Ninja Division has announced it will be handling the North American distribution of the new AVP: The Hunt Begins boardgame produced by U.K. publisher Prodos Games.  The game will release on September 26.

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Based on the long-running science fiction franchises, the boardgame allows players to control teams of either type of extraterrestrial or the human Colonial Marines.  The board is made up of geomorphic tiles showing corridors and rooms, and players use 32mm miniatures to represent their units.

The game will include 23 models:  10 “infant” Aliens, 5 “stalker” Aliens, 5 Colonial Marines, and 3 Predators.  10 Stat cards, 20 Environment cards, 20 Mission cards, and 60 Strategy cards, 81 board tiles, 20 doors, 3 20-sided dice, and over 150 tokens are also included.  MSRP is $119.95.

AVP: The Hunt Begins was funded through a successful Kickstarter campaign by British miniatures company Prodos Games in November 2013.  Prodos secured a license from 20th Century Fox to produce the game, but ran into approval issues which delayed production and caused the Kickstarter page to be blocked, with only a statement “Alien vs Predator: The Miniatures Game is the subject of an intellectual property dispute and is currently unavailable.”  According to updates on the game’s Facebook page, those issues have been resolved. 

Ninja Division was not part of the Kickstarter or game production, a Ninja Division representative told ICv2. Ninja Division recently signed on to fulfill the Kickstarter in the U.S., and handle trade distribution in the U.S. for Prodos.

Miniatures images can be viewed in the gallery below.