http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/kotaku.com.png http://kotaku.com/tag/pax06 http://kotaku.com/tag/pax06 Not content to create a documentary about the chiptune phenom, Vaguely Qualified Productions has started a a Nerd of the Week podcast that highlights some of the nerds the duo ran into while putting together Nerdcore Rising. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=230956&view=rss&microfeed=true We mentioned a month or so ago that this Nerdcore Rising documentary was in the works. Now that I've had my first glimpse of it, I think I'm starting to want to go see it. It follows MC Frontalot on his first national tour and uses the footage to trace the roots of Nerdcore Hip Hop. More »
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In case you missed one of the 40-something posts I wrote about Penny Arcade's expo here's the list. I still have one more story to put up, my chat with Gabe and Tycho. I just need to get around to transcribing it. Brian Crecente More »
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I spent a bit of timing hanging out with Rockstar's San Diego studio folks at PAX. They are they team responsible for Table Tennis and were hosting the Table Tennis tournament at the show. More »
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All of the panelists were hanging out in the Green Room before the blogging panel at PAX, when we started comparing sexy phones. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=197729&view=rss&microfeed=true OK, so maybe it was the migraine medicine, or the fumes, but after spending two hours vegging out on the PAX bean bags playing Star Fox Command, I'm addicted. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=197727&view=rss&microfeed=true I caught up with Will "Le Roy" Garroutte shortly after he seized the championship during this year's Penny Arcade Expo Omegathon. More »
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I spent a few minutes talking to Adam Allessandrini at the Penny Arcade Expo last week. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=197627&view=rss&microfeed=true I didn't get a chance to play Warhammer Online, but it looked an awful lot like a lot of other MMOs out there. I doubt spending ten minutes with it would have let me figure out the differences. MMOs nowadays all seem to be about backstory and play nuance. This video shows a bit of play, but not much nuance. Brian Crecente More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=197234&view=rss&microfeed=true Major Nelson was kind enough to record the panel I was on about the blogging and game journalism. It covered some interesting ground though the only thing I seemed to add to the conversation was the phrase "it's funny". More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=197233&view=rss&microfeed=true The Omegathon finals were a pretty anti-climatic affair. I talked to Will "LeRoy" Garroutte afterward (he's a Colorado native) and he said he didn't even realize he had won at first. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=197231&view=rss&microfeed=true As requested here are two more short videos showing one of the Frag Dolls playing some Splinter Cell Double Agent. This was right before they presented the game at a panel. Brian Crecente More »
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After a short flight aboard a dilapidated United airlines plane (the friggin tray was even broken), I'm back in Colorado, snuggly ensconced in my tower of mud. More »
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I am seriously jonesing for some Dark Messiah right now. Ubisoft's upcoming first-person spin-off from the world of Might and Magic, feels a lot like a finely honed upgrade to Hexen. More »
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Penny Arcade Expo 06 is official over. More »
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Pocky: Breakfast of champions. I don't know why these guys didn't just set up their booth next to that insanely busy Bawls booth. They you could have lined up for a full meal. More »
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That's right I'm sitting up here on a panel about blogging, and blogging it. It's an addiction, I can't stop. More »
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Behold the Fruit Fucker case mod in all of its glory. And yes, it dispenses pulpy orange goodness from its frontal orifice. I hear Jerry and Mike plan to imbibe in front of an audience later on today. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=196910&view=rss&microfeed=true Last night during the Penny Arcade concert, Jerry called guitarists from The Minibosses and MC Frontalot to the stage to face off on a little Guitar Hero 2 in front of the screaming fans. More »
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A reader on Friday asked that I put up some pics of the giant Penny Arcade strips they have hanging all over the convention center walls. Here's four of the dozen or so. As usual, my photography sucks mad non-skillz. Yo! More »
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I ran into a group of Microsoft bloggers in the exhibit hall. They're always fun to hang with. We chatted about the Xbox 360, Microsoft Games for Windows, whether Major Nelson, who is doing both the Leipzig show and PAX, is a clone (they insist he isn't.) and Trixie's bumper sticker. For the record, she insisted I take a picture of it. More »
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This is the heavily modded Xbox 360 that Rockstar is giving away at their Penny Arcade Expo Table Tennis tournament. The pictures really don't do it justice. The thing, made by Llama, features a clear side panel with an embedded ping pong ball and attached paddle. The case is all slick and black and white. The controller is just as cool. It's black and white with a clear vaneer. I love this thing. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=196894&view=rss&microfeed=true As I mentioned earlier, Jerry Holkins and Robert Khoo decided to duke it out the way real men settle their differences: Through music and interpretive dance. Actually, I made up the dance part. More »
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The Minibosses are warming up on the stage. More »
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MC Frontalot and his nerdcore posse are rocking the PAX. A guy with big ass square glasses reaming my eardrums... and I like it. More »
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MC Frontalot and Mini Bosses are taking the stage later on tonight. But before that can start they're going to be doing a little bit of Omegathon competition. This one to be held on Guitar Hero... II I'm told. Liveblogging to follow on the jump. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=196885&view=rss&microfeed=true And verily they did make a hot dog fairy and it was good. Yeah, I'm not sure exactly how this came about, and I was there watching. But breath easy, they didn't save it after it was done. OH, so this is Mike drawing a hot dog fairy. You gotta love the puffy shirt. Teh Awesome! More »
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So there were actually two varients on the strip that Mike and Jerry made live for the crowd. This is the original one. The jump has the scaried up version. I love the demeated arm, nice touch. More »
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I'm back at the main theater. I'm sitting up front waiting for Mike and Jerry to take the stage to start creating a strip for onlookers, and answer questions. They've reserved the very front of the center section for their friends and family. More »
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In the second part of the Ubi panel the developer showed of Dark Messiah of Might and Magic. More »
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The first half of the Ubisoft talk was about Spinter Cell: Double Agent. More »
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Wow, there's quite a line to get into the Penny Arcade Expo Exhibit Hall today, still. It opened about an hour and a half ago and the line still goes outside and around ther corner. Hit the jump for pics of all the stuff people are waiting to see. More »
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So there were like 50 gazillion Nintendo DS and DS Lite present at PAX this year. They were everywhere. I saw that in the hands of people waiting in lines, sitting in conferences, watching movies, laying in bean bags. But so far I've only seen two Playstation Porables. One in the hands of a slightly confused looking woman seen roaming the bottom floor of PAX in search of, god knows what, and the other in the hands of this PAX henchman. More »
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The busiest guys at the Penny Arcade Expo, bar none, were the Bawls guys. They were going through crates and crates of the bottle drink at $1 a pop. People were walking away with whole cases. One guy walked up, as I lay in a near trace in a beanbag playing Starfox, with a crate in his hands. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=196825&view=rss&microfeed=true OK, so it's only one ball, and it's blue, but I couldn't resist. So everyone is waiting outside the doors to the main theater today where Tycho and Gabe will be taking the state to answer questions and amuse everyone. More »
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Ryu and Ken were totally showboating outside the convention center when I left PAX tonight. I wonder if Ryu knows Ken has a thing for him? It's so sad. Brian Crecente More »
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Strange thing, for a totally nautical-free event, PAX06 had it's share of pirate types. Take, for instance, these two Pirates of PAX wenches. And there was the Pirates of the Burning Sea MMO launch party. I wanted to go but when I got there I realized that they had invited the whole planet, and they were all standing in line in front of me. More »
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After a loooooooong wait, we're inside the main theater sitting and listening to some sweet ass 80s tunes. More »
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Better get to studying, Penny Arcade just announced their first-ever game industry scholarship. More »
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