2020 huh. The year of the Critical Hit etc etc. It’s certainly going to be one for the history books for the saddest of reasons. The next few months are going to be really challenging for everyone and I hope you’re all keeping safe and staying well. I’d like to...
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Starting A New Game Store….
… No not me. My life as we know it would be over if I contemplated that!! The awesome Gary Ray over at Black Diamond Games in Concord, California has recently started collating and posting a HUGE amount of intelligent planning and thinking in general about the process you should...
Continue reading...UK Games Expo 2016 – Summary Thoughts
Summary I had fun, met some great people, played some great games, bought some games, drank beer (some good, some not) and all in all had a great time. Highlights Travel there and back went smoothly. No real delays and we made good time despite some crazy drivers on the...
Continue reading...UK Games Expo 2015 – Evolutionary Steps
I received some (well deserved) abuse during my visit to UK Games Expo 2015 as every so often I compared what UK Games Expo had to offer versus what Gen Con 2014 had. Now to be fair to me (!) I wasn’t doing it to downplay what UK Games Expo...
Continue reading...UK Games Expo 2015 – Part 4
Of course after commenting in the last post about using the word Two rather than the number 2 I forgot to append the year onto the post. Argh! Anyway, there’s a convention report to wrap up! UK Games Expo 2015 – Day Three So the Sunday morning wasn’t as bad...
Continue reading...UK Games Expo – Part 3
I realised after posting Part Two (rather than 2) that I’d used the word rather than the number. Completely unplanned as that was it reminds me how out of the habit of this blogging I am. Anyway, onto matters more pressing. UK Games Expo – Day Two The hordes descend…...
Continue reading...UK Games Expo 2015 – Part Two
UK Games Expo – Day One Let the con begin!We had planned to meet for breakfast but we all failed miserably at meeting at the same time. Perils of my body clock meant I woke up at 5am but fortunately I was able to get back to sleep.Breakfast (and parking...
Continue reading...UK Games Expo 2015 – Part 1
So after Gen Con last year I decided that 2015 would be the year I went to UK Games Expo. Not since the days of Gen Con UK has the UK had a suitable equivalent to the big convention that North American and indeed other countries have had available to...
Continue reading...Best Four Days in Shopping erm Gaming!
I’m going to do a few posts on my experience at Gen Con but I thought I’d do a quick one on what I actually bought. It’s safe to say that I bought a lot of stuff… That pile doesn’t include any of the 12 (yes twelve) t-shirts that I...
Continue reading...Gen Con – My (Maybe) Buy List (Maybe)
This is really just a long list of STUFF that I’ve perused on a variety of websites listing what’s coming out at Gen Con. Some of this will actually be bought and some of this will simply be looked at and drooling will commence. I’m going to fail to stick...
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