In a word Wizard’s of the Coast Gen Con presence came down to one theme..Neverwinter. This setting holds a special place in my memories going back to the original game on AOL. The Forgotten Realms campaign setting was my favorite setting when playing D&D back in my post college years and the Bioware version of [...]
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FFG Gen Con Report Part 2
August 25th, 2011 
Dan I’ll admit it we got caught up with all the new games so I have a couple of Gen Con reports that didn’t get posted so I will get those out over the next few days. Last time we looked at a few of Fantasy Flights games that we’re on display and sale at Gen [...]
Blood Bowl Video
August 10th, 2011 Dan I’ve just uploaded a little video of the unboxing of Blood bowl to the Youtube channel. Sorry for the quality but I used my handheld instead of my good camera when doing this. For those too lazy I’m including it after the jump.
WizKids GenCon report.
August 10th, 2011 Dan If I had to sum up WizKids GenCon 2011 experience in one word it would be Quarriors. WizKids had over a dozen tables set up and Quarriors was being demoed on most of them to full houses. I’d have to imagine that Quarriors is already and outright success for them and it isn’t even officially [...]
Sleeper games at GenCon
August 9th, 2011 admin One of the interesting things about going to GenCon is the little things you might find. Although Blood Bowl: Team Manager, Gears of War, and Elder Sign might be on your list of games that you know you want to buy or try at the convention, there are other ones that you stumble upon and [...]
Much Ado about Deck Building (a GenCon Report from Chris)
August 8th, 2011 admin This is not my first GenCon, not even close. That was 16 years and two convention centers ago, and I still miss the old decaying MECCA and the musty pipe-ceiling basements of the Arena, where I played Magic and Silent Death and Warhammer 40k in my formative gaming years. It wasn’t my favorite GenCon, either, [...]
Plaid Hat Games Report
August 8th, 2011 Dan For those not familiar with Plaid Hat games they burst onto the scene with their surprise hit Summoner Ward and have since cultivated that franchise into more faction packs, reinforcement decks and a new boxed edition which you can see here in a video we did not long ago. I was very eager to hit [...]
Fantasy Flight Games Report part 1
August 7th, 2011 Dan For several years now Fantasy Flight Games has had arguably the biggest booth at GenCon and this year was no different. FFG delivered the goods this week first with their announcement on the Star Wars license and then at their In Flight report revealing Wiz-War, Descent 2nd Edition and finally the re-themed remake of Dune [...]
Tasty Minstrel Games Report
August 7th, 2011 Dan Three of us hit the Tasty Minstrel booth on day two of the show to grab some games. Somehow I missed their booth the first day which isn’t hard to do at GenCon because it is like a maze. Regardless we all came away with some new games and I’ve already played two of them.
Cryptozoic Report
August 7th, 2011 Dan Some gamers might not be familiar with Cryptozoic because until recently they have mainly been tied to the World of Warcraft TCG and not much else. However Cryptozoic had a nice presence at GenCon and were especially promoting their new card game called Food Fight. They had blackjack tables set up in the exhibitor hall [...]
GenCon Day Three
August 6th, 2011 Dan Fear not gentle reader you didn’t miss Day Two I was so exhausted last night that I passed out before I could write anything. I’m going to start tackling everything I saw and purchased tomorrow so you should see the impressions start to come out soon. Anyway on to some random impressions.
Some vids
August 5th, 2011 Dan While the wireless seems to be working this morning I am going to take advantage and upload some unedited clips I shot yesterday. Nothing special here just some looks at different games. Some short, some longer. Please use the YouTube player to the right to visit the Youtube channel.
GenCon Day 1 in review
August 4th, 2011 Dan My plan was to post constant updates during the day but the lack of any decent wifi, 100 degree heat and lugging a laptop around while carrying a ton of games didn’t pan out. If you want up to the minute updates tomorrow then follow us on twitter or look for the hash tag #obgb. [...]
WizKids to show some new games
August 2nd, 2011 Dan Besides Quarriors, Star Trek Fleet Captains and Star Trek Expeditions WizKid’s is going to be giving sneak peaks of two upcoming games. Hit the jump for the press.
