Quashing weeks of rumors, Gen Con announced today that Wizards of the Coast will be a co-sponsor of Gen Con Indy this August.  ICv2 has confirmed that this co-sponsorship will include Wizards of the Coast as an exhibitor at the show.  The Wizards of the Coast relationship with the show goes back 41 years, to when the show was founded by TSR Games (later acquired by WotC). 

This is an important year at GenCon for WotC, which is launching D&D 4th Edition in June.  It will be premiering the new Living Forgotten Realms campaign at the show, as well as 20 years of the Legend of Drizzt.  Bestselling author R.A. Salvatore will appear at the show to sign sample chapters of The Pirate King and The Stowaway.  

Rumors that WotC would not be exhibiting at Gen Con had been sparked in part by the presence of Hasbro in the creditor list that was filed in conjunction with Gen Con’s chapter 11 bankruptcy petition (see “Gen Con Files Chapter 11”).  Gen Con owed Hasbro over $400,000 at the time of the filing, and it was the third largest creditor (ahead of even Lucasfilm, whose lawsuit sparked the filing, see “Lucasfilm Sues Gen Con”).