MAGFest 9

[Evil Cheese]

MAGFest 9 is drawing ever closer so I wanted to see if anyone else is going or has an interest in going. MAGFest, or Music And Games Festival, is a convention centered around video games, music, and art that takes place at the Hilton Mark Center in Alexandria, VA during January 13 -16.

What is MAGFest? At MAGFest you can expect to find all the following and more.  A 24-hour console room with just about every console ever made. A hall full of arcade cabs, set on free play of course. Concerts every night performed by chiptunes artists, such as Zen Albatross and Virt, and cover bands such as Metroid Metal, The Megas, and the OneUps. A 24-hour jam space where you can bring an instrument and rock out if you feel so inclined. A 24-hour movie room that plays all the geek movies that you can think of. A LAN room where you can BYOB or use a provided one. Both console and PC game tournaments for all the games you'd expect and more. There is also the standard con fare of panels/events that range from topics of game development to interviews with voice actors to a cooking competition, a merchandise hall, and guests that range from voice actors to indie game developers to the internet famoose people whom you've probably seen their work on the youtubes and the newsgrounds. For more information about this year's lineup, check out the MAGFest website.

How is MAGFest different from all the other video game related conventions? Comi-Con or PAX this ain't. MAGFest is much smaller (about 2,200 last year) and, in my opinion, more intimate than those other mega cons you may have been to. You end up seeing the same people every day at the various panels and concerts. The bands and guests love to hang out with other attendees. There are room parties going on all the time that you can easily find yourself a part of. The guys who run the thing are extremely approachable and are good people. There's a general feel of community about the place that you don't seem to get when you're lost among the crowds of some of those other cons.

If any of you are interested in going, I have a room reserved at the hotel that MAGFest is taking place at with some space left so PM me if you're interested.

[CaffeinePowered]

Sounds fun...shame Im too far away though


Atom and Zargon are around that area though...and I think Pie is too

[Spore]

The first time I heard about MAGFest was when that game MAG came out, so I thought it was about that originally, but then I realized it was actually something worth a damn.

[Turtle]

The first time I heard about MAGFest was when that game MAG came out, so I thought it was about that originally, but then I realized it was actually something worth a damn.

[ZargonX]

I think I'll finally try to go this year.

[Badgerman of DOOM]

My college is very hardassed about missing classes. Some will fail you if you miss enough. So IF I do go, and that is a gigantic IF, it'd only be for Saturday and Sunday. But maybe, maybe I will try for those days.

[at0m]

I went last year with my girlfriend and a friend of hers, because said friend's boyfriend was running a table. Honestly I wasn't all that impressed :/ We'd been planning on staying all weekend, but we ended up trading in our weekend passes for day passes and went bowling instead, then went home.

I'm planning on going to SheVa-con in March and Dragon*Con next September though. Workin on my Dr Who costume (aka saving money and buying clothes lol), but I need to do a Medic one too in case Caff comes to DC ;x

[Duck, Duck, Goose]

I'm going...

But I'm in Blues' group, no hard feeling BRBU. LOVE YOU ALL NO HOMO

[Evil Cheese]

Bump. MAGFest is next week! Anybody else thinking of going since the last time this came up? Also, I'll leave this over here.

[ZargonX]

Oh, I actually will be there! 

[at0m]

I might make an appearance, I have a friend who goes every year. I don't have a room though so who knows.

[Live-Free-Or-Pie]

I'm probably going, made some improvements to cosplay Ellis.

I can get my prop gun to float on my back using my prop cricket bat the power of FUCKING MAGNETS!

[Live-Free-Or-Pie]

I'm probably going, made some improvements to cosplay Ellis.

I can get my prop gun to float on my back using my prop cricket bat AND the power of FUCKING MAGNETS!

[chronomaster]

I'm broke after Steamas.

And I'm heading back to school next week so I'll be superbroke. See you guys at Momocon (RIGHT, RIGHT FELLAS?).

[Live-Free-Or-Pie]

Missed registration... turns out I will not be going

oh well... next time

[Evil Cheese]

Missed registration... turns out I will not be going

oh well... next time

You missed preregistration. You can still try to register at the door, but they may be sold out by then.

[Squishy3]

HAWP/OUP Magfest 9 promo

if you go to magfest you will get raped. you can also see john st john get raped by ashly burch.

[Live-Free-Or-Pie]

Nah, the pre-reg page says don't bother showing up without a pre-reg.

I could still do a meet-up off-site. I have the weekend mostly free

[Evil Cheese]

Here are some pics of the Iron Chef event if you're interested. I'm the one in the apron.