Gen Con Goes Up For Sale

Trask writes "LivingDice has documents indicating that Gen Con LLC is up for sale. Additionally, there is an offer pending which could close by the end of the year. This may finally put an end to the uncertainty caused by Gen Con's chapter 11 filing and the recently dismissed Lucasfilm lawsuit."

A further posting on that website reads

[sleeponthemic]

Gen Com purchase offer rejected [livingdice.com]
Seems as if someone was trying to destabilize things.

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[Jeff DeMaagd]

That newer posting is two days old too. The story on the original letter was posted a week ago.

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[night_flyer]

this is slashdot: new for nerds, stuff that mattered a week ago...

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[Anonymous Coward]

That's somewhat interesting. I wonder if this guy, who is posting these blogs is up to something shady.

yawn

[waterwingz]

and we might care about this because .....

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[Anonymous Coward]

Read the tagline on this website... News for Nerds and all that.

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[Alex Belits]

lol wut

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[danieltdp]

.. its news for nerds, stuff that matters.

Gaming Convention for Sale

[9Nails]

There, that might help...

Gen Con is a Gaming Convention held in North America and Europe. They host the events and bring in exhibitors. In some cases it's a chance for the public to meet people in the game industry.

I've never been to one of these. I tend to miss the dates when I'm interested and not have the money when I'm informed of the events.

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[TheKidWho]

Gen Con is a gaming convention, just a bit smaller than E3.

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[Colin Walsh]

Here, let me Google that for you [letmegoogl...foryou.com].

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[ushering05401]

You seem to have missed the part about Slashdot actually being a really big stick that nerds use to hit things.

I wonder how Gencon feels about your 500,000 nerds typing Gencon into a search engine scenario.

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[Chas]

GenCon is a gaming convention held in Indianapolis. If it's a game, it's played at GenCon.

It the highest drawing (money-wise) convention in Indianapolis, pulling more than even the Indy500 crowd. This actually stunned the crap outta them a couple years back. Gamers and all that disposable income.....

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[crenshawsgc]

It the highest drawing (money-wise) convention in Indianapolis, pulling more than even the Indy500 crowd.

Unlikely true if you include the TV income, which is an enormous majority of the profit in almost any televised sport.

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[Culture20]

It the highest drawing (money-wise) convention in Indianapolis, pulling more than even the Indy500 crowd.

Unlikely true if you include the TV income, which is an enormous majority of the profit in almost any televised sport.

Which the downtown tavern proprietors never see. BTW, GenCon is broadcast too. [youtube.com]

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[Chas]

No. I mean highest drawing money-wise for Indy itself. Sure, the Indy 500 makes more money off TV deals, but the city doesn't see most of that.

Chapter 11, duh!

[Anonymous Coward]

When a company has filed a Chapter 11 they have to examine every offer to be bought out.

If GM files Chapter 11 and some idiot offers them $10 for the entire company, then GM has to treat it as an offer and consider it.

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[Uzik2]

Instead of "gm has to consider it" shouldn't that read "The bankruptcy judge has to consider it"? I don't believe the bankrupt entity gets to pick and choose unless the judge allows it.

GenCon is card gamers life

[MunchySnacks]

Coming from a local Indy resident this is huge news GenCon has been a part of my life for quite awhile now and all I can hope is that someone buys it who cares about D&D and CTG's. Most of my friends are very involved with this convention my best friend volunteers and was won second place last year in the final FMA tourney. All I can hope is that if there are buyers they will remember what GenCon is about and keep true to all the gamers that enjoy it so much.

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[Harin_Teb]

I second this, and hope that however *does* buy it doesn't treat it the way WotC did when they owned it and give games made by other companies second class booths / rooms.

Also for the love of jeebus keep it in indy. Its not too far a drive from Mi for me. :-)

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[Chas]

Yet computer gaming goes on there too.

One of the big sponsors of 2008's GenCon was Cryptic Studios who was hawking their upcoming Champions Online product.

Warhammer Online was also there as well.

Grow a thicker skin?

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[solios]

Yeah, but those are computer games with tabletop roots. You don't see Eidos hawking Tomb Raider, do you?

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[Chas]

Actually yes, I have. All sorts of games that didn't necessarily have their roots in tabletop variants have been hawked at GenCon too.

illegal?

[rpillala]

I saw the "illegal" tag and have been waiting to see a post about why. Does it have something to do with ch. 11 reorganization?

Who is Gen Con?

[swordgeek]

OK, my first thought was that the /. post didn't even hint at who/what GenCon is or does. Then I thought, "be fair--they wouldn't do it for SCO or any other company that is part of the culture. Go RTFA, and you'll find out."

Well, I RTFA, and it doesn't even hint at it. A paragraph on /. is one thing, but writing an entire article about a company being bought without even mentioning what the company does or did? Sad.