MAGfest 2010

This week MAGfest kicks off.  It's four days of nonstop video game madness at the Hilton Alexandria Mark Center in VA.  My brother Paul (who's 3D graphics wizardry you've seen in Gwendolyn Dangerous and the Great Space Rescue, amongst other things) is one of the head organizers.  He spends the better part of his year putting this event together.

Basically MAGfest is 96 hours straight of:

Playing video games, playing old video games, playing new video games, talking about future video games, listening to concerts of live bands performing music from video games, playing arcade games, playing console games, playing LAN/PC-based games, occasionally dressing like people from video games, competing in video game tournaments, [attempting] setting video game world records, and even playing board (not video) games.  There's also a jam-room for musical types.  Just walk in any time 24 hours a day and get your groove on.  It's like RockBand but with better animation and worse music.

Pre-registration is $40, at the door is $45, and there are one-day passes available for $25, which is a lot less than most people I know spend at D&B in an evening.  And there's no comparison here:  we're talking around two thousand gamers getting together to eat sleep and breathe the best games of all time.  The event kicks off with a New Year's celebration and goes through the 4th.

I'll be there taking pictures, helping at the reg-desk, and of course kicking my brother's ass at Race Drivin'.  For more info, and to preregister, visit the MAGfest site.  I'll see you there!