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Guild Con FEVER! PAX and DragonCon
The Guild — ... In addition, they will be signing and selling DVDs in a very visible booth on the SKYBRIDGE leading into the Expo hall! SIGNING TIMES: Friday 4-6pm Saturday 12-2pm, 4-6pm Sunday 10-12pm Please stop by and say hi at least! ALSO Check out a screening that SAME NIGHT of Zaboo’s web show “Legend of Neil!” It’s screening at 12:30am in the Walrus theatre on Friday, so you can see BOTH series on the big screen! Woot! And at DragonCon in Atlanta, Guild champion Jamie Chambers of Margaret Weis Productions AGAIN ...

Funcom announces its Dragon*Con plans
Massively — ... American readers: are you going to Dragon*Con this Labor Day weekend? Funcom (developer of Anarchy Online, Age of Conan, and The Secret World) is! Its specific plans have been laid out at the Age of Conan website. The company will have its own booth, of course, which will be open from 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM Friday through Sunday, and from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM on Monday. More interestingly, though, Funcom will be hosting what it calls the "FunCon Event" in the Sheraton Capital Ballroom on Friday at ...

One Shots: Orgrimmar by moonlight
Massively — Filed under: World of Warcraft, Fantasy, Screenshots, One Shots Having just come back from Dragon*Con, we can say we met a huge number of World of Warcraft players, and we had a blast getting to know the overall MMO community out there. ...

The Daily Grind: Are you looking forward to any gaming conventions?
Massively — ... and Dragon*Con to think about. Plus, there are countless smaller cons all around the world celebrating the gaming and general geek culture. ...

New Dev Blog - "Developments on the Horizon"
Age of Conan Vault - The Ultimate Resource — New Dev Blog - "Developments on the Horizon" [ Comment [image] ] Print News | Category: Official News - Community News Glen 'Famine' Swan promises a heap of new content to grace AOC soon! [image] While basically Famine reiterates what has been first announced in last game director's letter , a couple of new items managed to slip under the radar. For instance, now we know more about the new Tower PVP - it will take place in Border Kingdoms (thus not restricted to any ruleset, all servers will probably have it) and it's an objective-based competition (so ...

AoC dev blog discusses class tweaks and recruiting more advocates
Massively — Funcom's Glen "Famine" Swan has put another entry into his blog at MMORPG, discussing Age of Conan's upcoming guild features (which Craig Morrison elaborated on in his recent game director letter) as well as some class tweaks that the developers have been ...

Global Agenda announces North American tour
Massively — ... American tour. It'll be a chance for fans, or anyone curious about the shooter-MMO hybrid, to get some hands-on time with Global Agenda and meet the developers from Hi-Rez Studios. The Global Agenda tour kicks off this week at QuakeCon in Dallas and will hit the major gaming events through January. The tour dates announced thus far are: August 13-15 -- Dallas, QuakeCon September 4 -- Atlanta, DragonCon September 4-6 -- Seattle, Penny Arcade Expo ...

Meet the Massively team at DragonCon '09
Massively — ... As we are just now recovering from BlizzCon and GamesCom last week, we realize we're not even close to being through the summer convention season yet. DragonCon in Atlanta, GA and PAX in Seattle, WA both start next week, and you can bet there are more than a few of us at Massively who will be attending these major conferences. At DragonCon specifically, the Massively staff will be in full force as four of us plan to attend in one form or another. Some of us will be speaking at panels, some of us will be doing interviews and one of us is even on the ...

AOC at DragonCon 09!
Age of Conan Vault - The Ultimate Resource — AOC at DragonCon 09! [ Comment [image] ] Print News | Category: Official News - Community News DragonCon is nigh, ladies ! [image] [image] In just a few days, Atlanta will be swarmed by weirdly dressed geeks and fans of all shapes and sizes. DC is probably the most versatile and culturally diverse event of each season, including parades, panels, music happenings, live events and even an attempt to beat a Guinness Book of Records record (during an MJ tribute Thriller performance). In short, if you aren't there ...

Hi-Rez Studios to host all-night Global Agenda LAN party at Dragon*Con
Massively — Filed under: Sci-fi, Events, real-world, MMO industry, News items, MMOFPS, Global Agenda Are you interested in checking out the sci-fi MMOFPS Global Agenda, but didn't get accepted into beta? The team at Hi-Rez Studios has good news for anyone who's going to be in Atlanta during Dragon*Con 2009. They're going to have an all-night LAN party for Global Agenda which anyone can crash, even if you don't have a Dragon*Con pass. Hi-Rez Studios bills this as an ...

Dragon*Con 2009!
Online Gaming Radio — Dragon*Con is just a few days away and SOE will once again be a part of the MMO Track! We’ve got all the information you need to know about the SOE whos, wheres and whens. We hope you’ll join us for the fun! Read more! News republished from official EverQuest 2 website.

Blizzard at PAX this weekend
WoW.com — ... will be there, along with producer Kim Evey and Wil Wheaton (Felicia is headed off to Dragon*Con this weekend). Unfortunately, the screening is during the Friday evening concert, and so you might have to miss Anamanaguchi, Metroid Metal, and MC Frontalot. My favorites Jonathan Coulton and Freezepop are playing on Saturday night, though, so you can fit in both of those if you like. ...

Attend Dragon*Con via Second Life
Massively — ... We here at Massively know that not everyone can spend the money or the time to come out to Dragon*Con. But we don't want you guys to feel left out of the fun! ...

Blizzard at PAX 2009 wrapup
WoW.com — ... , including a few pictures of the setup on the convention floor, as well as a few (sneaky) screenshots of the Worgen and Goblin areas. He also got to meet Jeff "Vork" Lewis and Sandeep "Zaboo" Parikh of The Guild. Felicia Day wasn't there (she spent the weekend at Dragon*Con, where there was other WoW-related shenanigans going on), but as Sandeep reported on his Twitter, ...

DragonCon 2009: Interview with Global Agenda
Massively — ... At Dragon*Con this year, we had the chance to grab a quick video interview with Stew Chisam, VP of Game Operations at Hi-Rez Studios. Following two successful closed beta weekends, and some wonderful demos at Dragon*Con and PAX, Stew was happy to tell us how things are going in the progression of Global Agenda. As promised on our last tour of the Hi-Rez Studios HQ, we're following the studio -- and the game -- as they progress through to launch. Follow along after the jump to see what Stew has to say about player feedback, ...

Dragon*Con 2009: Costumes, the parade and more!
Massively — ... Didn't get a chance to check out the costumes at Dragon*Con this year? No problem! We spent the last weekend grabbing literally hours of video footage to stuff into a small, digestible 10-minute chunk for our readers. We have some footage of the costumes around the hotels, the mass of people outside and of course, the epic parade that is held every year. Follow along after the jump for just a tidbit of our favorite moments from Dragon*Con 2009, and look for a photo gallery of even more wonderful imagery coming soon. Continue reading Dragon*Con 2009: ...

WoW Add-ons panel at Dragon*Con 2009
WoW.com — While at Dragon*Con this weekend, I was able to attend a World of Warcraft add-ons panel hosted by Cameron Knight, commonly known as ckknight, the developer of such add-ons as Cartographer, Pitbull, Chinchilla, and FuBar. As a day job, he is currently the ...

Dragon*Con 2009: A look back at the mayhem
Massively — ... . Amongst all the comic, fantasy, sci-fi, and other sundry forms of nerditry, there is a steadily growing MMO and video game presence at Dragon*Con. ...

Dragon*Con 2009 in pictures
WoW.com — ... Oh, Dragon*Con, I missed you before I even left. Though I'm not entirely certain if you can really enjoy the MMO track's annual World of Warcraft party -- which included Gnome punting and Horde vs. Alliance dodgeball -- vicariously, I tried to catch the experience in photographic form nevertheless. (Note: if you want to really experience the meaning of the "war" in Warcraft, you need to do so in a room filled with hundreds of WoW fans cheering for their faction of choice.) Of course, Dragon*Con is more than parties (after all, some of ...