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CWF GameCast Returns to Podcasting….Sort of

Yes! We are returning to podcasting but not how you may think. We will be the guest for this Sunday’s recording of the iTunes New & Noteworthy listee Stone Ape Podcast by Tom Barbalet, A.I. extraordinaire. Tom is the creator of the Noble Ape A.I., which Apple has taken and provides on all computers as part of their CHUD tools. He also is a self-declared long time fan. We are grateful for all the support we receive from people all over.

On Sunday Tom and I will be chatting for over an hour about gaming, this blog, and who knows what else. One thing I do know is that I will be revealing a big secret. I hope that you will listen to the Stone Ape podcast to hear my conversation with Tom and that you listen to the other episodes of the Stone Ape podcast. They’re very laid back and informative.

This Week in Gaming – October 24, 2010

We’re doing something a little different this time. There is so much going on that fully covering everything would overload you with information. Instead we’re grouping it all together and giving you the highlights. If you want to know more about a topic we mention, please let us know and we’ll gladly cover it in depth.

There’s some great news about us. We’re officially re-branding ourselves. We hired a graphic designer to craft a new logo, header, advertising artwork, and signature images. We’ve never been graphically talented and this will allow us to better project who we are and what we do. When the re-branding is complete we intend to create business cards, perhaps t-shirts, maybe bumper stickers, and of course new images to use when linking to us. This has been on our to do list for a long time and it will soon be finished.

We’re working to connect with more local game stores. Adler Hobby in New Hampshire has invited us to visit and review them. Adler has a good website and a strong focus on Flames of War. We’re eager to visit them in person but need to schedule the trip. Adler is in Hollis, NH, which is a a hike for us at an estimated 2 hour one way trip with traffic. A long-term goal is to visit every game store, game convention, and major game venue in New England where we will record and review them. That will take a long time to do but we plan to make it happen. Until we get to Adler Hobby please visit their website to learn more about them.

Tonight was Flames of War night at Battleground Games in Abington. It also was my first game of Flames of War.

I have worked on a mid-war Panzerkompanie for a very long time but don’t know how to play the game, never played a game, and am still in the process of compiling my force. Tonight changed two of the three albeit slightly. Five of us gathered, including fellow newcomer John G., for 600pt games of FoW.
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Battleground Games Plainville Celebrates Grand Opening

Battleground Games & Hobbies celebrated the Grand Opening of its Plainville location on Saturday, October 16, 2010. The fun started at 10am and CWF GameCast began the party at 9:30am with a quick stop to nearby Dunkin Donuts to fuel up on a Mocha Coolata (skim milk please, hold the whipped cream).

The event got off to a slow start with a handful of pre-teen regulars hanging out before I arrived. As the clock inched towards 10:30 and then 11am more people arrived. Sadly, a handful of events were canceled at the last minute. Privateer Press once again let down gamers when three Press Gangers could not attend to run demos of Warmachine/Hordes. The strong Warmachine/Hordes BG crowd also could not attend to run demos so those went the way of the dodo. A table was arranged with Island of Blood components for Warhammer Fantasy Battle but suffered from a lack of any knowledgeable WFBer to run the demo.
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