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GAMA Trade Show 2011 Exhibitor Coverage – Part 6
GAMA Trade Show 2011 coverage continues with Gary Games, RPS Games, Ovation Productions, Greater Games Industry Catalog, MerchantOS, North Star Games, and GameBrother Gary Games Gary Games was showing off the first expansion to the Ascension deck-building game. This new expansion, called Ascension: Return of the Fallen, adds new mechanics (Fate cards), support for more players (up to 6), [...]
The High Price of Credit Cards to your Friendly Local Game Store
Credit cards are both a boon and bane for local game stores. Boon in the sense that customers have instant purchasing power at hand, ready and able to spend (and overspend) their budgets in a game store. This is clearly a boon for any retailer in the form of more sales. The bane comes from [...]
The Harsh Reality: A Game Store Owner Talks Business
The owner of Imperial Outpost Games, the main gaming store on the West side of Phoenix, AZ recently started blogging and has several very impressive posts about the state of game retailing. The posts really get into some deep detail about the expenses and sales at a local game store. His comments on issues like [...]
My 2009 Christmas Gift Ideas for Gamers
Every year I put together a few ideas for gifts that will thrill a gamer on Christmas Day. This year I tried to keep my list practical and reasonably priced due to the miserable state of the economy. Other than that limitation, my list is quite diverse and I hope interesting. As usual, I do [...]
10 Christmas Gift Ideas for a Role-Playing Gamer
Many sites do Christmas gift idea lists, but they tend to lean towards the technological (new TVs) or the classical (Dad needs a new tie!) None give a decent list for the role-playing gamer. Sure, these other lists might help with choosing an RPG gamer’s gift, since many RPG gamers are also deeply into tools, [...]
Trask on the Future of Retail Game Stores
I have many fond memories of my “Friendly Local Game Store.” It is the place I burned many an hour playing board games or role-playing games. I believe it is doomed. As far as I can see, my local game store rely on three key revenue streams: 1. Collectible Games/Miniature Games 2. Board Games 3. [...]