From August 28th to September 1st I’m going to be heading to Seattle, Washington for the Penny-Arcade gaming convention (or PAX) for a weekend full of gaming and drunken debauchery. Just taking a brief look at the convention’s schedule has me almost overwhelmed. There’s so much to do, so much to see, so many people to meet that it literally feels like a tidal wave of sheer awesomeness is washing over me. I’m not sure I can handle it to be honest; I fully expect to spend the first hour of the convention just gawking at everything with stunned disbelief.
Here’s the floor layout of everything that’s going to be at PAX. The amount of developers, publishers, and gaming industry personnel athat are going to be there is insane. Bioware is going to make an appearance with Dragon Age, Blizzard has a booth set up, Bethesda is bringing Fallout 3, EA Mythic is showing off Warhammer: Online, and Valve is supposed to have Left 4 Dead on hand at the convention.
But that’s just the gaming related stuff. On top of all the video game and Penny-Arcade Q&A panels, the guys from Mega64 are going to be there, Jonathan Coulton, the One-Ups, and Mini Boss are going to be doing a four hour concert, Rooster Teeth is doing a panel, there’s going to be plenty of industry speakers about the current state of gaming and gaming journalism, and I’m hoping that Felicia Day will be making an appearance for the screening The Guild. I love Felicia Day. In a non-stalkerish sort of way that is. But yeah, totally going to get an autograph from her if I can so I can add it to my “I Love Felicia Day” shrine I have in the shoebox underneath my bed.
Oh, and Ken Levine is also going to be there too doing a panel as well.
And this is all just the stuff I remember! There’s also going to be a plethora of gaming tournaments going on (which I won’t be entering since I suck at video games) for Call of Duty 4, Rock Band, and Super Smash Bros. and allegedly the parties there are supposed to be pretty awesome as well. And if not, there’s all of downtown Seattle to explore. There has to be some good bars around there.
I’m going to be doing a daily update on the217 (complete with pictures and hopefully live footage) from PAX, so keep your eyes peeled for that in a few weeks!
Mark Fujii: I'm your typical college student who plays too much video games. I also work as an electronic sales associate, meaning I sell Ipods and violent video games to your children when not trying to sneak off and play Super Smash Bros while the boss isn't looking. Oh, and I'm totally awesome. True fact.
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I'm your typical college student who plays too much video games. I also work as an electronic sales associate, meaning I sell Ipods and violent video games to your children when not trying to sneak off and play Super Smash Bros while the boss isn't looking. Oh, and I'm totally awesome. True fact.
Jessica (Jessica) says:
(Posted August 18th, 2008 at 3:50 pm)
For those luck enough to go to PAX thought you might be interested in this contest-
Apparently judges at PAX will be awarding the person with the best Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness costume with a 3,000 HP store credit to custom-build his/her own HP Blackbird gaming rig.
You can check out the deets here - http://www.thenextbench.com/hpg/blog?blog.id=hpblog