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Thanks for your support. Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games, but especially the people who play them.

This is a special edition of the Dice Tower with an exclusive interview from Stephen Bonacour at Stronghold Games. I'm Eric Sommerer and here from the International News Desk is Tom Vassal.

All right folks we're speaking to Stephen Bonacor from Stronghold Games, welcome to the show, sir.

Hey, how you doing guys?

Doing all right.

You are about to depart for Essen, although when people are listening to this,

you are already at Essen.

So I hope you're having a good time at Essen even though you're not

there yet yeah I hope I'm having a great time which I probably won't be because it's

work work for the publishers the fans of a great time but but the publishers, oh God.

You don't just sit back sipping Champagne the whole time?

Is this your first time there?

No, I know we were there last year, and we're planning on having a presence at

Edson's every year.

It's the place to be if you are a publisher.

The Strong Old Games will be there every year.

Well, tell us a little bit about the games that we're going to see at Essen this year.

Oh, this year we have three new releases.

First one is Panic Station.

That's a co-publication with White Goblin Games.

And it's a very big buzz on that game.

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