Stronghold Games AND Fantasy Flight Games Announce Reprints of Merchant of Venus

Stronghold Games has announced that they will be reprinting Richard Hamblen's Merchant of Venus. They expect to release it in 2012, possibly as early as the 2nd quarter. As Stronghold Games has done with other reprints of classic games, Merchant of Venus will include a straight reprint of the original game with enhanced, high quality components, and also include some optional new ways to play. The new additions may come from the many fan variants that have been posted and published over the years.

Additionally Stronghold Games has hinted that there may be a re-print of another Richard Hamblen game in the future.

 Shortly after Stronghold Game's announcement, Fantasy Flight Games announced that they had signed an exclusive licensing contract with Wizards of the Coast, LLC, a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc. more than a year ago to reprint Merchant of Venus. They are taking pre-orders and expect to release Merchant of Venus the 1st quarter of 2012.