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Queen City Conquest 2019, Our Thoughts on this Buffalo, NY Game Convention – Episode 50 Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast

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 This is the 50th episode of the Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast, an edited version of our live show recorded on July 17th, 2019. Join us as we stream live every week on Wednesdays at 9:30 Eastern on Twitch. If you like some video with your audio, you can also watch/listen to an unedited version of the show over on YouTube.

Ep 50 - QCC Wrap Up. A look back at Queen City Conquest 2019. We discuss the con and all of the games Deanna and I played. [ READ MORE ]

A Day by Day Look at the Gaming Convention: Queen City Conquest 2019

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Last weekend Deanna and I had the pleasure of attending Queen City Conquest (QCC), a tabletop game convention in Amherst NY (a suburb of Buffalo).

This year QCC was at a new time, July 12th - 14th and was held at a new venu: Daemen College. Due to these changes it felt like a brand new con, despite being around since 2012. This year was pretty much a reboot of Queen City Conquest.
In this post, I'm going to try to recap some of the highlights of our time at QCC. [ READ MORE ]

Moving Day AMA – Childhood favourites, Con Budgeting, Board Games for Console Gamers and Lots More! – Episode 47 Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast

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 This is the 47th episode of the Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast, an edited version of our live show recorded on June 26th, 2019. Join us as we stream live every week on Wednesdays at 9:30 Eastern on Twitch. If you like some video with your audio, you can also watch/listen to an unedited version of the show over on YouTube.

Ep 47 - Moving Day AMA. This episode we are spending the entire Ask the Bellhop segment answering questions from The Lobby our live chatroom on Twitch. [ READ MORE ]

8Bit Box, Go Cuckoo, and More at a New Venue; the EZY Mode eSports Gaming Lounge – Tabletop Gaming Weekly

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The big thing that happened this past week is that I hosted a public game night at a new venue. At EZY Mode I taught a bunch of board games. Up first was Go Cuckoo. This was followed by a game of Gentes Deluxified.  I then broke out the 8Bit Box from Iello and we tried all three of the included games. Up next was a couple of games of Blokus. We finished off the night with a five player game of Cinque Terre.

In addition to that gaming event, after our regular Gloomhaven game this past Friday I broke out one of my favourite games from my childhood: Cats. We even live streamed our play of this classic kids game.
I did have one final game this past week. That was playing Go Cuckoo with the entire family at a backyard party at the kids' music teacher's house. [ READ MORE ]

Additional Thoughts on Gentes, The Deluxified Edition – Tabletop Gaming Weekly

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This week I got in another play of Gentes: Deluxified Edition, this time with my home group.

Of course, the big thing that happened this past week was the Origins Game Fair down in Columbus Ohio, but I'm going to talk about that in a completely separate post. Here I'm talking about the Monday before I left for Origins.
You have also probably noticed this is a day late. Sorry about that, we decided at the last minute to stay an extra day in Columbus. [ READ MORE ]

Gentes Deluxified, Teotihuacan, Legendary Forests, and More Tiny Towns – Tabletop Gaming Weekly

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Today I'm going to take a look at and give a short review of four board games. These games are: Teotihuacan, Legendary Forests, Gentes: Deluxified Edition and Tiny Towns.

Between home games and a game night at the FLGS and a rare Sunday night two player game session with my wife, it was a busy week for me gaming. There was one other game I got to play, a review copy of a deck-builder, but I can't talk about that yet. [ READ MORE ]