The GAMA Trade Show 2014 Begins This Week

The annual gathering of hobby game retailers in Las Vegas begins tomorrow at the Game Manufacturers Trade Association Show  at Bally’s casino. I covered the show for the past few years, but this year I am not attending.  Which is a shame because, so far as I know, I am the only person that actually covered every vendor at the show and not just the “big” announcements from the top 5 manufacturers. This year is sure to be especially bad for smaller exhibitors because the 100-foot-tall radioactive juggernaut of doom is arriving: 5th edition Dungeons and Dragons (or whatever Wizards call it).

Wizards of the Coast is sure to “win” the show with a first look at the new books and miniatures for the latest iteration of D&D.  Sadly, there are many more vendors that the gaming journalism community simply ignores because their products do not draw enough eyeballs to a site. Fresh ideas be damned!

I cannot really do anything about it this year, but at least I can repost the list of attendees.  Take a look and see if your favorite companies are exhibiting.

Perhaps I can attend next year and give these companies the attention they deserve.

Trask, The Last Tyromancer