Outside PAX industry event list. PlayStation Move hands on.

mentok1982

I wanted to post about the PlayStation Move event that is happening on Thursday night before the Pre-PAX
dinner but I was thinking that we should have a thread where we can catalogue the other industry sponsored
events that are happening outside of the convention center.

Thursday

Event Name: College Student Gaming Industry Presentation
What: Major Nelson will 'meet' with current college students with a valid college ID. Free registration.
When: 5:30PM-6:30PM
Where: Microsoft NERD One Memorial Drive, Suite 100, Cambridge, MA 02142
Link: http://majornelson.com/archive/2010/03/22/xbox-events-at-pax-east.aspx

Event Name: Sony PlayStation Move party.
What: Hands on with Move, free food, prize drawings.
When: 5PM-8PM First 150 people there before 5PM get in.
Where: Somewhere at the Colonnade Hotel. Ask someone at the front desk or look for signs I guess.
Link: http://blog.us.playstation.com/2010/03/18/playstation-blog-moves-east-next-week-come-meetup-with-us/

Event Name: Rockstar Game's Pax East Kickoff Party
What: Complimentary Beverages from Rockstar Games and a preview of Red Dead Redemption
When: 9PM-Midnight
Where: 132 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA (fourth wall project)
Link: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=107107512643008&ref=ts http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=115206

Friday

Event Name: Microsoft Tweetup
What: Chat with Major Nelson, e, lollip0p and Stepto and enjoy coffee, sugary snacks and giveaways.
When: 9:30AM-11:30AM
Where: Microsoft NERD One Memorial Drive, Suite 100, Cambridge, MA 02142
Link: http://majornelson.com/archive/2010/03/22/xbox-events-at-pax-east.aspx

Event Name: Alienware/Kotaku Afterparty
What: Limited-time open bar, some 'nibblies', and a chance to check out new Alienware PCs.
When: 8PM-10:30PM
Where: 33 Lounge, 33 Stanhope Street, Boston, MA
Link: http://kotaku.com/5494851/announcing-our-pax-east-party-come-drink-and-eat

Saturday

Event Name: The IGN, GameSpy, The Geekbox and Rebel FM PAX Party
What: A free drink, free food, crazy.
When: 6PM-9PM
Where: Daisy Buchanan’s 240A Newbury Street, Boston, MA 02116
Links: http://blogs.ign.com/Greggy-IGN/2010/03/20/ http://ps3.ign.com/articles/107/1079128p1.html

Event Name: 2old2play and SFX-360 Present Gamers Gone Wild
What: A FREE party featuring a Rock Band & Street Fighter II Tourney, Costume Contest, Special Celebrity Guests & prizes from over 25 gaming industry sponsors
When: 8pm - 1am (First 50 through the door get a free copy of Risen for the 360)
Where:Lir @ 903 Boylston Street (directly across the street from the Hynes Convention Center)
Links: http://tinyurl.com/yhl6kun & http://www.2old2play.com/Blog/waterborn
NOTE: Must be 21 or over to enter

Sunday

ninja_blade

mentok1982 wrote: »

I wanted to post about the PlayStation Move event that is happening on Thursday night before the Pre-PAX
dinner but I was thinking that we should have a thread where we can catalogue the other industry sponsored
events that are happening outside of the convention center.

Thursday

What: Sony PlayStation Move party. Hands on with Move, free food, prize drawings.
When: 5PM-8PM First 150 people there before 5PM get in.
Where: Somewhere at the Colonnade Hotel. Ask someone at the front desk or look for signs I guess.
Link: http://blog.us.playstation.com/2010/03/18/playstation-blog-moves-east-next-week-come-meetup-with-us/

Sunday

......I'm going....

tentaclesex

Thanks for posting this. My phone's calendar now has even more things to alert me about!

def PD

Don't forget about the Joystiq Blueberry social!

Deefuzz

Rats! Wish I could make it but my flight wont even get in until about 6 pm

Atlus Parker

Anyone know if CCP is throwing a party?

mentok1982

def PD wrote: »

Don't forget about the Joystiq Blueberry social!

I have not forgotten about it, I will be there with my special breakfast spoon.

However that event is inside PAX and it has its own thread already.
If some more people really want me to post that here, I'll do so.

Gundabad

What about the 2old2play party?

Chorazin

I was the second person to RSVP for that Move event, looking forward to free food and getting an early look at Move to talk about on my podcast.

mentok1982

Gundabad wrote: »

What about the 2old2play party?

Got any details or links for me?

Chorazin wrote: »

I was the second person to RSVP for that Move event, looking forward to free food and getting an early look at Move to talk about on my podcast.

Does RSVPing on Facebook really do anything? I think it will be first come, first served.
I really doubt they will honor Facebook RSVPs.

mentok1982

Microsoft Tweetup and college student thingy added.

Rdr

Oops..already posted. I'll get the 2old2play details.

Waterborn

Hey folks, here are the details for our Gamers Gone Wild Party. I thought I had posted this in another thread, but just in case.

Event Name: 2old2play and SFX-360 Present Gamers Gone Wild
What: A FREE party featuring a Rock Band Tourney, Street Fighter II Tourney, Costume Contest, Special Celebrity Guests and prizes from over 25 gaming industry sponsors
When: 8pm - 1am, Saturday, September 27th (First 50 through the door get a free copy of Risen for the 360)
Where: Lir @ 903 Boylston Street (directly across the street from the Hynes Convention Center)
Links: http://tinyurl.com/yhl6kun & http://www.2old2play.com/Blog/waterborn
NOTE: Must be 21 or over to enter

mentok1982

2old2play event added and I added another link for the IGN event.
We now have two events per day except for Sunday, which has 0.

Lord Jezo

What's the easiest way to get to the Microsoft NERD thing? Think it's worth going to all the way out there?

Gundabad

last night, Rockstar posted a thread about a party they will be throwing on Thursday: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=115206
The thread is already pushed to page 2 so you may have missed it, but it looks like a great event, and they will be previewing Red Dead Redemption there. Going head to head with the Playstation Move party though.

def PD

I honestly don't think I'll be one of the first people in live for the Move preview, so I'll probably end up here before the Pokecrawl.

mentok1982

Gundabad wrote: »

last night, Rockstar posted a thread about a party they will be throwing on Thursday: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=115206
The thread is already pushed to page 2 so you may have missed it, but it looks like a great event, and they will be previewing Red Dead Redemption there. Going head to head with the Playstation Move party though.

Found it and I am updating now. Thanks!

Gsauce@MIT

Lord Jezo wrote: »

What's the easiest way to get to the Microsoft NERD thing? Think it's worth going to all the way out there?

I think the easiest way to get there would be to take the #1 bus headed toward Harvard Station. It's a quick, 5 minute walk from Hyne's to the closest stop on Massachusetts Ave (right outside the subway stop called 'Hynes Convention Center'). Get off at Mass Ave & Memorial Drive (right across the bridge) and then head east along the river for about 10 minutes. Total ~ 20 minutes.

If it's a nice day, it won't be bad especially since you'll be walking along the Charles and through the MIT campus, which are both beautiful (IMHO). I couldn't tell you whether the event would be worth it or not.

Lord Jezo

Gsauce@MIT wrote: »

Lord Jezo wrote: »

What's the easiest way to get to the Microsoft NERD thing? Think it's worth going to all the way out there?

I think the easiest way to get there would be to take the #1 bus headed toward Harvard Station. It's a quick, 5 minute walk from Hyne's to the closest stop on Massachusetts Ave (right outside the subway stop called 'Hynes Convention Center'). Get off at Mass Ave & Memorial Drive (right across the bridge) and then head east along the river for about 10 minutes. Total ~ 20 minutes.

If it's a nice day, it won't be bad especially since you'll be walking along the Charles and through the MIT campus, which are both beautiful (IMHO). I couldn't tell you whether the event would be worth it or not.

Is it legal to walk across the bridge if we dont want to spend the money on a bus?

unpurposed

Lord Jezo wrote: »

Gsauce@MIT wrote: »

Lord Jezo wrote: »

What's the easiest way to get to the Microsoft NERD thing? Think it's worth going to all the way out there?

I think the easiest way to get there would be to take the #1 bus headed toward Harvard Station. It's a quick, 5 minute walk from Hyne's to the closest stop on Massachusetts Ave (right outside the subway stop called 'Hynes Convention Center'). Get off at Mass Ave & Memorial Drive (right across the bridge) and then head east along the river for about 10 minutes. Total ~ 20 minutes.

If it's a nice day, it won't be bad especially since you'll be walking along the Charles and through the MIT campus, which are both beautiful (IMHO). I couldn't tell you whether the event would be worth it or not.

Is it legal to walk across the bridge if we dont want to spend the money on a bus?

Yeah, there's pedestrian paths on both sides of the bridge.

It's absolutely lovely to walk across on a beautiful day, and the weather seems to be really nice today, so I'd go for it.

I might be going so to the event too, depending on whether or not my plans work out.

tashtego

The Rock Star games party is full. Just got an email response to my RSVP.

ninja_blade

The Playstation MOVE event was awesome! motion control was interesting, It worked well! The tech demos is what sets it apart from Wii or Natal, but no game demos actually took advantage of what I saw in the tech demo. They gave out prizes (I won a copy of borderlands!) and food! It was fun.

p.s. motion wand ball is squishy......

krztov

ninja_blade wrote: »

The Playstation MOVE event was awesome! motion control was interesting, It worked well! The tech demos is what sets it apart from Wii or Natal, but no game demos actually took advantage of what I saw in the tech demo. They gave out prizes (I won a copy of borderlands!) and food! It was fun.

p.s. motion wand ball is squishy......

yeah the guy from sony r&d whos name escapes me was showing the ball being squishy, i made a joke about how its less damaging if it flys out and hits the tv

I won a physical copy of quest for booty, so I'm happy.

CANT WAIT FOR TOMORROW!!!!

VisionOfClarity

Event Name: Microsoft Tweetup
What: Chat with Major Nelson, e, lollip0p and Stepto and enjoy coffee, sugary snacks and giveaways.
When: 9:30AM-11:30AM
Where: Microsoft NERD One Memorial Drive, Suite 100, Cambridge, MA 02142
Link: http://majornelson.com/archive/2010/...-pax-east.aspx

I work literally next door, may have to stop by for this on an early lunch.

mentok1982

I just got a +3 boost to my ego.

I am in the IGN panel line and the guy next to me (Justin) was browsing the PAX forum. I asked him if he posts and he said he just reads it, but there is lots of helpful info in here.

I asked him for an example of an informative thread and right away he mentioned this one. Then I told him that I started this thread and I showed him my forum badge for proof. His life is now complete I'm sure.