PAX 2009 Keynote Speaker Revealed
Posted by alan | Filed under Behind the Scenes, Gaming
One of the biggest PAX articles we publish every year is the keynote speaker address. In the past we have featured Ken Levine and Wil Wheaton. This year the legendary Ron Gilbert will be opening PAX 09. He’s one of my idols, as he worked on the original Monkey Island games (which Telltale and LucasArts [...]
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Casual Gamers
Posted by alan | Filed under Behind the Scenes, Gaming
I think that’s why there’s been such an emergence of “casual gamers” lately… everyone wants a mental break every now and then, but don’t want to invest a bunch of time in an engrossing online experience or RPG. Most casual games you can pick up and put down without a heavy time investment. Those that [...]
Tags: online experience;, online friends;, pop media;, Wil Wheaton;
Wil Wheaton Mentions OCModShop!
Posted by alan | Filed under Behind the Scenes
Wil Wheaton actually mentioned OCModShop in his blog! Woo hoo!
http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup/2007/08/pax-ftw.html
Here’s an excerpt:
My keynote went perfectly, and the audience (and the gaming press online) responded to it in ways I never dreamed possible. I didn’t think there would be slightly more than 5000 people in the room when I spoke, and it never occurred to me [...]
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Wil Wheaton Keynote overwhelming
Posted by alan | Filed under Behind the Scenes
There’s been such an overwhelming response to the Wil Wheaton keynote that I had to take action…
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I provided the keynote as a way of giving back, but it apparently has been abused. Many people were hotlinking to the keynote, and ran up my bandwidth to over 50GB a day… which is going to bite me [...]
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