Today we are again open from 4:30pm until 7pm. Our Twelve Days of Savings offer is one for Pokemon collectors today. Our Pikachu Vinyl Figures are reduced from £10 to just £7.50
Tuesday, 15 December 2020
Monday, 14 December 2020
Meeple Creeple
Today I had the privilege of meeting William Ross the creator of Meeple Creeple. His campaign goes live on kick starter this week and we at KD Games are wishing him every success.
Checkout his video for the new campaign ...
Twelve Days of Offers - Day 5
The shop will be open from 4:30pm until 7pm today and we will be introducing a new offer which is...
Thursday, 10 December 2020
Twelve Days of Savings - Day 2
Today the shop will be open from 4:30pm until 7pm. In addition to yesterday's offer of all MTG Core 2021 Bundles being reduced to just £20 we will be introducing our second offer which is ...
Tuesday, 8 December 2020
Twelve Days of Savings - Day One
Day one and we have MTG Core Set 2021 Bundles reduced from £38 to just £20. The shop will be open from 4pm until 7pm today.
Monday, 7 December 2020
TWELVE DAYS OF SAVINGS
Thursday, 3 December 2020
We are back!
Team Challenge Online Rules
1. Eligibility for Pokémon Team Challenge
Country restrictions: only players from the following countries are eligible to participate: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Guernsey, Ireland, Isle of Man, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States (including Puerto Rico) and Uruguay.
Age restrictions: only players from the Masters division are eligible to participate. This means you need to be born in 2004 or earlier to be allowed to play. Players from Brazil must be 18 years or older to be allowed to play. Players under 16 from other countries (AR, AU, BO, CL, CO, CR, DO, EC, SV, DE, GT, GG, IE, LU, MX, NL, NZ, NI, PY, PE, PL, CH, UY) will need parental consent, which will be handled as part of the signup process. Players in the Junior or Senior divisions are not eligible.
Other eligibility restrictions: suspended players are not allowed to participate in the Pokémon Team Challenge. This includes all players suspended from any Play! Pokémon tournaments for any game.
2. Communication
Players are expected to be able to communicate with both their opponent and the staff during a digital event, within a reasonable time. This will require the presence of the player on the communication platform offered by the organizer as well as attention of the player to any received direct messages or notifications. Discord is recommended for this, but the choice is ultimately up to the store.
During the early rounds of the playoffs, one of the two stores should provide the communication platform, with both TOs present as well as all team members. As a third option, tournamentcenter will make a neutral Discord server available.
During the top 32 and later rounds of the playoffs, matches will be organized by tournamentcenter via Discord.
If a player does not reply to staff within a reasonable time, a decision may need to be made using incomplete information, often to the player’s disadvantage. In addition, a penalty for Tardiness may be applied after ten minutes.
3. Online behavior etiquette
Play! Pokémon events are enjoyed for their atmosphere of friendly competition and good sportsmanship. The objective for every Play! Pokémon tournament is that every participant has fun while also playing at their best.
We want everyone who participates in Play! Pokémon events to keep these principles in mind—fun, fairness, honesty, respect, sportsmanship, and learning. Together, these principles make up our Spirit of the Game.
Adherence to the Spirit of the Game helps to ensure that all participants have an enjoyable experience. This spirit should guide the conduct of players as well as that of the tournament judges as they interpret and enforce the rules.
This is true for digital events as well as tabletop events.
4. Electronic decklist submission and use
If a digital event requires the use of decklists, they will need to be provided electronically. The organizer will typically instate a deadline for submission. Not meeting this deadline should be treated as Tardiness if there is no published metagame. If the event’s metagame is publicly available before the list is submitted however, the player should not be permitted to participate.
Some digital events will use the “open decklist” option, which allows players access to the decklist of their opponent before and during the game. This is done as a way of ensuring players play with their originally submitted deck throughout the entire event. If a player notices a discrepancy, they should report it to the event staff. Verified discrepancies are handled through the normal procedures for these types of problems.
5. Failure to connect to opponent
In order to play a match, players need to connect with their opponent inside the game client. If the players fail to make this happen within a reasonable time (usually 10 minutes after the round has started), they should not start their match anymore and instead notify staff. Staff will investigate which player was causing the issue. That player will lose the current round and be dropped from the event unless they can remedy the issue before the next round. If staff is not able to identify which player caused the issue, both players will lose the match instead.
6. Missing results at the end of the round
If the round time is up, and there are unreported matches, staff should reach out to those players using the advertised communication platform to find out if the players are still in their match or have forgotten to submit a result.
· If neither player replies within a reasonable time, the match should be recorded as a draw. Reasonable time in this case usually means 5 minutes after the end of the round or 5 minutes after asking the question, whichever comes later.
· If the players answer but have not yet finished their match, they should be given a deadline by which to finish their match before it will be considered a draw. This deadline is usually 10 minutes after the end of the round or 10 minutes after contact was sought by staff, whichever comes later, with any additional time granted to the match added to that time.
7. Disconnections
Tournament organizers hold no control over a player’s hardware or internet connection. As such, they cannot be held responsible when a player disconnects from the server inside the game client. As it is easy to simulate a disconnection, the player is considered to be responsible. Any damage to the game, including games or matches being cancelled, will result in a ruling to the disadvantage of the disconnected player. This applies to all involuntary disconnections, with the exclusion of overall system downtime.
In case of overall system downtime of the Pokémon TCG Online system due to scheduled or unscheduled maintenance, this will be made clear in the game client. The TO is encouraged to avoid scheduling matches during an announced maintenance window, or reschedule any matches that were ongoing when an unannounced maintenance window starts.
8. Software bugs and exploits
Tournament organizers hold no control over software bugs in the game client. As far as tournament results are concerned, any rules as they are implemented by the game client will be considered legal outcomes, even if those differ from documented rules.
Players who believe they have encountered a bug are encouraged to report this to the publisher. This can be done here.
If a player knowingly abuses a software bug, they will be penalized. Exploiting bugs on purpose to gain an advantage is considered cheating. A list of known bugs can be found here.
9. Feature matches
While attending a Play! Pokémon tournament, some players may be instructed to play a match that will be featured, projected, or broadcast (streamed) live to a large audience and/or to online viewers. In order to provide the necessary footage to stream gameplay, players may be asked to share their screen with the organizer. Players must comply with the Organizer’s directions regarding the way players will share their screen with the organizers. Organizers are encouraged to document before the event whether this will happen and in what way players will share their screen.
For top 4 playoff matches in the team versus team portion of the Pokémon Team Challenge, players will be required to share their game screen via Discord. For that, the player needs to have a stable internet connection with enough bandwidth and computer able to handle these tasks. This will require players to use a computer version of the game, rather than play on tablet.
Players are reminded that, by entering or remaining at a sanctioned Play! Pokémon event, they agree to abide by the information stipulated under the Publishing Tournament Information section (2.6.) of the Play! Pokémon Tournament Rules Handbook. Players are not permitted to voluntarily decline participating in a streamed match. In exceptional circumstances, the Organizer may at their own discretion decide that it is in the best interests of all involved that the chosen match not be streamed. However, it should be noted that this consideration is reserved for truly uncommon circumstances, wherein a serious detriment may occur to the players’ ability to participate fully in that match.
Where players believe that their individual circumstances may make it prohibitively difficult for them to appear on stream, they should make every effort to inform the Organizer prior to the day of the event. Rules infractions committed during streamed matches that are not immediately addressed may be identified and penalized upon subsequent review of match footage.
Additionally, certain kinds of penalties, especially those related to unacceptable behavior or language, may be escalated when the infraction occurs during a streamed match.
10. Outside assistance
Outside assistance generally follows the same rules as outlined in other policy documents, with a few notable exceptions:
· If a player is streaming their own games, they are themselves responsible for ensuring they do not receive any outside assistance. This can be achieved in several ways, for example by not allowing viewers to chat (or chat only using emotes), or by having a 5 minute delay between their game and their stream. If a player makes no efforts to stop them from receiving outside assistance from their viewers, Outside Assistance penalties will be applied as though the player has actively requested help.
· Players are not allowed to watch the stream of their opponent if they are streaming, including when a delay is in place. Doing so will result in that player receiving Outside Assistance penalties.
· Some events may explicitly allow outside assistance from team members to encourage team building and team play. Those events will make that explicitly clear and will only allow exceptions to the regular outside assistance rules for team members of the player.
ANNOUNCING POKEMON TEAM CHALLENGE
Play! Pokémon Team Challenge
With in-store events on temporary suspension, The Pokémon Company International are looking for new ways to support their Play! Pokémon stores and Pokémon Trading Card Game community. The Play! Pokémon Team Challenge is a global online event designed to offer Play! Stores new ways to engage with their local Pokémon Trading Card Game Community and compete with other stores around the world to see who will be the very best!
The Play! Pokémon Team Challenge will be run on the Pokémon Trading Card Game Online platform, but deliver the feeling of an in-store tournament whilst maintaining safe, social distancing in line with recommendations from the World Health Organisation and local, regional, and national health authorities worldwide.
Play! Stores can take part in the Play! Pokémon Team Challenge! Each eligible store will run 4 Qualifiers, creating a team where the 4 winners from their local community will go on to represent their store in the Play-Offs to crown the Best Team in the Play! Pokémon Team Challenge.
Saturday, 29 August 2020
Funkoverse
Face off in the ultimate Pop! battle
In the Funkoverse Strategy Game, you combine your favorite characters and go head-to-head in four exciting game scenarios. Use your characters' unique abilities to gain points and achieve victory!
Each turn, you select one of your characters and perform two actions. Each character has access to basic actions like moving and challenges as well as several unique abilities that may be performed only by spending ability tokens. Funkoverse uses an innovative "cooldown" system — the more powerful the ability, the longer it will take for the ability token to become available again — so players have to spend their ability tokens wisely. Each character in Funkoverse is unique, so players are encouraged to try out different combinations of characters and items in order to discover their favorite synergies and powerful strategies for all four game scenarios.
Tuesday, 25 August 2020
DreadBall
Back in stock this week is ...
DREADBALL 2ND EDITION BOXED GAMEDreadBall is the fast-paced futuristic sports board game set in the galaxy's most hi-tech arenas. Choose from the agile Ninth Moon Tree Sharks or the unstoppable Draconis All-Stars before taking to the pitch and going for glory. Outwit your rival coach with tactical set pieces, push your luck with daring plays, or just smash your opponent to the ground with brutal tackles. When the game begins, anything goes...
This box has everything you need to start playing the galaxy's greatest sports game! You'll get two fully assembled teams, with their respective captains, plus all of the dice, cards, rules and counters needed for play.
Contains:
1x Double-Sided Gaming Board
1x 2nd Edition Starter Rulebook
1x Quick Start Guide
12x Plastic Yndij Players - the Ninth Moon Tree Sharks
1x Plastic Yndij Captain - Na'Hautl
12x Plastic Neo-Bot Players - the Draconis All-Stars
1x Plastic Neo-Bot Captain - Romeo Blue
1x Plastic Refbot
1x Plastic Rush Tracker and Trophy Score Tracker
Clear Plastic Hex Bases
4x DreadBalls
54x DreadBall Game Cards
2x Team Cards
2x Captain Stat Cards
20x Captain Cards
11x Plastic Counters
18x Coloured Dice
Please note: Miniatures are supplied unpainted and some assembly may be required.
Saturday, 22 August 2020
MTG Sale
From today until the 29th August the Ikoria Prerelease pack have been reduced from £21 to just £17.
Monday, 17 August 2020
New for Pokemon Fans
Due in the week is quite a large amount of new lines for Pokemon Fans. I will post up some more details once the stock arrives, but to give a quick taster for what is expected, here are a few images of the new lines...
Thursday, 6 August 2020
Pokemon Darkness Ablaze Prerelease
- Players should arrive no earlier that 5 mins before the beginning of the event. (Please be aware that you may have to wait outside if there are customers in the shop)
- Players should not bring bags or unnecessary items in to the event with them. (you are welcome to ring a drink in with you or an empty bottle for water which will be available)
- Once players have arrived they will be asked to enter the playing room and sit at one of the two tables (your place will be marked with your name)
- Only the person playing is permitted to be in the gaming room and there is no space in the shop for people to wait for players to finish.
- Once you are seated, please remain in your seat unless you are asked to move or it is absolutely necessary.
- Whilst in the shop (including the playing room) ALL players must wear a face covering.
- Your packs will be ready for you at your table and will have been sprayed with antibacterial spray (30 minutes before you arrive). Every player will have 4 booster packs and an evolution pack to make a deck from and you will have 30 minutes to get ready to play your first game.
- The will be a pack of 10 energy from each type ready at every players table which you will take with you when the event finishes (you will be able to ask for more if needed)
- When the event starts you will be able to open your packs, all rubbish should be thrown into the bin located next to your table.
- Players are not permitted to touch other players belongings or newly open cards at any time.
- If you need to have a break, you may take these outside the shop where you will be able to remove you mask.
- There will be up to three single game matches played, which will last no longer than 30 minutes.
- At the end of the first game, please remain seated until the other players have finished. YOu will then be instructed on what to do for the next match.
Monday, 3 August 2020
New MTG Promo Cards
To start with, make any purchase of MTG products, and you can receive the Reliquary Tower (limit one per customer, while supplies last).
Finally, anyone who participates in a store event or books a gaming table is eligible to receive an art print , while supplies last.
Friday, 31 July 2020
Playing In-Store
Thursday, 16 July 2020
Raid Battle
Thursday, 11 June 2020
Ticket to Ride
Today, they are pleased to announce the online release of Ticket to Ride: Stay at Home, a new, quick and free print and play version of the well-known board game Ticket to Ride.
To download the game, please visit: https://print-and-play.asmodee.fun/ticket-to-ride/ and select your language of choice.
In this version, you will take the role of one of the four family members who compete and sometimes collaborate to complete their daily tasks in their home, which will guarantee some amazing family moments around the gaming table. Will you try to go from your bedroom to your desk for some paperwork, or would you rather take a detour by the fridge and spend some time on the balcony?
To enjoy Ticket to Ride: Stay at Home you will need a pair of scissors, some adhesive tape and a copy of one of the Ticket to Ride base games.
Ticket to Ride: Stay at Home is an expansion for 2 to 4 players and takes 20 to 40 minutes to play.
Coming soon ...
Explore the deep dark wood and see what you can spot! Between any two cards, there is always exactly one matching symbol, whether it's Mouse, Snake or the fearsome Gruffalo.
Wednesday, 3 June 2020
In this week
Prepare to dish out a big beating with this massively Metal-type Pokémon, because there's no time like the present to unleash the powerful trunk of Copperajah V! In this box, you'll find the magnificent Copperderm Pokémon in two sizes: a foil card that's ready for gameplay and a cool oversize card that's great for display. There are also four additional Pokémon Trading Card Game
booster packs to add even more cards to your colletion.
Snorlax and Morpeko Pin Collection
Snorlax and Morpeko seem about as different as two Pokémon can be. Despite their differences, both Pokémon can be terrific battlers when paired with a clever Trainer. You can see for yourself when you add them to your Pokémon TCG forces with this pair of pin collections. Each set includes a bright foil promo card and a terrific pin featuring either Snorlax or Morpeko. The set even includes a trio of Pokémon TCG booster packs to add even more cards to your deck.
Saturday, 16 May 2020
COLLECTIONS
When buying online there are two options for how to get your items. The first is have them delivered to your house but this will cost you extra and will take a couple of days to arrive with you. The other is to come and collect the items. Normally this would be from the shop, but these are not normal times so collection is from my house.
The reason for collecting from my house is that the shop is closed and deliveries are being delivered to me at home and it is much easier to arrange a time. Due to the current situation with Covid-19, there are a few things that we have put in place to make the collection easier and safer for everyone.
- Firstly, once you have placed your order I will message you either through Wix, Facebook or Discord and arrange a time with you when you are available to pick the stock up. This ideally will be a window of about an hour. I will try and make sure that you are the only people due to be collecting something during that window.
- I will then send you a Google Maps link to my home address so that you knw where to come.
- I will message you just before your collection window to let you know your goods are ready and send a picture showing your items for you to check.
- Next the stock will be place in a box outside my from window so that we can maintain safe social distancing.
- The box is cleaned after each collection and sprayed with antibacterial spray before new stock is added to the box. The spray is available if you wish to spray the products before handling them. Antibacterial hand gel will also be available for you to clean your hands after you have closed the box.
- For security purposes there is a camera recording the box at all times, this will give me a record of people collecting their items and hopefully prevent people from tampering with the box. The recordings are deleted after collection by the correct person is confirmed.
- Please remember to bring a bag with you as you will need something to carry your good home in.
- Finally I would be grateful if you could confirm that you have picked your goods up as this will allow me to clean the box and get the next collection ready if applicable.
If you have any questions about collecting or ordering goods for delivery please feel free to contact me, Thank you for your support and custom during this unusual time.
Wednesday, 13 May 2020
MTG PRE-RELEASE KITS ON SALE NOW!!!
This time around, the world—our world, Earth—is in a different spot than normal, and so Prereleases are going to look a little different. But there are still ways to get in on the fun!
So, what should you expect? How can you still participate even while being socially distant? Let's run through it today!
A BEHEMOTH AMOUNT OF FUN
Prereleases have always been my favorite Magic events of the year.
Prereleases are events where it's your first chance to try out the new set—and to me, the heart and soul of the Prerelease experience is the energy of getting those cards and playing with them. And even if you're just doing that at home, you'll still be doing it with so many other people around the world as part of the global experience and conversation. Thanks to the internet, we're all connected!
The Prerelease of a set is great because the set is totally new, the footing is fairly equal as everybody plays with the set for the very first time, and you just get to relax and have fun exploring the new cards. It's a lot of fun for old and new players alike!
All right. So, let's go over perhaps the most important part: ordering product for your Prerelease! After all, you can't very well play if you don't know where to get the supplies you need.
While most Prereleases are run as an in-store event, because of the COVID-19 virus, as a special exception, players can pick up Prerelease packs and take them home!
WHAT DO I GET IN THE KIT?
Inside, you'll get six Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths boosters . . . plus, a random stamped rare or mythic rare card as your Prerelease foil that could be any rare or mythic rare in the set!
Then, of course, you'll get a couple other goodies—like a spindown life counter to keep track of your life total. Actually, you know what? Let's just crack one open and take a look!
Tuesday, 5 May 2020
Want something to do?
Dobble is the award-winning visual perception card game for 2-8 players aged 6 and above that can be played by anyone, regardless of age and interests.
In Dobble, players compete with each other to find the one matching symbol between two cards. Every card is unique and has only one symbol in common with any other in the deck. The match can be difficult to spot as the size and positioning of the symbols can vary on each card. Once a player finds the match, they shout it out before the other players and either take the card or place it somewhere else, depending on which of the five mini-games they are playing.
Players must have a keen eye and lightning reactions in order to be the first to spot the matching symbol. Dobble can be played by up to eight players, meaning that gameplay is always fast, hilarious and above all ridiculously fun! The deck of cards is protected inside a small circular tin to keep them safe and make Dobble the perfect travel game you can take anywhere.
We currently have two editions on our website available for delivery or collection now, the classic original game and the new Harry Potter expansion.
Thursday, 9 April 2020
Pokemon Go League.
This time we had 6 players. It was great to welcome MeisterStu and PioBurgio into the league.
ROUND ONE was
ROUND TWO was
After these three rounds the top two played off again for the win which was PioBurgio and Whiplashor.
Congratulations to PioBurgio on his unbeaten performance.
After two events our leader board looks like this ...
Tuesday, 7 April 2020
Discord Server
A few years back we started using Discord to communicate to our Pokemon players but at the time it was not used a great deal and we chose to change our communications to other social channels.
That was then, things are now very different, and the Covid-19 virus has meant that more than ever people are connecting with other players to play virtual games. To enable a broader selection of games to be discussed and bring a wider community of players together we have started using Discord again and are in the process of adding new channels to cover the various games that we support.
To connect to our server please use this link ... https://discord.gg/eFT2ct