Our new gaming space is expected to accommodate 30 tables and 84 seats (which can be expanded to over 100 seats for larger events).

We know that it has been difficult to book a table due to all of the events that we run. Our expansion will ensure that tables are always available, whether for casual board gaming, joining in with a club or to play wargames. We want to return to the days when you could drop in any time to play some games...

Many of our regular events reached their maximum capacity a long time ago, but with this expansion there will be more space than ever! And many more clubs to come...

Tournaments are going to be a big thing after our expansion! TCG tournaments will expand and become more regular and wargaming tournaments will finally begin in earnest, with a full calendar of events for all of our currently supported games.

There is always a risk as any business grows that it loses sight of where it came from. Black Dragon Games exists because of our community and must continue to grow with our community. That's where The Champions Program comes in!

We're excited to be inviting members of our community who are passionate about a particular game to become our Community Champions and work alongside the Black Dragon Games team.
Champions will help us to plan, run and sometimes even judge the events that our community want to see, bringing their unique insight as players.

We want Community Champions to become the centre of our gaming community, ensuring that Black Dragon Games goes above and beyond in creating the best events possible.

Our events page, booking page and preorder pages were written in the final few days before Black Dragon Games opened, almost 3 years ago. They have performed admirably, but its time for them to go...

Our physical expansion will be followed shortly by a complete overhaul of all online systems. The new website will feature a login system where you can manage your bookings, pay in advance for events if you wish, place and view preorders and adjust your newsletter settings.

That's right! A newsletter! With so many events and new releases it can be hard to keep up with what's going on in the wonderful world of games. Our newsletter will allow you to select the content that you want to be kept up-to-date about, ensuring that you always know about the new releases and events that you care about.

What goes on behind the scenes is just as important!

Black Dragon Games 2.0 will feature a huge stock room, allowing us to keep more stock and operate in a more organised and efficient manner.
The staff will finally get a space for themselves! Our staff work exceptionally hard and we want to give them a space take a break and decompress when they're not working.
You've probably noticed us working away at computers on the gaming tables as we process the mountains of administration that the shop generates. It's time to build an office and give the managers somewhere to do their work...

This is how our back room (our stock room at the time) looked back in August...

But with a little bit of work from contractors and staff, we've transformed it into a new gaming room that seats an extra 16 people!

Phase 2 gives us some extra gaming space, allowing us to offer more clubs and casual gaming tables. You should start to find that you can now book a table most days!

But we're only half way through Phase 2. The staircase in the back room will soon become the route into our upstairs gaming area, while the doors need to be adjusted to provide wheelchair access and additional fire exits to accommodate the additional capacity that Phase 3 will provide.

Here's the big one! It's also the most expensive stage of our expansion...

The area above our shop currently looks like this:

This is what we're starting with - the landlord has done a great job stripping it out for us, but now we've got to put it back together again.

Once we're happy that our plans will satisfy Building Control, we can start work: replacing all of the electrics and plumbing, building a new staircase and 3 toilet rooms, resurfacing the walls, installing an air conditioning system and fire alarm, new carpets and filling it with many tables...

This is going to take a while and cost a lot of money, but we're expecting to be up there early next year.

This room will allow us to hold large-scale events without impacting table usage downstairs, allowing all weekly clubs and general table usage to continue. Whether its hosting 32 players for a Warhammer 40,000 tournament, or a 64 player Pokémon League Cup, this area will allow everyone to continue doing their favourite hobbies without interruption.

Upstairs is also where we'll be building our office and staff room, giving the team somewhere out of the way to work and rest.