Hey folks!
We just want to make sure you are up-to-date with new games coming into the store these days. Today we received a couple of restocks, some new expansions, and a brand new game – all from our friends at Z-Man Games!

Let’s start with the NEW game: SPLENDOR.

In Stock for $39.99

Splendor is a fast-paced and addictive game of chip-collecting and card development. Players are merchants of the Renaissance trying to buy gem mines, means of transportation, shops — all in order to acquire the most prestige points. If you’re wealthy enough, you might even receive a visit from a noble at some point, which of course will further increase your prestige.
On your turn, you may (1) collect chips (gems), or (2) buy and build a card, or (3) reserve one card. If you collect chips, you take either three different kinds of chips or two chips of the same kind. If you buy a card, you pay its price in chips and add it to your playing area. To reserve a card — in order to make sure you get it, or, why not, your opponents don’t get it — you place it in front of you face down for later building; this costs you a round, but you also get gold in the form of a joker chip, which you can use as any gem.
All of the cards you buy increase your wealth as they give you a permanent gem bonus for later buys; some of the cards also give you prestige points. In order to win the game, you must reach 15 prestige points before your opponents do.

Next, let’s talk about some new expansions for two very popular and award winning games. First up we’ve got one for Formula D, a fast paced Formula One style racing game with the innovative dice-gear mechanic! Expansion #5 continues to expand the circuits with racetracks from New Jersey and Sotchi!

Formula D: $59.99,    Cicuits 5 (New Jersey + Sotchi): $29.99

Secondly, we have a new expansion for Eclipse, the game of interstellar civilization and conflict where you explore star systems, research technologies and build spaceships! Speaking of spaceships, that’s what this new expansion is all about: Ship Pack One includes six unique sets of plastic ship models – Interceptors, Cruisers, Dreadnoughts and Starbases – for the alien species in the Eclipse base game, a Terran/Magellan player board, and some other new components.

Eclipse: $99.99                     Eclipse: Ship Pack One: $49.99

Okay, and then we’ve got some restocks: Terra Mystica ($79.99), Stone Age ($49.99), and Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective ($39.99). Drop by today and check them out! And while you’re here, browse the rest of the store for our excellent selection of board games, card games, RPGs (and don’t forget about the army surplus stuff in the back!).

Credit where credit is due: some of the game descriptions above come from the fine people at boardgamegeek.com. Check out their website for all sorts of great game information, pictures of component parts, chat with the community, and even see homebrew rules and components! If you want more information about the games mentioned above (including pictures of what’s inside the box), click on the following links:

Splendor; Formula D; Circuits 5: New Jersey/Sotchi; Eclipse; Ship Pack One; Terra Mystica; Stone Age; Sherlock Holmes, Consulting Detective.

New stock in today!

One of the products we got included Zombicide supplements: Prison Outbreak and Toxic City Mall!

Also, the very cool looking Numenera Ninth World Bestiary, from the mind of Monte Cook!

Also, a bunch of restock of Red Dragon Inn, Galaxy Trucker, Dominion, Android Netrunner, and other things! Come on down and check it all out!

Holy mackeral! We’ve been so busy receiving stock from our various suppliers since late last week, we’re only NOW able to tell you about it! Lots of restock of great games, but we also received a whole batch of new ones that you need to check out.

First off, the NEW STUFF.

If you follow Wil Wheaton’s TABLETOP interweb show, you’ll recognize this game: Takenoko!

 Here’s what boardgamegeek.com has to say about it: 

  A long time ago at the Japanese Imperial court, the Chinese Emperor offered a  giant panda bear as a symbol of peace to the Japanese Emperor. Since then, the  Japanese Emperor has entrusted his court members (the players) with the difficult  task of caring for the animal by tending to his bamboo garden. In Takenoko, the  players will cultivate land plots, irrigate them, and grow one of the three species  of bamboo (Green, Yellow, and Pink) with the help of the Imperial gardener to  maintain this bamboo garden. They will have to bear with the immoderate hunger  of this sacred animal for the juicy and tender bamboo. The player who manages  his land plots best, growing the most bamboo while feeding the delicate appetite  of the panda, will win the game.

We’ve also brought in two award-winning Z-man games: Asante and Targri. Both are designed for 2-players, for which we get a lot of requests.

Other NEW games include:

Both Fortune & Glory expansions: Treasure Hunters and Rise of the Crimson Hand; Dungeon Twister the card game; a few expansion tracks for Formula D (Circuits 1, 3 and 4); a nifty looking game about ninjas called Ninjato; a family dice game called Zooloretto, a card game called The King’s Command, a recently popular manic real-time game called Escape: The Curse of the Temple, a mysterious game called Room 25, and a beautifully illustrated cardgame based on Alice in Wonderland called Parade.

Our restock of popular games include:

Carcassonne (and all available expansions); Ticket to Ride (basic, Euro, Nederlands, Marklan, Asia); Saboteur (1 and 2); A bunch of X-Wing miniatures ships; a bunch of Star Trek Attack Wing ships; SmallWorld; Mage Wars; Android Netrunner data packs (a whole schwack of them, except the new one, True Colors, which we should get in soon); 7 Wonders; Fiasco; The Resistance; Dead Panic (it’s awesome!); Cthulhu Gloom; Battlestar Galactica (and its expansions); Ultimate Werewolf; Cosmic Encounters; Dungeon Fighter; King of Tokyo; Fortune and Glory; Monty Python Fluxx; a bunch of Pathfinder books; Frag Gold Edition; and Hive!

So come drop by today, and pick up a new game!

Also in the store: a whole bunch of new surplus came in (bags, backpacks, pants, toques, gloves and balaclavas).

After a long wait, the much anticipated new zombie game by the makers of the award winning Castle Panic is here: DEAD PANIC!

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From Boardgamegeek.com:

The zombie apocalypse has begun, and you and your friends take on the roles of various characters who are all working to survive.

In Dead Panic, each player takes on the role of one of eight unique characters, which have special abilities. Players work together to survive in a remote cabin, at the center of the board, against waves of the undead that close in from the edges of the board. If the players can hold out, survivors bring pieces of the radio needed to call for rescue. Once rescue arrives, it’s up to each player to leave the safety of the cabin and make it out alive!

To fight the zombies, players use cabin cards, some of which are weapons that help players attack zombies at a distance or in hand-to-hand combat. If characters take too many injuries during combat, they die and return to the game as a zombie with customized rules as a member of the undead! Other cabin cards are items, which give the players various benefits and a better chance at survival. The supply of items and weapons is limited, however. Once the cabin deck is exhausted, it is not reshuffled. A separate deck of cards, called event cards, allow the zombies to have their turn. This deck not only brings a variety of zombies into play but each card also has a special effect when drawn.

Can you survive Dead Panic?

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IN STOCK NOW! Only $41.99.

We’ve got Robinson Crusoe in STOCK! This game was out of print for a long time (shortly after it was released) but we’ve got it now! Come on down today and grab a copy for yourself!

Here’s what Boardgamegeek.com says about the game:

“Robinson Crusoe: Adventure on the Cursed Island is another epic game created by Ignacy Trzewiczek, the author of Stronghold. This time Trzewiczek takes the players to a deserted island, where they’ll play the parts of shipwreck survivors confronted by an extraordinary adventure. They’ll be faced with the challenges of building a shelter, finding food, fighting wild beasts, and protecting themselves from weather changes. Building walls around their homes, animal domestication, constructing weapons and tools from what they find and much more awaits them on the island. The players decide in which direction the game will unfold and – after several in-game weeks of hard work – how their settlement will look. Will they manage to discover the secret of the island in the meantime? Will they find a pirate treasure, or an abandoned village? Will they discover an underground city or a cursed temple at the bottom of a volcano? Answers to these questions lie in hundreds of event cards and hundreds of object and structure cards that can be used during the game…”

New goodies! old goodies! Come and get ‘em!

Just got in a load of Jr Miniatures for all your 15mm needs.

For those of you who like things a little bigger and a little stompier, the brand new Privateer Press is in along with some re-stock for the wall.

New to the store is Vampire: The Eternal Struggle.

Be a Methuselah, control your minions, annoy your opponents.

We also have a wide range of White Wolf Role-playing Games in stock so come on in. Good thing Vampires can’t feel the cold.

Woot! Books, special orders and sweet, sweet Spanish candy for the Infinity wall!
Come down and pick up your special orders (those of you who did place them) or just come by and drool over the new stuff.

We managed to get our hands on a few more copies. They should be coming in some time next week.
So those of you who were holding off, don’t. We’re thinking of holding a “fight to the death” for the last copy…