MPCon News http://mpcon.org/ mpcon.org.news.154 We'll be helping <a href="http://gamersoutreach.org">The Gamer's Outreach</a> run the second annual Gamer's for Giving event in the first half of 2009. <p /> We're also planning on another June/July event, along with a Fall 2009 event. mpcon.org.news.153 Gaming Accessories Industry Just Got Better, As SteelSeries Aquires Ideazon In An Asset Transaction CHICAGO, July 29, 2008 - The leading manufacturer of innovative professional gaming gear, SteelSeries, today announced its acquisition of certain assets in Ideazon, Inc., the North American-based developer and manufacturer of gaming peripherals and technologies. This acquisition further strengthens SteelSeries' peripheral technology and will help expand the company's broad support within the gaming community.<P> For the full press release and a little more insight just hit the link <a href="http://www.steelseries.com/us/press/press_releases/gaming_accessories_industry_just_got_better_as_steelseries_acquires_ideazon_in_an_asset_transaction">here</a>. mpcon.org.news.152 webcam is updated every 5 minutes or so.. <p /> <img src="http://agitated.net/mpcon22/webcam.jpg" width="320" height="240" /> mpcon.org.news.151 The <a href="http://mpcon.servegame.org/disp_schedule.php">tentative schedule can be found here</a>. This includes start, end, tournaments, and free-play games. mpcon.org.news.150 There's been many questions about the seating chart at mpcon xx2. We don't have one since we're in the middle of a website redesign and coding the seating chart for it is a challenge. <p /> If you have a group and would like to sit together, we can set aside some slots. Let us know.. <a href="mailto:contact@mpcon.org">email us</a> or visit us in the IRC channel, gamesurge, #mpcon. mpcon.org.news.149 <a href="http://penguicon.org"><img src="http://mpcon.org/albums/album05/PenguiconWebAdForMpcon.jpg" align="right"border="0" /></a> Bill Korsak of Penguicon will be running a tabletop gaming track at our July event! <p /> They will be freeplay for games like Zombies 1-7, Chez Everything, Settlers of Catan, Lunch Money, Escape from Innsmouth, Battle Cattle, Megastar, The Haunting House, FRAG, Mad Scientist University, Starfares or Catan and MUCH MUCH MORE. He's scheduled playing for other games too. <p /> He is bringing games from <a href="http://www.sjgames.com/">Steve Jackson Games</a>, <a href="http://www.mayfairgames.com/">Mayfair Games</a>, <a href="http://www.atlas-games.com/">Atlas Games</a>, and <a href="http://www.twilightcreationsinc.com/">Twilight Creations</a> <p /> Take some time from your regularly scheduled fragfest, raiding, or strumming this weekend to check it out! mpcon.org.news.148 Signups for MPCon XXII are now open!<br/> <br /> <a href="http://mpcon.org/events.php">Signup Now</a> mpcon.org.news.147 Yes, another MPCon coming up next month! <p /> Details in your inbox and here. mpcon.org.news.146 <a href="http://penguicon.org/registration.php">Penguicon Pre-registration is now closed.</a> mpcon.org.news.145 ken will run the following tournaments at penguicon 6.0 <ul> <li>Trackmania Nations <a href="http://www.trackmanianations.com/">(available free here)</a></li> <li>Quake 3 Gridiron (available free on the LAN)</li> <li>Warsow <a href="http://www.warsow.net/">(available free here)</a></li> <li>Plasma Pong (available free on the LAN)</li> <li>AudioSurf <a href="http://www.audio-surf.com/">(free demo available here)</a></li> </ul> due to the open-source nature of this event, we made sure to include games that would run on linux.