Gamestack news archive
Chronology is back - and it's about time, too!
The long-awaited reprint of family game Chronology is finally back in stock and available from Game Stack. Gibson’s Games Chronology is all about time and players have to list five events in chronological order. Sounds simple, doesn’t it? Well, which came first – the London Marathon or the Nintendo Pac Man? How about ...
Game Stack's Christmas 2009 Top Ten Bestsellers
We thought you might like to know what sold best on Game Stack this Christmas, so here it is – the Game Stack Christmas 2009 Top 10 Best Sellers! Top of the list is perennial favourite Trivial Pursuit Deluxe with Pass The Bomb Junior a comfortable second. The adult version, Pass ...
Traditional Wargames meet Card-Driven Games in The Pacific!
Empire of the Sun is a strategic-level game encompassing the Pacific War 1941-45 from Pearl Harbour to the possible invasion of the Japanese mainland. It’s designed by Mark Herman who introduced card-driven games (CDGs) to the hobby. But what sets it apart is that it’s the first game to move the CDG ...
The word game that will drive you bananas!
Bananagrams is a word game that has taken America by storm and been featured on CNN and The Today Show. It was invented by three generations of one family who live in the UK and the USA. It involves players drawing tiles from a pile and making words that interlock. The ...
Relive the Age of Steam!
Considered by many to be the best railroad game of all time, Age of Steam is back in stock at Game Stack. Steam-belching iron horses roar West across the virgin territory in the new edition of the 2003 IGA award-winning game. Age of Steam relives the era when pioneering US railroads ...
Big Box Carcassonne Offers Big Value
Rio Grande has just released a revised version of its original Big Box compendium of Carcassonne games. The award-winning tile-laying game, Carcassonne, combines elegant and simple gameplay with stunning production values. Since its release in 2000, the game has built a range of expansions and this Big Box 2 collection includes: Carcassonne ...
Hasbro To Release Two-Player Risk
Continuing our sneak preview of new games launched at the London Toy Fair, we spied a brand-new version of the classic game of world conquest, Risk. The problem with this game has long been that it works best with four or more people and is not really possible to play with ...
New 3-D Monopoly City Coming Soon!
Game Stack has had a sneak preview at the London Toy Fair of the new games coming out of Hasbro in 2009 and they include a brand-new 3-D version of the classic property trading game called Monopoly City. The game features three-dimensional buildings including stadiums and skyscrapers which you build in ...
What everyone else is buying this Christmas...
We thought you might be interested to know what people are buying this Christmas in case you’re stuck for ideas. In Pandemic players are not just competing with one another but having to co-operate as well unless they want mankind to be wiped out by deadly diseases. Race For The Galaxy ...
10 Ideas for Christmas Presents
This is the time of year when people’s thoughts turn to Christmas presents so we thought we’d come up with ten ideas for great games you might want to give your family or friends. First up is Zooloretto, winner of last year’s prestigious Spiel des Jahres. It’s a delightful game in ...
Number One Rated Game Agricola Now In Stock
Agricola is the game everyone’s currently talking about and Game Stack has received a new shipment. Agricola is Latin for “farmer” and in this game you play the role of a 17th century farmer who starts the game with a wooden shack, a spouse and little else. If the theme doesn’t ...
Best-selling Dangerous Book For Boys Adapted By Parker Bros
Many people own a copy of the Dangerous Book For Boys by Conn Iggulden which is an old-fashioned compendium of information, activities and stories all designed specially to interest, excite and hopefully not injure boys. In the new board game based on the book, you’ve been shipwrecked on a deserted ...
New versions of old classics Settlers of Catan and Ticket To Ride
This month sees the release of new portable versions of classic board games The Settlers of Catan and Ticket To Ride. In The Settlers of Catan Dice Game you can discover, explore, and settle Catan anywhere and anytime!Even all by yourself! The Catan Dice Game is the perfect portable adventure ...
Board games "boost early maths skills"
Playing four 15-minute sessions of board games such as snakes and ladders can improve a child’s mathematical abilities significantly, according to a study of four and five-year-olds reported in The Guardian. And the improvement in numerical tests is still measurable nine weeks later. The researchers who conducted the study said nursery ...
Game Stack Spring Sale Now On!
March sees the launch of the Game Stack spring sale in which almost all of our games are discounted and many of our top-selling games are reduced by 15% or more! Just a few of the games we are offering at sale prices include: Carcassonne Puerto Rico Diplomacy Runebound Alhambra Citadels Elfenland Ticket To Ride ...
Zooloretto - Our Family Game of 2007
In the second of our series of articles picking out the best games of 2007, we have selected Zooloretto as the Game Stack Family Game of 2007. Using the same basic mechanism as the earlier Coloretto, Michael Schacht has crafted a delightful game that works on a number of levels for ...
Hannibal: Rome vs Carthage - Our 2-Player Strategy Board Game of 2007!
We want to kick off 2008 with a series of What’s New articles highlighting the games that really caught our eye in 2007. Firstly, we want to look at what, in our opinion, was the best 2-player strategy game of the last year and one of the best of the ...
Boggle is Christmas Best-Seller 2007
We thought you might like to know what sold best on Game Stack this Christmas, so here it is – the Game Stack Christmas 2007 Top 10 Best Sellers! Head and shoulders above all the rest was that perennially popular word game Boggle with last year’s best-seller Carcassonne a comfortable ...
Carcassonne is UK's Most Popular Line of Games in 2007
We can reveal that the best-selling line of board games in the UK hobby market this year has been the award-winning Carcassonne. The Settlers of Catan (new-look 4th edition recently released) was second and the Fluxx family of card games was third. All of these have certainly been best-sellers ...
D&D Basic Game Back In Stock!
Game Stack has received a new supply of the popular Dungeons & Dragons Basic Game. This entertaining fantasy adventure game can be played as a board game in its own right or as an introduction to the main Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, the original and to many the unsurpassed example ...
Dare You Venture Into The World of Tannhäuser?
The latest release from Fantasy Flight is an extraordinary example of fantasy meets military history in a game that posits World War One dragged on unresolved for more than 30 years, during which time the forces of the occult started to intervene… Tannhäuser is a tactical board game of paranormal investigations ...
Kings, Queens & Dragons
How do you improve one of the world’s oldest and most popular games? Well, you invent a new piece, the Dragon, expand the board, add innovative new rules and call it Dragon Chess! The new Dragon playing piece is second in power to the Queen and moves in any direction ...
Dig This! Queen Release Beyond Thebes
Many board games are based on historical events so perhaps it is surprising how few have dealt with history’s closest fellow discipline, archaeology. Based closely on Queen Games’ popular Jenseits von Theben, Beyond Thebes is a game in which players race round Europe visiting archaeological sites in order to find ...
Have You Got Yourself An 'Ology?
Following last year’s release of Dragonology, the board game based on the New York Times best-seller of the same name, Sababa Toys are bringing out two new titles in the same series: Wizardology and Pirateology. In Wizardology, players must graduate from Apprentice to Accomplished Wizard by mastering four Wizardological Tasks, and ...
Wings of War: Back in Stock!
The long-awaited reprint of the WW1 aerial combat Wings of War base games has finally taken place and you can obtain all three main games from Game Stack. The base games are Famous Aces; Burning Drachens; and Watch Your Back! Each can be played independently or in conjunction with one another ...
Monopoly The Movie?
Film director Sir Ridley Scott is planning to make a feature-length version of the classic board game Monopoly. The 69-year-old British film-maker, whose hits include Gladiator and Black Hawk Down, has been offered the pick of young actresses to help turn the property game into a racy comedy thriller. William ...
Age of Empires Board Game Out Now!
Ever wished the massive PC strategy game Age of Empires was available to play in three dimensions? Well, your fairy godmother in the form of Eagle Games’ Glenn Drover has waved his wand and granted your wish! In the new board game Age of Empires III: The Age of Discovery, the ...
Memoir '44 Back in Stock!
The basic Memoir ‘44 game is back in stock at Game Stack. Designed by Richard Borg and published by Days of Wonder, Memoir ‘44 is a World War Two wargame based on the game system Borg developed for the Battlecry game about the American Civil War. Memoir ‘44 includes 144 amazingly ...
Tired of Trivial Pursuit - Try Knowalot!
Ok, so the biggest quiz board game franchise ever is not going to disappear overnight, particularly with the way Hasbro manage to find new variations on the tried and tested Trivial Pursuit formula. Nevertheless, it’s refreshing to see a new take on the quiz format and the people at up and ...
Award-winning Adventure Through Time and Space - Khronos - Arrives in UK
Game designers are constantly looking for a new theme or game mechanic to surprise jaded gamers and it looks like the people from French publisher Matagot may have found one. In Khronos, each player plays a powerful lord and his faithful assistant in a quest for dominance throughout time itself. You ...
Carcassonne Tops the List of Game Stack's Christmas Best Sellers!
We knew you would be aching to know what sold best on Game Stack this Christmas, so here it is – the Game Stack Christmas 2006 Top 10 Best Sellers! And since you’ve all got so much good taste, there were no surprises at the top of the list with the ...
Game Stack Featured on Radio 4
Game Stack owner Bill Skirrow was interviewed on Radio 4’s “Word of Mouth” programme which aired on Boxing Day at 4.00pm and is available online via the Radio 4 section of www.bbc.co.uk. Presented by Michael Rosen, Word of Mouth ventures down the highways and byways of the English language and vocabulary. Fittingly ...
Perplex City Board Game Out Now!
Perplex City, the gaming phenomenon that has caught the imagination of thousands of people, is now available as a board game. 2 to 16 players dash around the map of Perplex City, collecting puzzle stones as they solve riddles, brainteasers, anagrams and dingbats against the clock. You can unlock each ...
Marvel Heroes Board Game For Two To Fantastic Four Players!
The heroes of the Marvel™ universe come to life in MARVEL HEROES: the Board Game! Thwarting robberies, solving mysteries, and rescuing citizens from danger are all in a day’s work for members of the Avengers, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, and the Marvel Knights … unless there’s a super villain ...
Axis & Allies: Battle of the Bulge Out Now
The long-awaited Axis & Allies: Battle of the Bulge is released this week just in time for those who fancy spending Christmas hunkering down in their foxholes working out how to repel the German armoured counter-attack in the snow-covered Ardennes with little firepower, dwindling supplies and limited air support. The Battle ...
World of Warcraft Goes Collectible
Upper Deck have released a new trading card game based on the hugely successful online role-playing game World of Warcraft. World of Warcraft is currently the number-one online game, with more than 6.5 million players worldwide – there are over one million players in Europe alone. In World of Warcraft, players ...
Khet - the Laser-guided Strategy Game
Coming soon to Game Stack is Khet, a unique laser-guided strategy game for two players. Khet (pronounced like Ket) – this Egyptian symbol represents a lamp from which a flame emerges. In Ancient Egypt, the reigning pharaoh would light fires to symbolise his rule as supreme king and represent his control ...
