Portal 2 is out! Review incoming, just as soon as I spend the next God-knows-how-many days of my life playing through it. Stay tuned!
Oh, and if you’re one of the lucky ones who purchased the entire Potato Sack and found all of the Potatoes, grats on your new complete Valve Collection! And by grats, I of course mean die in a fire.
Here we are, at the end of another PAX East, alive and whole (well, save for that little empty space in our heart of hearts that we feel at the end of PAX). I have a lot of thoughts to unload, but to form them in a reasonable and legible fashion tonight would be an effort in futility, so you’ll all have to wait.
“But wait,” you may ask, “for what are we waiting?” (See what I did there? Bite me, dangling prepositions.) Well, today I decided to approach the day (with the exception of checking out the Portal 2 video) from the angle of seeing, playing, and learning about games that I didn’t know about before PAX. I hit up a lot of the indie and/or first-release games on the floor, completely forsaking the Sunday panels. A few highlights:
I look forward to filling you all in on what went down over the weekend, uploading pics, and getting some discussion going. In the meantime, what were your favorite parts about PAX this year? Least favorite? Why? Let me know!
First and foremost, my apologies for the long silence – I spent the majority of the last several months as the primary news editor for WarCry, which kinda ate up most (read: all) of my spare time. The downside: that job is now gone. The upside: I have (a little) more spare time. That is neither here nor there, however. Far more important (and relevant) is the fact that our long wait for Boston’s new annual gaming convention is back!
That’s right everyone, PAX East is finally here! I’m there once again (living in Boston, I really have no excuse) and will be reporting on the event and all its glory for The Escapist, and whatever I write that they don’t deem fit to run, I’ll post here (a guy’s gotta make a living somehow, yo). I’ll also post links to what does make it to The E. I’ve got some cool interviews and demos planned for tomorrow (more on those later), so stay tuned for some more updates!
I will warn you all now – the next two days may be a little “burst-y”, but it’s either that, or “when I get around to it”, and I’d rather give you content than not. A few teasers of what’s to come, however -
You know you love it. If you want to meet up sometime over the weekend at PAX East for a game of Fluxx (I *always* have a deck on me) or a beer (or three), tweet at me or something; all my social media contacts are on the right sidebar. I’ll leave you with a rad photo of me taken by Averna over at NerfThisDruid:
God I love my life.
