Speaking of Games Workshop...
There used to be several gaming shops in Memphis. Midtown Toys, Gamemasters, Kevin's Attic, plus a couple more that have all, for one reason or another, closed their doors. Which leaves us with one gaming store in town: Games Workshop, down on Holmes road.
This store, one of about 150 GW stores and one of about 6 "Battle Bunkers," sell exclusively GW products. It is paired with the US manufacturing and distribution facility here in Memphis. Which is why the store is located in the middle of the industrial district. I have taken the factory tour and seen that every sprue of GW product sold in the US is manufactured here, along with all of the metal figures and bitz (individual parts of a completed model).
I bring this up because there are a lot more games and game systems out there than just GW. but you can't get them here in Memphis because there is no independent store to sell them. The closest game store that I know of is a hour away in Jackson, TN.
So if anybody wants to donate about $110,000 so I can start a game store, just punch the Paypal button over there on the right ;-).
Seriously, GW is the 800 pound gorilla of the gaming industry. Warhammer, Warhammer 40k, and Lord of the Rings are their "core games," which means what they concentrate on. There is a subsidiary company called Specialist Games, which manufactures games like Epic, Blood Bowl, Mordeihm and Necumunda. But these games are considered "step-children" and don't get the coverage that they should.
But there are a lot of other games out there, that aren't getting any coverage here in Memphis. I am really sorry about that, but unless someone hits that donate button, I can't do anything about it.
So, While I'm not exactly complaining, but there is nothing but GW here.