Hey PI-Fans, UNLOCK is Now On The Games @ PI Webstore Just a quick little post. We figured it was worth mentioning that as part of our webstore revamp, the Unlock range of titles is up on the store, including the new Unlock: Legendary Adventures! If you're a fan of brain teasers and escape rooms, they're definitely worth a look. We're still working on things as they come, so it's always worth giving us a call or popping by. - Kenneth, Games @ PI Manager
Hey PI-Fans, For the curious, one of the little personal pleasures of running a game store is that occasionally you can exercise a little discretion. A little rack of non-fiction books nestled on a shelf might seem offbeat and quirky, but for the curious, this little curated range of titles is a little treasure trove of the things we find absolutely fascinating about the industry as a whole. As part of the ongoing efforts to ensure that our catalogue is available through our webstore, the time has come for this little hidden pocket of gems to become available online as well. The range shifts and varies as titles wander in-and-out of stock, often small print runs from publishers, and the topics can run the gamut from a short essay on Game Mastering by RPG industry veteran Robin Laws (of D&D fame), wargaming design diaries from Rick Priestley (one of the [...]
CATAN TRAVELERS, DRAGONS & ADVENTURERS NOW AVAILABLE AT GAMES @ PI AND WEBSTORE Hey PI-Fans, There's an all new Catan expansion on the shelves. Travelers, Dragons & Adventurers is an expansion for Cities & Knights and Seafarers and shakes up the usual Catan formula with treasure hunting, canal building and dragon slaying. It's now available both at Games @ PI and on our webstore! As an added little bonus, for those of you looking to expand your games, we're putting out a little in-store promo for people looking to pick up an expansion or two from the Ticket to Ride of the Catan range in-person. Here's how it's going to work: Each additional Catan or Ticket to Ride product purchased beyond the first in a single receipt will provide an additional 5% discount off the final amount for all titles for that product range, up to a total of 15% [...]
Hey PI-Fans, BattleTech - 31st Century Armored Combat is on our Webstore It's no secret that many of the people who run Games @ PI are BattleTech fans. For the uninitiated, BattleTech is a science fiction war-game universe set in the 30th Century, where giant walking tanks known as BattleMechs dominate the neofeudal battlefields of the future. Unlike many other science fiction properties, alien sentience isn't a big thing, so the universe retains a grounded in a Human way. It's an inviting setting and a huge sandbox, with plenty of space for players to mess about within the confines of canon. As part of our range revamp, it's also now on our webstore. The box set games remain an excellent way to get started as always, and if you're a regular player seeking to expand your game, perhaps grabbing a Lance or Star Box or a map pack or [...]
Hey PI-Fans, Exploding Kittens as a brand has taken off in a huge way and you might be familiar with the competitive Push-Your-Luck Last-Person-Standing party fest that are Exploding Kittens and it's spin-offs. However, with a variety of party, dexterity and word games at their disposal, the Exploding Kittens company is about WAY more than Exploding Kittens. If you just want the Exploding Kittens experience, it's not just the little red box. There's many different ways to get the game started, including the Classic, NSFW, 2-Player, Party Pack, Recipes for Disaster or even the standalone Exploding Minions Box. The Classic, NSFW and Recipes for Disaster boxes are the traditional way to play for two-to-five players, though you can boost the overall number of participants by smashing two sets together. The new 2-player edition is perfect for this, being balanced as a two-player version of Exploding Kittens, while also functioning as [...]
Hey PI-Fans, If you're a fan of Dixit, you owe it yo yourself to check out Stella - A Dixit Universe Game, now available at Games @ PI and via our webstore. Stella is Dixit designer Jean-Louis Roubira's revisiting of the classic Dixit formula, playing like a cross between Dixit and Codenames as players try to match wavelengths with each other in a brilliant twist on the traditional gameplay. Gone is the storyteller. Instead players try to match the classic Dixit artwork to theme words, secretly trying to ensure that their points of view line up with another player (and preferably only one) while attempting to balance that against the number of cards selected and trying not the be the person who chose the largest portfolio of picture cards. Featuring the same stunning art-style of classic Dixit cards, Stella can be played on it's own, but cards from Dixit and [...]
Hey PI-Fans, We've just had a chunky load of Catan float into port and we figured we probably ought to just highlight that the base range of Catan sets, Expansions and Extensions are back in-stock, including Seafarers, Traders & Barbarians, Explorers & Pirates and the much sought after Cities & Knights. There's more on the way as we work our way through the stack of boxes, so expect us to be even more giddy with excitement throughout the week. - Kenneth, Games @ PI Manager
Hey PI-Fans, There's an old hoary chestnut that comes up amongst BattleTech fans about new technology. Time marches on though. Technical Readout 3067 is twenty years old. The now defunct MechWarrior: Dark Age collectable miniatures game launched that year as well. Catalyst Game Labs has stewarded the BattleTech liscence for longer than FASA at this point. It's been some thirty-real world years since the original Clan Invasion storyline, and there's been some big movers and shakers in the Inner Sphere since. With the ongoing timeline now trundling forward into uncharted waters, it's a great time to get up to speed. Here's a penny tour of the BattleTech universe. Expect Spoilers, if decades old plot reveals can actually be considered spoilers. The Universe of Warfare that many of us have grown to love and/or tolerate effectively departs from our own in 2018 when two scientists - Thomas Kearny and Takayoshi [...]
Hey PI-Fans, I'm not out-of-touch with reality to make a Pokémon GO TO THE POLLS joke, as tempting as it might be. What we have on hand however, is the release of the second wave of Pokémon GO CCG sets, including the Elite Trainer Box and Radiant Eevee Premium Collection. With Pokémon GO CCG Boosters currently unavailable to purchase, these sets represent the best way to get your hands on cards from those sets and an excellent way to supplements the Pokémon GO Alolan Exeggcutor V and Team Leader Collections and Trainer Toolkit. As before, each of the following three Pokémon GO products comes with a promotional Professor Willow themed Professor’s Research card as well as a Pokémon GO themed Pikachu. Each Professor’s Research comes printed with a unique redeemable code designed to be redeemed in the Pokémon GO app itself (Codes Expire 31 July 2023). POKEMON GO ELITE TRAINER BOX Gear [...]
Hey PI-Fans, Henry Audubon's TRAILS is now available on the Games @ PI Webstore Almost a midpoint between it's larger siblings Parks and Space Park, Trails manages to streamline the overall experience without falling into the passive-aggressive action manipulation of Space Park, allowing for a quieter, more contemplative experience that doesn't overstay it's welcome. In line with being an amazing little game that can be played on a coffee-table sized surface, Trails is a brilliantly smart little minimalistic game about players maximizing their limited options. All things considered, for such a tiny little box, Trails is surprisingly pretty dense in terms of contents. The modular board is actually a pretty nice detail allowing for multiple different possible setups and is an inspired way to track the game's day/night cycle. This isn't to say it's better than it's siblings either. Henry Audubon has somehow managed to create a unique tempo and [...]
