STEAK is this upcoming weekend! For those of you who don’t know what STEAK is, it’s an annual gaming event the NoBrandCon staff run every year at UW-Eau Claire. This year’s STEAK will be happening on the second floor of the UWEC Davies Center in the Badger, Clearwater, and Wisconsin rooms in the Skylight Lounge area. The event starts at 10 AM both on Saturday the 20th, and Sunday the 21st and runs till 11PM each night. You can check out the event’s facebook page linked at the beginning for more info!

Secondly, we’ve confirmed this week with the Ramada Inn this week that the main convention hotel is completely booked up for NoBrandCon weekend. They are currently accepting names for a waiting list, but in case you can’t get a room, we’ve established two hotels again this year as overflow to accommodate those attendees who can’t get a room at the Ramada but still need a place to stay during the weekend.

They are:

Rodeway Inn & Suites
1828 S. Hastings Way
Eau Claire, WI 54701
(715) 835-3600

Heartland Inn
4075 Commonwealth Ave.
Eau Claire, WI 54701
(715) 839-7100

We’ve established special rates at both hotels for our attendees, so you’ll need to call the hotels directly in order to get those special convention rates. Just mention you’re attending NoBrandCon weekend from April 30th to May 2nd and you should be good to go.

It’s about 3 months and counting to NoBrandCon 9, and we have a couple of important updates to share with everyone!

First, we’d like to announce our first three guests of honor for this year’s convention! Chris Cason, Todd Haberkorn, and Wendy Powell. All three have extensive backgrounds in voice acting as well as other areas and we’re very fortunate to have all three of them attending this year’s convention! Click on our convention guests page to check out their bios.

Second, we’d like to announce we have our new cofirmed dates for STEAK 2009/10. This year’s STEAK will be occuring on February 20 & 21, 2010 on the second floor of the UWEC Davie’s Center. Feel free to check out STEAK’s facebook page or join the discussion on our forums for more info! We will be publishing a schedule of events for STEAK in the upcoming weeks, so be sure to check back as we get closer to 2/20!

Every Fall the past few years, several NoBrandCon staffers have put together a table-top gaming event on the UWEC campus called STEAK. This year’s STEAK is planned for Sat. & Sun. December 5 & 6 on the second floor of the UWEC Davies Center which is located on the college’s lower campus.

On top of the usual table-top gaming, we’ll also be putting together a video game room for those who might want to do something a bit different during event. The best news of all is that STEAK is a FREE event, so feel free to stop by with a few friends!

If you’d like to know a few more details about what table-top and video games will be available, be sure to check out the STEAK discussion thread on the NoBrand forums which will be announced as we get closer to the event.

Several staff members are going to be heading down to Geekkon in Madison, WI this weekend at the Sheraton Madison Hotel for three days of convention fun!

We’ll be running a room party on Saturday night, so be sure to check out NoBrandCon’s Facebook, Twitter, or MySpace pages for updates on when and where it’ll be taking place!