Dragon*Con | Dragon*Con MMO

Hey everyone! Krystalle from Massively.com here. I hope you all made it home safe and sound and are enjoying being back at home with your gaming computers, in your comfy chairs/beds. I know I’ve missed my beloved office! (That’s an old picture of it above. Much more filled with geekstuff now.)

I’d like to take a moment to thank all our awesome sponsors and contributors, as well as the many guests who came to lend their own brand of awesome to our track this year:

Track sponsors:

Guests / Panelists:

Battle & Brew
Brandon M. “Oxhorn” Dennis (who wrote up a great post about his adventure!)
Brian “Psychochild” Green
Cartoon Network
CCP / EVE Online
CK Knight / Curse.com
Hi-Rez Studios / Global Agenda
Jeff Lewis
Kingdom of Loathing
Lessons in Lore / Chad and Megan Tindale
Sandeep Parikh
Sean Becker
Seraphina Brennan / Massively.com
Shawn Schuster / Massively.com & GuildCast
Star Wars Combine
Romily Rilynn, our mistress of Machinima

And those who, while unable to make it, contributed prizes for us to give away!

Without our above sponsors and guests, we wouldn’t have been able to pull off the epic win of this year’s MMO track. Many thanks, everyone!

Also, I wanted to take a moment to post some of the information from my panels, since some people did not grab the handouts I’d made. You can find it all after the break!

Well, our schedule is up, and surprise, surprise, there are no changes from the “Unofficial” version posted a while back. =) If you want full schedules for everyone else, well, Uncle Grimmy’s got your hookup.

By this time, 4 days from now, the DC*MMO crew will be descending upon an unsuspecting Sheraton hotel. If you’re not there, it’s your loss.

In other news, the folks over at The Unique Geek will be interviewing Grim on Monday night as part of their excellent “40 Days of Dragon*Con” series. Those of you “jonesing” for a SnarkCast fix will have to wait until after the convention. Or… You could show up at the Sheraton’s Savannah Room at 10:00 AM on Friday, Saturday, or Sunday and catch Krystalle and Grim in the act LIVE at Dragon*Con.

Anyone want to lay odds on whether or not Krystalle can keep Grim in line while recording in front of a live audience?

Shall we upgrade the degree of difficulty a bit? Let’s have some guests show up while we’re at it! (Psst: We have Oxhorn on Friday and Jeff Lewis from The Guild on Saturday!)

Hey there, everyone! Krystalle here, in for Jhaer, who is off doing that real-life thing. (Crazy bastage, out pugging that outdoor instance in this heat?!) Anyway, as I’m guesting in for him this week, I wanted to show off one of my favorite World of Warcraft machinima. Baron Soosdon’s work has always really impressed me, but his combination of World of Warcraft and Portal was particularly well done, I thought. That, and this song by the Victims of Science is awesome. (It impressed me enough that I’ve since made it the opening song I play when I’m DJing somewhere – a calling card, of sorts.)

But enough about my thoughts on the video, here it is!

Also, I’d be terribly remiss if I was doing machinima without mentioning the incredibly wonderful and talented Christina “Romily” Rollins, who has been coming to Dragon*Con for a few years to share some of the best Machinima from around the world with us. Take, for example, this film she introduced us all to last year. While the game featured isn’t an MMO, I think anyone who has ever looked for a group can sympathize with this Pyro.

If you really enjoy machinima, be sure to check out her panels this year! Currently they are scheduled as follows:

Machinima (Cool, notable, and award-winning) – Friday, 8:30 PM, Savannah Room
Machinima (Comedy, off the wall, or as Grim calls it “fart and dick jokes”) – Saturday, 8:30 PM, Savannah Room

Also note, you’re welcome to bring snacks and drinks since this is set up pretty much just like going to the movies. Only we don’t have ushers, so please clean up after yourselves!

So this time we actually remembered to publish the Snarkcast…

Grim and Krystalle discuss the schedule of events on the DC*MMO track for this year and give some exclusive information about the track that won’t appear in the program guide or pocket schedule. If you want the real inside scoop on what we’ll be up to this year, we’ve got the podcast for you. (or you can wait until con and read about it in the Daily Dragon…)

Snarkcast #15: Snark-pocalypse Now! [ 1:03:11 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1470)

I’ve recently heard much talk of Superheroes attached to DragonCon conversation. I suppose it’s a topic that’s always a brain fizzle away with many Dcon-goers, but between chatting about costumes and City of Heroes talk, it just seems to be more popular in conversation of late. So, in keeping with the times, let’s have more Hero pics!

This picture was created by Douglas Shuler, an artist for Magic: The Gathering. It’s an image he made from his City of Heroes Supergroup. Quite impressive.

Nicely done.

This is just awesome.

And this must be what Alfred sees on The Bat’s bad nights.

D*C 2010 wrap/track info from Krystalle

It’s official!

Saturday (guest) Matinee: The Device Has Been Modified +1

Snarkcast #15: Snark-pocalypse Now!

Superheroes Galore