05/10/13

              Friday: How to Start a Game Shop: Want to own your own Gaming Store?  Then come out and talk to Tiffany of Roll2Play and hear about her unique story as she went from convention vendor to game store owner. Coral Room – Tower, 1st Floor, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM Kosplay Kombat: A mash-up of Pokémon and Mortal...

03/26/13

It is with great pleasure that VGCorps announces that the VWE BattleTech Pods will return to A-Kon® 24!  Come out May 31st – June 2nd and enjoy one of the greatest anime-based conventions in the country, that also offers some of the best gaming around!  This year, we are pleased  to join many other fine gaming options in the Khmer Ballroom of the Hilton...

03/01/13

Console Gaming Tournament Schedule Casual Play and Dance Central Kinect (ALL WEEKEND) Tournaments are all paid events, NO REFUNDS! Registrations begin 1 hour before event start   Date/Time Event Other Info Friday, May 31st,  3pm Call of Duty MW 3 – FFA $5 Entry fee,  on Xbox 360 Friday, May 31st,  3pm Dance Central 3 – Dance Battle $6 Entry fee, on Xbox...

02/21/13

ScrewAttack.com has been rocking the internet’s face since 2006 with it’s original content and unique spin on everything gaming. We’ve been called “the punk rock of gaming” and truly embrace that.

02/05/13

              “Yes, A-Kon is known for it’s amazing Cosplay, but this is you chance to compete in the exclusive Video Game Cosplay!  It is hosted by DugFinn Cosplay  with special guest Judge, Rachel Lara.  So come and show off your best digital costumes made flesh! Also we’d like to announce a special category for the best NIS...

02/02/13

Scott “KaiserNeko” Frerichs is a California-based (now in Lake Charles, LA) amateur voice actor, graphics designer, and project manager of “Dragon Ball Z: Abridged”. Director, co-writer, editor for the show, and the voice behind Zarbon, Burter, Trunks, King Kai, and Gregory, he helped found the group in May 2008. Nick...

Thorpe, Patrick, and Everett Patterson, eds.  The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia.  Fwd. Shigeru Miyamoto.  Afwd. Eiji Aonuma.  Trans. Michael Gombos, Takahiro Moriki, Heidi Plechl, Kumar Sivasubramanian, Aria Tanner, and John Thomas.  Milwaukie, OR: Dark Horse Books, 2013.  $34.99.  277 pp.  Hardback.  ISBN 978-1-616-55941-7.  (Original publication: Aonuma,...

01/25/13

With the great help of Amberlee and a lot of work, we have put together an Interactive map of the Hilton Anatole. This will help you locate rooms and has special comments with pictures. You can download a copy of it here. (Be warned it is over 65mg big and will require Adobe Acrobat to read.) As with everything in the universe, locations and descriptions may...

01/15/13

Lisle Wilkerson grew up in Tokyo, Japan and moved to the US in 2008. She speaks fluent Japanese, and has working in the media/entertainment industry ever since the tender age of 19. She has worked with all the major radio and television stations in Japan, and continues to work with many of them to some capacity. Lisle was in the Academy Award winning Sofia...

12/27/12

Jesse is a 3D character artist and creative director of his new studio, Dinosaur Games. He has been in the game industry for 12 years and has worked on a large amount of titles including; Ghostbusters: The Video Game, Wizard 101, BloodRayne 2, the infamous Star Wars: Kinect, the movie Grandma’s Boy, and many more.   His love affair with anime began...