The Convention Fans Blog

Steampunk. You’ve probably heard the term before. If you’ve been attending any kind of fandom or media conventions in the past few years, you’ve no doubt seen the steampunk costumes. But what is steampunk? Well, we’ll address that in a bit. I recently had an opportunity to sit down with The Cog is Dead, a steampunk band that is preparing

As posted on Twitter by The Guild‘s Felicia Day and Sandeep Parikh, Andrew Koenig (son of Star Trek‘s Walter Koenig) has been missing since February 14, 2010. He was last seen in Vancouver, Canada. Jenny Magenta, whom Koenig had been staying with in Vancouver before his disappearance, posted a message last night on Facebook, that read in part: “If you have

Game Core, a Pennsylvania gaming convention, has announced that it is being postponed until the fall. From the Game Core convention website: We are very sorry to announce that due to some scheduling issues with the convention center, and our proximity to Too Many Games, we’ve opted to push the convention back to the fall. To be sure that this

Below is part two of a series of highlights from Felicia Day’s Saturday Q&A session at Farpoint, a Maryland (USA) fan-run science fiction and fantasy convention. Since it was an hour long, not every single question and answer is represented here, and not all answers are in full (some were quite long). However, I’ve tried to select the “best of” to

I had the distinct pleasure of getting to hear Felicia Day talk about a lot of her projects, her passions, her gaming, and so very much more, during my time at Farpoint this past weekend. Farpoint is a fan-run science fiction and fantasy convention held in Maryland (USA), and Felicia Day was one of the headlining guests for 2010. In addition to