![]() Barnes & Noble has been increasing their stock of these hobby games over the past few years, and so far hasn’t shown any sign of advantage over the FLGS. First of all, Target is not the first national chain to start carrying boardgames. I’d like to take a step away from the emotional outcries and take a look at what this might actually mean for the industry. Unsurprisingly, the response from the gamer community has run the complete spectrum – from those decrying this action as completely subverting the FLGS, while others herald this as the arrival of boardgaming into the mainstream. You can read the blog post/press release here: ![]() You may or may not have also heard that Geek & Sundry recently partnered with Target to bring the games featured on Tabletop into Target stores. ![]() But this post is not a review of Tabletop – maybe I’ll do that later. If you haven’t seen or heard of this before, you should definitely go check it out over at Tabletop is a fun little show, and even though it could definitely use some improvement, it accomplishes what it sets out to do – it shows that boardgames (and cardgames, and RPGs) are fun and easy to learn. You’ve probably seen a few episodes of Wil Wheaton’s Tabletop, the boardgame playing webseries on the brand new internetwork, Geek & Sundry. ![]()
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