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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 61. Chapters: Gen Con, San Diego Comic-Con International, Fantastic Fest, Penny Arcade Expo, Sci-Fi on the Rock, Fan Expo Canada, Gaylaxicon, MidSouthCon, MomoCon, I-CON, Auto Assembly, Star Wars Celebration, SFX, Northwest Pinball and Gameroom Show, Dragon Con, Pure Speculation, CNAnime, BabelCon, World Horror Convention, Geek.Kon, GX, Phoenix ComiCon, Vancouver Science Fiction Convention, Archon, Angouleme International Comics Festival, Hal-Con, Detroit Triple Fan Fair, ITVFest, MOBICON, New York Comic Con, London MCM Expo, Rue Morgue Festival of Fear, List of multigenre conventions, Genericon, London Film and Comic Con, Intervention, Conflux, All-Con, What the Hell?! Con, Soonercon, Pacific Media Expo, Animation-Comic-Game Hong Kong, CoastCon, Supanova Pop Culture Expo, Trinoc*coN, Finncon, Convention du Lac, MegaCon, Comicpalooza, Death Equinox, Con-G, Fantasy Anime Comics Toys Space, Animation On Display, Convencion de Juegos de Mesa y Comics, Animex, Wonder Festival, UberCon, Continuara..., True Realm, CTN Animation Expo, Wrath of Con, Comics Salon. Excerpt: Gen Con is one of the largest and most prominent annual gaming conventions in North America. It features traditional pen-and-paper, board, and card-style games, including role-playing games, miniatures wargames, board games, live action role-playing games, collectible card games, non-collectible card games, and strategy games. Gen Con also features computer games. Attendees engage in a variety of tournament and interactive game sessions. Gen Con 2010 brought in just over 30,000 attendees, which makes the convention similar in size to Dragon Con and FanExpo's Game Expo, larger than Origins (14,000+), and smaller than E3 (40,000+). Gen Con began in 1968 as a wargames convention, held in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, by Gary Gygax, who would later go on to co-create Dungeons & D...
