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GAMA Trade Show 2011 Exhibitor Coverage – Part 11
Today’s GAMA Trade Show 2011 exhibitors include 42 Games, Stronghold Games, Heartland Games, Cleveland Kids, and Battle Foam 42 Games 42 Games was showing off their newest game, Orbit: Rocket Race 5000. Orbit is a fast-paced strategy card game where you try to match colored sides together to play them, going around in an “orbit” around the board. They [...]
GAMA Trade Show 2011 Exhibitor Coverage – Part 8
GAMA Trade Show 2011 coverage continues with Looney Labs, Chivalry Games, Digme Productions,Flying Buffalo, Arcane Tinman, Acrylicos Vallejo, and WorldWise Imports. Looney Labs The Labs were showing off three new products. First is Pirate Fluxx, which released in February. As the many other Fluxx flavors, this adds Pirates to the game. There are a couple [...]
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), [...]
GAMA Trade Show 2011 Exhibitor Coverage – Part 3
Our GAMA Trade Show 2011 coverage continues with offerings from “Numbskull Games,” “Gozer Games,” “Non-Trivial Quest,” “Bereb Enterprises,” “Armstrong Forensic Laboratory,” and “Cepia Games.” Numbskull Games They have a couple of recent titles out on the market. Blockade Runner is a Civil War era economic/resource managememt board game.You take the role of an entrepreneur trying [...]
Wizards of the Coast Gen Con Interview – Teaser
There are some companies that you can always count on to have an awesome booth at Gen Con. Wizards of the Coast, is one of those companies. And this year was no different. Constructed in the middle of their booth space, was the metal monstrosity of a tower. The center at which was a closed [...]
Real Review or Marketing Spin: How to Tell the Difference
Astroturfing is the fine art of generating buzz on the internet through deceptive methods. Here are some classic examples, fake websites, viral videos, “independent” blogs operated by marketing companies and supportive forum posts on key community web sites. Posts written by some marketing intern in a posh ad agency office. Astroturfing is, literally, everywhere on [...]
DragonCon 2009 Vendor Website Directory
Dragoncon 2009 opens September 4th, so I though this a good time to link to my helpful list of Dragoncon vendor websites at RPGSeek.com. The directory includes a vendor site description as well as the link, so you have an idea what they are selling before you actually visit the site. A surprising number of gaming vendors [...]
Gamer Tools Review: The ZÜCA Wheeled Bag
The ZÜCA is quite possibly the world’s best gamer bag for convention goers. Trask has been asking me to do a review for a while. He even featured it in this year’s ‘10 Christmas Gift Ideas for a Role-Playing Gamer‘ due to all my man-love speech. So, without further ado, I will begin… Trask and [...]
DragonCon 2008 Vendor List with Hyperlinks and Descriptions
DragonCon, as with Origins and Gen Con, failed to provide links to their vendors. Since my previous list for Gen Con was so popular, I decided to put together a list for DragonCon. Sadly, many of the vendor names are so common I have no idea where to find their site or contact information. If [...]