Mayfair Games Press Release - Catan Con 2015

From the Mayfair Games Website

Join Mayfair Games as we celebrate the first annual International Catan Day, April 24-26, 2015 at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville, TN.

Play all things Catan and the entire Mayfair library with a regular event schedule with all Mayfair products – free open play! We will have our Mammoth Carpet Games, Giant Tabletop Games, Catan games, The Big Game and more. Plus don’t miss your opportunity to play in the Catan National Championship Qualifier.

Mayfair Games Press Release - Caverna Nominated for International Gamers Award

From the Mayfair Games Website

Caverna is an instant classic and critics are starting to take notice!

The latest accolade granted the game is a nomination for the International Gamers Award, in the category of General Strategy!

Congratulations to Uwe Rosenberg and Lookout Games!

Mayfair Games Press Release - BGGCon 2014 Mayfair Round-up

From the Mayfair Games Website

Once a year from Novemebr 19^th to the 23^rd the world’s premier online community for board games comes to the Dallas Fort Worth Hyatt Regency and Mayfair Games is there! Coleman Charlton, Ron Magin and Morgan Dontanville will be manning the fun and free-wheeling Mayfair booth this year where you can see our latest titles or even get a glimpse of the future with upcoming games you can play before anyone else! What could be better than learning a new game? Being rewarded by a dip in our awesome sea of swag, that’s what! Learn a game, win something awesome.

Come test your luck and get UP! with the new Lords of Vegas™ expansion. Defeat Fantastiman once and for all with Villany™. Escape from Shady Pines with Bedpans and Broomsticks™ or plan as fast as you can with Mad City™. Experience the joys of quilting with Patchwork™. Search for lost treasure with Gold Ahoy™. Live the dwarvish dream with Caverna™ or become a legendary gem merchant in Johari™.

Mayfair Games Press Release - The Catan World Championship: Coming to a Computer Near You

From the Mayfair Games Website

The Catan World Championship happens every two years and alternates between Germany and the United States. This year it is being held in Berlin, Germany and will be organized and carried out by KOSMOS GmbH, the German language publisher of “Catan”.

On October 11-12 the greatest Catan players in the world will gather in the heart of Berlin. Including 2012’s Catan World Champion, the 2013 European Champion, the 2013 North American Champion - in total, approx. 65 players representing 33 countries will compete with the best of the best determine the 2014 Catan World Champion.

Mayfair Games Press Release - Catan Anytime! Anywhere!

From the Mayfair Games Website

Mayfair Games is happy to drop the beta tag from Catan Anytime on Thursday, August 28, 2014. Catan Anytime is a casual, free-to-play web variant of The Settlers of Catan brought to you by Bontom Games, in cooperation with Internet Explorer and Catan GmbH. Now the whole Catan community can connect through an evolving digital social game experience.

Catan Anytime provides a new way to experience Catan. Easy to play and designed for touch across any device, it gives players easy access to a Catan experience. Its turn-based asynchronous gameplay and automated trade and roll features streamline and the play flow, making it flexible and portable. Its simplified game features and open architecture make it simple to learn and permit dynamic development.

Mayfair Games Press Release - Mayfair Games Helps Gen Con Raise Record Charity Amount

From the Mayfair Games Website

Exciting things happened at Gen Con this year. As always there were a lot of fun and amazing games at the show. But Gen Con and Mayfair Games are also committed to giving back to the Indianapolis community which has been such an amazing host for Gen Con through the years.

According to Gen Con, more than $40,000 was raised for their official charity partner, "Gleaner's Food Bank of Indiana's BackSacks program, which provides weekend food to children at-risk for hunger. This donation includes a $20,000 check provided by Mayfair Games' Cones of Dunshire event, a charitable game played Saturday, August 16 on Georgia Street."

Mayfair Games Press Release - Designer Demos at Gen Con 2014!

From the Mayfair Games Website

As you know, you can get demos on hundreds of games at the Mayfair Booth in Hall J.

But this year you can also learn a game from its designer!

Mayfair Games Press Release - The Cones of Dunshire Charity Event at Gen Con Indy!

From the Mayfair Games Website

You’ve seen it talked about on the hit NBC television show Parks and Recreation®, you’ve seen glimpses of the bizarre gameplay, but this is your first chance to see The Architect’s vision in all of its conical glory! Mayfair Games, Inc. is proud to team up with Gen Con LLC and Parks & Recreation to present The Cones of Dunshire™ game!

This charity event will take place Saturday, August 16 at Gen Con®, in Indianapolis IN. Only 33 tickets are available for this game, which will give you the opportunity to play as one of the two Wizards, the Arbiter, or one of the other new classes of character! (The Architect is always making changes, so there will be some surprises in gameplay!) Players will be grouped into teams of three, with special sub-classes ONLY used for this event! Participants will receive special gifts commemorating the event and their participation, and other surprises are in store! And the game will be played on an oversized carpet version of the board, so that players and spectators alike can experience the Cones in all of their majesty!

Mayfair Games Press Release - Mayfair Games and GTM Partner to Bring You Free Game Expansions

From the Mayfair Games Website

Here at Mayfair Games, we’ve been doing Limited Edition Promo Expansions for a while now. Each tile sheet has expansions for at least three Mayfair Games and we’ve been providing them to hobby stores and customers that pre-order our games, or order them in the month of their release. We’re so pleased with the program we wracked our brains trying to figure out a way to get them into the hands of more folks and came up with the idea of including them as inserts in Game Trade Magazine, which we think is swell.

In our first issue we ran promo expansions for Mad City™, Station Master™ and Zen Garden™. Having done this once, surely we couldn’t do it again, right?

Mayfair Games Press Release - Volunteer Quest 2014

From the Mayfair Games Website

As many of you know we are headed into our busy convention season with Origins and Gen Con Indy right around the corner.   And these shows wouldn't be possible without dedicated volunteers to help run demos in the sales booth and helping to facilitate scheduled events with game set up, rules questions and event ticket collection in the event room.

Mayfair Games Press Release - Greg Schloesser reviews Global Mogul

From the Mayfair Games Website

Greg Schloesser has reviewed Global Mogul for an upcoming issue of Counter Magazine.
He was kind enough to give us permission to quote his conclusion about the game:

Global Mogul is a challenging and tense game, one that tests players’ abilities to properly balance numerous factors and adapt to the actions of their opponents.  Players must keep their eyes on a multitude of different areas.  It isn’t enough to concentrate on filling contracts.  Controlling markets and regions is important, as is gaining those valuable end game bonuses.  To do this, one must continuously build their resource production so that contracts can be filled and markets can be dominated.  Income can be gained from those venture capitalists, but consistently fulfilling contracts can reduce or even eliminate the need for using a valuable action and agents to obtain money in that fashion.

Thanks so much to Greg and Counter Magazine for the thorough and thoughtful review! If you want to read more of the article, and there is a lot more with detail on the game, go visit Counter Magazine.

Mayfair Games Press Release - Pompeii: Play the game, see the movie!

From the Mayfair Games Website

A new movie starring Kit Harrington (Game of Thrones), Emily Browning (Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events) and Kiefer Sutherland (24) will take viewers to the fabled city of Pompeii in AD 79.

This year, as you know if you've played Mayfair Games' Downfall of Pompeii™ is the year that Mount Vesuvius erupted. So if you want to see first hand what being at ground zero of one of the worst days in human history was like, or if you just like stirring movies set in the ancient world, you should dust of your copy of Downfall of Pompeii™ then go see Pompeii!

Mayfair Games Press Release - Meet the Man Behind the Game: Klaus Teuber

From the Mayfair Games Website

There was a very nice article in the New Yorker on the 12th spotlighting Klaus Teuber, creator of everyone's favorite game, The Settlers of Catan®!

If you ever wanted to know a little more about the creator of Catan®, this article is a perfect place to start!

Read it here.

Mayfair Games Press Release - Mayfair President Larry Roznai Headed to Nerd Nighters

From the Mayfair Games Website

What is Nerd Nighters, you ask? They are a youtube show that interviews industry luminaries, discusses games and helps out worthy charity events. Board game insiders cover the entire industry: game designers, artists, publishers, distributors and store owners. Their interviews allow viewers to get a personal look inside the board game industry but the true purpose of the show is to support worthy charitable causes.

Larry Roznai’s, Mayfair’s President, will be on the show February 6^th at 9pm Central Time. So drop by and learn about the history of Mayfair, Catan®, upcoming events and games and even a few questions from the live audience!

http://www.youtube.com/user/dfwnnpodcast/live

Mayfair Games Press Release - Mayfair Games Extends Sponsorship Agreement with Gen Con Through 2017

From the Mayfair Games Website

Mayfair Games is pleased to announce they have extended sponsorship agreement with Gen Con through 2017!

Mayfair Games is a world leader in the hobby board game industry and has been a major sponsor of Gen Con Indy since 2011.

“Whether teaming with our charity partners, running record-breaking events, or delivering a world-class Exhibit Hall experience, Mayfair Games has taken every opportunity to amplify the excitement of Gen Con,” said Adrian Swartout, CEO of Gen Con LLC. “Given their amazing performance as Co-Sponsors during the prior three years, we know that they will be an integral part in our ramp up to Gen Con 50, taking place in 2017.”

Last year was one of the finest collaborations between Mayfair Games and the “Best Four Days in Gaming” yet. Throughout Gen Con 2013 Mayfair held numerous groundbreaking events. Such as the Warp Speed Tournament, where the winning three faced off against Wil Wheaton in a challenging charity Star Trek Catan™ game. With player events involving nine mammoth floor games, thirteen giant games and a nightly “Git-together” providing gamers entertainment value. Most dramatic of all though was The Big Game™, where the Official Guinness World Record® for most players in a single Settlers of Catan® game was established at 922 players.

This is the power of Mayfair Games and Gen Con working together and this agreement will set the stage for future Gen Con conventions to be even bigger and better.

Mayfair Games Press Release - The Settlers of Long Island

From the Mayfair Games Website

We previously linked to an article in the University Herald that called Settlers of Catan the greatest game of all time, and now that Settlers group is back!

In "The Settlers of Long Island" they chronicle their weekly the current standing of their Winter Season and the status of the group thus far, along with some of the optional rules they use when playing a series of Settlers games and tracking the score.

It's a great read, you should definitely check out!

Mayfair Games Press Release - University Herald Calls Settlers Of Catan® The Greatest Game Of All Time

From the Mayfair Games Website

University Herald News is a website that presents "breaking news from higher education institutions around the world."

In a recent article, titled "Settlers Of Catan Was The Top Game Of 2013 And Is Probably The Top Game Ever," writer Scott Bickard breaks down why he thinks Settlers just might be the greatest board game of all time. It's a fantastic article, but of course we here at Mayfair Games are biased, so go give it a read and decide for yourself if you agree with Scott.

Thanks to Scott and the University Herald News!

Read the article here.

Mayfair Games Press Release - Need a gift idea? Deseret News recommends Downfall of Pompeii

From the Mayfair Games Website

Deseret News has released their 2013 gift guide and it has some amazing games on it, including The Downfall of Pompeii!

Check it out!

Mayfair Games Press Release - Article About Cones of Dunshire, Featured on "Parks and Rec"!

From the Mayfair Games Website

Did you see the Parks and Recs episode "Cones of Dunshire", in which a crazy-detailed board game is invented by one of the cast members?

Well it was created by Mayfair Games' design team, and this article gives you the story of the game's creation!

Mayfair Games Press Release - Mayfair Games Featured on 24/7 Chicago!

From the Mayfair Games Website

Mayfair Games received a visit from local television program Chicago 24/7. Larry Roznai showed reporters around the Mayfair warehouse and gave them the scoop on some of our most popular games, including Settlers!

So if you've ever wanted to see where the magic happens, go watch our appearance on 24/7 now!

Check it out!