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• If you're going: The BGG Hot Games room will now feature donations from 59 publishers, giving up to 120 gamers at a time the chance to play or fondle the newest releases from Gen Con 2016. We'll post a final list of games once we collect everything from the publishers (or see what they drop off), then prep, punch, and bag everything to be ready for the opening bell on Thursday.
• If you're not going: BGG's Gen Con 2016 broadcast schedule is now live! Yes, for all four days of Gen Con 2016, BoardGameGeek will be livestreaming interviews with designers and publishers about their creations.
In addition to watching us for four days, you can follow our posts on Twitter as I'll be snapping pics throughout the show and trying not to fall too far behind in posting them.
• Whether you fall into either category: BGG's Gen Con 2016 Preview is now (almost) complete, with its 411 listings being just a smidge more than we saw on the 2015 Preview. That said, I threw in the "almost" caveat because a couple of publishers sent me info on August 1, which I had set as my cutoff date; if I have the time, I'll add them to the Preview, but I might not have time since I'll be jamming on the SPIEL 2016 Preview, which will launch on Monday, August 8.
Yes, we'll slingshot our way straight from the ashes of Gen Con to the fevered beginnings of SPIEL, which opens October 13. I already have eighty titles on that preview and a stuffed inbox folder to which all my requests for information have been routed. Time to crack that open and get to work...again!