6/17 Cryer from the Castle

This week's Cryer from the Castle

Chobobo Racing

 We will host Final Fantasy Chobobo Racing every Saturday at 1 p.m.  That means a booster draft. You get 3 points for playing in the draft and 1 point for each round you win.  Get 10 points and get a chobobo print. Reach 20 points and you earn a Chobobo VR pin.

Father's Day

 Bring your dad in on Father's Day, or any Fathers coming in by themselves, and we will treat them to a free bottle of soda or tea. How better to cool off on a hot, almost summer, day?

We have a large selection of Excel sodas, as well as Muddy Monster root Beer and the line of Excel small batch iced teas so come in, get Dad one and buy one or more for yourself.

Supergirl

 I am really liking the new Supergirl series from DC. I started reading comics back in the 1960s and I am amused/happy to see Sophie Campbell bringing back a lot of concepts from the Silver Age version of her , like Streaky the Supercat, Titano the Super Ape,  Dick Malverne and Lesla-Lar, one of Supergirl's earliest foes, though not as conflicted as Campbell makes her in this version.  But then it was the 1960s and we were not expecting complicated personalities in our comic books.

Of course, if they bring back Comet the Super Horse and Jerro the Merboy, that might stretch things too far.

Cryer from the Castle June 10th

This week's Cryer from the Castle

Portal Games Response to Tariffs

 

The email below discusses some of the actions Portal Games plans to take in response to American tariffs and notably, advises American customers who want to back their upcoming release Race for Berlin to put in a $1 placeholder pledge until the company determines if the administration will change its mind about how much tariffs should be:

Bohemians was sent to print this week. I lowered the print run to 60% of planned print run so we don’t risk bankruptcy with tariffs when games reach US customs,

Age of Galaxy is ready in China. I asked the manufacturer to not ship it to the US yet. We are risking missing Gen con release, but this additional 145% cost added to the whole sprint run is devastating. I have two, maybe three weeks window and then I miss Gen con with the game,

Race to Berlin on GameFound started this week. We have 200 backers as for now. For the US players we decided to not collect regular pledge due to uncertainty with final tariffs and asked them to put $1 Pledge in and see how the things develop later. We don’t want to leave them behind, but at the same time I am responsible and respectful - I am not going to charge you $40 for a game that may cost you $200 later with crazy tariffs added.

Final Fantasy Pre-release

 We had 19 people in for our first Final Fantasy pre-release, the largest number we have had in quite some time.  We still have space in tonight's and tomorrow's events but will not be selling any pre-release kits until after 1 p.m on Sunday, in order to make sure we have space in both of our remaining events. After 1 p.m. tomorrow, we will put out any remaining kits on sale.