Everything Gaming Related at Comic-Con 2014

The San Diego Comic-Con, or SDCC, is only a week away. As the largest convention in the world, it attracts all sorts of entertainment industries, and gaming has been increasingly a part of it. This year, there’ll be a lot to see and a lot to learn, whether you’ll be attending the convention or catching up on the news at home. Here at Twinfinite, we want to help you out. Here’s a list of everything gaming related that’s happening at Comic-Con. You can click on some items for more details on them.

Official Panels at Comic-Con

All these are panels you need a San Diego Comic-Con badge to attend to.

Thursday, July 24

• The Witcher (10 a.m. / Room 6 A)
• Halo: Nightfall: A First Look (11:45 a.m. / Room 6BCF)
• Evolving the League of Legends Experience (1:00 p.m. / Room 6 BCF )
• Beyond Clichés: Creating Awesome Female Characters for Film, TV, Comics, Video Games, and Novels (2:00 p.m. / Room 28 DE)
• Blizzard Entertainment Showcase (2:15 p.m. / Room 6 BBCF)
• The Inspiration that Brought Far Cry 4’s Kyrat to Life and the Quest for Everest (3:15 p.m. / Room 6 DE)
• ASIFA – Hollywood: Animation in Video Games (4:00 p.m. / Room 5 AB)
• The World of Capcom (4:45 p.m. Room 6 BCF)
• The Fusion of Art and Style in Sunset Overdrive (5:00 p.m. / Room 5 AB)
• Firefly Online: Bringing Back the ‘Verse ( 6:30 p.m. / Room 24 ABC)
• What Video Games Can Teach (6:30 p.m. / Room 4)
• Inside the Voice Actors Studio (7:00 p.m. / Room 30 CDE)

Friday, July 25

•  Halo: The Master Chief Collection Panel (10:15 a.m. / Room 6 BCF )
• Bandai Namco Games Fighting Panel (12:00 p.m. / Room 25 ABC)
• Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor (12:30 p.m. / Room 8)
• Heads Will Roll! Assassin’s Creed Unity Demo and Q&A (2:00 p.m. / Room 6 BCF)
• Battlefield Hardline: A Visceral World of Crime and Revenge (2:30 p.m. / Room 5 AB)
• Digging E.T.:  Begind the Scenes of the Xbox Originals Documentary, Atari: Game Over (3:30 p.m. / Room 5 AB)
• The Art of Video Games (4:00 p.m. / Room 7 AB)
• Street Fighter! (5:00 p.m. / Room 25 ABC)
• Three Flavors of Zombie: Expanding the Universe of Dead Island (6:00 p.m. / Room 25 ABC)
• How to Get a Job in Video Games (6:45 p.m. / Room 6 DE)
• Evolution of the Action RPG (7:00 p.m. / Room 25 ABC)
• Nerdist Gaming (7:30 p.m. / Room 24 ABC)
• Mega 64: Episode Part Seven Panel-May the Fourth Be with You (8:00 p.m. / Room 6 DE)

Saturday, July 26

• Marvel Video Games (12:30 p.m. / Room 6 A)
• Charting a Course: Developing the Next Mass Effect (2:00 p.m. / Room 25 ABC)
• Monster Hunter (3:30 p.m. / Room 24 ABC)
• E-Sports: How to Become a Pro Gamer (4:30 p.m. / Room 26 AB)
• Video Games and Our Future: We’re All Gamers (6:30 p.m. / Room 24 ABC)
• Gaia Online (7:00 p.m. / Room 5 AB)

Sunday, July 27

• StreetPass San Diego (10 a.m. / Room 29 A)
• Archie Action Hour: Sonic, the Hedgehog and Mega Man (1:00 p.m. / Room 32 AB)
• LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham (1:00 p.m. / Room 6 BCF)
• Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and The Battle That Defined a Generation (2:30 p.m. / Room 23 ABC)

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Other Events by Company

Microsoft

Booth: #100, inside the Comic-Con convention center Second Location: Xbox Gaming Lounge, Manchester Grand Hyatt (Seasport Ballroom, 2nd Floor) Events:

• Forza Motorsport 5 Tournaments (Thursday 24, Friday 25 and Saturday 26, 11:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Xbox Gaming Lounge)
• Titanfall Tournaments (Thursday 24 from 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., Friday 25 and Saturday 26 from 2:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., Xbox Gaming Lounge)
• Killer Instinct Tournament (Sunday 27 from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Xbox Gaming Lounge

Games to showcase:

• Sunset Overdrive
• Evolve
• Forza Horizon 2
• Fable Legends
• Ori and The Blind Forest
• Super Dead Rising 3 Arcade Remix
• Madden NFL 15
• Skylanders Trap Team
• The Evil Within
• The Crew
• Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham
• Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes (2.0 Edition)
• Killer Instinct
• Disney Fantasia: Music Evolved
• Project Spark
• Minecraft
• Powerstar Golf
• Project Totem
• Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
• #IDARB
• Fenix Rage
• Dance Central Spotlight
• Titanfall
• Forza 5
• Kinect Sports Rivals

Nintendo

Booth: #235, inside the Comic-Con convention center Second location: Nintendo Video Game Lounge, San Diego Ballroom at the Marriott Marquis & Marina (No Comic-Con badge needed!) Events: 

• Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS tournament (Friday 25, starting noon, Nintendo Video Game Lounge)

Games to showcase:  Nintendo 3DS

• Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS from Nintendo
• Pokémon Art Academy from Nintendo
• Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney from Nintendo
• Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal from SEGA
• THEATRHYTHM FINAL FANTASY CURTAIN CALL from Square Enix, Inc.
• Shovel Knight from Yacht Club Games (Nintendo eShop)
• Siesta Fiesta from Mojo Bones Ltd. (Nintendo eShop)

Wii U

• Super Smash Bros. for Wii U from Nintendo
• Hyrule Warriors from Nintendo
• Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker from Nintendo
• Yoshi’s Woolly World from Nintendo
• Mario Kart 8 from Nintendo
• Bayonetta 2 from Nintendo
• Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric from SEGA
• Just Dance 2015 from Ubisoft
• Skylanders Trap Team from Activision
• Shovel Knight from Yacht Club Games (Nintendo eShop)
• 1001 Spikes from Nicalis (Nintendo eShop)
• Guacamelee Super Turbo Championship Edition from DrinkBox Studios (Nintendo eShop)

Sony

Sony hasn’t announced any PlayStation-related events for Comic-Con, nor does it have its own booth on the floor. There might be something at the Somy Pictures Entertainment booth, Booth #3629, especially if it relates to Powers, the first push into original content by the PlayStation Network.

Third Party Booths

Ubisoft: Booth #135 (Ubisoft will also have a Assassin’s Creed Parkour course on the lawn outside the convention center.) Capcom: Booth #215 Blizzard: Booth #115 Activision: Booth #303 Bandai Namco: Booth # 129 The Behemoth: Booth #229 Mad Catz: Booth #400 [Page 1: Official Panels at Comic-Con] [Page 2: Other Events by Company] [Page 3: Offsite Events]

Offsite Events

Not everything at Comic-Con happens at the convention center. Each year, gaming companies reach out to other venues and organization to showcase their latest projects. Here are some panels and game demos you can attend to even if you don’t have a Comic-Con badge.

Geek & Sundry, at Jolt’n Joe’s

Thursday, July 24

10:30 a.m.: Mix and mingle with BioWare’s development team over coffee and donuts, and then sit back and watch their demo of Dragon Age: Inquisition. 2:30 p.m.: Play a round of trivia about “The World of the Witcher” for prizes, followed by a Q&A. 5 p.m.: Dragon Age: Inquisition Demo

Friday, July 25

10:00 a.m.: Play Skullgirls on the Microsoft Surface Pro 3 all day 10:00 a.m.: Get a sneak peek of the The Witcher boardgame: The Witcher Adventure Game, introduced by Felicia Day, with Jesse Cox, Mia Resella, Omar Najam 11:00 a.m.: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt demo 12:00 p.m.: Espionage Cosmetics creates Geralt’s (The Witcher) scar on the patio 2:00 p.m.: Dragon Age: Inquisition demo 5:00 p.m.: Dragon Age: Inquisition demo and panel with BioWare

Nerd HQ

(Panels to be announced) Games to showcase:

• Alien: Isolation
• Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA F 2nd
• Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric
• Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal

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