{"id":192342,"date":"2025-04-30T21:01:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T02:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=192342"},"modified":"2025-04-30T21:01:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T02:01:49","slug":"game-con-returning-to-nscc-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/04\/30\/game-con-returning-to-nscc-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Con returning to NSCC campus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ARCHBOLD &#8212; Northwest State Community College is bringing back Game Con, \u201cthe premier pop culture convention,\u201d from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, June 14. The event will be held in the auditorium and atrium at the Archbold campus. The convention is run by Northwest State and NSCC Thunder, the college\u2019s official Esports team. The event is free to attend, and all ages are welcome.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/gamecon-hero.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-192344\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Game Con will be held June 14 at NSCC&#8217;s main campus. <em>Photo submitted<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Game Con will feature many events and competitions, some returning and some new. They include a 100-player Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Tournament with a $600 prize pool, a Cosplay Contest with a $500 prize pool, a Yu-Gi-Oh Card Game Tournament with a Yu-Gi-Oh related prizes, and other open activities available to all attendees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of the open activities scheduled for Game Con include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Artists, vendors, and authors<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Various panels<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dungeons &amp; Dragons character creation workshop<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Open console play with Nintendo Switches, PlayStations, and many more Consoles<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Virtual Reality (VR) experiences<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Food trucks, open Lego build stations and more<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Event sponsors currently include Worthington Industries, Sauder Manufacturing, Bryan GameStop, and N.W.O. Gamers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff\/submitted information ARCHBOLD &#8212; Northwest State Community College is bringing back Game Con, \u201cthe premier pop culture convention,\u201d from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, June 14. The event will be held in the auditorium and atrium at the Archbold campus. The convention is run by Northwest State and NSCC Thunder, the college\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 00:09:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192342"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192345,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192342\/revisions\/192345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}