Not to be confused with the new game releasing in November, Sonic Boom is a convention uniting all Sonic fans for one day in the US. Previously, Sonic Boom has taken place in California, but this year it is taking place in New York. As detailed on Sega’s Blog, this…
The upcoming Alien Isolation could arguably be the last chance the franchise has at becoming a legitimate videogame experience. Last years Aliens: Colonial Marines was a disaster for all involved and something which anyone would assume to be the final nail in the coffin for Xenomorph titles. However kept in…
This coming weekend, March 14-16th, Aaron Webber and company will be bringing Hatsune Miku Project Diva f for Vita and PS3 to Naka-con in Kansas City, Missouri. The game will be available for all to enjoy, and Sega will also have plenty of Miku merchandise to hand out during their panels….
It’s been a while since I attended the Summer of Sonic, but it looks to be getting bigger and better with each year. It’s crazy to think that a convention dedicated to one character would turn out so well, and crazier to think that it now holds a world record….
Modern Playing: A grown-up evening of ideas, video, music and debate about videogames and gaming culture. This one sentence was all I had to go by when deciding to book tickets for the first of a new, quarterly show by GameCity director Iain Simons and Prof. James Newman. As someone…
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDDsOf1H2Hk&w=475&h=275] Conventions are an amazing thing. Nowhere else can you geek out and be surrounded by hundreds, or sometimes thousands, of other geeks doing the exact same thing. Usually conventions cover a large variety of things, and it’s rare that a convention succeeds based on a single idea. Well,…
MCM London Comic Con. It rained so much. Why did it rain so much? I just wanted to play some games. Anywho, my trip to the heart of England’s capitol saw me playing 3D Space Harrier, watching some guy play Dance Dance Revolution really well and listening to a kimono-wearing…