Imperial-paid bounty hunters,
elves,
cat-men,
sci-fi soldiers,
elves,
secret agents, and
yet more elves are already donning their garb and readying their fake ears;
Sony Online Entertainment has announced that this year's
Fan Faire event
will be held from August 14th to August 17th at the Las Vegas Hilton. It
took some time to establish this date, obviously, but it sounds like it's going to be a good time. The usual live events, costume contests, receptions, banquets, and developer roundtables are already in the works. This year's event will feature more looks ahead to in-development Sony Online titles, which we assume means
The Agency and
Free Realms. There will also be a community address, the second in as many years, from SOE President
John Smedley.
Every year the community team tops themselves with game-specific events. This year the in-development title out at
SOE-Seattle,
The Agency, is listed as one of the games on tap for live events. Interestingly,
Free Realms is not. While there aren't any details on the site yet, the team already has their work cut out for them. We've been eying up this summer with trepidation: July has
Comic-Con and
E3, while August has
Leipzig,
Dragon*Con,
PAX, and
Gen Con, with Gen Con running opposite Fan Faire itself. Convention attending gamers, we salute you; you've got some hard choices to make.
