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Press release:
ATLANTA – May 2, 2019 – Suda51, Supergiant Games, Aksys Games, Inti Creates, Team Salvato, and voice actors from some of gaming’s most popular titles are among the guests appearing at MomoCon 2019 in Atlanta.

From Thursday, May 23 to Sunday, May 26, more than 38,000 attendees will take Georgia World Congress Center by storm, filling the largest gaming floor of any convention in the Southeastern U.S.

Grasshopper Manufacture founder Goichi “Suda51“ Suda will attend for the second year in a row. Following the success of last year’s Killer7 Steam reveal, he will make another announcement at MomoCon 2019.

His “Travis Talks Again with SUDA51” panel will stream live on the MomoCon TV 2 Twitch channel Sunday, May 26 at 7:00 pm CST.

Supergiant Games, renowned creators of action-RPGs Bastion, Transistor, and Hades, will celebrate Transistor’s five-year anniversary with a panel featuring composer Darren Korb and voice actor Logan Cunningham.

From BlazBlue: Central Fiction to The Nonary Games, Aksys Games will be on hand to answer fan questions about their favorite Aksys titles. Speakers will discuss otome, a genre of drama, romance, and hot guys Aksys is well known for.

Inti Creates, the studio behind the Mega Man Zero series, Mega Man 9, Mega Man 10, Mighty No. 9, and Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon, will look at 2D action game techniques and differences between the indie game scenes in Japan and the U.S. in its panel.

Doki Doki Literature Club developer Team Salvato will grace the stage at MomoCon 2019 for a panel about the making of the popular horror visual novel.

The acting talents behind Arthur Morgan and Dutch van der Linde of Red Dead Redemption II will reignite their fiery chemistry at MomoCon.

Roger Clark, who won Best Performance at The Game Awards 2018, and Benjamin Byron Davis will discuss the interplay and emotion at the heart of Arthur and Dutch’s relationship.

Additional creative talents appearing at MomoCon 2019 include voice actors from franchises such as Mario, Devil May Cry, Disney cartoons and Kingdom Hearts, Overwatch, and My Hero Academia, as well as Sungwon Cho, a.k.a. “ProZD”, of Twitter and YouTube fame.

An esports roundtable discussion featuring representatives of ELEAGUE, Overwatch, and Waveform will take place at 1:00 pm CST on Saturday, May 25 and stream on MomoCon TV 4.

Atlanta Reign player Kodak and coach Casores will speak about the challenge of preparing for games with high pressure to perform, streamed on the same channel at 2:30 pm on Sunday, May 26.

Fans unable to attend in person can find and watch livestreamed panels via the MomoCon Twitch stream team.

Other streamed panels include “Indie Games in Japan & the World” on Friday, May 24 at 11:30 am CST on MomoCon TV 4, also featuring Suda51.

“I’m really excited to be back for another visit to Atlanta,” said Suda51.

“I have great memories from last year’s event, where I got to announce Killer7’s Steam port and shared a moment of excitement and joy with the audience. And guess what? I’ve got another announcement for this year, too! I’m looking forward to seeing you all there!”

For more information, please visit the official website or follow MomoCon on Facebook and Twitter.

About MomoCon
Founded in 2004 by Jessica Merriman and Chris Stuckey, then students at Georgia Tech, MomoCon has grown from a 700-person on-campus event to the largest event in the southeast United States for fans of video games, animation, cosplay, comics and tabletop games.