Battleground Games Plainville Nears Soft Opening

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Battleground Games & Hobbies new store in Plainville, Massachusetts is inching closer to its soft opening on Saturday, September 4, 2010. A grand opening will be held sometime in October.

Despite the threat of Hurricane Earl both Derek Lloyd, owner, and Chase Laquidara, Plainville Manager, are moving ahead for Saturday’s soft opening. A crowd of both existing customers from BG Abington and Plainville locals is expected. The CWF Game Cast will be at the opening, hopefully from the start at 10am, live blogging the event and sharing pictures online. To whet your appetite we have what may be the final pre-event pictures of the Plainville store. We hope you enjoy them as you gear up to go to 25 Taunton Street in Plainville (click for map of location courtesy of Mapquest) this Saturday.

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3 Days Until First Contest for FREE Axis & Allies Minis or War at Sea Booster

Contest runs from 9/3/10-9/11-10

There are 3 more days until the contest starts. Stay tuned to this blog for more contest information. The contest goes LIVE on Friday, September 3, 2010 (as soon as the clock gets past midnight EST).

Many thanks go to the Axis & Allies ForuMINI, Battleground Games & Hobbies, the Battlestar Galactica Wiki, and Frakmedia LLC for allowing us to promote the contest on their forums, websites, blogs, and Facebook pages. We also have to give a lot of thanks to our sponsor, 12-7-Games, for sponsoring the blog and providing the prize for this contest.

Please be sure to visit and support these great gaming and geek outlets.

First Contest = Win FREE Axis & Allies Minis or War at Sea Booster

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Our first contest will be going live THIS FRIDAY (September 3, 2010). I want to give you a sneak peek of what you need to do.

Tell us how gaming has impacted, positively or negatively, your life.

Simple isn’t it?

The contest goes live on September 3, 2010 ending on September 11, 2010. You will see the contest post on this blog on Friday, September 3rd. Be sure to read it for the full rules and to know how to enter your submission.

I’ll leave you with one other sneak peek. Don’t forget to tell all your friends and if you don’t play AAM or WAS please use this as a chance to get a free booster and learn how to play. The prize is supplied by our sponsor, 12-7-Games, and will be shipped directly from them to the lucky winner.

Contest runs from 9/3/10-9/11-10

CWF GameCast Visits BG Plainville

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Today I had the opportunity to visit Battleground Games & Hobbies new location in Plainville. I drove down there and Derek Lloyd, owner, gave me an advanced tour of the new store.

I spent about an hour speaking with Derek and managed to take a bunch of pictures. Before we get to the pictures I do want to say that the official grand opening will be sometime in October with a soft opening in September (this coming Saturday according to my source). If you’re in the area of 25 Taunton Street in Plainville then I suggest you come on down. I will be there in person, blogging, and hanging out. It will be fun to meet you and great for you to see the snazzy new BG store.

To see descriptions for each picture please check out our Facebook Photo Album titled BG Plainville.
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Hermes Goes Live

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Hermes is now alive. Hermes is the new project from the CWF GameCast, which allows you to more easily communicate with us and allows us to more easily update you with announcements, works in progress, and highlights.

Hermes uses the P2 theme created by Automattic, the makers of WordPress, and espouses a Twitteresque feel. We are able to share text and media with Hermes. Anything from sound files, video, and screenshots can broadcast from us to you.

Although Hermes is a separate project you do not need to register if you want to leave comments. If you wish to be more involved then you are welcome to create a free account with Hermes.

In time you will see us to slowly migrating all announcements from here and onto Hermes. For now you can find them at either location.

We strongly recommend viewing the below video to learn how to use the special shortcodes that work with Hermes and all P2 blogs.