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SSG at UK Games Expo 2025
Once more, the UK Games Expo is approaching rapidly! And once more, Surprised Stare Games has a stand: Hall 2, Stand 2-996. We've had a...
May 24
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SSG at Dragonmeet
Surprised Stare Games has its first outing to Dragonmeet this year! We're in the Lower Trade Hall, C3, and hope to see you there. We will...
Nov 27, 2024
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SSG at Warfare 2024: Farnborough
Warfare 2024 takes place at the Farnborough International Exhibition and Conference Centre on 16/17 November 2024. We will be there at...
Nov 12, 2024
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SSG at BritCon 2024
SSG will be there on Saturday 10 August! Come and see our range of board games, including all our popular Pocket Campaigns series of...
Aug 9, 2024
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SSG at Attack! 2024, 20-21 July
We have tables at Attack! 2024 this weekend (20-21 July 2024) at Devizes in Wiltshire. This is a large wargame show, and Dave Mortimer...
Jul 16, 2024
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Kingmaker special: a 3D insert for your new game
I take no credit for this amazing artifact - a specially designed insert for Kingmaker: the Royal Relaunch. This add-on product (not an...
Jul 1, 2024
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June 2024 conventions
UK Games Expo 2024 June started with UK Games Expo. Well, more accurately, May ended with it, but I always think of Expo being a June...
Jun 12, 2024
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SSG at UK Games Expo 2024
The UK's biggest games extravaganza, UK Games Expo, takes place between 31 May and 2 June 2024 - only a week to go! Surprised Stare Games...
May 24, 2024
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Mission Command: Normandy - Pushing in a German Outpost 2
This post is a session report for Mission Command: Normandy, our WW2 miniatures ruleset. However, it is deliberately incomplete, as I...
May 13, 2024
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Vapnartak!
Vapnartak is a wargames show held at York Racecourse on 4 February 2024 and run by the York Wargames Society. As a result of a late...
Jan 30, 2024
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The Cousins' War on Brain of Britain
Our game, The Cousins' War by David J Mortimer has hit the big-time! We have featured as a question in Heat 10 of the Brain of Britain...
Oct 17, 2023
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It's nearly Spiel time again!
5-9 October 2023 Hall 3, 3A114 - Surprised Stare Games' stand COME AND SEE US! It's been a year already since Spiel '22, though that's...
Sep 25, 2023
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War of the 3 Sanchos: last 2 days
We are about to enter the last couple of days of our Gamefound campaign for War of the 3 Sanchos. We have a bit of a sprint still to do...
Aug 15, 2023
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War of the 3 Sanchos: Live on Gamefound!
Exciting news! After a long gestation period, War of the 3 Sanchos is now live on Gamefound... You can find out more about the game on...
Jul 18, 2023
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War of the 3 Sanchos: Follower discount
As an acknowledgement of your extra help in supporting our project at the early stage, we are giving a Follower gift of £1 off your...
Jul 10, 2023
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SSG at UK Games Expo 2023
It's Expo time of year again! Surprised Stare Games will be at the UK Games Expo, 2-4 June 2023 at the NEC in Birmingham. Do come and see...
May 30, 2023
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Kingmaker on The Dice Tower
Today is the official retail launch day for Kingmaker: The Royal Re-launch. To mark this milestone, and my involvement as developer of...
May 15, 2023
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How to set up Kingmaker the Second
I'm not an expert at making videos, as you can tell if you watch any of them. However, after making an unboxing video of the new...
Apr 1, 2023
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Presents from Gibsons: Unboxing Kingmaker
A big hooray on Saturday 25 March 2023, when my long-awaiting package arrived from Gibsons. Here's a video about what happened next......
Mar 26, 2023
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Pondering Mechanics with Bez: Sealed Bid Auctions
It's that time again! 10:00 today (Wednesday 22 March 2023), I'll be blethering about board game mechanics with Bez. This morning it's...
Mar 22, 2023
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3 Sanchos and Bugs in Harrogate
A quick resumé of our outing to AireCon '23 at the Harrogate Convention Centre Charlie and I headed north in the snow on Thursday 9th...
Mar 16, 2023
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Pondering Mechanics with Bez: Once Around Auctions
It's another Wednesday Bether for me with Bez Shahriari! We continue examining the different auction systems. A series inspired by...
Mar 8, 2023
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AireMail
Surprised Stare Games will be at AireCon Thursday 9 March to Sunday 12 March! To be a bit more precise, we don't have a full exhibitor...
Mar 6, 2023
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