Stay up-to-date with Games Convention, both there and at home

Aion fully playable! A packed show schedule! Quests for great prizes! It’s not enough – we’re going even further with our activities at Games Convention – we’re going fully multimedia!

Even if you can’t make it to Leipzig, carry on reading - we’re going the extra mile to allow you to experience the Games Convention, even if you’re just looking at your web browser. Here’s our list of special multimedia features coming direct from the show floor:

The Official NCE International Podcast
Each day we’ll be hosting a live show in English from our stage, dedicated to all our international guests and the fans who couldn’t come to the show. Staff members from NCsoft Europe (and maybe some special surprise guests) will be on stage interviewing our guests, and answering questions from members of the audience. Questions and answers will be in English so that everyone from outside Germany will be able to understand them, too. (Of course every German speaker is also welcome at the stage. It’s a good chance to practice your English skills a bit.)

Best of all, every show will be recorded and the audio will make up a series of special podcasts, which will feed into the Official NCsoft Europe Podcast and let you all take part in the excitement. Make sure that you don’t miss a single episode and subscribe to the podcast before the first day of the show.

The Official NCE ‘Vodcast’
Similar to the podcast we will provide you with a ‘vodcast’ (or ‘video-podcast’) and show you video material recorded each day. See just what was going on (and what you might have missed) on our booth. Episodes will be available at the end of each day on blip.tv or via iTunes - just click here to subscribe.

Twitter-Feed
Those of you who are regularly visiting our Community sections on the official websites of Aion: The Tower of Eternity might have noticed that each member of our community team has their own Twitter feed there. To get the most out of this feeds you can follow them using Twitter and receive updates (and send your own updates) with your mobile phone or reply/comment on their postings. (Ayase’s feed, Atreid’s feed, Amboss’ feed).

During the show we will support all three feeds. Become a follower, stay up to date (e.g. be informed about the schedule) and… win prizes!

That’s correct! We won’t be using Twitter to just inform you about what’s going on at the booth, we will also use it to let you win prizes if you follow them. For example, we might tell you that the first person who turns up to the stand and says the ‘Prize phrase’ we’ve only revealed on Twitter will win a t-shirt. So make sure you can follow the feeds when you’re in Leipzig. Either activate the mobile phone updates or maybe even let one of your friends at home follow it and then send you a notification. Some mobile phones let you read Twitter in a web browser or special applications (like Twitterrific for the iPhone and iPod touch) might make it even easier for you to follow the feeds.

While Twitter doesn’t charge you anything for receiving updates your mobile phone provider might charge you extra fees if you send a SMS to Twitter’s phone number to reply to a posting, or update your own status. So when you are in Germany you might have to send a SMS to Twitter’s UK phone number. Check with your provider, please.

And here’s a special bonus for everyone who has to stay at home and is worried about not being able to win a slot in the Aion Exclusive Preview at the show. While you will still get your chance to win at other events and eventually via a general sign-up process, if you follow our Twitter feeds during the show you can earn your slot then and take part when the preview starts in 2009 – it’s just as if you were there.

Twitter lets you reply to messages and this is what you have to do. Each day we will ask you a short question in each of the Twitter feeds (English, French and German) and telling you that if you reply to the message with the correct answer you can win your slot. We will then contact the winner via direct message in Twitter and ask for their email address to send them the notification later.

Important: You need to be a follower (create your own account, visit our feed and ‘become a follower’) to be able to receive direct messages from us.

There will be fifteen slots given away in total. One each day per Twitter feed and language. They’re rare, but you can have a chance even if you’re not at the show - go for it!

Please note: The slots are for the Exclusive Preview in Europe only. Please keep in mind that if you’re not living in Europe your game experience might be different due to technical reasons. Watch the US Aion website for information about how to get slots for the Exclusive Preview in the US. For example if you attend the Penny Arcade Expo you can win slots for this preview there.

MMS
There are a lot of screens on our booth but none is as big as our main screen, right above the stage. We’ve set up an MMS system which will allow you and your friends to appear there and show everyone that you’re a fan of our products. Simply take a picture of you and maybe some of your friends on our stand and send an MMS message with the subject ‘Leipzig’ to ‘44444’. This is your chance to become a hero and immortalize yourself on our booth - ok, not quite… but it’s good fun!

Bluetooth extras
Activate any device which supports file transfer via Bluetooth (e.g. your mobile phone) and you will receive extra material when inside our Bluetooth network on our stand, including exclusive video content… you never know who might pop up on your phone!

Internet live stream from showfloor
You can keep up with the action by following our live streaming from the convention here. We won’t be streaming live all the time but if you miss a live segment you will be able to watch them recorded afterwards on the same site.