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Star Wars: Disguised Stormtrooper deploys to police in Canada & is arrested

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Police fix the restaurant employee disguised as a stormtrooper.  (Image source: Youtube - Freedom Media Canada) For Star Wars Day on May 4th, a Canadian restaurant wanted to advertise with a disguised stormtrooper.  But the matter backfired. A stormtrooper was arrested in Canada  .  Of course not a real one, because it only exists in a galaxy far, far away.  Instead, a disguised restaurant employee arranged for a police operation because she was supposed to advertise in Stormtrooper outfit on Star Wars Day and carried a plastic blaster with her. As the website  Lethbrdidgenewsnow.com  reports, on May 4, the Coco Vanilla Galactic Cantina (aka "May the 4th" or "Star Wars Day")  parked  an  employee in a stormtrooper costume in  front of the restaurant to attract customers.  Because the restaurant in Lethbridge, Canada is built around Star Wars anyway, in addition to food, you can obviously also buy a lot of merchandise...

Not just Mystery Dungeon: here are 10 more Pokémon spin-offs

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These days, fans of Pokémon of all ages, especially long-time ones, are delighted with the release of  Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX  a  spin-off dungeon crawler  and remake of the original  Red  Team  and  Blue Team  titles  released respectively for GBA and Nindendo DS in 2006. And have you tried the new Mystery Dungeon? For the uninitiated  Mystery Dungeon  isn't the only  Pokémon-themed  spin-off series  .  As with any other successful Nintendo brand, there are numerous titles published on different platforms and of various kinds.  They range from puzzles, fighting games, strategy games to the very famous  Pokémon Go! We have decided to brush up on some of the Pokémon spin-offs that we think are particularly interesting. Detective Pikachu (not the movie) No, if you're wondering, we're not talking about the recent movie  .  Detective Pikachu  is...

[Old Glories] Dirk Henn's Alhambra

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What to do when the psychologist recognizes serious elements of the serial player syndrome in his variant "at least one new game per week" that leads some to compulsive purchase with meters of bookcases occupied by boxes, in the best case, used for a evening only others to the obsessive attendance of fairs and demo evenings? My "shrink" advised me to return to the classics and the new Italian edition came about, the result of the partnership signed just over a year ago between Devir Italia and Queen Games, of  Alhambra  , a game by  Dirk Henn  that back in 2003 won the coveted Spiel des Jahres award. It is an excellent opportunity to evaluate whether 16 years after Alhambra is still in step with the times as are other games that support him in the palmares of the German recognition from Carcassonne, winner in 2001, to Ticket to Ride, game of the year 2004, passing through the 2002 nomination of Puerto Rico which in my very personal Olympus of board game...