It's been awhile since our last official report, and we've been very busy here in the Lab!

The Big News of the moment is that the Castle Expansion for Monty Python Fluxx has arrived! This 7-card set is named for the new Keeper, which is the Castle, but even more exciting is the new Creeper: it's the long-awaited French Persons! Together they make a goal, Taunting by the French, one of three new Goals in the set, which also includes a new Action and a new New Rule.

You can get this new packet of cards FREE with any $10 purchase at participating Looney Labs Superstores! Check out our Store Locator to find a friendly neighborhood game store you!

And that's not all! To promote the Castle, we made a new postcard promo card, also for Monty Python Fluxx: it's a Keeper called Sir Not Appearing In This Game! You can also get this card free at your nearest participating Looney Labs Superstore.

The Big News of the near future is the pending release of Are You The Traitor?, an all-new Deception Party Game that Andy has been designing for the past 2 years. Drawing on years of experience with Are You a Werewolf?, Andy's new game improves on various drawbacks of the classic, most notably the gradual elimination of players. Traitor has a somewhat more complicated storyline, but it's still a snap to learn and also plays much faster than Werewolf. Are You The Traitor? can be played with 4-10 players and only takes 20-30 minutes!

It looks great too, featuring stunning artwork created by David Harrington and Strategia Design. Are You the Traitor? will be for sale in game stores everywhere in early July, but look for your first chance to play in the last few weeks of June. Looney Labs will be playing at the Origins Game Fair in Columbus Ohio June 25-28, and hobby game stores everywhere will be getting advanced demo copies along with a cool new punch-out promo card for Fluxx -- a Creeper called the Traitor. Check our Store Locator for a store near you!

The Big News of the recent past, for those who might have missed it, is that we released a couple of great new Icehouse items late in 2008. The first was Pink Treehouse, a special edition of Treehouse with all-pink pyramids (and featuring a donation to Breast Cancer awareness). The second was World War 5, a fast and simple new 3HOUSE game of International Conquest akin to classics like Risk and Diplomacy. WW5 is played on a special world map gameboard, now available for just $6.

So that's the Big Looney News of the past, present, and future!