jchenx's Journal: Team MCG vs Penny Arcade - Ping Pong Results!

Those who follow the games industry probably know about the guys at Penny Arcade. They run the extremely popular web-comic, and are also responsible for the amazingly successful Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) conference and Child's Play charity. They are even working on their own PC game.

So, last month, when they challenged local game companies to a game of ping pong, we here at Microsoft Casual Games (MCG) just had to answer. After all, we play quite a bit of table tennis ourselves in the office.

Well, we just played our game last week, and I am happy to announce that Team MCG was victorious! For more details, and lots of pictures, you can check out my 1UP blog.

That night was a lot of fun. But I think what may be more important is the stuff that might happen afterwards. If more game companies in the Seattle area get involved, we might end up doing some kind of local ping pong tournament. I think that'll be great for the local games industry, since there are a lot of us here and it would be awesome to get some more networking, mingling, etc. going on. Not a lot of people realize how much "games stuff" happens here in the Pacific Northwest (many people just think of "California"), so I think it'd be great if we can get something going. I definitely have my fingers crossed!