This week on the podcast, I let Bill and Dave take over the mic so they could tell us their misadventures of Video Games Expo.  Learn about what it takes to cover an event, how to prepare for an event, and what kind of parties you can expect at a Video Games Expo.

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The time has come for me to level my Final Judgment on VGXpo 2009!  Another day of Philly kicking us in the nuts equaled us not being able to make is downtown for Day 3.  The story is quite a long, complicated one that intertwines many smaller storied, but you’ll need to listen to the podcast this week to hear the true hilarity.  Text cannot do our weird night and morning justice.  For the purposes of this write-up, long story short style, after a four mile walk to find a car battery and some nipple clamps… Just kidding, no nipple clamps.  But we did get a car battery.  And some live crabs.  We didn’t make it to the Expo today, though I do feel I garnered enough from Days 1 and 2 to render a verdict on this con.

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Saturday, October 10th.  VGXpo, Day 2.  My review of Day 1 was lukewarm, at best.  Much has changed for Day 2.  Some parts for much betters, others for worse.  I’ll touch on a few key products and services I saw that actually caught my eye, though they were few and far between, as well as some misadventures and terribadness that kept things from running as smoothly as possible.  More after the break!

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Here was our first look around the floor.  Again, not much was happening during the first day.

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There wasn’t much booth babes at day one.  Some were meh, some were ok, and one is a car. No, seriously. That car is sexy fine. Check out all the photos past the break.

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I finally got the first gallery of Cosplay photos up from day one of Video Games Expo.  Even though day one wasn’t as busy as day two, I still got a good number of photos to share with you, our lovely readers. Go past the break for the full gallery and enjoy.

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Day 1 of Pixelatedgeek.com’s coverage of the Video Games Expo in Philly has concluded!  and might I say, what an awesome day it was.  Six hours of sleep deprived driving (Two more hours sleeping on the side of the road) later, we’re in Philly, which is like a dirty version of our home in Pittsburgh.  Hotels.com fucked our reservations up and ended up charging us twice for a room they didn’t actually book for us.  Please, do not use Hotels.com, the customer service eats a filthy ass and, well, they charged me $400 for a $200 room.  But enough of my soapbox, we made it to the expo and dammit, did we have fun.

While slightly smaller than I expected it to be, this con is not lacking in gaming goodness.  From the new developers section where we checked out some awesome up and coming games (More on that in a bit) to the “Retro Con” where we got to sample some old arcane favorites, Day 1 did not disappoint.  Booth babes, free energy drinks and some pretty decent cosplays didn’t hurt the deal, either.  Today was slightly lacking in events, however, I not only understand but appreciate that fact, as it allowed us to get the ball rolling while still managing to enjoy the con for ourselves.  Saturday looks jam packed full of some juicy Q&A’s, panels and events.  I believe Sunday will feature a small Video Games Live concert, so I’ll be doing my best to be in attendance.  So I don’t have a ton to report back on today, but the main event is quite exciting.

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