Every year, the Las Vegas Review Journal publishes a special issues dedicated to the 'Best of Vegas'. Traditionally, the Review Journal selects nominees for the ballot but, this year, voting will be conducted by 'type your own’ nomination boxes, making the Little Shop of Magic eligible to run!
While the Review Journal is probably thinking of video game stores for their 'Best Game Store' category, it would be great if you could help us get the tabletop gaming community on the map by voting for our store. All you have to do is click here to vote: you will need to fill out a small registration form with the Review Journal, which helps prevent ‘bogus’ votes and makes you eligible to win some fabulous prizes.
We would greatly appreciate your time to help us show just how great our store and its fans are. The Las Vegas community deserves to know that there is life beyond the video-game 'plug' and that not all games played here involve a deck of poker cards.
Please hurry do: voting for this category ends tomorrow night (January 23rd) at midnight.
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Sentinels of the Multiverse
$39.95 MSRP
2-5 Players
Ages 8+
60 Minutes
A mad scientist holds the world hostage with his terrifying inventions. An alien warlord from a far away galaxy brings his limitless army of bizarre minions to conquer the planet. A giant rampaging robot cuts a swath of destruction across the coast, destroying major population centers. And who will stand in their way? A team of heroes, all with impressive powers and abilities stand between the world and the forces of evil. Will you help them? Answer the call to protect the multiverse!
Sentinels of the Multiverse is a cooperative, fixed-deck card game with a comic book flavor. Each player plays as one of 10 heroes, against one of 4 villains, and the battle takes place in one of 4 different dynamic environments.
Each player, after selecting one of the heroes, plays a deck of 40 cards against the villain and environment decks, which "play themselves", requiring the players to put the top card of the appropriate deck into play on the villain and environment turns. On each player's turn, they may play a card from their hand, use a power printed on one of their cards in play, and draw a card from their deck. Each round starts with the villain turn, continues clockwise around the table, then concludes with the environment turn. Each villain has various advantages, such as starting with certain cards in play, as specified by the villain character card. Play continues until the heroes reduce the villain to 0 or fewer HP, or until the villain defeats the heroes, either via a win condition or by reducing all the heroes to 0 or fewer HP.
CCP CEO Hilmar Viegar Petursson made the announcement on Wednesday.
CCP has announced a 20% reduction in staff, with most of the cuts coming from the former White Wolf staff in the Atlanta area. Of the roughly 20 White Wolf employees when CCP and White Wolf merged five years ago, six will remain after the cuts, with most of those eliminated this week. CCP will focus on its Eve expansions and the new PS3 Eve game, Dust 514, slowing development of the long-awaited World of Darkness MMOG.
CCP has acknowledged that although there are more subscribers to the Eve Online game than there were a year ago, there are fewer than there were a few months ago, largely due to recent changes in the game.
CCP will continue to release some World of Darkness products, which have largely moved to digital and POD formats.
Mayfair has expanded and extended its major 2011 sponsorship agreement with Gen Con for three years, covering the 2012 through 2014 shows. Mayfair became the largest exhibitor at Gen Con in 2011. In addition to its presence on its own, Mayfair also coordinated efforts with a number of licensees this year.
The agreement for the upcoming years will give Mayfair an expanded show presence via the Family Outreach Program, Giant Games, and Ribbon Quest.
Gen Con attracted over 36,000 attendees this year, a record. Gen Con CEO Adrian Swartout gave some of the credit for that to Mayfair. “We feel grateful that the Mayfair Games team has worked so hard to partner together with Gen Con to create the best Gen Con Indy we have ever had,” she said.
Gen Con Indy, the nation’s largest annual consumer fantasy, science fiction, and adventure gaming convention, shattered all previous attendance records as it posted more than 20% growth. Turnstile attendance was over 119,707 with 36,733 unique attendees present for the “best four days in gaming.” The family fun events on Sunday were also well-attended and resulted in nearly 3,000 additional people attending the show.
Participation in the various ticketed game events was up over 26% with over 250,000 event tickets disbursed. A variety of charity events held at Gen Con Indy resulted in the raising of more than $18,000 for various charitable organizations.
The strong attendance at Gen Con Indy in 2011 built on a solid showing in 2010. The next Gen Con Indy will held August 16-19, 2012: find out how you can get involved with our store's activities in Indianapolis by talking to one of our Wizards today.
