cardboard, BGG’s game release calendar. Tummelson didn’t mention that RGG is importing the Giochix release The Forgotten Planet, but the game is listed on the RGG website with a February 2012 release date, so throw that on the list, too.

Today we visit the hallowed halls of Asgard’s realm to preview the greatest woman warrior in all the Nine Worlds, the Lady Sif!

Mid-dial, Sif’s Surprise Leap Attack special power.  In addition to using Leap/Climb, if Sif ends her movement next to an opposing figure that attacked another friendly character since your last turn, she may target them with a close combat action as a free action.  Sif can use her base damage, or utilizy Blades/Claws/Fangs!  Defensively, Sif uses Toughness for this stretch of her dial.