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Day 2 began at 6am. Lucky for us we were still on East Coast time.
We headed down to have Breakfast with the guys from Mayfair games.
They have developed a new program where they demo some of their games to
retailers and then we get to take copies home to show you guys. Pretty
cool huh? It's a great opportunity to learn about new games as well as
some that have been overlooked. One of the games that we played was
The Downfall of Pompeii. I think I love this one because you actually
get to throw your opponents meeples into the volcano. In a surprising
turn of events we met up with our friend Ray Wehrs (Wells Expeditions,
Calliope Games) wearing a Mayfair company shirt. He told us that he is
joining forces with Mayfair to bring a new line of family friendly party and
light strategy games to market. Product line to be announced in the
4th quarter. (You heard it here first.)
Ed went to a couple seminars on some
technical stuff so I decided to give the casino another chance. We
walked over to the Paris hotel for a healthy lunch and then back for a
meeting with Wizards of the Coast to see about their future product
releases. Ed is obscenely happy about the return of the D&D Red Box.
For those of you not familiar, the Red Box was (and will be again) a perfect
entry point for D&D roleplaying. They will also be releasing an entire
line of parallel D&D 4.0 products tailored to new or returning gamers.
Also on the horizon is the release of another huge figure in the D&D minis
line as well as D&D board games. The first of which is set in Castle
Ravenloft.
We then caught up with our friend Aldo
from Impressions and headed into our dinner meeting. Easy to diet here
since the food was not so great. Thankfully WizKids provided us with
some great news that made the dinner worth attending. Not only did we
get to see the two previously unannounced chase figures from the forthcoming
Brave & the Bold set, we got to take them home. That's right guys.
We'll have these babies along with a buy it by the brick piece on display in
the store starting Saturday. News of other future releases include; a
Brightest Day figure set, the next Marvel set which will be Web of
Spider-Man, and the next DC set which will be DC 75. The Web of
Spider-Man will include a 300 point duel character Iron Man/WarMachine and
pieces from the Siege storyline. The DC set will celebrate 75 years of
DC Comics and include characters from the White Lantern Corp. Many of
you will also be happy to know that they will be bringing back the Halo
line.
After dinner was more game demos,
including Nuns on the Run which reminded me a lot of Scotland Yard except
instead of all the players going after Mr X, the Abyss is chasing all the
novices who should be in bed but are instead running amuck of the convent.
I should tell you I won.
We then got to play Casino Vegas.
This is the newest game from James Ernest. James taught us how to
play. In this game you purchase property and manage casinos and try to
outscore your opponents. The game play was unlike anything we had seen
before. This will be out sometime this year from Mayfair Games.
Back to the room to write up my notes.
It's 2:00 PST. Looks like I'm not on East Coast time anymore.
Day 2: Casino 2, Dina 0 |
