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Hey PI-Fans, We keep piling boxes into place and they keep arriving. Arguably that's a good problem to have, even while we run ourselves ragged stacking things up. This week sees new renditions of three modern classic board games with 7 Wonders, Catan and Ticket to Ride all landing new spinoffs on the store shelves. Landing this week are the eco-disaster Catan: New Energies, a new Catan variant that places the game on a death-clock towards ecological disaster, changing up strategies and build orders as a hazard timer slowly ticks down, placing all players under pressure to make the switch to green technologies. If you want something faster and more bite sized, up next is Ticket to Ride: Paris, the newest addition to the Ticket to Ride city boxes, this time taking a detour to the streets of the storied French capital. Trundle through the city on a trolley bus [...]

Hey PI-Fans, It's been a crazy week as we run around making sure things happen. Between roadshows and pallets dropping from out of nowhere, chaotic doesn't begin to even cover it. On the other hand. Crazy busy means more games. Games are good. We'll begin this week with the big guns. In the case of Mass Effect: Priority Hagalaz, guns is a literal thing. Designed by Eric Lang and Wong Tze Loon, this Modiphius release features a branching cooperative campaign for four-players that will see teams shoot their way through a ruined Cerberus Cruiser alongside the legendary Commander Shepard and fan favorites Liara, Tali, Wrex and Garrus. Swimming in with the tide is Finspan, a brand new addition to the Wingspan family that takes the familiar mechanics of the original but rebuilds them for aquatic adventures. As a researcher tasked with exploring the ocean and studying aquatic life, players will [...]

Hey PI-Fans, The port CNY backlogs are beginning to ease and several pallets of stuff are beginning to slip through the cracks. While this week's slab of stuff touching down is primarily restocks, there's still a couple of titles that are worth bringing to your attention, specifically The Silk Road expansion for the 2nd edition of Splendor as well as the brand new Supernatural Adventures set for Unlock! Meanwhile, drifting in aboard the tide are reloads of titles like Azul Chocolatier, Azul Mini, Pandemic Legacy, The Crew and HEAT for the discerning gaming looking for a bit more depth in their gaming, while the battered party-game shelf is awash with reloads of sought after titles like Poetry for Neanderthals, I'm a Little Crabby and the delightfully named Let's Hit Each Other With Fake Swords! Also making it back onto the shelves for our ever popular Dungeon Crawler range are titles [...]

Hey PI-Fans, It's been a hot minute but the tide of stock, both big and small, continues to roll in. The headliner this time around is the large-scale social deduction game Blood on the Clocktower, a murder mystery game where a group of players must find the demon within their midst before the town falls victim to its predation. The worker-placement game Apiary is an option for those of the more serious bent, with swarms of uplifted bees engaging in space exploration and colonization in order to win the favor of the hive's queen. The lighter end of the scale sees expansions for Unstable Unicorns arrive, with the Nightmares, Adventures and Unicorns of Legend sets ready to bulk out any copy of Unstable Unicorns or the Unstable Unicorns NSFW edition. If you're entertaining a child while the games are underway, Unlock! Kids - Legendary Stories is another tool in the [...]

Hey PI-Fans, It's always the oddest thing isn't it? Always popular as a timed cooperative party game, Magic Maze is a cooperative board game about navigating a mall sold by us, a store a store in the mall. Having made the leap from the now defunct Dude Games to new publisher Sit Down Games, this new printing of Magic Maze has arrived on the scene along with it's spin off sequel Magic Maze Tower which sees the haplessly broke adventures from the original Magic Maze thrown into jail after their failed plot to acquire adventuring gear through larceny.  Keeping the unintentional crime theme going is the revised edition of In A Grove by Oink Games, another pocket sized deduction based minigame from the people who brought us Durian, Scout and Dokojong. In this pocket sized deduction game, players have to gauge which of the three suspects in a lineup are [...]