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• One of the first day sellouts at Gen Con 2016 was Lang's Bloodborne: The Card Game, most likely because publisher Cool Mini Or Not had shipped in advance copies for the show to create buzz in advance of the game's September 2016 release date. Buzz buzz buzz!
• One of the biggest splashes of Gen Con 2016 took place a few days before the fair opened, when Fantasy Flight Games announced that the second edition of Mansions of Madness would debut both at the convention and at retail stores on August 4. Retailers complain about being shut out of titles that debut at Gen Con, or of having their customers poached by publishers for the aforementioned buzz, but at least in this one case they could buzz along just like everyone else.
• Gen Con 2016 a high percentage of Australian publishers in attendance, including honorary potential Australian designer Martin Wallace, who had traveled a long way to see two of his releases from Space Cowboys on sale during the show: Via Nebula and (the title shown here) Hit Z Road.
• The fastest turnaround time from knowing that someone would be available for a demo in the BGG booth to said demo taking place might belong to Noel and Rob from Cyanide & Happiness as Scott and I ran into them and Shari Spiro from Breaking Games in the aisle behind the B.G. booth, heard they were available, walked back to the BGG booth, then found out we were ahead on schedule, so *boom* your time on camera has arrived. Sometimes things just work out that way...
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