Shiny Games is excited to announce that we’ll be at UK Games Expo this year, Friday 31st May—Sunday 2nd June 2024. You will find us at Stand 2-1189, towards the back of Hall 2, near the Shop & Drop.
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Shiny Games Day: 7 Years of Shiny Games
Shiny Games is seven years old today, so it seemed like a good point to reflect on where we are and where we’re going in the next year (or seven).
27th October 2015
While Shiny Games didn’t begin overnight, the company officially came into being on 27th October 2015. That was the point it was declared to be more than just a nice idea, or wishful thinking. The idea was to support great games that were hard to find in the United Kingdom. This seemed especially true of many good skirmish games, but we knew it needed to include roleplaying games too.
Continue reading Shiny Games Day: 7 Years of Shiny GamesShiny Games at Border Reiver Show on 17th September
Shiny Games is going to be travelling up to Gateshead for the Border Reiver Wargames Show on Saturday 17th September. The venue is Gateshead International Stadium, from 10am ’til 3pm.
We’re going to be focusing on the Dream Pod 9 games, so we’ll have as much Heavy Gear and Jovian Wars as we can bring.
Continue reading Shiny Games at Border Reiver Show on 17th SeptemberShiny Games and COVID-19 – March Update
With so much uncertainty at the moment, and different circumstances from place to place, we thought it was about time we posted an update on COVID-19 and the current status of Shiny Games.
TLDR: We are all currently fine here at Shiny Games. We, our supplier and delivery services are working normally. We’ll keep you updated if that changes.
Continue reading Shiny Games and COVID-19 – March UpdateKnights of Vapnartak 2017 (Part 2)
In Knights of Vapnartak Part 1 I talked about my Cadre for the Knights of Vapnartak Relic Knights Tournament and my first game in the tournament, a loss to Black Diamond’s One Shot.
The lunch break seemed to fly by; a chat with the other players and a quick walk round the stands, and it was time for Game 2.
Knights of Vapnartak 2017 (Part 1)
Last Sunday I was lucky enough to attend the Knights of Vapnartak Relic Knights Tournament. This was held at the Vapnartak Wargames Show in York. Last year had been a really great tournament with players from both ends of the country travelling to take part. The 2017 tournament was a smaller affair and a more local player base, but no less a great community event.
My Cadre for Knights of Vapnartak
I made a last minute decision not to use my normal Shattered Sword Cadres for this tournament and give my Star Nebula Corsairs a proper tryout. I’d only used them once before and they’d been slaughtered by Magnus and his Black Diamond thugs. I didn’t put a lot of tactical thought into their composition but they were based on the Battle Box with a couple of models I liked to take them up to 50 points. Continue reading Knights of Vapnartak 2017 (Part 1)
State of the Shininess Address 2016
October 27th 2016 marks the one year anniversary of Shiny Games as a company. This first year has both gone quickly and seemed to last forever; the Shiny Games Dream has certainly evolved a great deal over that time. The first anniversary therefore seems like a great opportunity to stop for a moment, take stock of where we are and think about where we want to be in the future – welcome to the State of the Shininess Address 2016.
UK Games Expo 2016
I was fortunate to be spending this past weekend at the UK Games Expo 2016 – three days of games and gaming people in a huge hall and an entire hotel, all in wonderful summery weather! There were truly too many great things going on to mention them all here, so I’m not going to try; instead, this is a summary of the things that stood out for me and that hopefully will interest you too.
Esdevium Retailer Summit
The day before Expo-proper began, the distributor Esdevium held their annual retailer summit at the NEC. This was an opportunity to talk to Esdevium staff, other retailers and games publishers, and for games companies to tell us what was coming in the future. A highlight for me was talking with Christian Petersen, the Founder and CEO of Fantasy Flight Games, and discussing the role of online retailers in gaming – but that deserves a whole blog post of its own. Continue reading UK Games Expo 2016