For those who don't know, it's the same weekend as Kumoricon this year due to poor planning, but it's Friday through Sunday and Kumoricon is Saturday through Monday.  I won't talk more about it because I don't want to be nagging people to skip this and come to Kumoricon, but I figured people ought to be aware of this when planning for either, because I know a lot of communities (particularly this one) would typically plan for both.

Awh, bummer about the date conflicts.  I didn't check them before

and I was semi-interested in checking out kumoricon because nothing else makes me feel quite as old.. or creepy


strike that, I guess there was going to Chuck E. Cheese for PIU Zero when I was still in NY

I'm going to PAX.  Its worth the admission price for all the swag you can nab in the exhibtors hall alone.

Last year they had 4 DDR SN dedicabs on freeplay.  I'm hoping something shows up again this year, but I don't see either Betson or Konami on the exhibitors list.

I'm definitely going. It was completely awesome last year, and there's so much to do, I was never bored.

2 things.

1. Totally worth PIU Zero

2. Most of the people who come to Kumoricon are between 16 and 26.  Expand that to 13-30 and that's about 98% of the people there.  You're in the older bracket, but not by much, especially in the game room.

If you do go for just Saturday, consider coming to Kumoricon for just Sunday.  It would be $20 or $25 (can't remember which) and you'd be able to catch the Maniac and Team tournaments I think.

I'll probably go to PAX next year.  I need to learn more about it though.  At this point, I don't know if I'd really have as much fun there as at Kumoricon because the gamers at Kumoricon are mostly oldschoolers who worship anyone who plays DDR or has an NES or an Atari.

New exhibitors layout is up...

http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/resources/2008/07/pax08_exhibithall.jpg

Prereg also ends this thursday.  They are expecting 45,000 people this year.  Crazy!

Intel certainly has a large exhibit; do they just like tossing money around, or do they have something coming up?

They have a lot to do with PC gaming. They gave out SLI mobos and stuff last year.

Oh yeah, some other new anime con is popping up in WA in November...

http://www.akicon.org/

I don't know much about it though.  If they can get arcade games, I'll go.

November 7-9?  Seems like a pretty random date there lol.

I won't bother with this one until they have some mention of gaming; anime is not worth driving 2 and a half hours and paying $100 (figuring in hotel costs) for.

hahaha. Everett!?  yeah... it'll be interesting to hear how this convention goes.

Woo, I'm going this year. It should be fun. 

They said they are on track to double their registration from last year, and again said they expect to crush last year's 37,000, so I think it may actually be 60k+.
Awesome.

45k = turnstile = one three day equals 3 people.

I'd say in ACTUAL people, around 17-20k.

Going to PAX, representing allgames.com and my show, Under Sedation Live.

woo less than 10 days.

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ARE YOU READYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?

Yeah, can't wait!  I'm going to hit up a bunch of the panels.  Brawl tournament is 12 hours long...

it's all about the CITADELS TOURNAMENT!

:-O

I CAN SMELL IT!

I'm really looking forward to it.

I'm heading up at like 10a tomorrow.  It doesn't start until like 2 though.

I don't remember if I saw it, but did they have Guitar Hero Decades for the DS on demo?  If they did, someone should get the set list for it.  I dont' think its been released yet.

I didn't see it...  but that doesn't mean it wasn't there.

Heads up for anyone who got a Fallout 3 puppet, they've been going for $100+ on ebay, crazy!

I failed to get a fallout puppet
I also failed to see a lot of people from here, I saw kevin, jerrad, dmn, and that might be it.

I saw Jon quickly, but was in a hurry to meet up with a friend, so I didn't have time to really talk.  I saw some dude on a bean bag with a Bemanistyle shirt, I didn't who it was though.