I have the privilege of announcing that Area 42 Games will be sponsoring Lizzie Stark’s DC stop on her Leaving Mundania book tour.  As we learn more about exact dates and times, we’ll be certain to forward it on to our readers.

Be sure to check out her website with details on her upcoming book.

http://elizabethrstark.com/leaving-mundania/

We’re back from Mysticon 2012, recovering from our various ailments (you always get something at a con), and/or lack of sleep. This year was fantastic! We were set up in a corner of the dealer’s room and introduced our demo table to the world. The layout of our booth worked very well, allowing folks to browse as well as sit around our demo table and try the wide variety of new games we rolled out. Tsuro (while not brand new) certainly proved popular, as well as Puzzle Strike, Showbiz Shuffle (I really liked that game), Zombie Dice, and Eminent Domain. Our dice (including the fugly ones) proved a wild success. Our thanks go out to Necropolis Studios for letting us sell her bizarre goggles and boxes. They were certain an eye catcher and brought many a folk to our booth. I think our most talked about game was Win-Lose-Banana. We even ended up giving copies to the convention’s Guests of Honor, Richard Hatch and Nicki Clyne from Battlestar Galactica. They were both gracious enough to autograph some pics to Area42 Games, which shall now hang in our new Hall of Fame. If you come to one of our Meetups, check them out.

Overall, a fantastic experience. Our congratulations to John Meagher of Tales of the Left Hand fame. He was 1/3rd of the winning team in Mysticon’s Iron Author contest. His story about a sentient mohawk, cow tipping, and a kosher vampire is worth a read.

We’ll definitely be going back next year. Be sure to stop by and say hello.

A friend of ours makes music for kids … and now they have a Kickstarter campaign… you should back them: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1384545463/got-a-minute

The folks at Father Geek have done a review of Code Monkey which is a game designed by friend of Area 42 Games, Mike Young. We have a few copies for sale at our events but you can also check it out on The Game Crafter if you like.

Last Friday, we had our First Annual Area 42 White Elephant Party at our weekly meetup.

It was a very amusing collection of gifts, from a magic staff to a waterfall made from candles. Oh, and a few games were in the mix as well.

Our thanks to all of our loyal friends and customers who made it a rousing success.

From the folks at Area 42 Games, we wish you all the happiest of holiday seasons and hope you have a wonderful New Year.

See you all again in 2012!

John Meagher has narrated a short horror story for Psuedopod this week. Give it a listen if that’s your taste, and drop a comment on the forum!

http://pseudopod.org/2011/11/18/pseudopod-256-repler/

Don’t miss out on our last Super Sale night of the year. For full details and to RSVP, please visit our Meetup.com site!

This weekend was a busy one for Area 42 Games. Friday night we had a game night and a super sale. It was so successful that we will be having another one on November 18th! Then Saturday we met up with a few folks to enjoy the DC Rollergirls at the Dulles Sportsplex. That was a lot of fun and I know at least some of use will be going again.

I also wanted to point people to Dust Jacket Wasteland where Rebecca has put up another book review. This one is of Shadowheart by Tad Williams.

Tales of the Left Hand: Book 3, Sneak Preview

We traveled to TCEP 18 this weekend, a gaming convention in Laurel Maryland, where we found many gamers doing what gamers do best, having fun. We were able to attend Sunday and Monday only (next year we will try to attend the whole event) but even within that time frame we had a blast. Sunday found John Meagher running a GURPS game set in the world of the Tales of the Left Hand. Apparently we were having a lot of fun because occasionally we attracted a crowd of people watching us. Sunday evening many of use played other games including the much played Innovation. Monday morning we got doughnuts (including some to share with the other con goers) and settled in for a day of gaming.

One feature that I was particularly interested in was Craig’s Chaos machine. I could have spent all weekend just playing with that. Sadly I didn’t actually get to add anything to it this time. (Next time… I’m planning ahead)

Area 42 would like to thank BarkingMad.org for hosting a great gaming convention and we hope that it continues for many years to come.