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Archive for December, 2011

New Board Games : December 30, 2011

Saturday, December 31st, 2011 Posted in new releases | Comments Off

New Games Ascension : Storm of Souls Dungeon Petz Rogue Trader : Hostile Acquisitions Puerto Rico Anniversary Edition Empires : Age of Discovery Builder Expansion Dust Tactics : Operation Cerberus Core Worlds Savage Worlds : Totems of the Dead ...

Selling Online : A Primer

Wednesday, December 28th, 2011 Posted in business | Comments Off

I recently have had a few friends and acquaintances look into selling online.  It's a complicated business, partially due to the fact that the information needed to set-up an e-commerce store properly is relatively specialised knowledge and the various players ...

Boxing Day Sale Publishers Breakdown

Monday, December 26th, 2011 Posted in articles, business | Comments Off

As many of you might have noticed, our current Boxing Day Sale is quite extensive - 268 items to be exact.  Outside of a few games where we guessed quantities wrong (Quarriors : Rise of the Demons, Dreadfleet); a lot ...

New Board Games : December 20, 2011

Wednesday, December 21st, 2011 Posted in new releases | Comments Off

New Board Games: Eclipse Evo Flash Point : Fire Rescue Pathfinder : In the Company of Monsters Spuzzle Mister Mailman Jr. Boo Friday Warriors & Traders Airship Pirates : Ruined Empires Starblazer : Mindjammer Pathfinder Campaign Setting : Dragon Empires Gazetteer Pathfinder Campaign Setting : Mythical Monsters Revisited Pathfinder Gamemastery Map ...

New Games: December 15th, 2011

Thursday, December 15th, 2011 Posted in new releases | Comments Off

New Games: Bios Megafauna Erosion Fauna Game of Thrones LCG: On Dangerous Ground Chapter Pack High Frontier Mansions of Madness: Forbidden Alchemy Pathfinder GameMastery Combat Pad Principato Rattus Africanus Shadow Hunters with Expansion Tannhauser: Operation Hinansho

The business of keeping the business running

Wednesday, December 14th, 2011 Posted in business | Comments Off

It always amazes me the sheer amount of work required to keep a business running that customers never see.  Before I got into business for myself, I never really had a clear idea about the sheer amount of work the ...

New Games: December 13th, 2011

Tuesday, December 13th, 2011 Posted in new releases | Comments Off

New Games: Pax Peloponnes Pergamemnon Takenoko War of the Ring

The Christmas Rush – Reflections on Procedures

Monday, December 12th, 2011 Posted in business | Comments Off

All through the year, we have been building up processes, dealing with the increase in sales and figuring out how to reduce errors and create processes to make the business run more smoothly.  Christmas is now happening, and all these ...

Guest Review : Carcassonne Hunters & Gatherers

Monday, December 12th, 2011 Posted in reviews | Comments Off

Carcassonne is probably the most popular introductory German-style game released in the last decade. Because of its popularity and its winning of the Spiel des Jahres (Game of the Year) award, expansions and stand-alone spin-offs were inevitable. But these have ...

New Games: December 9th, 2011

Friday, December 9th, 2011 Posted in new releases | Comments Off

New Games: 51st State: The New Era Dynamite Nurse Returns! - Japanese The Phantom League Pret-a-Porter Resident Evil: Nightmare Space Maze Wiraqocha