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Family Historian 7 Adds Word Processing and New Data Entry Tools
Calico Pie today announced the release of version 7 of Family Historian, the award-winning desktop genealogy program. The new version includes word processing features, source templates, and tools to support a wholly new way of entering data, based around sources. Although announced today, version 7 has been available for purchase since before Christmas. - January 22, 2021 - Calico Pie Limited
Introducing Night Market, a New Euro Boardgame of Street Food and Commerce by Talon Strikes Studios
Talon Strikes Studios are launching "Night Market" on Kickstarter on March 9. This midweight euro game, designed by Adam Zwain, positions the player as a market owner vying to set up the best street food market in all of Taiwan. Night Market combines spatial worker placement mechanisms with challenging resource management. Night Market is for gamers and foodies alike. - January 22, 2021 - Talon Strikes Studios
New Training Ball Gives Basketball Players the Perfect Rotation
"Mitchell Adams' Perfect Rotation™ is not only a unique basketball tool, it is a game changer." - Fran Briggs, Publicist to Mitchell Adams - January 18, 2021 - eMediaCampaigns!
An Introduction to the ProbQa Game Recommendation Engine
A game recommendation engine's benefits are multiplying by the actions of recently released games. The game recommendation engine focuses on the factor that is mostly related to finding a suitable video game for anyone. This report introduces gaming interested people with a program to find top released games and buy them at the same spot where they found their interest. - January 11, 2021 - ProbQa
World Games Center LLC (DBA: Games World Center) Company for Toys and Games Has Launched
Games World Center is a company for toys and games launched in 2020 to provide High Quality and brand name toys and Experts on RC toys and parts. - January 06, 2021 - World Games Center LLC
Zinrelo’s Loyalty Program Helps Kids Warehouse Increase Repeat Purchases by 92%
Kids Warehouse uses Zinrelo’s loyalty rewards platform to achieve revenue growth. - December 23, 2020 - Zinrelo
Talon Strikes Studios Release Free "Vinyl: Holiday Edition," a Print and Play Version of Their Most Popular Title, Vinyl
Talon Strikes Studios, a boardgame designer and publishing company from Surprise Arizona, has released a new free print and play game for the holiday season. The game is a new festive themed entry in their popular Vinyl series of games by designer Eric Alvardo. You can download Vinyl: Holiday Edition for free on talonstrikes.games - December 19, 2020 - Talon Strikes Studios
Get an Exciting Family Game This Christmas, Try the Nimnik Tumbling Towers; Available on Amazon
Why not surprise your kids on Christmas with the NimNik Tumbling Tower Stacking game? NimNik has come up with their very own theme to a stacking game full of colours and animals printed on it instead of numbers or plain wooden blocks, especially for kids. The wooden stacking game makes a great Christmas gift for kids. - December 07, 2020 - NimNik
Principled Technologies Publishes Report on LEGO Education Sets and Intel Processor-Powered Chromebooks
In tests with an Intel Celeron N4020 processor-powered Acer Chromebook 315 and an Intel Core i5-10210U processor-powered Acer Chromebook Spin 713, Principled Technologies found that each Chromebook handled LEGO apps responsively. - December 04, 2020 - Principled Technologies, Inc.
Counterspell Miniatures: The Shade Collection Kickstarter
1985 Games launches a new Kickstarter featuring 11 Gothic Horror Resin Miniatures made for the world's greatest roleplaying game and others like it. - November 25, 2020 - 1985 Games LLC
Local Auction Site Launches with Better Than Black Friday Deals
A dream-come-true auction site, Greenway Auction is helping Arizona locals skip to the front of the line and shop Black Friday Deals, every day of the week. - November 09, 2020 - Greenway Auction
The Deck of Stories and NPC Cards Kickstarter Announced by 1985 Games
The Deck of Stories and NPC cards Kickstarter has been announced. The Deck of Stories is a fresh new storytelling system that helps you create a legendary adventure in 15 minutes. NPC Cards feature pre-generated, beautifully illustrated characters that you can insert seamlessly into your game. - October 23, 2020 - 1985 Games LLC
GiftWaley Ties Up with Leading Montessori Materials Brand, Kido Enterprises
Building its niche into educational toys & games, online gifting store GiftWaley.com ties up with one of the finest Montessori materials brands, Kido Enterprises with the Kreedo range of activity boxes in Bengaluru. - September 17, 2020 - GiftWaley
Story Spark Releases New Resin Figure
Own your very own Story Spark original resin figure. - September 12, 2020 - Story Spark
BDA Advises PAG on the Sale of Young Toys to MiraeN Group
BDA Partners is pleased to announce that its client, PAG Asia Capital (“PAG”), has sold Young Toys to a consortium led by MiraeN Group. MiraeN is a prominent Korean book publisher with more than US$1bn assets. Young Toys is the leading children’s toy company in Korea, focused on... - September 11, 2020 - BDA Partners Ltd
PowerFam Game-Launch Fundraiser for Ottawa Food Bank, COVID-19 Affected Children
PowerFam launches a new family board game to play, learn and bond. Proceeds shared with Ottawa Food Bank for ensuring no child is hungry due to COVID-19. - September 09, 2020 - GoPowerFam
Newport Trading is Delighted to Announce the Release of the New Book, "My Joyous Battles with Chess Villains" by David Lucky
The author is a FIDE Master who in the book analyzes 119 of his most exciting chess battles, and shares some of his unique discoveries at the chessboard. The book contains many exhilarating games with Grandmasters, International Masters, and other champions. Also included are unique articles showing a missed win in a previous World Championship and one of the top theoretical novelties. - September 02, 2020 - Newport Trading
GiftWaley.com Launches Toys & Games Category
GiftWaley.com, the online gifting store has recently launched the Toys & Games category with niche brand collections from across the country. - August 12, 2020 - GiftWaley
Webtivity Launches New Website for The Stuff Shop
This new website highlights the exclusive products The Stuff Shop features. Particular focus was taken to highlight sales and promotional products to make it as easy as possible for clients to take full advantage of reduced prices. The Stuff Shop wanted a modern website that pops. For Webtivity, this meant working with them to build a website, in keeping with their branding, to wow visitors with the targeted placement of content. - July 24, 2020 - Webtivity Marketing & Design
GiftWaley.com Collaborates with Bangalore Based Niche Wooden Toy Brand, Thasvi
GiftWaley, the online gifting store, which launched it's operations last month in Bengaluru, has recently collaborated with niche wooden toy brand, Thasvi to take their unique range of toy products to parents across the country. - July 23, 2020 - GiftWaley
New Mobile Game Princess Unicorn: Dragon Escape
The player of new mobile game Princess Unicorn: Dragon Escape dives into an exciting adventure, runs through a fantasy world filled with giant candies, tumbling cookies and enchanted waterfalls, all while dodging fireballs and enormous rubber balls. Along the way, the player helps Uni, a magical... - June 06, 2020 - KrazyKatzGames LLC
Posh Home Sales Announces POSH Roadshow of Charleston, SC
Welcome to Charleston's only curated collection event for a unique and unusual roadshow experience. - May 27, 2020 - Posh Home Sales
New Dungeon Craft Tabletop Kickstarter Series Castles & Keeps & Cursed Lands Announced by 1985 Games
1985 Games is back with another blockbuster crowdfund, adding two new titles to the Dungeon Craft library. Whether you’re running a castle siege, a diplomatic dinner party, or exploring the twisted forests of D&D’s Curse of Strahd(TM), Castles & Keeps and Cursed Lands contain hundreds of terrain pieces to enhance every group’s tabletop RPG experience. - April 27, 2020 - 1985 Games LLC
Bored with Board Games? Make Up Your Own. Learn What It Takes to be a Toy and Game Inventor at Toy Museum TV, a New Channel Created by The Toy Museum of NY.
Ever wonder how toys and games were created or how to make it in the business of child’s play? For years, the inventors have stayed out of the public eye. But now it's time to meet the new toy inventors on the block. Through this free web series, The Toy Museum of NY and Toy Museum TV is letting the world in on who is behind the newest toys and games of our generation through a set of exclusive interviews conducted at The American International Toy Fair, in February, 2020. - April 16, 2020 - The Toy Museum of NY
Chi Universe, a Wellness Start Up Company, Has an Amazon Best Seller That Helps Kids and Parents Gain Focus for Homeschool with a Yoga Mat & Game
Parents are looking for ways to help their kids be calm, energized, and focused for in-home learning. Chi Universe offers a unique solution with a Yoga Mat & Game. The yoga curriculum, game mat design, and online business are proving to be effective. A new tech upgrade and the app is free, with a guided soundtrack teaching kids how to breathe properly, and to follow the symbol system on the Chi Mats for body alignment. Chi Universe makes yoga fun, plus all the positive wellbeing effects. - April 08, 2020 - Phresh
Great Educational Game Solution for Your Kids During Quarantine
So you’re going to be stuck, housebound with strange, noisy roommates ecstatic at the thought of getting an improvised vacation: your children. Already, for adults, quarantine is a huge source of boredom. For children, it can be even worse. All schools have closed due to the coronavirus... - April 05, 2020 - Lemi Consulting GmbH
Kids Party Company Goes Virtual to Help Families Celebrate Birthdays
Amazing Fairytale Parties, a family run birthday party business, creates a solution for families' birthday woes, with Virtual Parties with a party character. - March 30, 2020 - Amazing Fairytale Parties
Kvellix LLC Offering Free NUTSO™ to Help Maintain Our National Family Sanity
In these uncertain times with adding the term social distancing to our vocabulary, our desire to bring back family game night is more important than ever. Kvellix is trying to do their part by urging you to play NUTSO and increase our national sanity. - March 24, 2020 - Kvellix
DELU™ Brings Families Together with an Indoor and Outdoor Tailgate-Type Game During This Time of Social Isolation
Wisconsin startup, run by a UW-Madison student, creates a fun new game for the whole family. A game that can be played inside or outside, providing hours of fun and family bonding during this time of social isolation. - March 21, 2020 - DELU Games
Spiritus Colloquium Spirit Interviewer Table Top Board Game
Wooden Indian Novelties, makers of horror movie and occult novelties, is releasing their Spiritus Colloquium spirit interviewer set. It is the Ouija board reinvented. Great for seances, parties, sleepovers and more. - March 17, 2020 - Wooden Indian Novelties
Board Game Designer Makes Debut Exploring the Competitive Fun in Friendship
In Aaron Franco’s thematic board game, Hunker, players are forest animals competing to prepare for winter - and helping each other along the way. - March 06, 2020 - Aaron Franco
1985 Games Announce the Release of "Hell & High Water"
1985 Games is proud to announce the release of their second book, "Dungeon Craft, Hell & High Water." For the last few months, the team has been working hard to ensure that "Hell & High Water" are ready for customers so they can expand the available map pieces provided... - February 26, 2020 - 1985 Games LLC
New Kickstarter Project Inspired by Iconic Toy Makers Spud 'N Rich
From the family that created the hula hoop, slip 'n slide and more, comes a new generation of fun with the launch of the Whirly-Go-Round. - February 19, 2020 - Spud N Rich
2020 SportsCon Officially Launches
SportsCon is the ultimate experience that brings players from all sports together in one place for a weekend filled with fan interaction, live games, and sports challenges, and so much more. SportsCon will be held at the Dallas Convention Center on July 10-12, 2020. Fans can expect to meet players from the NFL, NBA, MLB, Boxing, and even the UFC is the most action-packed and interactive environment that a sports fan can experience. Find out more at GoSportsCon.com. - February 11, 2020 - SportsCon
GSPANN Announces Its Participation in NRF 2020
World’s largest retail trade association, the National Retail Federation (NRF) 2020, is ready to host over 38,000 attendees, 16,000 retailers, and 800+ exhibitors from 99 countries. NRF 2020 runs from January 12 to the 14 at the Javits Center in New York City. GSPANN, who will exhibit at NRF... - December 21, 2019 - GSPANN Technologies, Inc.
Things From Another World Celebrates the End of 2019 with 12 Days of TFAW Sale Event
With the launch of their first exclusive apparel, and the launch of their new website, 2019 has been a big year for Things From Another World. They wanted to celebrate and thank their customers for their support, with the biggest sale of the year: the 12 Days of TFAW. The 12 Days of TFAW sales... - December 11, 2019 - Things From Another World
The Clyde Series: Coloring and Activities Book
This is the first coloring book for The Clyde Series. It includes all your favorite images from the first three books. - December 10, 2019 - JN Prioleau
Oomomo is Coming to Calgary on December 14, 2019
Oomomo will be opening their first retail store in Calgary on Dec. 14, 2019. Oomomo is a Japanese variety store, founded in 2017, and they have since expanded to ten stores in Canada. Oomomo strives to deliver affordable, quality products suited to your lifestyle by bringing new and trending... - December 09, 2019 - Oomomo Alberta
IDI Consulting Participates in Fifth Annual Toys for Tots Drive
Local IT consulting company delivers holiday hope by collecting toys for less fortunate children. - December 04, 2019 - IDI Consulting
Smack Talk Showdown, Nominated Tabletop Game of the Year in 2018, Returns to Kickstarter November 25
The Sold Out Phenomenon from Double Turn Games Gears Up for 2nd Edition and NSFW Expansion. - November 27, 2019 - Double Turn Games
United National Closeout Stores Recalls Isometric Exercise Devices Due to Projectile Hazard; Devices Sold at Burlington Stores After 2014 Recall
Recall Summary Name of Product: ISO7X Isometric Exercise Devices Hazard: The handle grips on each end can break during use and cause parts to be forcefully ejected from the shaft, posing a risk of injury from impact to the user or bystander. Remedy: Refund Consumers should immediately stop... - November 21, 2019 - UNCS
Once Upon a Crime Presents, Crime Pays - The Case of the Boonton Christmas Heist
Once Upon a Crime, a “Brick & Mortar Business” partner providing More Business, More Exposure, Less Work, has partnered with Boonton Main Street, in Boonton, NJ, to bring business back to the locals. - November 20, 2019 - One Upon a Crime
New Board Game "Houseguests from Hell" Launches Just in Time for Holiday Houseguest Season
For any one who's ever had a houseguest over-extend their welcome, the new board game from Golden Elixir Enterprises, Houseguests From Hell, highlights and brings comedic relief to the most outrageous (and mostly true) houseguest experiences. Great for families, and corporate team-building. - October 29, 2019 - Golden Elixir Enterprises
Wonderfilled Announces "GiantLands" First Public Playtest
This Halloween, Thursday Oct. 31, Madison Wisconsin-based Wonderfilled Inc.’s Game Designers Stephen E. Dinehart and James M. Ward will perform the first public playtest of their new mixed-reality, role-playing game and immersive game park, GiantLands. Playthrough will take place at Wisconsin’s Gamehole Con on Thursday, October 31 and explore the core game inside GiantLands’ original universe and future game park to an almost sold-out crowd. - October 29, 2019 - Wonderfilled, Inc.
Voltura - Create Deep Connection with Anyone in 30 Seconds
Are you looking to have an experience that will last a lifetime? Do you want to connect deeply with yourself and others in less than 30 seconds, by playing a game? http://kck.st/2pGn5hF Voltura Game is a new an unique game that allows you to create a connection with anyone, anywhere in less than 30 seconds and by doing so, you are able to tap into your full potential. "It is the best icebreaker in the world, in my opinion." - NHS Accountant - October 15, 2019 - Voltura
Top 10 Games Heading Into 2020
What The Film?!, Camping with Sasquatch and Disney's Sabacc lead this list of best new games for the 2019 holiday season. - September 25, 2019 - Lethal Chicken Games
One Method Monkey LLC Has Launched Its Second Game, Hey Cutie, on Kickstarter and is Seeking Crowdfunding Support to Help Bring Something New to Boardgaming Audiences
One Method Monkey's latest project, Hey Cutie, brings the dating sim genre to tabletop gamers with a comedic card game. Now Live on Kickstarter. - September 17, 2019 - One Method Monkey LLC
Elenco, Maker of Snap Circuits Toys, Officially Launches TEACH TECH™ Product Line
Elenco, the maker of the award-winning Snap Circuits® products, announces a new line of educational toys under the brand name TEACH TECH™, with a focus on hands-on, building fun. TEACH TECH™ features robotic kits that explore renewable energy and coding. TEACH TECH™ follows... - September 12, 2019 - Elenco Electronics, Inc.
MegaFans and Pebblekick Announce Partnership for Mobile Midcore eSports Game
The King of Pirates is the First Midcore Mobile Game with the MegaFans eSports Engine - August 14, 2019 - MEGAFANS.COM
Kidini Karate is New on Amazon; Back to School Bully Prevention for Kids 3-8 Years Old
Kidini Karate® helps parents teach children to be aware, avoid, and self-defense escapes and empowers very young children with knowledge and courage to escape bullies and child predators. Kidini Karate® introduces to the professional educators of very young children, a detailed educator’s manual researched by the University Of Delaware Department of Research titled: Helping Children Develop Self Protective Skills. - July 19, 2019 - Kidini Karate