We are proud to announce that the website Tabletop Gaming News has listed Alkemy to be one of the top 4 products from the Gencon Indianapolis. Here is their statement regarding Alkemy:
"Kraken Editions were at the show to display their miniatures as well as given demos of their Alkemy fantasy skirmish game. The figures are exceptional (especially for plastic miniatures) but the game itself seems to be a very fun skirmish system with a lot of opportunities for tactics and strategy in the game. The magic system is unique and builds even more tactical possibilities into the game. With the addition of their English starters and their North America distribution deals this is a game to check out if you are looking for a fun fantasy themed strategy game. "
The full article is available on the TGN page.
This came as a real pleasure to us, and motivates us further to keep up the work done until now and to go further to continue offering lots of good things !

We will shortly deliver you report about the adventures of the Kraken Team at the Indianapolis Gencon.
In the meantime, here are the official pictures and studio paints of the autumn upcoming wave 4 miniatures for the Aurloks:
The Auroch Rain Dancers. These miniatures can use the sound of their drums to entrance the Aurloks around them or induce fear in their enemies using their war horn.
Sculpting by Allan Carrasco, painting by Jérémie Bonamant Téboul.

In the scope of our continuous effort to offer an even more balanced game, the Kraken Team decided to update some profiles of the starter miniatures.  
You will see that some slight changes were brought to the following profiles:
Garlan, the Toad medecine Shaman, the Auroch Totem Warrior and the formulas of the Khaliman Oracle.
All these modifications are of course available in Architekt as well as in the downloads section.
These changes are currently only available on the website, but the modified cards will be available in the "additional starter miniatures" boxes for each faction (Wave 4 for Avalon and Jade and wave 5 for the Aurloks and Khalimans).
The english versions of the starters that will be available at the Gencon Indy will of course contain these modifed cards.

Keeping true to its international orientation, The Kraken Team will be present at the two main events of tabletop gamin: The US  Gencon 2008 , that will take place in Indianapolis from the 14^th until the 17^th of August, and the Spiel Messe in Essen from the 23rd to the 26th of October.
Regarding the Gencon: The Kraken Team will start the animations on friday evening, in the main building at the ICC201 location. For the rest of the fair, Kraken will be at the 1505 booth.
The US Gencon will also be the opportunity for US to officially release the English version of the starters.
Do not hesitate to come by and visit us !

The Market of the Horns, the third scenario of the prologue, is now available for download in french, english, german and spanish.
This scenario is the final act of the prologe of the chronicles of Mornea. You will meet Alaric again, and see how a bloody end was put to his adventures.

We are proud to present you with the two latest Artefactory miniatures:
- In the left corner, the bust of George, the demonic demon, who does not look so sure of himself. Sculpting by François Ramet, painting by Jérémie Bonamant Téboul.
- In the right corner, a historical mini, in this case John King, a 11 year old pirate. We strongly advise you to read his history, which is quite interesting. Concept by Ramet, sculpting by Benoit Cauchies, painting byJérémie Bonamant Teboul.
In theory, these two miniatures should be available in the Artefactory shop. But John King had such a success that we are currently out of stock until september.

When sending out the first instalment of DVD's in English, Italian and Spanish, and on NTSC home DVD player (Northern America, a part of southern America and Asia: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTSC), we saw the DVD's included some bugs.
We apologize for any inconvenience and we will reserve this first batch of copies only for French speaking countries (outside NTSC zone).
We will contact the customers already in possession of one of these DVD once a compatible version is ready in their language. It should be done in September.
The French and English DVD, compatible with NTSC players, are expected for the weekend of Gencon Indy from the 14th to 17th of August 08. Even if this first version is not NTSC ready, there is no problem to read it on an usual computer as long as you have a regional decoder.
Some bugs appeared  on the first version of this DVD but they don't harm the use of the discs. They're now reserved for the French and non-NTSC English market.
The list of these bugs and their solutions are now available on the DVD page of the Artefactory shop.

Since the wave 3 will hit the stores today and tomorrow, we are proud to present the greens of the reinforcements for the Empire of the Jade Triad and the Kingdom of Avalon that will be available in the wave 4.
The wave 4 has two avalonian recruits with a strong personality, a new crossbowman, the three additional archers that will allow you to play the Jade Triad with a never-seen-before subtlety, and two additional militia lancers.
Here are some of the greens of these miniatures. Al these miniatures were sculpted by Allan Carrasco.

The miniatures of the wave 3 will be available at your favorite lead/plastic/resin dealers on wednesday the 9th.
In the meantime, we have made the gaming profiles of all these miniatures available on the Kraken Homepage. You can :
- either download the high resolution pdf cards from the downloads page
- or build your new warbands in Architekt, where the profiles of these new miniatures are also available.
Of course these cards are available in french, english and german. The spanish versions of all the profile cards will soon be available.

Kraken Editions is proud to present the "Painting miniatures with Jérémie Bonamant Téboul" double DVD. This DVD is available for presales on the Artefactory shop and the shipping will start on the 7th of July.
You can ceck the teaser of the DVD here.
More than 7 hours of high quality video with close-ups, step-by-step demonstrations, a gallery and voice commentary on a double DVD in 4 languages (French, English, Spanish and Italian), including more than 150 diagrams and schema...
More than 50 step-by-step demonstrations, showing you how to blend, paint real and non-metallic metals, flesh tones, faces, bases, how to apply colour theory, control the light source and lots more!

The other good news is the reduction of shipping costs. All Artefactory orders that have been placed after the 29th of June will have the following shipping costs applied: 4€ for France, 9€ for Europe, 11€ for the rest of the world.