Hey PI-Fans, The latest Magic: The Gathering set Brother's War releases today, folks. If you're up to putting the Bother in Brother and taking a trip back to the classic giant robot fights of a classic era of Magic The Gathering history, why not pop down to the store and pick up a Set Booster or two?
Hey PI-Fans, With the release of the Silver Tempest set for Pokemon last week, we've seen an increased uptick in interest in the Pokemon Trading Card Game. With Ash Ketchum finally rocking up to the podium as Pokemon Champion after 25 years of experience in the field (a 10 year old with 25 years of on-the-job experience) and the upcoming launch of a new Pokemon video game, the fact remains that if a kid can become Pokemon Champion, anyone can play the card game, and with this wave of product, getting into this long-running card game is never easier with a series of starter decks, tiered to player experience. Of course, if you're just after Silver Tempest Boosters or the Elite Trainer Box, we've got those too, along with mini tin packs containing two boosters that are perfectly sized to ensure that a young one's cards travel safely. A glimmer [...]
Hey-PI-Fans, The Pokemon - Silver Tempest Elite Trainer Box and Pokemon - Silver Tempest Booster Packs are now in stock at Games @ PI. The last mainline release for Sword & Shield, Silver Tempest focuses on Radiant, VSTAR and VMAX mechanic for the set, with the Silver Tempest Elite Trainer Box and it's contents themed on Alolan Vulpix (and it's VSTAR). Traditional gamers shouldn't worry though. Along with the Pokemon comes Punto, a teeny tiny light strategy card game in a tin. Easy to learn, fast to play and eminently portable, Punto has players scrambling to pile cards over each other to achieve straight lines. This portable sized tin, makes for a great little pocket sized portable distraction that's simple to break out and teach and is excellent for everything from vacations to picnics. Get to the points! Flip your top card and add it to the grid - [...]
Hey PI-Fans, Last Sunday, we ran the Roll Persuasion – How to be an Effective Communicator With Your Child workshop at Games @ PI with Swords & Stationery. Conducting the workshop was our speaker Shaun, from S&S, himself an accredited educator. Shaun gave a stirring lecture on the basis of communication and talked about why parent-child relationships broke down. An avid gamer himself, Shaun also had recommendations for many games he used in his classes as well as titles he himself was fond of. Shaun will be back this week for his second session, Young Minds, Steel Hearts where he discusses the challenges and techniques of running RPGs with a younger audience in mind. Young Minds, Steel Hearts – Designing and Running an RPG Session for Kids 13th November 2022, 6.30 - 8.00 pm This workshop is for parents of children and teens between the ages of 7 to 14. [...]
Hey PI-Fans, Another week chugging along, another week of new products hitting the shelves. We're taking a brief break from out MTG Learn to Play Event (come and play with us btw) to take another TCG out for a spin. We've gotten our allocation of Pokémon TCG: Sword & Shield Ultra-Premium Collection—Charizard (that's a mouthful), featuring the original 'not-dragon' dragon Charizard, so if you want to secure yours, shoot us a call ASAP. On the board game front, Picture Perfect has hit the shelves, a chaotic photography board game of wrangling participants with often contradictory desires into the best possible positions to take an event photo in a game that will have you shoving around physical standees to fulfil the demands of the photo participants to the best of your ability. They're weird bedfellows to arrive at the same time, but this does little to detract from them being awesome [...]
As the Brothers' War approaches, players are going to have to pick sides between Urza's Iron Alliance and Mishra's Burnished Banner. Brother versus Brother locked in a war that lasted for decades, devastating Terisiare, before the dramatic conclusion on the verdant island Argoth. Travel back through time, glimpse through the lens of Dominaria's locations, characters, and victims of the conflict and see a plane-spanning conflict escalate with artifacts, giant constructs, and beyond. Interesting in finding out more about the upcoming Magic Expansion Brothers' War? Join the Brothers' War Pre-release and experience the Antiquities War yourself. Pre-release details Date: 12th November 2022 Time: 1pm - 6pm Fee: $35 Prizes: 3 wins = 4 Set Boosters 2 wins = 2 Set Boosters 1/0 wins = 1 Set Boosters Not sure how to play Magic the Gathering? Come down to Games@PI and try out the game. Pick from the [...]
Hey PI-Fans, There's a pair of new releases on our shelves this week, with "Spies, Lies and Supplies" an elegant standalone expansion to the two player strategy duel that is "Air, Land Sea". Also now in-stock is "Surviving Singapore", SGAG's newest board game about the trials and tribulations of Singaporean life. Surviving Singapore is a strategy card game where players attempt to overcome obstacles, and be the first to reach the level 8 to win the game. From running out of toilet paper, losing your IC, to being in the same room as a cockroach that can fly. Can you survive all the obstacles that SG can throw at you? For 3 to 6 players Ages 8+ About 20 minutes Spies, Lies & Supplies is the sequel to the classic Air, Land & Sea and once again places the players in a commanding role during World War [...]
Hey PI-Fans, Strange how shipping works in this day and age. You plan out arrival schedules and this absolutely wonky combination of things just drops out of the ether together despite being staggered orders. After being lost in the warp and having basically gone around the world, our shipment of Empire Alone sourcebooks for BattleTech has finally been delivered after delays. Also somehow arriving together is another batch of ConcernedApe's Stardew Valley board game, a cooperative board game set in the same setting of the bestselling indie farming life-sim. The first time we had it in, it basically just entirely disappeared, so we recommend grabbing your copy ASAP. Otherwise, there's plenty of restocks of classic titles like Sushi Go Party that people have been clamoring about. Here's to a great weekend, folks. - Kenneth From the new ilKhan on Terra comes word to the Wolf Empire of their Clan’s victory. [...]
Hey PI-Fans, Just a minor heads up that a small carton has drifted into the store, containing a smattering of esoterica. The anime themed Tabletop Roleplaying Games for both Konosuba: God's Blessing on this Wonderful World and Goblin Slayer are back on our shelves, though we have no idea how long that will last for. In addition, we've acquired a small supply of Hero Kids, a family friendly Role Playing Game system designed for parents to share the joys of roleplaying with their young ones. The Hero Kids system, of course, is also the preferred system of choice for the upcoming Young Minds, Steel Hearts: Designing and Running an RPG Session for Kids workshop to be conducted by Swords & Stationery at Games @ PI on Sun, 13 November 2022. Together with it's companion lecture Roll Persuasion: How to Be an Effective Communicator With Your Child, S&S hopes to pass [...]
WARHAMMER AOS SPECIAL ARMY DEALS Hey PI-Fans, So I'm running the store today and I went digging. And to my consternation, here are a bunch of X'Mas Battleforces that weren't collected. It's time for me to be random. The Mortal Realms of Age of Sigmar have seen a lot of upheaval over the years. Then again, given the setting's central theme appears to be "This is Valhalha on mind altering substances" (sometimes literally in the case of the Gloomspite Gitz grots.) Here's a bunch of army boxes specially priced to get you started designed with the Age of Sigmar Wargame. Ossiarch Bonereapers Mortisan Tithe Echelon ($230) 20 Mortek Guard Mortek Crawler Gothizzar Harvester 3 Necropolis Stalkers/Immortis Guard Mortisan Boneshaper Mortisan Soulreaper Age of Sigmar Core Rulebook Lumineth Realm Lords Vanari Shining Host ($230) 10 Auralan Wardens 5 Dawnriders 5 Bladelords Lord Regent Bannerblade Starshard Ballista Age of Sigmar [...]
