All Entries Tagged With: "conventions"
Origins Game Fair 2010 Exhibitor and Vendor Web Sites
Origins Game Fair released the pre-registration book which included the Origins Game Fair 2010 exhibitor and vendor list. Sadly, the list is just text and does not contain links to the various vendor web sites. Since I am not attending Origins this year and wanted to check out all the vendors, I created a vendor [...]
Advice for Gamers Attending Origins Game Fair 2009
Which, sadly, does not include me. There was a brief moment a few months ago when I considered attending both Origins and Gen Con, but the harsh economic realities quickly quashed that idea. So, Gen Con yes, Origins no. Which is quite annoying because there was some interesting stuff I wanted to check out this [...]
Origins 2009 Vendor Website List and Search Engine on RPGSeek.com
RPGSeek.com is hosting a list of the Origins 2009 vendor’s websites. The list includes vendor name, website link and a brief description of what they sell/do. I created the list on livingdice.com last year and it got great feedback. This year I made some improvements to both its readability and utility. Rather than host the [...]
Gen Con Registration Starts 2-15–Hotel Registration on 2-17
I am buried at work and blogging is correspondingly light, but a looming deadline roused me to post. Gen Con registration opens this Sunday (2-15-09) for badge purchases. Gen Con is still months away, but an early badge purchase is critical to access the hotel reservation system that goes live on Tuesday (2-17-09) at 12:00 [...]
Gamer Tools Review: The ZÜCA Wheeled Bag
The ZÜCA is quite possibly the world’s best gamer bag for convention goers. Trask has been asking me to do a review for a while. He even featured it in this year’s ‘10 Christmas Gift Ideas for a Role-Playing Gamer‘ due to all my man-love speech. So, without further ado, I will begin… Trask and [...]
Are Local Game Conventions a Dying Institution?
Yesterday, I forked out $30.00 for a weekend pass to the sole remaining gaming convention in my state. In previous years, it was a bazaar of gaming, cos-play (creepy!) and a thriving vendor area. The entire convention center hummed with activity and table space was at a premium. It is a well run convention with [...]
