All Things Fun!
2010 GAMA Trade Show (GTS) Blog
Follow Ed & Dina's Adventures in Las Vegas as they learn about all the new game releases for 2010!
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Day Three
Day 3 got off to a rocky start. After only 4 hours of sleep it’s not surprising that we slept through the alarm. Needless to say we were a little late to our breakfast meeting. Today’s breakfast was sponsored by Bandai. We got to hear about many of their upcoming products and events including their new Naruto Shonen Jumps. Exciting news for the series 5 set of Battle Spirits. This will be the first set to include duel color spirits. James at Bandai once again talked about ATF in his presentation. Thanks to Bandai for being a great retail partner and thanks to our players who help us support Bandai.
We then set out to walk to show floor. The first booth we hit was Out of the Box. These guys have fast become one of our favorite publishers at ATF thanks to great games like Cloud 9 and Ninja vs Ninja. It looks like they will be giving us another successful game this year with Pirate vs Pirate. This time it is a 2-3 player game with pirates searching for treasure and fighting it out on the high seas.
We talked with the guys from Dust Games and AEG. You might know them most recently from a little game we sold last year called the Adventurers. They have some great stuff coming out. The first is a game some of you might recall I talked about in last year’s blog called Mad Zeppelin. This one is due on shelves any day. Another that caught our eye was Dust Tactics. Also, a Thunderstone expansion is in our future.
We managed to sneak out for a quick lunch at Ed’s favorite LV eatery, Hofbrauhaus. After some great schnitzel it was back to work. We stopped by to check out the packaging on the new HeroClix boosters. As you might guess from the photo, Ed loved the picture. NECA is releasing two other clix games this year. One based on Gremlins and the other on the Freddy vs Jason license. Other games that caught our attention: Conquest of Planet Earth from Flying Frog, Panzer General Russian Assault from Petroglyph and Defenders of the Realm from Eagle Games.
Overloaded with information we snuck out again for dinner. Along with some friends we headed out to an Italian restaurant I found on the web. It had gotten some good reviews. I have to say when we pulled into the parking lot I was thinking the rest of the group might stone me for my bad choice. (Ed Note: From the outside the restaurant looked like a boarded-up crack house!) We walked in anyway. The foyer was very dark and when we tried the door it didn’t open. We were then surprised from behind by a slot opening in the wall and an accented Italian asking, "Whad'ya want?" After a knuckle wrap on the door we where then admitted into the dark mob speakeasy called Capo’s. And we had a blast. The atmosphere was great and the food wasn’t too shabby either.
It was then back to the hotel for some more game demos.
Day 3: Casino 3, Dina 0
