News from Gen Con 2012: A Short Non-Report

News from Gen Con 2012: A Short Non-Report
From gallery of W Eric Martin
• I'm at Gen Con 2012 to cover the event for BGG News, but rather than repost what I've already reported on while at the show, I point you to the Boardgame News Twitter feed or BGN Facebook page, both of which for Thursday, August 16 featured much information about which games sold out, which games are coming from a number of publishers at the show, and what certain upcoming games look like. For Friday, August 17, most of the tweets/posts relate to announcements by Christian Petersen, CEO of Fantasy Flight Games, about the company's recently released titles and forthcoming games, miniatures and role-playing games.

I'll do a round-up post the week of August 20, 2012, but for now those two sources of information will have to do. After all, it's time to sleep!

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