Catalyst Game Labs is starting to roll out its new casual game line. Unlike the intense, large-scale games of BattleTech, Shadowrun, Eclipse Phase or CthulhuTech, Catalyst casual games are easy to learn, easy to play games with lots of great re-playability.

The first two in the line-up are Poo: The Card Game and Ergo.

Ergo taps into the philosophy geek in all of us, with players attempting to prove their existence while disproving the other player’s existence through classic philosophical rules of logic. Minutes to learn the rules, yet mastery only comes to the smartest players. Ergo comes with 55 cards and a fold-out rules sheet in a beautiful metal tin.

Poo: The Card Game taps into the little kid in all of us…and the jokes that just write themselves. Also minutes to learn the rules, the game is a fast-and-furious ball of laughter, great for larger parties as the game can take up to 8 people flinging poo at one another. Poo: The Card Game includes 110 cards and a fold-out rules sheet.

Both games are perfect stocking stuffers, regardless of what type of gamer you’re trying to please. Ergo will retail for $14.99 while Poo: The Card Game will retail for $12.99. Both will be available November/December timeframe…just in time for the holidays!

Keep watching www.catalystgamelabs.com for when we announce their street date and online availability. Not to mention future casual game releases, such as the next products coming down the pipeline: Merchants and High School Drama.

The following book has a street date of November 10, 2009:

CAT26102 Seattle 2072 ($44.99)

Catalyst is pleased to release the first two premium-quality plastic miniatures for sale through www.battlecorps.com/catalog: the Thor and Loki Clan OmniMechs from Technical Readout: 3050 Upgrade.

These extremely high-quality miniatures are the result of a match-up between Catalyst Game Labs’ insatiable desire to continue the explosive re-birth of BattleTech popularity with Ghost Studios, a manufacturer at the cutting edge of technology utilizing a seamless all-digital process from conception to final miniature production.

However, we knew the quality of these miniatures could not simply be conveyed through an announcement. We needed to show, not tell. With that in mind we tapped a swath of www.camospecs.com artists to experience receiving the miniatures box in the mail just as anyone making a purchase will receive them. From their first blush of opening the box, to discovering the details and quality, to the painting, the artists have provided a series of uncompromising testimonials concerning these two miniatures. And of course a host of phenomenal photos accompanies their words. Check them out at www.camospecs.com.

If you order a Miniature, you’ll get both an unassembled Mini ready for assembly and painting, as well as a fully assembled mini ready to place on the board and take on the Inner Sphere!

Buy the Loki OmniMech (2 Omnis, one assembled, one unassembled) – $17.95
Buy the Thor OmniMech (2 Omnis, one assembled, one unassembled) – $17.95

These are currently only available direct to consumer.