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It’s time to learn the date of the annual gathering of Sony Online Entertainment players, who will be flocking to Las Vegas this August to awkwardly realise that no one is really a Wood Elf, and the world is sad.
More than 120 video game developers, publishers and hangers-on have confirmed that they’ll be at this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo, which organisers say is 90 per cent booked.
Next weekend in Miami you can enjoy live music, tournaments, world record competitions, special guests, a costume contest and a video game museum at Infinite Bits, South Florida’s “first major video game convention”.
The official schedule for Penny Arcade Expo hit the PAX forums over the weekend. The fairly chunky schedule includes a nice cross-section of the gaming industry and the folks who cover it.
Some of the highlights I noticed, from my quick perusal, includes:
Ken Levine’s keynote EndWar, Prince of Persia, Far Cry 2, Fallout 3, Dawn of War, This is Vegas, Dragon Age and Spore presentations The Growing Role of Women in the Industry Game Criticism and Old Game Journalism The Art of the Dungeon Master History of Harmonix Family Feud PAX Edition The Wil Wheaton Panel GamerDad’s Gaming With Children
Of course you’ve also got live music, movie screenings, the tourneys and a chance to see Tycho and Gabe create a strip live. Sounds like a fun time. Who’s planning on going?
The PAX 2008 Schedule [PAX]
With an aging gaming population comes more gamers with money, which means … money to spend on travel. Bonnie Ruberg takes a look at where gamers would go given $US 1,500 for expenses for a ‘game-related’ vacation. PAX? E For All? Tokyo Game Show? … Disneyland? I can’t remember the last proper vacation I had, but I can say definitively I wouldn’t be planning it around a convention or expo. In fact, a weekend off with time to do nothing but hang out would be a treat right now:
For those of you planning to travel to the Games Convention in Leipzig this year will be happy to know that the organizers are making it easier for you to get there. Many additions ahve been made including six new charter flights from various locations in Europe including Amsterdam, Helsinki, London, Munich, Paris and Vienna. If the plane isn’t your thing you can also take the Deutsche Bahn which will have a special ticket that can be purchased by conventioneers from any DB rail station. And if that isn’t enough for you, direct coach service will be available from over 30 locations in Germany itself.
Leipzig announces travel improvements [GamesIndustry.biz]
