Apparently they are concerned, perhaps wisely so, about competing with their current Game of the Year, El Grande . Karl-Heinz Schmiel will release a kid's memory game. This is in keeping, I believe, with his usual cycle, alternating each year between very adult, strategy games and lighter, family fare.
Downtown is a big business board game with big components.
Ravensburger will release a German edition of Klutz Press' excellent board game book by Sid Sackson and edited by Erwin Glonnegger. Franjos will also release two new games. Wow by Ronald Corn is a movement game in which players try to move their Indians through a complicated dance. Sabotage by Robert Abbott is a cardgame that uses a board. Players try to construct complex pipelines while disrupting or, one might say, sabotaging their opponent's pipelines.