Connecting with the fans is always our top priority at Comic-Con, so the cast was busy every day with one or two signings at our booth.  Hundreds of fans came by daily to get autographed posters, DVDs and other merchandise, and get a few minutes and a photo with the cast.  Between our awesome intern Sophia and a crew of volunteers (most of whom were extras in Season 5), we kept the lines moving quickly and the cast full of coffee (or tea with honey, in Felicia’s case).

The cast and crew attended lots of parties and even made some additional appearances, such as Vork’s appearance at w00tstock, continuing his standup career.

We also try to talk with the press, and between The Guild, Eureka and Dragon Age: Redemption, Felicia was booked solid from morning to night doing interviews and appearances.  We also lined up interviews for other cast members, and will post those as they go live.  Here are a few of the great stories mentioning The Guild:

The Hollywood Reporter: “Felicia Day: How a Girl Geek Made It Big on Her Own”
Time Magazine: “Comic-Con Royalty, Part One: The Queen”
Daily Motion: “Felicia Day Interview at Comic-Con 2011″

On Saturday we had our panel in the jam-packed Indigo Ballroom and announced three new cast members for Season 5: Doug Jones, Erin Gray and Maurissa Tancharoen.  We announced some new licensing deals, which we’ll round up in another post over the weekend.  We screened a Season 4 recap along with episode 1 of Season 5. Marc Hustvedt has a great writeup of the guild panel (‘The Guild’ Season 5, Comic-Con, Honeybadger and Jones Soda) on Tubefilter, and you can watch the panel itself here or here.

Thanks fans for another great year at Comic-Con!

Photos by SnugEZ, Kipicat,

Season Five of Felicia Day’s The Guild Debuts July 26
Hit web series will appear at Comic-Con with a panel on Saturday July 23 at 4pm

Los Angeles, CA (July 15, 2011) – Season five of The Guild will return to Xbox LIVE on the Zune video Marketplace and MSN Video on Tuesday, July 26, sponsored by Microsoft and Sprint. Picking up where season four left off, season five takes the Guild members out from behind their computers and throws them into the real world like the show has never seen before, with new locations, guest stars, celebrity cameos and more!

The Guild stars writer/creator Felicia Day (Eureka, Dollhouse, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-A-Long Blog) as Codex, a lovable geek gamer addicted to an online role-playing game. Season five follows the characters of The Guild as they travel to a gaming convention called MEGAGAME-O-RAMACON. “Conventions like San Diego Comic-Con and Penny Arcade Expo have been a part of our experience promoting The Guild and connecting with fans,” says Felicia Day. “I wanted to bring that unique experience of a going to a con to the screen.” In addition to regular cast members Vincent Caso, Jeff Lewis, Amy Okuda, Sandeep Parikh and Robin Thorsen, season five will feature recognizable guest stars from the science fiction and genre community as well as over 200 extras.

The Guild will appear for the fourth consecutive year at San Diego Comic-Con with daily signings at booth 4201 and a panel at 4pm Saturday, July 23 in the Hilton Bayfront Indigo Ballroom, Comicon’s second-largest venue. The panel will include a preview of season five and Q&A with the cast.

About The Guild

The Guild is an award-winning independent comedy web series about a group of online gamers created by and starring Felicia Day, now with over 100 million views. The show is available for free on Microsoft’s Xbox LIVE, MSN, Zune.net and The Guild website. Launched in 2007 and funded initially by the show’s fans, The Guild has since been sponsored by Microsoft and Sprint. Previous seasons of the show are also available on YouTube, DVD, iTunes, Netflix and Hulu.

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Download this press release as a PDF or Microsoft Word Document.

Press Photos available via The Guild’s page on Flickr. Season 5 trailer (link) embedded below.

 

 

Check out the Hollywood Reporter article for more information.

If you’ve been following Season 2, you know that the cliffhanger was major so we will have to wait and see what develops.

You can catch up with Season 1 and Season 2 by watching them on our home page, or on Xbox Live, or MSN Video.

Here’s an easy link to Season 2 – Episode 1 on MSN Video:

Season 2 – Episode 1: Link the Loot

Felicia’s currently lifting lots of mustard to get Season 3 out so lets show her our support by rewatching and introducing others to The Guild.

Happy viewing!

You can download to your Xbox from the Xbox Marketplace.

Or View it streaming MSN Video. If you enjoy it, it would mean a lot if you pressed the “Digg” button. Thanks!

Also the episodes are downloadable on the Zune Marketplace up to Episode 3, so please enjoy and share with your friends

The Guild Management

Felicia (Codex) did a few interviews last week with the launch of the new Season, so if you’d like to check them out, here are some links!

A recording of a live podcast with Felicia from last Thursday night, The Game Show on thestream.tv, is now posted! You can watch it streaming or download it off iTunes

The Game Show – Wrath of the Day

Watch This Episode on www.theStream.tv

Whedonage has a 3 part video webcam interview with Felicia posted, where she talks about the new distribution for the show, Guild sneaks and some Dr. Horrible stuff.

WOW Insider did a podcast interview with Felicia on Wednesday. And then Kwanzoo did a type interview with her.

Video, podcast, type, one of each kind!

Please look out for the next episode of Season 2 coming to various portals near you early Tuesday morning!

Also, here’s a link and embed to a web-exclusive interview on their web site:

Links to the MSN Streaming for Season 2 Episodes coming tonight!

After the jump, watch an interview we did with the WOW mega-site Allakhazam.com

They also have a fantastic Blizzcon Wiki Entry on our Panel, with transcript and more, check it out as well!

Also, we couldn’t be more flattered to have TWO mashups of The Guild with our 2 favorite sitcoms! (Well, Felicia’s favorites at least )

Thank you 0KatieDurham0 and maxsummers (our diligent Portuguese translator) for editing us into great company!

First, Joystiq did an audio interview with Felicia where she talks a bit about Season 2, her own gaming habits and other interesting stuff.

WOW Stratics, a big supporter of the show early on, did their first video interview with us! We’re honored!

PAX 2008: WoW Stratics Interviews Felicia Day from Eldorian on Vimeo.

Also WOW Vault Interviewed Zaboo, Felicia and Kim on camera in an EPIC 4 part interview!
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

A few press links we wanted to share with you, producers Kim and Felicia interviewed with the great show IndyMogul about low budget filmmaking, check it out!



Also, Felicia and Kim were at the New Media expo last weekend and had the good fortune to be interviewed by Leo Laporte for “Net at Night”. It’s a long podcast, but there are some neat Guild tidbits in it! Thanks again volunteers!

Check out their blog for an extended interview!

Also, there’s an interview with Felicia by Trinity Devine on the IGN network about all things Guild. Happy reading!