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2021 Con Previews for Gen Con, Origins, and SPIEL Now Live

2021 Con Previews for Gen Con, Origins, and SPIEL Now Live
From gallery of W Eric Martin
After online-only events for most of 2020, in-person game conventions will take place in the U.S. and Germany in the second half of 2021, with Gen Con 2021 being held on September 16-19 (instead of in early August), Origins Game Fair 2021 from September 30 to October 3, SPIEL '21 on October 14-17, and (admitted self-interest here) BGG.CON 2021 on November 17-21.

I've started assembling game previews for the first three of these shows, and while they're sparse at the moment, many publishers are uncertain which shipments will arrive when due to all the difficulties related to international transport. In any case, we're three months out from Gen Con, so I have lots of time to add to these lists. Here's what I have now:

• Gen Con 2021 Preview
• Origins Game Fair 2021 Preview
• SPIEL '21 Preview

You can view all convention previews, along with the bimonthly game release catalogs here. I'm currently updating lists for May-June 2021, July-August 2021, and September-October 2021.

Publishers, please contact me for a link to my RFI survey if you haven't received it. You're welcome to complete the survey whenever you feel you're ready to share info, and you can complete the survey multiple times, say, now for games due out in June and July, then in two months for games due out at Gen Con or SPIEL.

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