Netdevil | Dragon*Con MMO

There hasn’t been a whole lot of DC*MMO activity this week. Our second podcast is in the can and will be posted any day now. We have started talking with Reakktor about having them present their upcoming game Black Prophecy, and we hope to have them on-board soon.

This week, we’ll be talking with Blizzard, 38 Studios, and Netdevil again in attempts to get them on board. We are also working on some events with our friends at Battle & Brew, a local gaming pub in Atlanta. We’ll be providing additional details on that in upcoming weeks.

Finally, we spoke with Funcom last week, and they have got a lot of plans for Dragon*Con this year. We are adding a Friday Night Party to the schedule, and they’ll be presenting panels on Age of Conan, Anarchy Online, and possibly a panel on their upcoming title as well. They will also be providing some prizes for our contests and live-action quest as well.

Now that Dragon*Con is only a couple more months away, we’ll be updating the site more frequently. Stay tuned.

Hi guys, sorry I missed last week, but life has been a bit chaotic at Casa de Grim.

Our schedule is starting to come together. NetDevil, makers of the upcoming release Jumpgate: Evolution, is very interested in attending Dragon*Con and we are working to confirm their participation for this year.

We have also received favorable response from 38 Studios, and they are looking to send some heavy hitters to Dragon*Con this year. I would say who, but I don’t want to spoil the surprise just yet.

We are also working on putting together our prize packages for all of our various contests and games. I don’t think you guys will be disappointed.

The podcast will be out later this week. Krystalle has one hell of an editing job ahead of her if she plans on making me sound halfway decent.

For the latest and greatest information, check the podcast as we have scattered all kinds of interesting tidbits for your enjoyment.

Not much new to report this week.

We’re going to do another podcast this week, and it will probably be ready by Friday.

NCSoft (City of Heroes, Tabula Rasa, Guild Wars) will not be joining us this year at Dragon*Con, but they have been gracious enough to send some stuff for us to give away.

We’re working very hard on Blizzard, 38 Studios, and NetDevil this week, and hopefully one (or more) of them will agree to participate this year.

Our World of Warcraft “gathering” this year is going to be something special. Last year, the games and contests we held seemed to go over quite well, and this year we thought we’d emphasize that theme. This year, our WoW “Meet and Greet” will be called the “Tournament of Azeroth”. We’ll have prizes for all of the competitors, and music, drinks, and fun for all of the spectators. It should be a blast.

I have put most of the schedule into the D*C database, which means we have a schedule, but we’re still lacking most of the panel descriptions, so I can’t call it “done” yet. A couple of changes are going down for this year.

We are only running one panel on Monday, but it’s going to be 3 hours long. Monday will be the day where you can join the entire DC*MMO staff and ask questions, provide feedback, or just hang out and wind down from the convention. We would up doing something similar in the lobby of the Marriott last year, and it was a true pleasure to meet and get to know some of our fans without the hectic pace and schedule of trying to run a panel track.

We are also leaving an empty block of time each day so that our staff can take a break, eat a decent meal, or, heaven forbid, attend a few functions at the con themselves. Last year, we ran pretty much around-the-clock, and I think it showed by Sunday.

That said, we still have 42 events on the schedule this year, unless I am mistaken, that’s more than every other track aside from (maybe) Main Programming.

Please join us later this week for our podcast where Krystalle and I will go into more details about what we have planned for this year as well as the latest and greatest news from around the MMO world.

It has been a relatively light week for the DC*MMO crew. There hasn’t been a lot of movement in terms of new companies or games coming to Dragon*Con, but we are going to focus our efforts on some of the non-Blizzard companies out there this week.

Jumpgate Evolution from NetDevil is high on our list of targeted companies. It seems like everyone and their fairy godmother is looking for a Sci-Fi themed MMO, and these guys will be going live in June. With a little luck, we’ll be getting them to Dragon*Con to give you guys an up-close and personal look at the game.

We will also be talking with 38 Studios this week about their game, code named Copernicus. Since I am a notorious Boston Red Sox fan, you can imagine that I’m really looking forward to this release. If you don’t know what the Sox have to do with this game, 38 Studios’ CEO is Curt Schilling, former pitcher, and major gaming fanatic, for the Red Sox.

Our tireless crew of motley mischief makers is working hard on a couple of art projects for this year’s convention. I don’t want to spoil anything, but I think you’ll like it. We are in a deep debate on what we should call our WoW-themed competition event at this year’s convention. Last year, we had Gnome Punting, Gnome Tossing, a dance contest, and other activities that set members of the Horde against members of the Alliance. This year, we are going to expand on that theme and plan a party around it. If you have suggestions for what we can call this little festival of mayhem, please let us know.

We also have our first podcast under our belts. Krystalle and I give you all the inside scoop on what’s happening in MMO land. Make sure you listen all the way to the very end for some entertaining outtakes. (and since this was our first podcast, there were more than a few to choose from)

If you have any questions, concerns, or feedback, please contact us and let us know about it. If you’d like to buy a shirt to help us out, that would be great too!.

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