Ah February in Victoria – rain, the first flowers of spring and anime conventions! What anime convention? Why it’s Tsukino-Con 2011, Feb 25 to 27!
As per our annual tradition, LRR will be making an appearance at Tsukino-Con. Hosted at scenic—and sadly rabbit-free—UVIC, Tsukino-Con fills you with all the anime, cosplay, AMVs and panels you could possibly hope to handle in a single weekend.
Check out all the info and times, after the jump!
As promised this is the update you’ll need for all your PAX East related information.
Friday (well, Saturday morning really): 1-2AM: Screening – Manticore Theatre: Watch LoadingReadyRun videos! We’ll be screening videos from season for for an hour, to close out the night. If you want to spend some time chilling before you head back to your hotel, join us and share some laughs.
Saturday: 2:30-3:30PM: Meetup – There’s a small plaza just east of the front door of the Hynes Convention Centre along Boylston St. This plaza is open air, accessible to anyone (even if you’re not attending the con itself) and won’t require you to buy anything! If you live on the east coast, and want to meet with the crew, even if you can’t go to PAX, you can come hang with us here!
Saturday: 10-11PM: Panel – Manticore Theatre: LoadingReadyRun Panel! Come to the theatre, watch a few videos, ask us some questions, have some fun! In attendance will be Me, Graham, Paul, Kathleen, Jer, James, and Tim. Fun times will be had by all!
All Weekend: Bandland – We have a table! Throughout the weekend members of the crew will rotate through our table in Bandland, to sign autographs, sell Tee-Shirts and DVD’s, and so on. Come back frequently, to see who’s around. Gotta catch us all!
So that’s it. I’m posting this to Twitter too, but this should be everything you need to know. Enjoy the con and see you there!
Every week, Paul, Graham, Kathleen and I get together to write ENN. Over the week, each of us actually writes stories separately, then we get together on Fridays to choose what to use, what to revise, etc. Sometimes the stories we throw out aren’t very good; other times, they are too obscure for a wider audience. Even so, sometimes very good stories have to be thrown out because there is just not enough space for them in the episode. Here are two of those stories for this week’s episode, along with some of my favourite art because I can:
PikMEN (cut for space; possibly too obvious)
At a recent symposium, Shigeru Miyamoto’s noted, that the design goal of Pikmin was to be appealing to teenaged girls. He noted character design as a focus for this initiative. [shot of a Pikimin looking like a dong]
SRSBZNSSKTHXBYE (cut for space; possibly too obvious)
Game Developer Zynga is buying Serious Business, developers of the Facebook game “friends for sale”. Analysts have stated that this transaction demonstrates that social gaming on platforms like Facebook, has in fact, reached the level of “serious business.”
Every week, Paul, Graham, Kathleen and I get together to write ENN. Over the week, each of us actually writes stories separately, then we get together on Fridays to choose what to use, what to revise, etc. Sometimes the stories we throw out aren’t very good; other times, they are too obscure for a wider audience. Even so, sometimes very good stories have to be thrown out because there is just not enough space for them in the episode. Here are two of those stories for this week’s episode:
Nintendon’t (two stories on same topic)
Joystiq is reporting that an Australian software pirate who uploaded New Super Mario Bros. Wii to the internet a week prior to its release, has been found guilty and fined $1.5 million dollars. Nintendo obviously felt such piracy was a concern, considering the game has only sold 10-and-a-half million copies in the 90 days since its release. Shigeru Miyamoto, in his role as Father of Modern Gaming, said he wasn’t angry, just disappointed.
The Revolution Will Not be Digitized (too obscure)
SquareEnix has registered a trademark for Deus Ex: Human Revolution–a curious choice given that the Deus Ex IP is owned by competitor Ubisoft. Square Enix Alphomega Imperial Hot clarified to ENN that the trademark doesnt refer to a game, so much as his plans to create a gigantic, robotic Robspierre to set loose on the French publisher, insighting the Deus Ex team to revolt, and join his company. The robot is scheduled for release in 2015, alongside Final Fantasy XV.