Given the copious amount of downtime yesterday while Blizzard was patching WoW, Krystalle and I had time to record another podcast.
News may be a little slow over the next couple of weeks, but I can say that Sunday at Dragon*Con is going to highlight Sony Online Entertainment. SOE will have 7 panels on Sunday and is planning a huge party for Sunday night. If you can’t make it to Fan Faire this year, come to Dragon*Con. We’re going to have our own!
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!.
Join us for thrills, chills, and more as the two snarky emcees from Dragon*Con’s MMO track settle down and talk geek. For this, our first-ever D*C MMO podcast, we touch briefly on some of the lessons learned from running the track last year, and some of the things we’re doing to make this year rock much harder. Curious as to who we’ve booked as guests and who we’re in talks with? You’ll get the behind the scenes scoop on all the latest MMO track happenings with a hint of general MMO news as Kevin and Krystalle wander across the Dragon*Con landscape.
Also, as this is our first-ever attempt at actually making a podcast, we welcome your thoughts. You can contact Kevin and Krystalle by dropping an email to them at podcast [at] dc-mmo [dot] org. Gifts are accepted in the form of beta keys, money, or chocolate covered espresso beans.
Feel free to follow these two crazy monkeys on Twitter as well. Kevin can be found [here] and Krystalle lurks around [over here].
This episode features music from around the MMO landscape: City of Heroes, EVE Online, EverQuest II, Age of Conan, World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, and a bit of audio silliness here and there. See if you can figure out which is which; or if you’re truly hardcore, what the track names are. (After all, we have an MMO Trivia panel to plan for… You never know.)
We’ll see you in two weeks for Episode II; and not the one where Anakin is a whiny, emo QQer.
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