Anyone going to the SXSW Gaming Expo this weekend?

Avatar image for agammon
agammon

16

Forum Posts

0

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 4

#1  Edited By agammon

This is the first year they are having the gaming portion of SXSW.. It will be interesting to see how it goes. Are any of you guys planning on attending? If so, what panels are you going to try to catch?

Avatar image for lameimpala
lameimpala

92

Forum Posts

0

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 4

#2  Edited By lameimpala

I'll be there on Saturday. Michael Pachter's panel is at 5 and will probably be super dumb, followed by Gary Whitta at 6 talking about game storytelling with some other dudes.

Avatar image for f00
f00

55

Forum Posts

157

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 0

#3  Edited By f00

Going to go all three days, mainly for the IPL Tournies and the LAN, I should probably go check what else is going to be there.

Edit: Oh, and the Game Jam

Avatar image for agammon
agammon

16

Forum Posts

0

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 4

I was going to try to hit up the Pachter one.. Some of the Tomb Raider devs are also supposed to be here. That will probably be a good one to go to since it is so fresh. There are also several indie development panels that look interesting... It is going to be a fun weekend. I hope it goes well so they bring it back next year (and hopefully with an even larger turnout, even though for its first year, this is pretty good).

Avatar image for davegoestomayor
davegoestomayor

31

Forum Posts

2

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 0

Ag, its not the first year, the had the Screenburn Arcade last year as well, Mass Effect 3 was there and a bunch of LoL tourneys. Will be interesting this year, Nintendo is a sponsor is supposedly showing off a lot of unreleased games, like Wonderful 101, Pikmin 3, etc..

Avatar image for lameimpala
lameimpala

92

Forum Posts

0

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 4

#6  Edited By lameimpala

So at Gary's panel they straight up gave every attendee a code for Walking Dead on Steam. Neat!

Was going to say hi to him afterward, but CliffyB and Michael Pachter showed up and wouldn't stop chatting with him. And Warren Spector was there too! And Jenova Chen, who seemed super approachable and totally into talking with fans, but unfortunately I haven't played any of his games so didn't have anything to say to him.

(Speaking of Pachter, he cancelled his panel for reasons I don't know. Meh.)

edit: correction - Pachter didn't cancel, it was just in another room. My "meh" still stands.