News Flash: What Next Announced, MicroMacro Wins Spiel des Jahres 2021 Award

What Next? Announced
Big Potato Games has announced What Next?, an action-adventure board game with a choose-your-own-adventure concept. "Work together to pick your path through three epic adventures and reach the end of the story in one piece[...] From puck-flicking to shape building to item balancing, in What Next you master over 60 unique mini games as you go."
Source: https://bigpotato.com/products/what-next

MicroMacro: Crime City Wins Spiel des Jahres
The winners of the Spiel des Jahres (MicroMacro: Crime City) , Kennerspiel des Jahres (Paleo), and Kinderspiel des Jahres (Dragomino), have all been announced. You can read our review of MicroMacro here and Dragomino here.
Source: https://www.dicetowernews.com/article/winner-2021-spiel-des-jahres

Big G Creative Releases Ghosted
Ghosted is a brand new party game that plays in about thirty minutes, and is designed for three-to-six players. "Your restless spirit won’t be calm until you solve your own demise from the great beyond. Identify which suspect had it in for you, what wacky weapon they used, and why they wanted you out of the picture."
Source: http://www.biggcreative.com/games/ghosted/

300: Earth & Water Released
Ares Games has released a new two-player board game. "The game is based on a "card driven" system, and players raise armies and buy cards during preparation; cards that can be used to play an event or move an army or fleet."
Source: https://www.aresgames.eu/games/nuts-publishing/300-earth-and-water

Bequest Announced
WizKids has announced Bequest, a new card game with the ‘I Cut-You Choose’ mechanism. "Each round, players draw 5 Asset cards and simultaneously divide them into two groups, placed facedown in front of them. They will then select one of the two groups of cards that were split by their neighbor, and once everyone has decided, their decisions will be simultaneously revealed, and players take the cards they selected, along with the cards their neighbor did not choose."
Source: https://wizkids.com/2021/07/20/become-the-next-great-supervillain-in-bequest-coming-soon/

New Games from Arcane Wonders
Arcane Wonders has announced several new games and expansions, including Onitama: Light and Shadow and Picture Perfect. "Arcane Wonders has announced several new games and expansions coming out in the new several months."
Source: https://www.dicetowernews.com/article/upcoming-releases-arcane-wonders

Reviews
Subastral (Unfiltered Gamer): “An intelligently designed, easy-to-teach, quick-to-learn, quick-to-play, think-y card game with a theme that will appeal to almost anyone.”
Source: https://unfilteredgamer.com/review-subastral/

5er Finden (GeekDad): “5er Finden is like one of those 3D hidden pictures that you would have to stare at, relaxing your eyes until the picture finally became visible.”
Source: https://geekdad.com/2021/07/give-a-high-five-for-5er-finden/

Shifting Stones (What’s Eric Playing): “It’s one of those very quick, tactical titles that I tend to enjoy as a break from longer, heavier fare, and I think that it fits very well into that niche.”
Source: https://whatsericplaying.com/2021/07/19/shifting-stones/