PAX 2006 Recap 28
Above and beyond the announcement of their videogame last Friday, PAX apparently passed pleasantly for the PA fans who made it to Bellvue, WA this past weekend. Various news organs have a look at what transpired. eToyChest has a journal of each day, with firsthand accounts and lots of pictures. Gamasutra covers the Penny Arcade Scholarship announced at the event; $10k towards an education to get yourself into the games industry. Kotaku was there to liveblog the keynote, while Joystiq covers the making a comic panel. For wrap-up, we have an IGN report, and the ever exhaustive 1up minisite for everything you'd want to know.
Ok I Admit (Score:1, Interesting)
Don't you love it when people can get along though!
Not only was it a celebration of the popular webcomic, which enjoys its rep of mercilessly skewering the gaming industry, but it also marked a convergence of interests: table-top gamers standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Nintendo fans hoping against hope that the Wii would be playable in some dark corner of the exhibition hall.
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It's small but it is about 30 mins after the doors opened. Please ignore the stuff in my teeth. I'll try to upload some more later.
For pics, I got three:
Tycho and Gabe [flickr.com]
One half of one of the LAN rooms at PAX [flickr.com]
Me + Frag Dolls [flickr.com]
The entire con was a blast. Jerry and Mike were EXTREMELY polite. They got mobbed everywhere that they went and they did everything that they could to try to spend a few minutes speaking with as many people as possible. The Enforcers were incredibly cool and ve
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Amen. Who has time for that type of lifestyle outside of college. But going still would have been a lot of fun.
going away for a weekend... yeah, that's fucking crazy! $DEITY forbid you should take a little vacation from time to time and not feel guilty about it.
Panel! (Score:4, Funny)
Pax 2006 (Score:3, Interesting)
Half a decade? (Score:2)
As a journalist it's very easy to get jaded, and after more than half a decade of writing about games professionally
More than half of a whole decade!? I guess it sounds much longer than "5 years" somehow? Honestly, someone is taking themselves a little too seriously.
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Turning a hobby into a job is a pretty good way to turn it into something you don't enjoy very much. And while playing video games can be fun, it's not the most productive thing in the world. I guess my point is, in the grand scheme of things, how much does this guy's job really matter? Maybe he feels that it's mor
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Also the fact that you assume someone who makes a career out of a hobby ruins the hobby because work = sucks leads me to believe you've never had a job doing something you loved. As someone who used to work doing something I loved, for years in-fact, I can tell you that yes I did have my days where I
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Also, I guess I didn't properly explain what I was trying to say about the hobby thing. The point I was trying to get across is along the lines of, just
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I also think that journalism, in general, is an important and admirable profession. It's just that there are some topics that really, in the grand scheme of things, don't matter enough to be fulfillin
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I definately think they're having
It's cool to see two people... (Score:2)
BTW, does anyone actually have a link to the mentioned strip?
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Better Blog than the one's posted: (Score:2, Interesting)
No Love For Sony (Score:5, Informative)
Minutes later, Gabe was asked what he thought about the PlayStation 3. He replied, "We won't be getting one at launch. It (the price) is ridiculous, and they need to know it's ridiculous." He added, "The future of gaming is the Wii-60," meaning, I guess, a combination of the XBox 360 and the Wii.
Microsoft and Nintendo also both had big booths (although Nintendo was only showing DS games, nothing for the Wii), but Sony didn't show up. It helps that both Microsoft and Nintendo have their headquarters a short 5 minutes from the venue, but there was zero Sony presence.
The Wizard! (Score:1)
The panels, tournaments (I'm not that good) and freeplay rooms were good, I suppose, but just hanging out with a DS was awesome. There were so many DSes being used, in fact, that it was hard to play without getting a connection error even if you were rig
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Actually, both PA panels were awesome (as well as the one where they showed us how they make the cartoons and we gave out suggestions for today's strip) Also, Beat the Pros, where you get to watch random guys who were standing in like take on pros at Soul Calibur III and Halo 2 was pretty fun to watch. They also showed a guy who got over 3 million points in geometry wars before he purpousfully died