With a view to fighting the imperialist ambitions of an increasingly globalised Rome, the Crazy Gauls' Village now boasts a tool that is at the cutting edge of Druid technology: the BLOG (Bulletin for Liaising Officially among Gauls), a genuine Gaulish vade mecum. This, by Doubleclix, is where indomitable warriors of all walks of life can find the answer to everything they have ever wanted to know about Asterix and his friends: the Missives can be consulted by section, by date, or by using our Dogmatix detector, capable of unearthing any word in any article since 50 B.C.!
Roulette, Poker, Monopoly™, Cluedo™… The collection of Asterix games from Editions Atlas continues to surprise! Two new games have just been sent to us: Quarto!™ and Asterix dice games.The first, entirely based on the Asterix and the Great Divide album, invites us to restore a bit of order to the village of Histrionix and Melodrama, divided by infighting. Your aim is to create a line of 4 houses on the board which have at least one characteristic in common. The 16 magnificent house counters inside the game offer a full range of the housing on offer in the year 50 BC: rectangular houses with wooden roofs, triangular houses with thatched roofs, rectangular houses with thatched roofs and chimneys… something for all tastes!  The more traditional Asterix dice games are for connoisseurs: Yahtzee, 421 and poker dice are all brought together in a game based on the Asterix and the Black Gold album. The dice-rolling surface is directly inspired from the architecture depicted by Albert Uderzo in this adventure which sees our heroes set off for the wilds of Mesopotamia. Includes customized Asterix score books and counter bags! And a special mention goes to the poker dice game, with the Ace, King and Queen faces bearing representations of Dogmatix, Dubbelosix’s espionage “carrier fly”, and a wild boar! |
Wednesday 9 July 2008
Quarto™ and dice games: Play along with Asterix like never before!
Wednesday 2 July 2008
The official asterix.com website
Justforkix, that fan of new technology, has got hooked on e-cards, these virtual postcards that he sends to all of his conquests. But that’s not to say he forgets the classics: he designs special cards for all occasions: Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, etc... The humour of Asterix has been on hand on each big occasion in the last few weeks.This time, Justforkix is proud to present his holiday-themed collection. Lazing around, sun, day cruises, swimming, desert islands, promenades... 
Nine special holiday Asterix e-cards illustrate a whole range of happy holidays, seen through the eyes of our indomitable Gauls!The result? Jokes galore, vexed Roman legionaries, hazardous architecture designed by Edifis, shipwrecked pirates... in short, everything that we love about Asterix! |
Monday 30 June 2008
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It’s competition time and exam time too: with baccalaureates, A-levels, high-school and college-entrance exams, pupils are revising, hoping to resit an oral, celebrating their success or anxiously awaiting their results … In the gb.asterix.com virtual village, there are exams all year round! Every month, the feared and dreaded Asterix Quiz gives you the chance to win Asterix prizes. But there’s only one catch: you have to know all the Asterix adventures inside out! We have five expert winners of our May Quiz, who will all be receiving two Astérix in Picard albums: Estelle Schouver, Sophie de la Vaissiere, Christelle Sverin, Véronique Guillot and Jérôme Delugeard.  But they’ll hardly have any time to rest on their laurels: a new Astérix Quiz is here, with prizes of two Asterix at the Olympic Games puzzles to be won by the lucky ones among you. It’s also the chance to discover our new set of pages dedicated to Asterix puzzles. And of course there’s no point in telling you that your favourite heroes, who love nothing more than to scatter Roman patrols “like jigsaw pieces”, have put all their heart and soul into designing these pages! |
Tuesday 24 June 2008
Asterix: a Gaul in tempered steel!
 As Summer 2008 approaches and brings with it the promise of long days of sunbathing on the sandy beaches of Armorica, our indomitable Gauls are in top form. Fulliautomatix sums up the mood saying “We Gauls have steeled ourselves for 2008!”And it’s our music-loving blacksmith who brings us proof of this: two superb Asterix and Obelix embossed metal plaques, all ready to invade Gaulish shops. Produced to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the first edition of the Asterix at the Olympic Games album, these two plaques capture two key moments of the adventure for eternity: Asterix in the athlete’s parade bearing the Gallo-Roman flag and the unforgettable encounter between Obelix and Gluteus Maximus.  As the stamp of authenticity (“certified Fulliautomatix production”) provided by Asterix’ blacksmith attests, these plaques are exceptionally high quality: printed in four colour process on 0.5mm-thick tin plate, they are painted and embossed to emphasize, among other things, Gluteus Maximus’s impressive set of muscles. 
And Fulliautomatix has thought of everything: four small holes allow you to hang these plaques on the walls of your Gaulish home.So then, how can you get your hands on one of them? Make a date for 18 June 2008, D-Day for the launch of these plaques in all participating Gaulish bookshops in France. And you will receive one of these two plaques free when you buy two Asterix albums, but beware: limited stock only! There’s bound to be some impromptu scrambling for these plaques from fans eager to add these Fulliautomatix-certified collectors’ items to their Asterix collection! |
Saturday 21 June 2008
The Tournament of Indomitables
The official asterix.com website
What excitement! Spectators had their hearts in their mouths during the 1st round of the 2008 Tournament of Indomitables! There have been some very tight matches, and a few surprises too… Everything needed to make the beginning of this tournament a memorable event. It’s very simple, with the exchange of virtual balls overseen by the Egyptian Ptenisnet, we have no idea of what to expect! 
The wonderful Miss Bicarbonatofsoda won against Bonanza in a pulsating encounter. Later, Semi-Automatix gave a lesson to Orthopaedix thanks to the precision of his slicing balls, while Cacofonix’s game plan stopped Cleverdix in his tracks with his singing exercises between shots!Nor have the big guns lost their nerve: Asterix, Obelix, Dogmatix and all the others will appear in the 2nd round. The only seed eliminated, Dubbelosix succumbed to the technique of his spying colleague Mintjulep. The pirates also had a rough time: Redbeard, defeated by a spirited performance from Pepe, and Pegleg, narrowly beaten at the net by Sarsaparilla, Asterix’s mother. All the results can be found in the official Tournament standings, and all the 2nd round matches can be followed live on our Gaulish circus. Get voting now! |
Tuesday 17 June 2008
The EncyclObelix - Miss Bicarbonatofsoda
Psychoanalytix's assistant, the sublime Miss Bicarbonatofsoda, is an expert in moral and psychological suffering, Lord knows she sees enough of them!Greeting patients in her role as the renowned therapist's receptionist, she ends up seeing some of the most difficult cases. She must therefore reassure the patient who has a morbid fear of the sky falling on his head,  who refuses to go anywhere without cowering under a shield, or the man who thinks he's a wild boar and who bothers the other patients with his sudden oinking (also stimulating Obelix's appetite since he can't hold out against the sound of a wild boar without thinking of a barbecue …). It has to be said that Psychoanalytix's surgery is a very lively place and that for Miss Bicarbonatofsoda some cases can become more problematic once they've been solved… Such as when Psychoanalytix demonstrates his talent by successfully healing the shy Barbarian who, once healed, wants to "catch up with his work", knocking out all the sick patients sitting in the "waiting glade"! More in the EncyclObelix |