We look at current retail staffing trends and how serving customers, maintaining security, and the owner’s role fit together for different retailers.

Hobby game sales were up strongly overall in the Spring (January through April) season of 2021, although there were substantial variations from region to region and store to store depending on the fury of the global Covid pandemic and the accompanying restrictions on retail.

Asmodee USA and Z-Man unveiled Pandemic: Hot Zone - Europe , the second game in the Hot Zone series.

Weak sales in May were largely due to restrictions on retail activity, but that had turned around by August, when some were reporting record sales for the month.

Z-Man Games’ Studio Head Steven Kimball shared information on the company’s planned release for the highly anticipated Pandemic Legacy – Season 2.

At New York Toy Fair, The Asmodee Group was showing off Z-Man Games’ upcoming sequel to the wildly popular cooperative game of disease-curing Pandemic Legacy – Season 1.

Z-Man Games has announced two 2015 releases.

Z-Man will release new dice game in 2014.

This week, Thorne looks again at the early release of Pandemic in one channel and the launch of a new distributor magalog.

The Toy Association is moving Toy Fair out of New York after the next show, and is also changing dates from its current Fall schedule.