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Gen Con Indy - Thursday Walkabout - 2008 Page 1 of 3   Next Page A small portion of the 25,000-30,000 gamers who will flood downtown Indianapolis for Gen Con, scattered among the Indiana Convention Center and several hotel meeting and ballrooms. This aging, mostly-male congregation attends the big event with religious reliability. The event is so big that police issued traffic alerts for downtown. On Gen Con's first public day, we searched the dealers' room, an open space the size of a football field with several basketball courts thrown in. We didn't find much new or unexpected during our first trip, so we decided to wander and look for booths with links to Japanese animation and games. Didn't take long to find those booths. One of the biggest signs at the Score Entertainment booth was for their Bleach game. A booth or two away was the Pokemon display, something to promote a game that - amazing to consider this - is around a decade old. That's old by anime standards but young by the standards of the card games on which Gen Con is based. Upper Deck's booth seemed a little smaller than in previous years, but it was among the fanciest booths in the card gaming area, and it had the same emphasis we've noted in previous years. Page 1 of 3   Next Page Gen Con Indy Main Page