Tim the Buffalo GameBuff, chief fan and unofficial spokesman for Buffalo Games, is branching out from the Buffalo area (no SEO intended) with a new service he calls Game Night House Call. After assisting with public game nights in the local area and answering numerous emails from people too far away, Tim has developed a standard package to get game nights started, including Likewise!, The T-Shirt Game, and a selection of snacks.

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What’s so special about a flat piece of cardboard with a generic fantasy scene on the front and charts and tables on the back? This GM screen has shelves to store your miniatures, integrated dice towers, is infinitely expandable, and will protect your treasure from pesky adventurers!

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The D6 Generation was full of great information this week (seriously, why are you not listening to this podcast?)! In an exclusive interview with Hank Edley (Adepticon coordinator) and Andrew Hartland (the hardest working Press Ganger in Privateer Press‘ volunteer army, better known to most of us as Hacksaw76), it has been revealed that Adepticon 2010 will be including a broader variety of games beyond those from Games Workshop and will have a significant track dedicated to Privateer Press products! For those not familiar with Adepticon, its easily the largest miniature gaming-only conference outside of those hosted by GW themselves (though Historicon might be in the same size range). What this essentially means is that miniature gamers now have a conference that will cater specifically to their needs and style of play. Should make a very cool event even better!

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The D6 Generation podcast (my pick for the best podcast for the time strapped gamer) broke the news this week that miniature transport maker, Battle Foam, is launching a new promotion in order to build adoption of their recently released Army Bags: a trade-in program. What is a trade-in program? Its exactly what you think – you send them your existing army transport carrier and they’ll give you credit towards one of their bags and foam. The program launches in August and your bags will need to be in usable condition, but its a great idea (though its not quite original in the hobby gaming industry – White Wolf pulled a similar stunt with the re-release of their Exalted system). Details on the program should be available on Battle Foam’s website over the next week.

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In the little over a year that this blog has been around, I don’t think we’ve ever had to call out a company’s bad behavior two days in a row. However, in this particular case, we’re going to make an exception: Games Workshop has sent a cease & desist letter to a an eBay retailer, asking that they discontinue listing of GW products. By GW’s logic, this is an extension of their longstanding policy of not allowing the online listing of their products by online stores (irrespective of any brick & mortar presence the store may maintain). In all fairness, the products being listed on eBay were being offered new in box, but the nature of eBay has stirred up a good deal of concern amongst GW fans.

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The Gaming Report appears to have shut down. In its place, the URL redirects to Comic Buyer’s Guide Extra, a different journal from F+W media.

OTOH, you can still access the site through its IP address. Just a glitch?

I guess this was inevitable after F+W announced Scrye’s closure, GR’s parent, back in January, effective April.

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Mythgardia is a new game from Bob Harris, designer of the venerable classic fantasy game Talisman, and is, in fact, the sequel to Talisman (not counting Talisman 2nd, 3rd, and 4th editions, and their various expansions).

Very few copies remain of the first print run of 100. Characters travel around the world looking for the fabulous crystal treasures. Lots of dice base movement and card based encounters and adventure.

Bob will be demoing the game at Claymore.

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The Lord Mayor’s Show is a quintessentially puffy piece of British pageantry, which is just how they like it. Each year, the Lord Mayor of London (as distinct from The Mayor of London, who does more work), pompously rides through the streets of London in a parade that ends with his declaration of loyalty to the crown.

This year’s show has an official board game, called City of London, a trivia game about London, natch. With only a bit more than 200 questions, it’s safe to say that the game is designed to be sold, not played.

£30, or only £25 at the Mansion House. But fear not: the money goes to The Lord Mayor’s Appeal and the Show.

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On another stunningly badly-designed website you can find a new board game The Tower of Mystery by Chris Knoll.

The rules blurb on BGG is a bit difficult to understand, but here are the salient points:

• Visit the four turrets on seven levels and collect all four turret tokens and the five mystery cards that spell TOWER.
• The mystery cards do many things, and there’s a lot of opportunity for rolling dice.
• There’s a lot of chaos.
• $40 and up to $14 for standard shipping.

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