Not exact matches
Just a few years ago, eSports was a community for video
gamers who gathered together at
conventions to play CounterStrike,
Call of Duty, or League of Legends.
Win your own primary Aboard Senator John F. Kennedy's campaign plane they're playing a new
game called Convention!
Saying he believes the gubernatorial
game is «over,» state Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long has pulled a power play on his Republican counterpart, Ed Cox, by
calling his
convention four days ahead of the GOP get - together in the exact same location.
Casinos are designed to deprive you of your sense of time, so when the Connecticut Republicans started — for the first time since the 1960s, we were told — descending into multiple ballots for their gubernatorial nominee, with long, tedious roll
calls followed by long, tedious,
game - theory - driven vote switches, it seemed like their
convention had dragged on late into the night.
What we get instead is often very deliberately mundane: The future fashions and gadgets brandished as a sci - fi
convention seem oddly simplistic and mechanical, the action set pieces (if one can even
call them that) are pared down to the basics, and even the overtly fantastical
game environments look like normal places in the real world.
It's a tough
call, and I think you have the right of it — As time goes on, we seem to care less about the naming
conventions and more about the actual gameplay or
game mechanics.
But, saying that
games like
Call of Cthulhu, Aztez, Need for Speed Payback etc. aren't top picks in the
convention, would be unfair for the developers.
Attendees who remember playing a
game called «ShockTarts» at the Oregon
Convention Center might just find an air of familiarity in «The World Next Door.»
And that's because it so confidently breaks the
conventions of an action / adventure
game that it's nearly an injustice
calling it such.
Last weekend, Chicago played host to a brand new gaming
convention called ValorCon, a gathering of geeks and
gamers celebrating tabletop gaming, video gaming, and gaming in general.
Gotland
Game Convention / Theme Park was an early incarnation of what we now
call Gotland
Game Awards.
If you've attended any
games festivals and
conventions in the past couple of years, you may have had a go at playing a
game called Ultra Neon Tactics, a competitive local multiplayer
game where you strategically collect, place, and dodge spinning laser beams in order to rack up more points than your opponent.
While passing through the Rezzed section (the collection of indie
games at the
convention), I came across a
game called BFF of Die.
Game Universe has just recently revealed a gaming
convention called GameUniCon and will take place at the 20,000 square foot Best Western Royal Plaza in Marlborough, MA.
«Throughout the course of development we tried a lot of ideas, a lot of things that challenged
convention, that might be a different kind of twist on how we might think of a
Call of Duty
game in the past, or a Black Ops
game in the past.
They wanted to try something different this year to challenge the normal
convention on how to make a
Call of Duty video
game.
Edith's journey through her abandoned childhood home is not rife with puzzles, or even many of the
conventions many list as a requirement for something to be
called a
game.
As I was walking around the
convention center, I came across a fun and exciting
game called «Rogue Stormers.»
Shovel Knight must fight through a crew of bosses
called the Order of No Quarter, with themes much like bosses a Mega Man
game — right down to the naming
conventions.
With the 2014 E3 Conference currently taking over downtown Los Angeles, several
gamers and media members are continuously flocking to the LA
Convention Center to get the scoop on some of their favorite
games, which includes EA's Battlefield: Hardline and Sledgehammer
Games»
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare.
This scene flourished with the help of many huge forums (ZFX, Developia and its predecessor Deutsche Untergrundspiele, Softgames.de for different projects, specific websites for
game engines like Blitzbasic and 3D Game Studio, etc.), their own festivals / gatherings like the Dusmania / Devmania and a booth at the Games Convention in Leipzig called Ind
game engines like Blitzbasic and 3D
Game Studio, etc.), their own festivals / gatherings like the Dusmania / Devmania and a booth at the Games Convention in Leipzig called Ind
Game Studio, etc.), their own festivals / gatherings like the Dusmania / Devmania and a booth at the Games
Convention in Leipzig
called IndiGo.
In the comments on last week's Keyboard Geniuses, Cnightwing told us they were at something
called «Internationale Spieltage Essen Spiel,» which is apparently a giant German board
game convention.
Jonah Falcon talks about meeting stars and playing
games at the Star Trek
Convention in New York, while TJ Denzer talks about attending the Call of Duty XP convention in Lo
Convention in New York, while TJ Denzer talks about attending the
Call of Duty XP
convention in Lo
convention in Los Angeles.
I'm always conscious of the importance of naming
conventions after working in the
game industry for awhile — It's so easy to let things get out of control when you feel rushed or you haven't gotten your folders organized yet — I did go a step further and created an xml site map that also
calls images — At first I spent about an hour looking for a free images sitemap generator with no luck!