VERB! that's what's happ-en-in

! Got a random call from Brenden, MAGfest chair, and careened over to some giant videogame expo happening just three blocks away from the PS office! Virt, Shael, the Empire and all the local vgcrowd were there to represent, even if the event was mainly corporatey. Inside the giant convention center on 11th there were literally a hundred different businesses hocking their shit, which just happened to include EA, SquareEnix, Nintendo, and others. That's how it felt to me. The videogame companies were standing side by side with other electronic gadget makers. Blah.

notable: Isiah 'Triforce' Johnson complained that the ghost AI in the PacMan booth was revamped from the old machines. The PacMan peeps (all wearing fluffy yellow PacMan helmets) denied this, but he was firm. I'll believe any man who can best most people in the world at obscure 70s arcade games, but then again he placed 2nd in the tournament, twice...


I put my hands on a Wii controller! It rejected me! ! 6

SOmething was wrong with the calibration on the thing, and the cursor (I was trying to play Electrobits) was shaky and uncontrollable. Still, I had my first experience with the nunchuk, trying aimlessly to get it to point in the right direction. I just hope, like the jagged edges on the FFXII demo, that it delivers correctly in the home version. On my TV. In my apartment. Dammit.