In Rolling Realms Redux, players compete to earn the most stars over 3 rounds in a series of minigames. (There are 12 different “realms” included in the game.) This is a roll-and-write game, meaning that players will write on the game components using dry-erase markers.

Each turn, one player rolls 2 dice, and all players use the dice results on their realm cards to generate resources and earn stars. After 3 rounds, the player with the most stars wins!

Rolling Realms Redux is a standalone game, and it includes everything you need to play up to 6 players. It features the same rules and full compatibility with its predecessor, Rolling Realms, but with 12 new realms inspired by popular games from other publishers, a printed version of the living rulebook that will include explanations for all realms (original, new, and promo), with everything in a box designed to fit all realms ever printed.

All 12 realms in Rolling Realms Redux are 100% new and unique to this specific product.

—description from the publisher

Build your own gang and customize it to suit your plans. Gather resources to complete heists and money to recruit new gang members. And make sure you escape the police! A unique and fun game from the award-winning designers of Automania and Trails of Tucana.

Bad Company supports up to 6 players with very little downtime. It also includes a solo mode where you try to outsmart the police.

Each player has a player board with 11 gang members. You may upgrade them by placing overlapping cards onto them. This way, the visual appearances of your gang members change as they gain more abilities.

Each round, the active player rolls four dice and divides them into two pairs (pay coins to reroll). Each pair of dice activates one gang member on the active player's board. All other players may use one of the pairs to activate a single gang member on their own boards.

Activating a gangster provides resources needed to complete heists, money to upgrade your gang members, or advance your car through the city.
You want to advance your car, because you need to stay ahead of the police in order to collect loot along the city route.

You gain points by completing heists, upgrading your gang and by driving your car through the city.
Some completed heists provide special abilities which you can build your strategy around.

The game ends when a player completes their 6th heist, or when any car reaches the dock on the city track, and the player with the most points wins.

—description from designer

The Resistance: Avalon pits the forces of Good and Evil in a battle to control the future of civilization. Arthur represents the future of Britain, a promise of prosperity and honor, yet hidden among his brave warriors are Mordred's unscrupulous minions. These forces of evil are few in number but have knowledge of each other and remain hidden from all but one of Arthur's servants. Merlin alone knows the agents of evil, but he must speak of this only in riddles. If his True identity is discovered, all will be lost.

The Resistance: Avalon is a standalone game, and while The Resistance is not required to play, the games are compatible and can be combined.

Rankster is a wildly different co-operative quiz game where you have to agree how you would rank famous people (and your friends). Simple but hilarious -

1- Turn over three character cards.

2- One player is the Judge who takes a question card, reads it to themselves, and secretly decides how they want to rank the characters on the basis of the question. They then read the question aloud to the other players.

3- The other players chat and have to all agree how they think the Judge has ranked the characters. Reveal the answer. If the players guessed the correct ranking everyone wins the round; if not everyone loses.

EXAMPLE:
Q: Who would you choose as the drummer in your rock band?
—Hermione Grainger
—George Washington
—Shrek

Start a new round, reveal three new characters and the next player becomes the Judge. Play until all players have been the Judge. You all win if you have succeeded more often than failing. It leads to hilarious arguments but it's not easy!

[french only]

Your goal in Sixto is to mark off as many numbers as you can...although a lone mark counts against you, so don't mark carelessly.

Each player gets their own player sheet, which features six rows of numbers, each in a different color. The row contains the digits 1-6 in a random order, and each player should have a different sheet from among the twelve designs in the box.

On a turn, the active player rolls the six colored dice, one for each of the colored rows. If they don't like the results, they can re-roll all six dice once. After the final die roll, for each die, each player can choose to mark off the leftmost available number matching the die result, skipping over any intervening numbers. Skipped numbers cannot be marked in the future. Thus, on each turn, each player makes 0-6 marks on their player sheet. The active player then passes the dice left.

The final three columns on a player sheet are designated the "target area". If any player marks two spaces in a single row in the target area, that die is removed from the game at the end of that turn. When the third die is removed from play, the game ends.

Each player then scores each row and each column on their player sheet, losing 5 points if only one mark is present, scoring 0 points for zero or two marks, and score 5+ points for 3+ marks. The player with the highest score wins.

It is 1598, and you have settled in the middle of France in the city of Orléans on the Loire. Your goal is clear: Build a cathedral in Orléans — all of you together because only together can you meet this challenge!

In the co-operative game The Cathedral of Orléans, players will recruit followers familiar from Orléans to take actions — knights, craftsmen, scholars, traders, and monks — but these followers are divided between two pouches, so the question you will constantly face: From which pouch should I draw to get the desired tile? You will want to remember which tiles go into which bag at the end of the round, dividing duties between one another in order to work out your strategy together as effectively as possible.

Time is always a pressing issue. The cathedral must be completed in the third round at the latest, and if a tile can no longer be placed elsewhere with an action, it must go into the bell tower, with that tower's toll ending the round.

Special highlight: You build a real, three-dimensional cathedral!

Kinfire Delve: Vainglory's Grotto is a tactical and cooperative card game for 1-2 players. As Seekers, you will fight your way through the well deck of challenge cards to reach Vainglory, the master of the well, and face her in an epic final battle.

To defeat Vainglory, you'll battle and puzzle your way through her well deck of 57 challenge cards before facing her final gauntlet. On your turn, attempt a challenge by playing a matching skill card and rolling the dice. Add enough progress tokens to a challenge and you'll be richly rewarded. But fail and you'll face the penalty by losing health, discarding cards, or being forced to return cards to the well deck.

Even when it's not your turn, the cards in your hand can be played to boost your teammate's action. But be cautious–emptying your hand means gaining exhaustion and suffering effects that can lose you the game.

Survive long enough to reach the bottom of the well and reveal Vainglory's final form. Break through her gauntlet of protectors in order to face and defeat her once and for all and win the game.

—description from publisher

In War of the 3 Sanchos 1065-67, the fourth game in the Pocket Campaigns series, you are one of three King Sanchos, fighting for control of castles and towers across Castilla, Navarra, and Aragón. The game is designed for 1-3 players.

All three of the King Sanchos, including any non-player Sanchos, are competing to win by fortifying the castles and towers illustrated on the board (one in each region). Players gain victory points for each castle or tower fortified with their pieces: 3 points for a home castle (2 points in the solo game), 2 points for a neutral castle, and 1 point for a tower. If at any time during the game a Sancho has 10 or more victory points, they win a major victory. If no player achieves this during the game, the Sancho with the most victory points after the last card is played wins a minor victory.

The game is played in rounds. Each player has a turn during each round. At the start of the round, the commander for the round plays a card from their hand. This card indicates the number of command points (CPs) from 1 to 3 that the commander uses during the round, and it also describes the actions that each other player must take on their turn, if possible. The game ends either at any point when a Sancho has 10 or more victory points, or after the final card from all players' hands has been resolved.

Skytear Horde: Monoliths is stand-alone expansion to Skytear Horde, the lane-based card battler in which one or two players fight against the horde of monsters controlled by the game.

Players say Skytear Horde gives them the feeling of playing a solo or cooperative version of competitive card battlers such as Keyforge, Hearthstone, or Magic: the Gathering.

In the six lanes of the battlefield monsters attack your castle while beyond the enemy line smaller minions pillage your resources, forcing you to discard cards from your deck each turn.

You lose the battle if your castle is destroyed or your deck runs out of cards.

You win if you destroy the portal spawning the monsters and the epic monster leading the horde.

There are many interesting choices on the tactical and strategic level: strike a balance between defending and counter-attacking but also fighting the minions pillaging your deck and the monsters destroying your castle.

While you juggle all these decisions you also have to be careful not to run out of cards, as the principal way to draw new cards is to destroy monsters!

Skytear Horde is really quick to setup, play, and store away.
There are 3 difficulty levels suitable for complete beginners and veterans alike.

In just a few seconds you can restart a new game giving it a strong “just one more try” aspect.

Out of the retail box there are 3 ready-made alliance decks with different play styles and 3 horde decks with their own boss.
All decks can be mixed and customized to provide additional combinations.

Monoliths features a revised rulebook and streamlined gameplay that improves upon the original thanks to the direct interaction between the designers and thousands of players.

In Monoliths there are many new themes and mechanics refreshing the game on all the fronts.
For the horde, the "Charge" keyword brings the minion into the lanes for one turn threatening your castle while "Reinforce X" makes the weaker minions stronger. The 4 new hordes also features unique strategies and play-styles: for instance the Sinklings conceal themselves entering play face-down, while the Broods will fill the backline with Brood tokens that are essentially additional minions!

For the alliance, not even contemplating the four new pre-made decks, one fundamental change is that you must exhaust an ally in order to move it, giving even more meaning and depth to the positioning of your allies.
Cards are also designed with more potential combo's than ever, allowing for the power level to reach higher ceiling... something that you absolutely need given the brand new difficulty system that is designed around 3 variations of every single horde card, at 3 different power levels.

—description from publisher

Aeon’s End: Outcasts continues the Expedition system that was introduced in Aeon’s End: New Age, which allows players to replay all of the content they own in a short campaign format. After each game, players will receive new treasures and player cards that allow them to become more powerful. However, the nemeses that players will face grow stronger and stronger with each battle.

Mon Dieu, quelle horreur! The inhabitants of Orléans have been hit hard as the plague has come upon them, bringing suffering and misery to the population. There are many dead to mourn, and even the plague doctor can bring only limited relief and hope to the long-suffering inhabitants. The clergy also has little to offer in the way of relief. And so, in the end, everyone is on their own and must try to protect their followers as best they can...

When you use the Orléans: Die Pest / The Plague expansion, the game conditions are made tougher from the start of play thanks to the "rat cards". Sometimes there are fewer monks in the game, sometimes no gears may be placed on place cards or the building of trading stations must be paid for with an additional coin.

New events are now also linked to the "corpse tokens" which players must place a certain number of in their bag at the end of each round. These tokens might be randomly drawn from the bag at the beginning of the round and occupy valuable space on the marketplace because they cannot be used for any action. To get rid of them for good, a player can fulfill indulgence cards through pilgrimage, donations, or other conditions, which also bring victory points at game's end. Fortunately, each player has a "plague doctor", a new figure that is available in (almost) every round and can be used universally.

—description from the publisher

Sagrada: Artisans is a legacy game take on the stained glass window game Sagrada. Players will compete as rival families of stained glass artisans, who work on the Sagrada Familia's windows over the course of generations. Players will gain powerful new abilities over the course of the campaign along with brand new tools. Other gameplay details about the new game are relatively sparse, but the game involves a spiral notebook and colored pencils instead traditional game boards.

Illimat has the style and flavor of a classic card game with a dynamic twist. As you play, you combine cards and collect them, trying to gather more than your opponents. But hidden Luminaries and changing seasons can alter your plans. Featuring a cloth board, metal tokens, and illustrations by Carson Ellis.

Illimat supports two to four players and a single round takes approximately fifteen minutes. The cloth board is divided into four fields, and the box the game comes in is also a component of the game: it sits in the center of the board and sets the seasons for each field, which affects the actions that can be performed in each field. Turning the box and changing the seasons is a critical part of the strategy of the game.

Illimat has been playtested with devoted gamers and people who haven't played a game in years. The result is a game that's easy to learn, dynamic, and just a little bit addictive.

—description from the publisher

Tout au long de sa carrière, Jean-Baptiste Andreae a dessiné pour lui-même des centaines de monstres et de jeunes femmes plantureuses. Ce beau livre regroupe les trésors méconnus d’un auteur qui ne cesse de renouveler son art et de peaufiner sa technique à travers ses sujets favoris : les créatures de toutes sortes…

Plongeant au coeur du monde cauchemardesque orchestré par Guillermo del Toro dans Le labyrinthe de Pan, cette analyse explore les contextes culturels et historiques entourant le film. Elle examine la manière dont il utilise la mythologie et aborde la mémoire et l'oubli, mettant en lumière les techniques, les thèmes et les références qui se combinent pour engendrer de multiples significations.
La collection BFI : Les Classiques du cinéma regroupe des ouvrages finement écrits et joliment illustrés, qui introduisent, interprètent et célèbrent les films marquants du cinéma mondial. Chaque volume offre un argument pour le statut de “classique” du film, ainsi que le récit de sa production et de sa réception, sa place au sein d’un genre ou d’un cinéma national, un compte-rendu de son importance technique et esthétique et, dans de nombreux cas, la réponse personnelle de l’auteur par rapport à son film.

Soixante-dix ans après sa sortie, Chantons sous la pluie (1951) reste l'un des films les plus appréciés jamais réalisés. Pourtant, malgré un succès fulgurant auprès du public, il n'a jamais reçu sa juste part d'analyse critique. Le génie de Gene Kelly en tant qu'interprète est indéniable. Sa contribution innovante en tant que réalisateur est moins souvent reconnue. L'étude éclairante de Peter Wollen rend justice à ce film complexe. Dans sa préface à cette édition spéciale, publiée pour célébrer le 20e anniversaire de la collection BFI : Les Classiques du Cinéma, Geoff Andrew revient sur l'héritage du film et célèbre la passion, la lucidité et l'originalité de l'analyse de Wollen.
La collection BFI : Les Classiques du cinéma regroupe des ouvrages finement écrits et joliment illustrés, qui introduisent, interprètent et célèbrent les films marquants du cinéma mondial. Chaque volume offre un argument pour le statut de “classique” du film, ainsi que le récit de sa production et de sa réception, sa place au sein d’un genre ou d’un cinéma national, un compte-rendu de son importance technique et esthétique et, dans de nombreux cas, la réponse personnelle de l’auteur par rapport à son film.

Dès sa sortie en 1988, Le Tombeau des lucioles d'Isao Takahata a captivé le public avec son drame sans concession, et il est aujourd'hui considéré comme un des plus grands films d'animation de tous les temps.
Pourtant, le sombre chef-d'oeuvre des studios Ghibli reste peu analysé en dehors du Japon, alors même que sa signification est farouchement contestée - Takahata lui-même a déploré que peu de Japonais aient saisi son message. Dans la première véritable étude du film en Europe, Alex Dudok de Wit (réalisateur de LA Tortue Rouge) explore ses thèmes, ses dispositifs visuels et son utilisation révolutionnaire de l'animation, ainsi que le contexte politique dans lequel il a été réalisé. S'appuyant sur des récits non traduits de l'équipe du film, il décrit également sa production mouvementée, qui a failli conduire Takahata et son studio au désastre.

La collection BFI : Les Classiques du cinéma regroupe des ouvrages finement écrits et joliment illustrés, qui introduisent, interprètent et célèbrent les films marquants du cinéma mondial. Chaque volume offre un argument pour le statut de “classique” du film, ainsi que le récit de sa production et de sa réception, sa place au sein d’un genre ou d’un cinéma national, un compte-rendu de son importance technique et esthétique et, dans de nombreux cas, la réponse personnelle de l’auteur par rapport à son film.

L’ouvrage d’Eaton nous guide dans l’histoire de la production de Chinatown. L’auteur y résume également son intrigue complexe et propose des interprétations intrigantes. Eaton s’intéresse particulièrement à la symbolique du titre du film, qu’il considère comme ayant de multiples significations : c’est un état d’esprit, une image du monde, voire une métaphore du cinéma lui-même. Rompant avec la tradition critique, il attribue à Evans, le producteur, et non Polanski, Towne ou Nicholson, la force créatrice majeure derrière le film. Rompant avec la tradition interprétative, Eaton montre de la sympathie à l’égard de Jake Gittes, le héros du film, le décrivant comme un homme piégé dans un complot policier monté à ses dépends, un monde où « il vaut mieux ne pas agir, et mieux encore, ne pas savoir » la vérité.

La collection BFI : Les Classiques du cinéma regroupe des ouvrages finement écrits et joliment illustrés, qui introduisent, interprètent et célèbrent les films marquants du cinéma mondial. Chaque volume offre un argument pour le statut de “classique” du film, ainsi que le récit de sa production et de sa réception, sa place au sein d’un genre ou d’un cinéma national, un compte-rendu de son importance technique et esthétique et, dans de nombreux cas, la réponse personnelle de l’auteur par rapport à son film.