Finally a masterpiece of video games comes to the game table!

And better yet, it’s fun for all the family!

Twilight Creations has announced two new games:

Reiner Knizia’s Cthulhu Rising and Bump in the Night.

While Bump in the Night will put up to 6 players on the shoes of various monsters terrorizing kids in a haunted mansion (Run Scooby Run!), what Mr. Knizia’s Chulhu Rising will be is anyone’s guess (I bet it will be about Cthulhu though :p). Cthulhu Rising is scheduled for September while Bump in the Night is scheduled for the month after.

Coming out in June 19th is Mayfair’s Horus. A tile playing game that will decide which player will be the favored Pharaoh of Horus (yeah it’s kinda like meeples go to Egypt, only not quite :p). For ages 10+, 2 to 4 players.

It’s Alive! will be reprinted this July. According to Reiver Games (an independent publisher) this reprint will be professionally manufactured and thus more widely available (the first print only had 300 copies made). They are offering a 30% discount if you pre-order from their site.

In It’s Alive, you’ll have the chance to be a mad scientist trying to create your own personal Frankenstein. This auction card game where organ trafficking is abound is set for 2 to 5 players, from ages 12 up and has a medium duration of 30 minutes.

It’s time for the vintage boardgame that would make us happy we were playing Monopoly.

IT’S BARGAIN HUNTER [bgg]! Get out of debt for having bought a stove, a dog and a dresser.

Double U Tee Eff?

If you want to hunt real bargains head to the store and check out some real games.

Horus [bgg], of which I’ve spoken about earlier, is released today. If you you want to give Egypt your personal touch now is the time!

Twilight creations Inc has announced Zombies!!! 7: Send in the Clowns [bgg] will be available on June 23rd (that’s next Tuesday).

On not so good news: Z-Man games have been delayed due to lightning strike (yes you read it right). So Agricola [bgg] will ship from the printer on June 21st, so expect pre-orders to ship by the final days of July, with game shelves crying all over the world waiting to be filled by Agricola [bgg] goodieness.

Middle kingdom [bgg] is now due to the final week of July.

Ideology [bgg], Pandemic [bgg] and Chinatown [bgg] should be shipping from the printer by next week being in stores by July. Traders of Carthage [bgg] and Shadow Hunters [bgg] are now to be released also in July.

Genji [bgg], Wasabi! [bgg], Neuroshima Hex! [bgg] and Tales of the Arabian Nights [bgg] now have an unknown print date.

Given these delays Arena and Monster Liner [bgg] will probably be released in 2009 due to problems in finishing these products.

So those of us who were hoping for a more game filled vacation, well crap it