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Geek Week 5.0 Game Night

Posted Wednesday, April 20th, 2011 at 3:23pm

For the fifth year running, Montpelier’s Langdon Street Cafe hosts Geek Week, a multi-day celebration of all things geeky. From Tuesday, April 26 to Saturday the 30th, the cafe serves as Geek Central, with plenty of musical acts including James Kochalka, a mentalist, a geek life drawing class, the “Miss Wizard Science Happy Hour”1 and, of course, a game night!

Wednesday the 27th is the Geek Week Game Night. In addition to the joys of open gaming from the cafe’s own stash, or whatever people bring along, your master of ceremonies Ben Matchstick runs a Gamma World adventure. I’m rounding up players for a game of Fiasco, as well.

It looks to be a fun night — and week!

1 I’m not sure just what that is, but I want to find out.

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This Week in Vermont Gaming: July 12th to July 18th

Posted Monday, July 12th, 2010 at 8:40am

Check out these gaming opportunities around Vermont for the week of Monday, July 12th through Sunday July 18th. It’s a busy gaming week:

Other gaming in the Northeast:

Got a game night or convention you want to share? Leave us a comment. And be sure to check out our calendar for the longer view.

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Geek Week 4.0 Observed!

Posted Sunday, March 28th, 2010 at 10:58pm

Geek Week 4.0′s Game Con was fantastic. We went, we saw, we placed cubes, meeples, influence tokens and every other variety of game-playing paraphernalia on which we could lay hands.

People literally packed the Langdon Street Cafe to play board games. At one point in the afternoon, there was standing room only for new arrivals. I counted eight tables of games being played, at least one of which served double duty for Arkham Horror at one end and Endeavor — neither of which are games that take minimal space — at the other.

Thanks again to Ben Matchstick for organizing Geek Week and making a place in the schedule for a game day, as well as Langdon Street Cafe hosting it all. Opportunities like Geek Week are rare. We should take advantage of them.

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Langdon Street Cafe’s Geek Week 4.0 Gaming Con is March 28th

Posted Sunday, March 21st, 2010 at 8:36am

<div xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" about="http://www.flickr.com/photos/norsehorse/60262222/"><a rel="cc:attributionURL" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/norsehorse/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/norsehorse/</a> / <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/">CC BY-NC-ND 2.0</a></div>March 24th to 30th, Langdon Street Cafe hosts Geek Week 4.0, a celebration of all things geeky and wonderful. Nights are scheduled with workshops on various topics — hacking, tapeloops and Dungeons & Dragons to name three — and the nerdiest musical acts they could find. Their Facebook event page has a thorough listing of what’s happening when.

The Sunday of Geek Week, the 28th, is the minicon. It’s a game-playing free-for-all that runs throughout the afternoon. There will be a plethora of games on hand to try, or you can bring your own favorite to show off.

Green Mountain Gamers will be there, so if you see one of us, say hello!

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Hello world!

Posted Sunday, March 14th, 2010 at 10:05pm

Bob, Brennan, Tyler, Rod, Bethany and Chuck, from left to right.

This afternoon we had an interesting meeting at Langdon Street Cafe in Montpelier. Six people from different corners of the northern half of Vermont convened to discuss the possibilities in encouraging more frequent and active gaming in and between the disparate hobby communities.

The Green Mountain Gamers website is just one of the things that came from that meeting. Keep an eye out for more news as it develops.

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