Starting Saturday November 26 Atlantis Games & Comics will begin hosting a Pokemon League at the Portsmouth location. League play will be every Saturday from 12pm-3pm. As you play you earn points and when you get enough points you will receive 2 holographic promo cards.  So grab your decks, play some Pokemon and have fun. For all the details just come to the store on League day. Events will be posted on the calendar as well.

"When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground."

Thanks for making our Game of Thrones LCG event a success. We had 11 players come out including long time players as well as people just learning. With the TV show and new book interest in Game of Thrones is high and Tuesday night's event solidified our decision to get a league going for one of the best card games on the market. So keep an eye out for details on that. And if you are interested in playing let us know.

Why is this card game so great?

 It has a low cost. The living card game format makes it very easy to keep your card collection up to date. Most card games release sets every few months that add hundreds of new cards that can only be bought in random packs. Instead with a Living Card Game all the packs are just sets. Each monthly Chapter Pack is a playset of all the cards in that set. And the price tag is only 14.95. So for 14.95 a month you can own every card in the game.

It also has one of the best licensed properties out. And Fantasy Flight takes great pains to take the flavor of the books and make the cards match. So it feels like you are playing Game of Thrones and not just a game with pretty pictures.

For more info on this game check out the website here. For a video tutorial of the game go here.

As promised we raffled off a copy of the new Game of Thrones book, Dance With Dragons. The winner was Richard Francis, congratulations!

With more Grand Prix events in 2012 it means that there are more Grand Prix Trials to run. I've just scheduled the first batch of trials for Atlantis. So we scheduled 8 new events so far. Some are even Sealed Booster events. The constructed events will be FREE to play in too. Everyone likes free right? Sealed events will be $25.00 to play and if we get more than 24 players then we will top 8 draft for no extra charge.

Event dates are as follows:

• December 31st 2011 GPT Lincoln: Standard, Location: Portsmouth, Entry: FREE
• January 1st 2012 GPT Lincoln: Standard, Location: Norfolk, Entry: FREE
• January 7th 2012 GPT Baltimore: Sealed, Location: Portsmouth, Entry: $25
• January 8th 2012 GPT Baltimore: Sealed, Location: Norfolk, Entry: $25
• January 14th 2012 GPT Indianapolis: Standard, Location: Portsmouth, Entry: FREE
• January 15th 2012 GPT Indianapolis: Standard, Location: Norfolk, Entry: FREE
• February 11th 2012 GPT Seattle: Sealed, Location: Portsmouth, Entry: $25
• February 12th 2012 GPT Seattle: Sealed, Location: Norfolk, Entry: $25

As an added bonus we will also be tracking PWP points for all players in any GPT Atlantis runs from now until the Baltimore Grand Prix. We will be paying for a hotel room for the the top 2 players of these 8 GPTs.

In Resident Evil, a deadly virus has caused the dead to rise and infect any living thing they encounter!  Fleeing to a mysterious mansion, you must gather any materials you can find to protect yourself and fight for your survival against a legion of infected beings!

The RESIDENT EVIL DBG brings the story to life in a game of strategy where players construct their cards decks while they play.  Choose to play as one of your favorite characters from RESIDENT EVIL and start with only the most basic of items and weapons. As the game progresses, players build their arsenal with additional Weapons, Ammunition, Action or Item cards to customize their deck and improve their ability in defeating “the Infected”! Your deck will be your lifeline to survival.  How will you survive the zombie outbreak?

RESIDENT EVIL DBG: OUTBREAK is an expansion set that can only be played with either the first Resident Evil DBG or Resident Evil: Alliance.  The new OUTBREAK Mode, puts the players in danger of turning into the Infected themselves. New characters such as Kevin, Ryman, David King and Mark Wilkins will help you while you’re alive. However, life doesn’t end as an Infected as you can rise from the dead and attack your fellow players as new Infected Characters and Infection Cards!

Game contents:

• Exclusive Resident Evil DBG Storage Box
• Damage counters and card dividers
• Game manual and 150 cards
• Demographics: Based on a Rated M for Mature video game
• Suggested Retail Price $29.99

Both stores will be hosting Outbreak Launch Events. So that's two chances to get promo cards and win a great looking Resident Evil playmat. Click the links for details on events.

• Atlantis Portsmouth
• Atlantis Norfolk