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Game of the Week – Sentinels of theMultiverse. Don your best spandex pants and get ready to help save the world with your friends!Sentinels of the Multiverse is a brilliant co-operative superhero game, in which 2-5 players get battle it out against a range of dastardly villains. With ten different heroes and four villains (with even more available through expansions) there’s tons of variety here, and plenty of challenge too. Sentinels of the Multiverse brilliantly conjures up a great comic book atmosphere, with each hero having a really different feel and requiring different strategies based around their respective super-powers. For more information on the game, check out the informative overview from Board Game Brawl and this great video review from Tom Vasel.

Love Is In The Air .. Why Not Say It With Meeples? For those of you reading this on Friday afternoon, just a reminder – its Valentine’s Day today! If you’ve yet to pick a present for that special someone, why not try out some of our favourite games for two, and enjoy a romantic evening of gaming? Whether it be a classic likeCarcassonne, the elegant strategy of Hive or the sublime genius that isDominion, we have loads of games that are perfect for two players, so why not give the flowers a rest and pop in to help us find something really special.

Z-Man Games is Zooming. Not content with publishing smash hits including Carcassonne, Pandemic, Agricola, Robinson Crusoe and Tales of the Arabian Nights, Z-Man Games has announced a host of great new games and re-releases for 2014. Hitting the shelves later this year are the long-awaited reprints of fantasy classic Prophecy, the much-loved strategy gem Vikings and beautiful card game Fairy Tale. We’ll also be eagerly awaiting a host of new games and expansions, including dice-version of Pandemic, The Cure, retro computer-game themed The Battle at Kemble’s Cascade, foliage-friendly Arboretum, two-player discovery game Akrotiri and anew deck of cards for Agricola!

… While Fantasy Flight is Flying. Z-Man aren’t alone in announcing a load of exciting new releases for 2014. Coming from the stables of Fantasy Flight later this year are new ships for X-Wing, the first expansion for the marvellous Eldritch Horror, Shadow of Nerekhall for Descent, Star Wars: Age of Rebellion RPG, a new Game of Thrones card game and The Witcher Adventure Game, based on the hit series of novels and computer games.

Gaming at The Gate. We’re back to our regular last Monday of the month for this month’s gaming event at The Gate. Following the last-minute date change in January, we were unable to get along Chaos Publishing to demo their brilliant strategy game Medieval Mastery. However, they will be here this month, so come along for a chance to have a go at this great game. Don’t forget, we’ll also be hosting a special Gaming at The Gate session on the evening of Saturday April 5th as part of International Tabletop Day – put it in your diary for a chance to play some great games, meet some new friends and get your hands on loads of fab goodies we’ll be giving away!

Releases/Restocks/Coming Soon!

New in store from next week – new lieutenants for Descent in the shapes of Ariad and Queen Ariad; the chaotic combat card game Incredibrawl; more zombies in the card-based apocalypZe; two new cheap war-games from the brilliant Decision Games: Molino del Ray and Vimy Ridge, and the return of GMT’s epicCombat Commander Europe!

New Releases Available Now -  Wiz-War fans rejoice, as we have the first expansion for the fantasy classic,Malefic Curses in stock! Also new on the shelves: the latest expansion for fantasy classic Talisman, The Nether Realm; Nations, the brilliant new Civilization game; Rampage, the monstrous game of city destruction; Origin, the stunning new game of evolutionary exploration; Middle-Earth story-telling in Hobbit Tales; tense underwater drama in Hunters: German U-Boats at War; the first expansion for co-op sensation Robinson Crusoe, Voyage of the Beagle;  Firefly: The Boardgame; survive the incoming hoards in co-op Dead Panic; coffee-cup conundrums with Cappuccino; Caverna: The Cave Farmers which builds upon the classic Agricola; Level 7 [Omega Protocol], one of the Dice Tower’s favourite games of 2013, and the return of wonderful space deck-builder Eminent Domain along with its brand new expansion, Escalation.

New Releases Available to Order From Today – GMT’s 1914: Offence A Outrance; Combat Commander 2: The Med, and Blood on the Snow for the Dramasystem RPG, and The Whole Hole for Low Life.

Also in Stock Now - there was a time when games based on books, films and TV shows were almost guaranteed to be disappointing, uninspired cash-ins. However, in recent years we’ve been privileged to see some brilliant board games that do justice to their source material, includingMarvel Legendary, Firefly: The Boardgame, Star Wars: X-Wing, Star Trek (Attack Wing and Fleet Captains), A Game of Thrones 2nd Edition, Battlestar Galactica and Space Invaders Jenga (no, we’re not kidding, it really is fantastic!).

Arriving soon -  Dark fantasy adventure based on the massively popular series of novels and computer games in The Witcher; the first expansion forRelic, Nemesis; new ships for Star Wars: X-Wing; Seafall Legacy, from the designer of the brilliant Risk Legacy, and the return of the classic Blue Moon Legends.. PRE-ORDERS FOR ALL THESE BEING TAKEN NOW!

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