3 weeks to go!

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Aug 132009
 

I’m back from the beach and ready to put the finishing touches on this year’s preparations. Staff meetings are blessedly short (last night’s was about 20 minutes), which means things are getting done, and the to-do list is finally shrinking.

That means we’re close. 3 weeks to go, in fact!

To give you guys an as to what’s going on, we’re starting to receive prize packages from some of our “Friends of DC*” (see the column on the left) including , posters, boxed copies of games, loot cards, and other assorted goodies that we’ll be giving away. Most of this stuff will be given away during our WoW party (WoW Stuff) and Trivia Contest (Everything Else) during the weekend, but we’ll also be tossing out some swag during our panels. Which ones? Could be any of them!

It looks like the Digital Gaming Lab (DGL) will be moving up to the 3rd floor in the Hilton this year. Normally, that doesn’t affect us since we’re in the Sheraton, but if you actually want some “hands on” time with some of the games that we’ll be highlighting this year, the DGL is the place to be. We’ll be hosting “All-nighters” with Global Agenda and Age of Conan in the DGL this year.

We’ve updated the look of the website just a bit, and included links to the companies and people who have helped us out this year and in the past.  These folks have donated time, merchandise, and effort into making Dragon*Con successful, and I’d like to thank them all on behalf of the DC*MMO staff.

Finally, we’re steadily dwindling our supply of DC*MMO 2009 t-shirts.  We only have a few of the larger sizes left!  We’re also going to have a new SnarkCast available for you later today or tomorrow, and Krystalle and I will try to squeeze in one or two more before the convention.

As a final treat, I wanted to share this picture of the winning team (posing w/the Bling Gnome Trophy) from last year’s Hardcore MMO Trivia Contest.  The winners of each year’s trivia contest will win a fantastic set of prizes and have their picture immortalized on the base of the trophy. (last year, we had no base because my crafting skill is 0)

Hardcore MMO Trivia Champions - 2008

SnarkCast #4: The Next Generation

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Jul 252009
 

Yeah, I realize that I’m going to run out of sequel titles to use in these posts and that I’ll be repeating myself soon.  I’ll deal with that problem when I get there.

It’s been a crazy week in the land of , and Krys and Grim have already been overtaken by events given that we recorded this before:

  1. The Staff Meeting last weekend.
  2. was allowed to partially re-launch WoW in .

Oh well, them’s the breaks.  In any event, enjoy the podcast (show notes are included after the jump).  Thanks for listening, and we’ll be recording a new podcast very soon.

SnarkCast - The Next Generation [ 55:47 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1560)

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SnarkCast #3: Return of the Snarkcast!

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Jul 032009
 

After a month off to tend to various injuries (Krys hurt her wrist, and Grim busted up his knee), Krys and Grim are back with another .  Everyone and everything is fair game for our snarktastic duo this time around.  If you, or the game you love, find yourselves in our cross-hairs, take solace in the fact that you aren’t alone.  We because we love. (Except Gold Farmers, nobody likes those little idiots.)

SnarkCast - Episode 3 [ 33:26 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1927)

In this week’s show, we snarkify (otherwise known as “show notes”):

(Opening music, courtesy of …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, “Isis Unveiled”)

Global Agenda is coming to D*C

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Jun 052009
 

We’re actually working out the details, so it’s not a DONE done deal yet, but we’re getting there.

That puts us dangerously close to 50 panels and events for this year.

We also found out that we will, in all likelihood, be in the Capital Ballroom at the Sheraton (same ballroom we had last year) for most of our big events this time around (10 on the )

The notable exception will be Fun*Con 2009, ’s meet and greet party on Friday night, which will be in the Marriott (A601-602, which is where our Saturday party was last year).  The guys at are bringing MAD amounts of stuff to give away, so don’t miss it.

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