Each year, tens of thousands of anime fans gather in Los Angeles for Anime Expo (AX), America’s largest anime convention. This year, it is held July 1 -4. And, each year, the convention staff holds an auction, in which attendees can bid on items donated by sponsors and industry professionals. All proceeds go to a
Well, PAX East 2011 came and went. There were laughs and tears and — OK, so there were no tears. It was PAX, after all. But there could have been tears, if I weren’t such a gracious loser. Besides, I had to keep my mascara intact all weekend seeing as the camera guy for the
If you’ve been following the site for the past few days, you have probably noticed all of the SW: TOR content that we discovered at PAX East. I wanted to give you some quick first impressions of the game. In short, the game has resurrected my interest in MMOs. I know for sure I will purchase
Hey everybody! I just got an email with the official number for this years PAX East and wanted to fill you all in. The first ever PAX East last year had an official attendance of 52,290 people. That’s pretty impressive. So how would the second annual PAX East fare?
Twisted Pixel, the company that brought you Splosion Man, The Maw, and Comic Jumper, takes away the controller with its new ambitious title, The Gunstringer and turns you into the weapon. The Gunstringer utilizes Microsoft’s Kinect in its upcoming Xbox Live Arcade game. It is a third person shooter which has you controlling a
While at the WB booth I was able to check out some of Lord of The Rings Online. The game went free-to-play last year, and has since tripled the company’s revenue. The people working on Lord of the Rings Online believe the reason they have been so successful since becoming free-to-play is that they offer
Rage, the newest first person shooter from id software, is an over-the-top visual feast. Rett and I got a chance to sit in on a live demo of this visceral first person shooter set in a mutant-plauged wasteland. The demo, which lasted around forty-five minutes, took us around the wasteland to a couple of settlements,
I have never really been into fighting games, but I did play some Mortal Kombat for Sega Genesis back in the day. It has been quite some time since I played it, so I did not really know what to expect. Almost surprisingly, besides the graphics and smoother mechanics, the game play itself is virtually
Double Fine was on the floor showing off its newest game, Trenched, which is set to be released on Xbox Arcade. The game focuses around an up-to-4-player co-op that pits you and your teammates against the mono-vision forces. You and your teammates are part of a group called the mobile trench brigade. You control a