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Gen Con 2022 Preview Is Now Live

Gen Con 2022 Preview Is Now Live
From gallery of W Eric Martin
I realize that Origins Game Fair 2022 is opening this week, but not everyone is going to Origins — heck, statistically speaking almost no one is going to Origins given that attendance in 2021 was 10,476 and Earth's population was projected to be 7,868,872,451 on January 1, 2022, making the attendance rate .00013% of humanity — so I thought I'd go ahead and publish BGG's Gen Con 2022 Preview for those who plan to attend that show.

After all, .00044% of humanity attended Gen Con 2021, so it doesn't hurt to be prepared for that far larger crowd.

Currently this convention preview lists 169 titles, and I'm sure it will grow a fair amount over the next two months as publishers get a handle on which items will make it to port in time and which releases need to be reclassified as "demo only". If you are a publisher who has yet to complete a survey on your Gen Con 2022 (or SPIEL '22) offerings, please GeekMail or email me, and I'll send you a survey link.

Thanks much to Stephen Cordell, who is helping me process publisher surveys and stay on top of this information!

For those who plan to attend, I offer this prescient image from InspiroBot that popped up for me just ahead of BGG.Spring:

From gallery of W Eric Martin

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