It’s hard to believe it’s been a week already, but I’ve finally caught up on the sleep I missed from the awesome time Musashi and I had at GenCon 2008. As our esteemed editor in chief mentioned, we were joined by occasional contributor Centurion and his charming significant other Lindsey for a weekend of gaming, carousing and scoping out the newest developments in all kinds of games. We were joined by a record 28,600 unique and over 95,800 turnstile attendees.

This year, your humble staff indulged in gaming to an unprecedented degree. We started Thursday night with a modern-world-setting round of Call of Cthulhu. CoC is one of my all-time favorite RPGs, and it was a pleasure once again to experience the atmosphere of dread the game creates, especially since Musashi and I were denied in our attempts to join a session last year.

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Okay - I know, we didn’t do any posting this weekend. Gen Con kept us busier than usual this year, and - aw, screw it. I’ll tell you what really happened. I was up Friday and Saturday nights until 4am and on Sunday from 10am to 2 pm playing Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition with Mazinga and some friends I hadn’t seen in a while (verdict: I’m in love - you nay-sayers can keep your first/second/third/whatever editions…I’m on board with 4E). Needless to say, my body is seriously telling me to go fuck myself right now, and I’m considering an energy-drink IV drip to keep me awake today.

That said, I did manage to snag some video and pictures which I’ll post today and tomorrow, and a full convention wrap-up will follow.

Below are two videos of BioWare’s upcoming RPG Dragon Age: Origins and a few minutes of the live-action HeroClix demo from Wiz Kids’ booth on Saturday afternoon.