You all saw this, right? :-o
https://www.freedomfivegame.com/
(Christopher shared a "trailer" on Discord: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BixbAt7-iE)
:-O
There's a blurb on BGG too https://boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/105320/freedom-five-returns-sentinel-comics-game-table-20
*Setting count-down timer for September 8th*
Ok. Done and done.
Interesting! Anyone played this Defenders game before? I've never heard of it, but that's not too surprising.
I have not played it, but I have seen it being compared to Pandemic.
The original edition of Defenders of the Realm does have that feel to a significant degree, but it seems like time and reiteration have begun to make the game more thematic over time. Defenders of the Last Stand (the post-apocalyptic follow-up to DotR) definitely felt more on-theme, and bore much less resemblance to Pandemic than its predecessor. I’d be willing to bet that this moves the general template even further apace.
Does anyone know what relation this game might have to the enigmatic Arkham-Horror-looking prototype that was floating around a few years back? Given Richard Launius’ past involvement with GtG, it wouldn’t surprise me if that prototype evolved into this game.
Richard Launius is involved in creation of this new iteration of it https://twitter.com/adambsadler/status/1270767230830206977?s=21
Lanius created the original Defenders, if I understand correctly, so his involvement is appropriate. 
If I remember correctly, that was called “Mayhem in Megalopolis”. Other than involving the Freedom Five, they aren’t related to each other at all. (At least they don’t appear to be related. I don’t have any more information than having played the original prototype.)
Defenders of the Realm is also getting a second edition later this year. Not sure if it'll be before September, but if so it'll probably be a good showcase of what its developers have learned in the last few years.
Have they said if it’s going to be Kickstarted or how it’s otherwise going to come around / be communicated? I’m looking forward to seeing how that looks.
Actually, I take it back:
https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2183274
Apparently they announced the cancellation of the second edition just yesterday. Probably not a coincidence?
Agreed -- probably not a coincidence! :-)
In other "probably not a coincidence" thoughts, I wonder if there was too much Freedom Five/Prime War overlap.
While I can understand that assumption I know per discussion I have seen elsewhere that was not one of the reasons for cancelling Prime War.
I suppose its gonna be a pre-OblivAeon setting
Based off the outfits of the Freedom Five members and a pre burnt face Baron Blade with only a scar it seems like it. However, seeing Proletariat does make it weird.
I so want to know more about this game! I can't wait for more details. I've never played Defenders of the Realm, but I'm a fan of Richard Launius' edition of Arkham Horror, and I can only imagine he's grown as a designer since then. And also my wife and I love co-op games in general and, of course, Sentinels! ... Is it Sept. 8 yet?
I look forward to an official explanation on how this isn't a big 'ha ha!' to Prime War backers.
I fail to see how it would even remotely be considered even a small 'ha ha' to PW backers.
GTG had a game (Prime War) in development. It got cancelled because there wasn't a [big enough] market for it.
Unrelatedly, developers not on the GTG staff worked on a game, using their own game system, to be published by a company that is decidedly not GTG. They appear to be licensing the Sentinels IP. This new game doesn't seem to involve Prime Aspects fighting it out across multiple realities, so I'm not seeing a connection to PW story-wise.
I'm confused, is GTG simply not allowed to publish anything else Sentinels-related ever again? Or did they fail to observe some sort of wierd mourning period during which nothing Sentinels can be announced?
Should they have told Arcane Wonders, "we're sorry, we want you to use our IP, but out of respect for our PW backers, we can't let you do anything with it until [insert some future date here]"?
I mean, Sentinels of Freedom got released recently... am I supposed to be insulted or something about that too?