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Gen Con in Indianapolis Through 2015
Gen Con just announced they are staying in Indianapolis, Indiana until at least 2015. The links below are more about the convention center than Gen Con, but the extensive upgrades and renovations apparently encouraged Gen Con to stay a few more years.
Gen Con convention center visit
Gen Con staying until 2015
I did find it interesting that [...]
Gen Con 2010 Hotel Rates
Gen Con 2010 hotel reservations open tomorrow so I am posting the available hotel room rates for Gen Con through the RUBI system. The rates below are for double occupancy, but I also checked for quad occupancy and some of the rates went up $10.00 to $20.00 while others did not change at all. In [...]
Gen Con Badge Registration is Open
Gen Con 2010 badge registration is open for business! Normally I do not post convention badge registration open notices, but the unique badge/hotel relationship at Gen Con makes it noteworthy. Remember that only badge holders receive the codes to purchase lower-cost ( and nearby) hotel rooms from the convention’s reserved room list on January 26th. [...]
Gen Con 2010 Registration, Badge and Hotel Information Released
The Gen Con 2010 Badge and Hotel information went out today and here is the quick summary.
Badge Pre-Registration – Opens January 24th
Housing – Opens January 26th
Event Submission – Opens January 13th
As usual, badges are easy to get, but good hotel rooms are more valuable than your first-born child. After you buy a badge you receive [...]
Free Advice to Game Publishers: How to Demo a Role-Playing Game at a Convention
I specifically went to Gen Con 2009 seeking new games. Almost every slot I played was a “no experience required” event and everyone at the table was totally new to the game world and system. After four days of demos and intro games run by game publishers I noticed some serious deficiencies with [...]
The Most Disturbing Events at Gen Con 2009 Award
I am a gamer and generally tolerant of whatever game you choose to play or do at a convention. That said, the two events below were so deeply disturbing, so breathtakingly bizarre that I could not let them pass into memory. I created a new yearly award for “Most Disturbing Event at Gen Con” to [...]
Review: True Dungeon at Gen Con 2009
True Dungeon is one of those events that I see every year at large conventions and just never made the time to see what it is about. Not really for any particular reason other than I had other games to play. This year one of my gaming buddies expressed an interest in giving it a [...]
Gen Con 2009 Report –The Games We Played Part 2
This is the second part of my post on games I played at Gen Con 2009. Tomorrow I talk about my True Dungeon experience in detail.
Aces & Eights
Aces & Eights is an Wild West RPG from Kenzer and Company. We saw this RPG at Origins last year and were amazed by the books quality and [...]
Gen Con 2009 Report –The Games We Played Part 1
Gen Con is by far the largest convention I have ever attended. Massive vendor areas, huge variety of games and multiple venues kept me hopping the entire four days. Since there is so much I broke up my coverage into several posts over the next few days. Upcoming topics include my “True Dungeon” experience, the [...]
