Mechant of Venus: Update from Stronghold Games

As many of our customers already know, back in October while we were in Essen, we announced a reprint of Merchant of Venus, a Richard Hamblen designed game, after 18 months of discussions directly with Mr. Hamblen.

To our surprise, a day later Fantasy Flight Games also announced a reprint of Merchant of Venus.  Of course, under normal conditions, with licensing contracts granting exclusivity, this should not have been possible.  Fantasy Flight Games had obtained their license of the game from a different party, and of course neither FFG nor Stronghold Games was aware of each other's pursuit of this game license.