Spring Game Con Calendar Update

I've been updating the site in dribs and drabs over the last couple of months but haven't done an update message. Here's a listing of the latest 23 cons we've added to the site.

Australia Game Convention List:

• Tasmanian Spring Gamefest (November 28 – December 1, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia)

Canadian Game Cons:

• Terminal City Tabletop Convention (May 31-June 1, Burnaby, BC, Canada)
• Stage Select Gaming Expo (June 28, Toronto, ON, Canada)
• ToonCon (September 19-21, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada)

England/Ireland/Scottland Gaming Convention Calendar:

• Seven Hills (April 26-27, Sheffield, UK)
• International Board Game Studies Colloquium (May 21-24, Ipswich, Suffolk, UK)
• Conclave (June 20-22, Limerick, Ireland)
• ArcadeCon (July 10-13, Dublin, Ireland)
• Game Expo Scotland (November 4-5, Edinburgh, Scotland)
• Dominicon (November 14-16, Maynooth, Ireland)

Capital Region Game Convention:

• Video Gamers United (August 16-17, Washington, DC)

Mid Atlantic Game Convention List:

• Maelstrom (April 4-6, Morristown, NJ)
• Travellercon/USA (October 10-12, Lancaster, PA)
• Nerdvemberfest (November 7-9, Fort Washington, PA)

Mountain Game Con Listing:

• EverCon (April 26-27, Wheatridge, CO)

New England Gaming Convention Calendar:

• Chaos in the Valley (April 4-6, Danby, VT)
• Pop Culture Expo (May 24-25, Wilmington, MA)
• FalCon (September 26-28, Stamford, CT)

South Atlantic Game Con List:

• CruiseCon (March 13-17, Jacksonville, FL – the Bahamas)

South Central East Game Convention:

• Yama-Con (December 5-7, Pigeon Forge, TN)

South Central West Gamer Convention List:

• ArcadiaCon (June 7-8, Galveston, TX)

Upper Midwest Gaming Con Calendar:

• Oz-Con (May 3-4, West Plains, MO)
• Fear the Con (June 13-14, Maryland Heights, MO)

December / January Gaming Cons update

Ah, and so 2013 draws to a close. We've added another twenty-one conventions to the list for our December/January update. Hard to believe we went from about 500 at the start of the year and are up around 650 at this point! Thank you all who've submitted conventions to our list as well as those of you who have shared our site with others. Looking forward to a wonderful 2014!

Canada Game Cons:

• Arkham Nights (November ?-?, Toronto, ON)

Europe Games Con List:

• LuxCon (March 29-30, Tetange, Luxemburg)
• LinzCon (October ?-?, Linz, Austria)
• FACTS (October ?-?, Ghent, Belgium)

UK/Ireland Gamer Conventions Calendar:

• Wargamer (December 1, Birmingham, UK)
• SmogCon (February 21-23, Guildford, Surrey, UK)
• AmberCon NI (March 28-30, Belfast, Northern Ireland)
• MassaCon (June 6-8, Stockport, UK)
• GemuCon (August 8-10, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK)
• Dragondaze (September 20, Newport, Wales, UK)

Great Lakes Gaming Convention:

• Gamer's Con (December 8, Stow, OH)
• Cleveland ConCoction (May 30-June 1, Cleveland, OH)
• Nexus Game Fair (June 19-22, Milwaukee, WI)

New England Game Cons List:

• Quinni-Con (March 1-2, Hamden, CT)
• Nor-easter (March 21-23, Boxborough, MA)

South Atlantic Games Con Calendar:

• Jax Arcade Expo (January 24-26, Jacksonville, FL)
• Game-o-rama (May 22-26, Atlanta, GA)
• Southern-Fried Gameroom Expo (June 20-22, Atlanta, GA)

South Central East Gamer Conventions:

• LexiCon (May 2-4, Lexington, KY)

Texas Gaming Convention List:

• ChupacabraCon (January 17-19, Austin, TX)
• Houston Arcade Expo (November ?-?, Houston, TX)

Autumn 2013 Game Con Calendar updates

After having reached 600 gaming conventions it seems the flow of cons we haven't heard of before has dropped off quite a bit. We've decided to start publishing this list of new conventions added to our calendar less frequently perhaps quarterly instead of monthly. We are also going to start announcing individual site updates convention by convention on twitter (you can follow us here: Follow @GameConCentral) - in case you can't wait until our next update!

Here are the newest twelve conventions on the list:

Ireland / UK Gaming Conventions:

• Eirtakon (November 22-24, Dublin, Ireland)
• AdventureX (December 7-8, London, UK)

Great Lakes Gaming Cons:

• Dan's Con of the Vale (October 18-20, Brookfield, WI)
• Conflagration (February ?-?, Brookfield, WI)
• River Con (April 19, South Bend, IN)
• Milwaukee Summer Revel (June ?-?, Brookfield, WI)
• Con in the Castle (September ?-?, New Plymouth, OH)

California Video Game Conventions:

• BlizzCon (November 8-9, Anaheim, CA)
• VGC (January 3-4, Burbank, CA)

South Central East Gamer Cons:

• Extra Life – Knoxville (November 2 -3, Knoxville, TN)

South Central West Games Convention Calendar:

• GamerNation Con (March 14-16, Plano, TX)
• SUPER! BitCon (March 29, Oklahoma City, OK)

September Gaming Con Listings

I hope everyone had a great summer!  We've got a double list of games cons in this month's update (we took August off from sending out this update). There are 26 new conventions on the list with 11 of them overseas.  As hinted about in the last update, there is going to be another StarFrontiers centric online convention the weekend of September 27-28!

Here are the latest additions:


New Zealand Gamer Conventions List:

• Fright Night (October 19, Wellington, NZ)
• Corocon (June ?-?, Coromandel, NZ)

Canada Gaming Cons Calendar:

• External Development Summit (XDS) (September 3-5, Vancouver, BC)
• Project Play (September 22, London, ON)

Europe Games Conventions:

• Viking-Con (October 11 -13, Kastrup, Denmark)
• Ciudad de Arkham (March ?-?, Cordoba, Spain)
• Indie Gameleon (march ?-?, Groningen, the Netherlands)
• TIG Con (May 22-25, Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
• Gubbspel (August 21-23, Gothenburg, Sweden)

Online Game Convention Calendar:

• Frontier NetCon (September 27-28, Online)

UK Gamer Conventions List:

• Platform (November 15-16, Hull, UK)
• Kitacon (March 28-30, Birmingham, UK)

USA:

Great Lakes Gaming Cons Calendar:

• Conception (September 27-29, Glen Ellyn, IL)
• Northeast Wisconsin Gameapalooza (NEWGame) (October 19-20, Oshkosh, WI)
• Eerie Frequency Film, Toy, Comic, and Pop Culture Expo (November 23-24, Niles, OH)

Mid Atlantic (NJ, NY, PA) Games Convention List:

• Cohorts (August 23-25, Allentown, PA)

New England Gamer Conventions:

• DrawnCon (November 2-3, Nashua, NH)
• JiffyCon East (November 9, Somerville, MA)

South Atlantic Gaming Cons List:

• King Con (November 2-3, Warner Robins, GA)
• Evil Con (January 3-5, Tampa, FL)
• Omni Expo (May 23-25, Orlando, FL)

Texas Games Convention Calendar:

• The Alamo Warhammer GT – Fantasy (November 2-3, San Antonio, TX)
• The Alamo Warhammer GT – 40K (May ?-?, San Antonio, TX)

Upper Midwest Gamer Conventions:

• Guns of August (August 24, St. Louis, MO)
• Command CON (November 8-10, St. Louis, MO)
• Cosplacon (June 12-15, Jefferson City, MO)

July Games Convention Calendar update

We added a lucky 13 conventions this past month which if my total count is right pushed us a hair over 600 cons!  All but two of these new cons were outside of the US.

Three more online gaming cons were added to the list and it really looks like that trend is taking off.  Virtuacon will be the first offering by the people at RPGGeek.com, LUG Con claims to be quarterly (although September will be their 2nd event) and the people who ran last year's 30th Anniversary Star Frontiers Online Con are in the preliminary stages of putting together another!

Here are the new listings:

Gamer Convention Calendar for Australia:

• Hobarts Winter Gamesfest (August 10, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia)

Games Con List for Canada:

• Impossible Realities (September 13 – 15, St. John's, NB, Canada)
• Unplugged Expo (October 26-27, Toronto, Canada)
• StrDexCon (January ?-?, London, ON)

Europe Game Cons:

• Cardboard and Sun (August 27-31, Paros, Greece)
• OctoGones (October 4-6, Lyon, France)
• Cardboard and Snow (January ?-?, Yllas, Finland)
• Pyrkon (March ?-?, Ponzan, Poland)

Gaming Convention Online List:

• Jacker Con (July 19-21, Online)
• LUG Con (September 20-22, Online)
• Virtuacon (October 18-20, Online)

USA Game Conventions Calendar:
Capital Region Games Con:

• OmegaCon (September 27-29, Charlottesville, VA)

Gamer Cons List for South Atlantic Region:

• Puerto Rico ComicCon (May 24-25, San Juan, PR)

We also added a new affiliate this past month: BoardGameTravel.com. They run two vacation conventions each year and they are offering GCC's followers a 50 euro discount on their summer con if you book by July 15th. That con: Cardboard & Sun is in August on the Greek Isle of Paros. Use coupon code: GCC135 when booking for the discount. (They've also extended this offer to friends of our followers, so feel free to share!) More details are at their website: www.boardgametravel.com

June updates to the game con list

Eighteen more conventions added to the list this month but we also removed a few that are no longer in business. I think that brings our total to a couple short of 600 so if you know any we missed, now's a great time to send them our way!

This month also marks our one year anniversary of cataloging game conventions. We've gone from about 100 to almost 600 in one year. Not bad!

Here are the latest additions:


Australia Games Con List:

• Leviathan (April ?-?, Leviathan, NSW, Australia)

Canada Gamer Cons Calendar:

• GenreCon (October 4-6, Guelph, Ontario, Canada)
• N2U Anime and Gaming Convention (November 1-3, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)

Europe Gaming Convention:

• Tracon (September 14-15, Tampere, Finland)

Ireland Game Cons:

• Hobocon (August 23 – 25, Dublin, Ireland)

USA Gaming Cons:
Great Lakes Game Conventions List:

• I-Con (September 13-15, Springfield, IL)
• Chaoticon (April ?-?, Green Bay, WI)

Mountain Games Conventions Calendar:

• MaricopaCon (August 3-4, Mesa, AZ)
• Phoenix Comicon (May ?-?, Phoenix, AZ)

New England Gamer Convention:

• Maine Game Con (November 1-3, Augusta, ME)

New York Gaming Cons List:

• RetroGameCon (October 19, Cicero, NY)

Pacific Game Con Calendar:

• Monster Con (October 19-20, Yakima, WA)
• Gaslight Gathering (May 2-4, San Diego, CA)

South Atlantic Games Conventions:

• Club Mace (June 29 – July 4, Jacksonville, FL to the Bahamas)
• AndoCon (July 19-21, Kennesaw, GA)
• MACE West (April ?-?, Hickory, NC)

South Central East Gamer Con List:

• Hypericon (June 14-16, Nashville, TN)

Texas Gaming Convention Calendar:

• RTX [Rooster Teeth Expo] (July 5-7, Austin, TX)

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If you haven't already, go ahead and read a review for FGCon an online gaming convention using Fantasy Grounds virtual tabletop that was run over the first weekend in June.

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The first is Noble Knight Games. They offer new and out-of-print role playing games, collectible card games, war games, board games and minis.



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Rather than paying a set advertising fee, both of these advertisers will pass back a small commission to Game Convention Central if you click through and purchase anything from them.

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And finally, the summer con season kicked off today with the start of the Origins Game Fair and runs through Dragon*Con over labor day weekend.  Which cons are you heading to this summer?

Happy 1st Birthday Game Convention Central

One year ago we went live with our game convention listings.  We had started gathering events back in May of 2012 and had a couple of test pages up before then but June 5th was the day things came together.  We only had 100 gaming cons back then (and close to 600 now) so we've come a long way in our first year.


Now onto the import part of this announcement - what to get us for our birthday!  Truth is, we do this because we love the hobby and want to connect gamers with conventions full of games.  The best way to say thank you is to help us spread the word:

• Share a link to our main site ( http://gameconventioncentral.com ) with your friends, gaming group, and any online communities/forums you belong to.

• Follow us on Facebook.

• Follow us on Twitter @GameConCentral.

• Join our circle on Google+.

• Keep your eyes open for a con we've missed and send it our way.

That's all for now; we look forward to another year full of gaming and fun!

May Games Convention List update

Sixteen gaming cons added to the list this month.  This includes eight from overseas and a number of start-up game cons in their first year.  

Germany Game Con List:

• AttritiCon (May 3-5, Ulm, Germany)
• KoMiCon (August 16-18, Koblenz, Germany)

UK / Ireland Gamer Convention Calendar:

• Gauntlet (July 6-7, Flintshire, UK)
• Nine Worlds GeekFest (August 9-11, London, UK)
• Fayre Times Festival (September 21-22, Billericay, Essex, UK)
• GEEK (February ?-?, Margate, Kent, UK)
• Vaticon (April ?-?, Dublin, Ireland)

Capital Region Games Conventions:

• GAD-Con (May 24-26, Baltimore, MD)
• 1d4Con (April ?-?, Winchester, VA)

Great Lakes Region Gamer Conventions:

• Protospiel (July 12-14, Ann Arbor, MI)
• Concentric Convention (March ?-?, Itasca, IL)

California Game Convention List:

• ConQuest Avalon (Nov 8-11, Sacramento, CA)

Florida Gaming Con List:

• Salty Bay Con (June 8-9, Tampa, FL)

Texas Game Cons:

• QuakeCon (August 1-4, Dallas, TX)
• WaCon (September 28-29, Waco, TX)

World Gaming Convention List:

• Upcon (April 20-21, Pretoria, South Africa)

April Game Con Calendar Updates

We've added twelve new gaming cons this month including our first from Israel!  Be sure to let us know if you encounter a gaming con that we've missed on the list.  Also, please feel free to share this list with your convention going friends!

Canada Game Convention:

• Keycon (May 17-19, Winnipeg, MB, Canada)

USA Game Conventions:
Great Lakes Region Gaming Convention List:

• Chicago Toy and Game Fair (November 23-24, Chicago, IL)

Mountain States Games Conventions:

• Salt Fest (May 10-12, Salt Lake City, UT)
• GAME Expo (June 1, Reno, NV)
• Conclave of Gamers (June 14-16, Brighton, CO)

Pacific Region Gamer Con Calendar:

• Good Game Con (March ?-?, Oakland, CA)

South Atlantic Game Convention Calendar:

• Recon (April 18-21, Orlando, FL)
• TrekTrax (April 19-21, Atlanta, GA)
• BROGFest (January 23 – 26, N. Charleston, SC)

South Central East Game Convention:

• GMX Geek Media Expo (November 1-3, Nashville, TN)

South Central West Gaming Convention:

• Texas Team Tournament (June 20-23, Austin, TX)

World (Israel) Gaming Con:

• Draconicon (August 8, Tel-aviv, Israel)

March Game Con Calendar Update

When we hit the 500th listing in our calendar last time we decided to lay off the search for more gaming conventions.  Sadly, the internet had other plans and we stumbled upon or were sent another 29 game cons pushing our total up over 550 this month!


New Zealand / Australia Games Con List:

• Board Games by the Bay – Tauranga (March 16-17, Tauranga, NZ)
• 33AR (April 5-7, Wainuiomata, Wellington, NZ)
• RobzaCon (April ?-?, Auckland, NZ)
• Board Games by the Bay – Auckland (Fall) (May 11-12, Auckland, NZ)
• Au Contraire! (July 12-14, Wellington, NZ)
• Board Games by the Bay – Hamilton (July 20-21, Hamilton, NZ)
• Board Games by the Bay – Palmerston North (September 7-8, Palmerston North, NZ)
• SANCon (September ?-?, Christchurch, NZ)
• Freeplay Independent Games Festival (September ?-?, Melbourne, Australia)
• Board Games by the Bay – Auckland (Spring) (November 23-24, Auckland, NZ)
• MacquarieCon (December ?-?, Sydney, Australia)

Canada Game Convention List:

• Legiocon (February ?-?, Winnipeg, MB, Canada)
• Harbour Con-fusion (August 2-4, Saint John, NB, Canada)

Europe Gaming Cons:

• ConDamned (June 14-16, Amsterdam, NL)

Online Game Convention Calendar:

• Conopomorphic (March 9, Online)
• ConTessa (June ?-?, Online)

USA Game Conventions:

Capital Region Gaming Con:

• DC Gameday - Spring (March 9-10, Washington, DC)
• DC Gameday – Fall (October ?-?, Washington, DC)

Great Lakes Game Cons:

• RavenCon (March 1-3, New Plymouth, OH)
• Den Con (March 23, Granville, OH)
• Gaming Hoopla – Spring (April 19-21, Janesville, WI)

Mid Atlantic Game Con List:

• Summer of Gamers (July ?-?, Grantville, PA)
• Winter of Gamers (January ?-?, Grantville, PA)

Mountain Region Gamer Con:

• Lvl Up Expo (February ?-?, Henderson, NV)

Pacific Gamers Conventions:

• GeekGirlCon (October 19-20, Seattle, WA)

South Atlantic Gaming Cons:

• CoolMiniOrNot Expo(May 17-19, Atlanta, GA)

South Central West Gamer Con:

• SGC [ScrewAttack Gaming Convention] (June 21-23, Dallas, TX)

Upper Midwest Games Conventions:

• Berserkon (May 24-26, Duluth, MN)
• JenCon (May ?-?, Cornell College, Mount Vernon, IA)

Upcoming Convention: NecronomiCon Providence

By random chance I ended up sitting down with one of the organizers from NecronomiCon Providence at TempleCon. I happened to be wrapping up a game in a room he was setting up Cthulhu in and stuck around in the hopes of getting into the game. Unfortunately, none of his four signed up players showed up but we did spend an hour or two talking about NecronomiCon Providence.

I am a huge fan of Call of Cthulhu (CoC) the game and was already considering taking the drive to Rhode Island this summer. Providence is about 3 hours for me and driving to TempleCon convinced me this was doable (sometimes my back isn’t so great in long car rides). This conversation convinced me that this will really be a can’t miss event and I will probably book my trip this week!

NecronomiCon Providence will be held in the heart of Providence, RI the weekend of August 23-25. Overall the convention will offer literary options (panels, talks, workshops), gaming (anything Lovecraftian: CoC, Arkham Horror, etc) and external events. For the external events, they’re planning walking tours of Providence, film screenings, are considering a Pubcrawl, and even have a local brewery producing beer just for the event! Some of the CoC games will even be run by writers of previous CoC sourcebooks and modules! There are also going to be some interesting looking events including a Sunday morning Prayer breakfast as well as a number of Lovecraft themed parties.

Overall this seems like it will be an amazing time, right in the heart of Lovecraft’s hometown. I can’t wait!

February Update

I scheduled this post automatically for this morning as we should already be at TempleCon for the weekend. In January, we found (or had submitted) 27 additional game conventions bringing our total to well over 500!

Here are the newly listed cons:

New Zealand / Australia Game Convention List:

• Wellycon (June ?-?, Wellington, New Zealand)

Canada Gaming Conventions:

• Phantasm (April 6-7, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada)
• Vancouver Retro Gaming Expo (June 8-9, New Westminster, BC, Canada)

Germany Game Con Calendar:

• Bremer Spiele-Tage (March 2-3, Bremen, Germany)
• Ratingen Spieletage (March 23-24, Ratingen, Germany)
• Darmstadt Spielt (November 23-24, Darmstadt, Germany)

Games Con List for the UK:

• Play Expo (October ?-?, Manchester, UK)

US Games Cons:

Capital Region Gaming Cons:

• T-Mode (April 19-21, Rockville, MD)

Great Lakes Game Con Calendar:

• AnCon (May 2-5, Hudson OH)
• DaveCon (August ?-?, Okemos, MI)
• GrandCon (September 21-22, Grand Rapids, MI)
• Gamehole Con (November 1-3, Madison, WI)
• WindyCon (November ?-?, Lombard, IL)
• WinterCon (December ?-?, Okemos, MI)

New York Gaming Cons:

• No Such Convention (NonCon) (February 22-24, Poughkeepsie, NY)

Mountain Region Games Con List:

• GalaxyFest (February 7-10, Colorado Springs, CO)
• ConsimWorld Expo (CWE) with MonsterGame.CON (May 27 – June 2, Tempe, AZ)
• Classic Gaming Expo (August ?-?, Las Vegas, NV)

California Gaming Conventions:

• AOD (February 16-17, San Francisco, CA)

South Atlantic Gaming Convention List:

• SwampCon (January ?-?, Gainesville, FL)
• Siege of Augusta (January ?-?, Augusta, GA)
• Spring Fever (April ?-?, Raleigh, NC)
• StormCon (July 13-14, Summerville, SC)
• Southern Front (October ?-?, Raleigh, NC)

South Central East Region Games Convention Calendar:

• Alabama Phoenix Festival (May 24-26, Birmingham, AL)

Upper Midwest Game Cons:

• G.A.M.E. [Gaming Arts Media Expo] (October ?-?, Springfield, MO)

January Gaming Cons Update!

Happy New Year everyone! With travel and the holidays we didn't look for too many new game cons last month but still managed to add 16 to the calendars!


Here are the newly listed cons:

Canadian Gaming Conventions:

• Underground Con (15 June, Calgary, AB, Canada)

UK Game Conventions:

• London Anime Con (February 9-10, London, UK)
• London Game Con (May 4-5, London, UK)
• Alcon (September 5-8, Leicester, UK)

USA Game Convention Lists by Region:

Great Lakes Game Convention Calendar:

• Protospiel – Milwaukee (March 9-10, Milwaukee, WI)
• CaesarCon (March 22-24, Montpelier, OH)

Mid Atlantic Gaming Conventions:

• Dreamation (February 21-24, Morristown, NJ) – not sure how we missed this one.

Mountain Region Game Con List:

• GehghisCon (February 14-17, Aurora, CO)
• Laughing Moon Con (October ?, Goodyear, AZ)

Pacific Region Gaming Conventions:

• Wizard World Portland Comic Con (February 22-24, Portland, OR)
• Gaymer X (August 3-4, San Francisco, CA)

South Central East Game Con Calendar:

• SukoshiCon (July 19-21, Louisville, KY)
• Wizard World Nashville Comic Con (October 18-20, Nashville, TN)

South Central West Game Conventions:

• BoardGameGeek.CON (November ?-?, Dallas/Fort Worth, TX)

Upper Midwest Game Convention List:

• Wizard World St. Louis Comic Conn (March 22-24, St. Louis, MO)

Online Gaming Con:

• Indie+ Con (October ?- November ?, Online)

We're looking forward to quite a few game cons in our local area (the north east) this year: TempleCon, MEPACon (Spring and Fall), Dreamation, DexCon, Metatopia as well as some online cons (as many as we can manage) and TetonCon in Wyoming.  Which conventions are you looking forward to?

December Game Con Update!

Last month we figured we had finally listed every gaming con on earth . . . then we found another 23 game cons this month!

Here they are by region:

Asia Game Convention List:

• Licence2Play (December 7-9, Singapore)
• HobbyCon (December 8-9, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia)
• Comic Fiesta (December 22-23, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
• C2Age (May ?-?, Malaysia)

Australia Game Conventions:

• ConVic (November 23-25, Cheltenham, Australia)
• WAI-Con (February 2-3, Perth, Australia)
• Toy and Game Expo (June 8-10, Sydney, Australia)
• Pax Australia (July 19-21, Melbourne, Australia)
• Manifest (August ?-?, Melbourne, Australia)
• ConCentric Games (September ?-?, Tanunda, Australia)
• Conformat (September ?, Adelaide, Australia)
• Unicon (October ?-?, Melbourne, Australia)

Canada Game Convention Calendar:

• Spellstorm (March 1-3, Toronto, Ontario)

UK Games Conventions:

• DevaCon (December 1-2, Chester, UK)

USA Game Cons by region:

Mid Atlantic Gaming Cons:

• AnimeNEXT (June 7-9, Somerset, NJ)

Mountain Region Games Convention List:

• Las Cruces Game Convention (March ?-?, Las Cruces, NM)

Pacific Region Gaming Con List:

• Independent Games Festival (March 25-29, San Francisco, CA)

South Central West Game Con Calendar:

• DwarfCon (May 3-5, Austin, TX)
• Delta H Con (July 12-14, Houston, TX)

Upper Midwest Games Cons:

• CogCon Game Day Plus (March 8-9, Rolla, MO)
• Minicon (March 29-31, Bloomington, MN)

Online Gaming Convention List:

• InfrnoCon (December 14-16, Online)
• Star Frontiers Virtual Con (March ?-?, Online)

November Update

Wow, we found yet another 26 gaming cons this month!  If you know of any others that we are missing, by all means, use the submit a con link above and add them!

We broke them out by region this month:

Capital Region gaming cons:

• Capclave (October 12-14, Gaithersburg, MD)
• NOVA Open (August ? - ?, Arlington, VA)

Great Lakes area game con calendar:

• Youmacon (November 1-4, Detroit, MI)
• Penguicon (April ? - ?, Dearborn, MI)
• Ambercon (March 21-24, Detroit, MI)
• Pandoracon (September ?-?, Cincinnati, OH)

Mid-Atlantic game convention list:

• Burning Con (October 26-28, New York, NY)
• Queen City Conquest (September ?-?, Buffalo, NY)

Mountain region gaming con list:

• Battle in the Bosque (Nov 2-4, Albuquerque, NM)

Pacific region game conventions:

• ZOEcon (November 9-11, Tukwila, WA)
• California Extreme (July 13-14, Santa Clara, CA)
• Duty Recall (November 24-25, Santa Clara, CA)

South Central East game cons:

• Memphis Comic and Fantasy Convention (Nov 9-11, Memphis, TN)

South Central West gaming conventions:

• Octopodicon (October 5-7, Oklahoma City, OK)
• Realm's Con (October 12-14, Corpus Christi, TX)
• Tokyo in Tulsa (July ?-?, Tulsa, OK)

Upper Midwest game cons:

• Conjecture (October 19-21, Bloomington, MN)
• XenoCon (April ? - ?, Davenport, IA)
• Amber Central (July 18-21, Bloomington, MN)

Canada gaming con list:

• Gamealot (Sept ? - ?, St. Albert, Alberta, Canada)

Europe Game Con Calendar:

• Forum (September ? - ?, Ringe, Denmark)

Online Game Conventions:

• MonkeyCon One (October 19-20, Online via Skype)
• CONcurrent (August ? - ?, Online same weekend as GenCon)

UK game convention list:

• Crispycon (November 17-18, Peterborough, UK)
• Rezzed (July ?-?, Brighton, UK)
• RocketCon (November 3-4, Gravesend, Kent, UK)

October Update

We've added another sixteen cons to the list:

• Archon (October 12 – 14, St. Louis, MO area)
• ARCON (June ? - ?, Oslo, Norway)
• Aufden Inseln, an der Küste (September ?-? Otterndorf, Germany)
• Context (September ? - ?, Columbus, OH)
• DeutscheCthulhu Convention (August ?-?, Rieneck, Germany) – RPG/LARP con in the great hall of a converted castle on the river Rhine! All games appear to have a Cthulhu theme. (If I had more vacation time and thought I could hold my own role playing in German, I'd be heading to this convention!)
• Dragonfire (August ? - ?, Capetown, South Africa)
• DreieichCon (November 17-18, Dreieich, Germany)
• GreatFalls Con (October 5 – 7, Great Falls, MT)
• KC Game Fair (containing ShaunCon, Borderwars and Blockhead) (November 15-18, Kansas City, MO)
• Morpheus (January ? - ?, Herne, Germany)
• PretzCon (April 5-7, Omaha, NE)
• Spellenspektakel (October 27-28, Eindhoven, the Netherlands)
• STGCC: Singapore Toy,Game & Comic Convention (September ? - ? September, Singapore)
• Tacticon (August ? - ? August, Aurora, CO)
• Tengaicon (Sepember ?, Manhattan, KS)
• Tolkien Moot (12 July – 14 July, Spokane, WA)

August update

It's been a slow summer for us but we do have some updates:

We've added five new game conventions to the list:

GaspCon (November 9-11, Pittsburgh, PA)
TwisterCon (March 8-9, Midwest City, OK)
WittCon (March 24, Springfield, OH)
Hanover Spielt! (April 20-21, Hanover, Germany)
Fantasy Grounds Virtual Con (July ?-?, Online)

Metatopia moved up one weekend to November 2-4.

We've also begun working on a searchable database for the con listings.  More news on that as we get closer to completion!

Hope everyone is having a great summer!

July Update

Great news! We've now listed over 400 game conventions!

The breakdown is as follows:

Australia/New Zealand - 17
Canada - 34
Europe [non-UK]- 30
Online - 1
UK/Ireland - 32
USA - 287
World [all other] - 6

We're taking a break from searching out more cons at this point but will probably stumble across more as we move forward. We do have a list of game conventions in Europe yet to process so that number might tick up a bit.

We're now reaching out to the organizers of the listed conventions to see if they'd like to improve the descriptions we've added for their con. It's a work in process. Through out this process we've found a couple of really interesting game conventions and will be adding those to the blog as well.

Happy gaming!

Welcome to Game Convention Central's Blog

Welcome to the official blog of Game Convention Central.  We've listed over 400 gaming cons on the main site but this is where we'll review cons we've attended, announce updates (roughly monthly or so), and share any of the cool stuff we see from visiting over 400 game con sites!

Speaking of reviewing cons, if you'd like to write a guest post about a con you've recently attended, please use the Contact Us form at the left and we can work out the details.  By recently, we mean in the past month or so.  And yes, you are welcome to review your own con as long as you disclose the fact in your review.