Entries Tagged ‘Wisconsin’:
by FakeTrout, filed in Games on Aug.13, 2008
This is the latest in Powet Editor Zac Shipley’s series on video game culture in Madison, WI for TheDailyPage.
Joe Rheaume’s Excellent Adventure: Chronotron goes from Madison to Penny Arcade Expo
The online comic strip and blog Penny Arcade has been a leading tastemaker in the gaming world for nearly a decade now. It has reached new heights over the last five years with its own convention, the Penny Arcade Expo, held every August in Seattle. Though gamers from all over the nation will find a weekend of fun and competition at this year’s con, Madison native Joe Rheaume will be an invited guest to show his hit time travel game Chronotron. >More
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Tags: Apple, PC, Wisconsin
by FakeTrout, filed in Events, Games on Jul.11, 2008
This is the latest in Powet Editor Zac Shipley’s series on video game culture in Madison, WI for TheDailyPage.
Games + Learning + Society brings massive multiplayer world to life in Madison
by Zac Shipley
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama mentioned in a speech on Father’s Day that kids need to put down the video game controllers and pick up books. His message was clearly that while a book can be educational, playing a game is not. However, at the Games+Learning+Society Conference this week at Monona Terrace, hundreds of people working at the intersection of gaming and learning have worked to prove not only that games can be educational, but that many already are.
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Tags: Wisconsin
by FakeTrout, filed in Games on Jul.01, 2008
The latest in my series for TheDailyPage/Isthmus Newspapers profiling Madison, WI’s gaming scene.
This entry focuses on Jimmy Choi’s efforts to keep Soul Calibur and the spirit of the arcade alive.
Read on: Reclaiming Madison gaming camaraderie with Soul Calibur tournaments
See also: CaliburForum and Madison SC Community
Tags: Namco, Soul Calibur, Wisconsin
by FakeTrout, filed in TV on Apr.21, 2008
WYOU Community TV in Madison, WI is in the middle of a 4 week series of airing local Rock Band gamers playing short sets and pitting them against each other for prizes. I stopped by the studio last week and filed this report for The Daily Page: Stars are born with Virtual Rock Band on WYOU
Read more by Zac Shipley at The Daily Page.
Tags: EA, Music, PS3, Rock Band, Wisconsin, Xbox 360
by FakeTrout, filed in Events, Games, Powet.TV Show on Apr.01, 2008
Tags: Apple, Arcade, Classic Gaming, Japan, Namco, Nintendo, PC, Sega, Wisconsin
by FakeTrout, filed in Uncategorized on Mar.10, 2008
Aside from being one of the Powet Editors here, I’m also a sometime journalist, keeping tabs on local games news for the Madison, WI free newspaper The Isthmus and its web counterpart The Daily Page.
This past weekend I wrote about the Smash Bros midnight release and the turnout of local gamers, and thought you Powet readers might be interested.
Read On: Super Smash Bros. Brawl release ends in midnight melee
Tags: Nintendo, Smash Bros, Wii, Wisconsin