Buying and selling card store Gaming Giant reopens in bigger Fairfax location

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The Fairfax City gaming store Gaming Giant celebrated its grand reopening final Friday (Aug. 22) in a brand new, bigger house within the Old Town Plaza procuring heart, proper within the coronary heart of the City of Fairfax and across the nook from a earlier location.

The store focuses totally on buying and selling card video games like Pokémon and One Piece. Manager Eric Vu says the brand new house permits the store to supply extra play house to correctly host group occasions.

“Now we provide a lot more food and alcohol, and we have more play space for hosting tournaments and not being so congested,” Vu mentioned. “We host trading card game tournaments, from casual tournaments up to more regional-level tournaments.”

Vu mentioned the store’s predominant focus is the aforementioned Pokemon and One Piece card video games, that are its huge sellers. But there’s quite a lot of totally different buying and selling card video games arrange across the store, together with a variety of merchandise from Bandai — a Japanese toy retailer — and a spotlight extra on card video games from Asia.

The store was busy for its opening day at 3925 Chain Bridge Road, Suite 201, drawing a mixture of returning regulars from the earlier location on University Drive and newcomers stopping in with their children, in line with Vu.

“It’s been very supportive so far,” mentioned Vu. “A lot of people have been coming by and congratulating us. Others are just glancing in and seeing what kind of store we are.”

Several of the youthful buyers eagerly appeared over the artwork on the cardboard decks, and Vu mentioned passing on that love of buying and selling card video games to youthful generations is certainly one of his favourite elements of the job.

“I love the people here,” Vu mentioned. “I especially love interacting with the kids and providing them the experiences that I had as a kid.”