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We've all come down from that beautiful natural high we experienced at PAX.  I know I can't be the only one missing it, but in some ways it's nice to be home.  The harmony and good nature of the event and community are really hard to understand if you weren't there, but trust me when I tell you it was beautiful in a way.  Instant friendships were forged, and there was just this general understanding that we were all there for the same thing and it brought everyone together.  So if you're like me and feeling a little less than thrilled to be back at work then maybe I can help cheer you up with a few cool items.

Halo 3, oh how we love you.  The release of Halo 3 is around 4 weeks away, that's got to get you pumped.  How can that not excite you?  If four weeks is too far into the future to look then how about this?  Blue Dragon is released this week, I'm no RPG fan but for those who are this is a huge title.  If you haven't already please go download the demo and see for yourself.  Finally the Call of Duty 4 public beta sign ups went down, now you too can get in on the fun.  If you get your token look for me, I'll be playing that this week since last week's gaming got cut short by my travels.

Just a friendly reminder, the Community Gamerpics are available for free download on Xbox Live Marketplace.  You can choose the logo from one of six Gamercast Network shows or the Gamerscoreblog logo.  Please download and use the pics.  While it's great for us to be the first community content on marketplace I'd hate to be the only.  The success of this venture will determine what is done in the future.  Sorry if the blog was short, or not all that interesting, I'm trying to ease into this non-PAX blogging thing.  

I think the title really says it all.  PAX was and is all about the community.  I did more community networking at this event than posting on forums and going to other events could do in years.  The thing is, there's just this understood bond between Xbox community members.  I met Kikikat my first night at PAX, I'd seen her on the forums for years, yet she didn't know me at all.  However after 15 minutes we were like old friends.  The same went for Ooopy and Syn, it was just a thing of beauty to see the community come together in the way it did for PAX.  This even relates to Xbox employees.

I had an awesome time with the Xbox team.  First of all the Marketing Team continued to be awesome.  John was just there for us, Tony kept us up to date on things, Chris was there on all levels, and Sara was just Sara and awesome.  I love those folks, they may work for one the largest corporations around, but they get it.  Then there's Trixie, now I get how KP is her little helper monkey.  She's just so much fun, and you want to be a part of that silliness.  Throughout PAX I let Trixie put a pink tiara on me, make me makeshift pink dress, put lip glopss on me (which I wasn't so willing to do but it was funny at the end of the day), and allowed her to pretend to beat me and actually twist me nipple on cam for the GSB peoples.   It's like not matter who from I meert from the Xbox team they end up being just what they seem to be.  However I have to give Trixie special mention for just being so silly and so much fun.  The few moments of just being goofy were equal to in memorability to the curious looks that Diva gave me.  I'm almost forced to say that Gamerchix rock. 

As for the rest of the community, damn, it was great.  It's just flattering to have influential community members, and Xbox employees, know who I am.  On day one I had about five people ask me if I had seen Knuckles Dawson.  Why they thought I knew where he was I don't know, must be our mutual investment in the world of Xbox.  But then when when I saw Knuckles, for probably the thrid time, at PAX he stopped me and was like "Feelz Good, What's up?"  This and other events just prove that Xbox Live really is a community.

Shouts outs to the following, and if I miss your name or site please correct me:  Tony, Chris, John, Sara, Trixie, Kiki, Forsakeme4all, Knuckles, DaKing240, Avid X, GodfatherX,  All Games, Carpal and the crew, Chrissylas306 (I only talked to you  little but we're connected, Twitter friends 4life), Syn, Ooopy, Drea, Dave, Morgon, Zack, Harmonix (you rocked at E3 and PAX), Eidos (Kane & Lynch looks cool, and you were so cool)  D3 Publisher America (you've been good to us, and Dark Sector looks awesome), Natalie from Achievement Junkie (just because I met you and you're real, Nelson is the man too) JVB and Vicious (cuz you're stupid and didn't come), Gamercastnetwork.com, Sarcasticgamer.com, UncleGamer.com, VGS.org, Podtacular.com, damn I know I'm missing people.  Bobby Blackwolf, Obey, Joystiq, GayGamer, hell even the Frag Dolls.  Special shout out to Bioware for the Mass Effect demo, but the demo at E3 was way better.  I'm a part time Krogan Battle Master. HAHA.  To any I missed I'm so sorry, because I love the whole event and I love everyone I met.  Oh, special props to Randy Kouture for kicking butt at age 44, you're holding it down homie.  I really want to see you got at it with Krokop or Fedor, like you or anyone even connected to MMA will ever see this...

Peace and love to all, look for more PAX stuff later, time to get into travel mode.  Also this isn't the end of my blog, it's the rebirth.  I'll continue to update post-PAX with just generally crazy gaming related things.  I like it like that.  Oh, and shout to Heather Paladino for being just as much of a smartass in person as she is on the GCN forums.  It was cool to meet you Mrs CPal. 

To be honest, I didn't do much in terms of playing games today.  Most of the games at PAX I've played at E3.  If you really have questions feel free to ask me on Windows Live Messenger, email is galaxaphonic@aol.com.  This whole event has been all about networking and meeting community folks.

I woke up very late as I said today, I had way too much fun the night before.  I had a good amount of fun tonight as well so it follows suit.  I was on the show floor, Godfree and Tom got to meet with Gametrailers so that was awesome.  There was also the panel on podcasting and blogging that Godfree was on and he held it down.  While I wish I could've been up there, since I'm so into the podcasting community, Godfree did a damn good job at representing us all, friend or foe.

Sadly, today for me was all about UFC 74.  I'm a huge MMA fan, did martial arts all my life, even competed in 4 non-professional mma fights.  I hate it, don't worry, not a time to sing my own praises, I sucked.  However I was able to find someone to watch the fights with me. Obey from the GCN forums wanted to see it so we met up and did that.  After the fights we still hung out and had some good times.  Drinks were consumed, crazy fun times happened, and it was great.  Gotta give a shout out to Obey, cuz it was awesome.

Tomorrow is the day I've gotta get to work and cover games.  The first day we did some interviews, but yesterday we didn't do much, even though Godfree did hold it down and get there on time.  I was late, sorry, I like to party when the chance presents itself.  So you can look for lots of interviews coming up from GTR, because while I love to enjoy these events it is work.  I might not get payed, or get recognized (Gofree is the face of GTR, rock on you internet celeb) it's what I do and love.  I love to bring any info I can to the community.  The thing is that at the end of the day, I'm just a community member like anyone else.  Sure I may qualify as media and press, but I'm no different than you.  I just love the fact that I get a chance to deliver info to people from that perspective.  It's all about the gaming community, MS gets it, EA gets it, Activisions gets is, but more importantly I get it.  I do what I do for people like me. Not to appease companies, get my name out there and be recognized, or to be some internet celebrity.  For me, it's all about the community.  You're/I am the people that matter, and nothing will change that..

I knew the background story to this game before I ever played it, and the story alone is enticing.  I have to say if you're a graphics whore then this game probably isn't for you.  The graphics are on par and all, but for a game that's been in development for as long as K&L has I'd expect more.  Although in all honest the gameplay might make up for that.

The thing about K&L is that the gameplay really does seem to mesh together what shooters have become.  You're either a run and gun kind of guy/girl or you're in the tactical side of things.  While the run&gun strategy does prove to be effective with K&L, it's not the only aspect.  Sure, the developer wants to bill the game as the perfect melding of the two world of shooters, but it's not.  The two aforementioned strategies are imortant, but it's not quite perfect.  However it is a lot closer to perfect than we're seen in the past.  The game can draw in the "I want to kill people" shooter fan and the "let's have this person go here and the other two go there to flank their squad" gamer. 

As per usual, I hate to judge a game off of build, and thus I won't.  Thought I will say if you favor graphics over gameplay then Kane and Lynch might not be you game.  The thing is, it is a balance between tactics and run and gun games.  That's what they're going for and they achieved it.  The only thing is it could've been done better, but K&L is definitely a step in the right direction for shooters.

Wow, day 1 was crazy, at least the night was.  I played some cool games which I'll blog about later.  Also, last night there was a party for Trixie over at GameWorks.  Things definitely got a little out of hand, but a good time was had.  I got a late start today, but one thing I saw and played was the Scene it demo.

Now if you don't know what Scene It is it's a movie trivia game that has its own special controller.  One large button at the top, and A B X Y below vertically.  I'd never played or even seen the game before but I was interested.  Things kicked off with the demo being presented by none other Tony "The Godfather" Hynes.  There were a couple of different games we got to see.  Fill in the blank movie lines, what's missing from this still of a movie, a short video clip then trivia on it, and children's drawings of movie scenes and you have to name the movie.  All were fun, but the children's drawings game was tough. 

Overall I liked the game, it seems like one of those casual games you can get all competitive playing, especially with friends.  There were some issues with the game, but because this isn't a finalized version I won't go into them.  One glitch was so obvious that there isn't any way they won't fix it.  Everyone playing had fun with it, even when they/I were doing horribly.  This was a game that interested me but I never planned on getting, now I might consider picking it up.  It's just good clean fun.

So I got to play Rock Band again, it's been like a month and a half since E3 so I've been itching to play.  I of course got a chance to play the drums, as usual, but I tried out vocals for the first time.  I was actually really surprised with how easy it was.  Most people are playing on Easy or Medium, I chose medium because how hard can it be to sing?  I've never played a singing rythm game before, yet I somehow managed to get 89%, way to go me.  Overall the game is everything you'll expect.  You have no hope of playing the drums if you lack rhythm, it's just not going to happen.  So if you know you don't have it, don't even try.  You've still got hope with the guitar, base, and singing though.  If all I can have is Halo 3, Rock Band, and Mass Effect I'll die happy.

Well apparently today media wasn't supposed to get in one hour early, but we managed to find someone who didn't get that memo and escorted us right to the floor. Of course we went straight to Microsoft's booth, and they were still setting up.  It's nice to get see a little of the pre-PAX stuff, though they've been working on it forever now.  Now you might be wondering how I got PWND and who did it.

After hanging out a little and talking with Chris and Tony from Gamerscoreblog the Gamerchix, or at least their leaders, arrived.  They had all kinds of purple and pink goodies, including a fuzz pink lava lamp which I helped to unwrap.  You'd think with me helping them they'd say thanks Feelz, you're the best.  Nope, I was then given a tiara that says princess on it and fluffy pink stuff.  I thought that was funny, in fact I'm still wearing it.  Then Trixie got another great idea, why no take the pink plastic tablecloth, wrap it around me like a dress (I still don't know why it needed to tucked into my underwear Trix, but it's cool).  The Trixie ran around me with packing tape about 5 five time to ensure it would stay on.  So there I am an in a impromptu dress and tiara.  There are tons of pics of it, in fact the official PAX cameraman came over to get video of that, so it could show up in the PAX dvd.

Actually I wouldn't say I got pwnd, because I had fun with it.  I always enjoy Diva messing with me, and Trixie is more than welcome to be added to that list.  Of course hers doesn't make me feel stupid.  Next will be game impressions.  I've checked out Dark Sector, Kane and Lynch, and about to go play Rockband.  This is so great.

Welcome to the craziness that is my blog.  I'm here in my hotel room, about 5 blocks from the convention center, and the PAX show floor opens to the public in apx. 3 hours.  However I have a media badge, so I get in a hour early.  I plan to wonder the show floor playing games and meeting even more awesome community members today.  I know that we (GTR) have some appointments today, and guess what huge game we have an appointment to play and talk about at 4:30pm?  ROCK BAND.  While I've already played it I look forward to getting some more time with it.  So look for some info on that game later today. 

Just because the show floor hasn't opened yet doesn't mean nothing's been going on.  I know you want to know about all the pre-PAX from yesterday.  After endless hours of traveling I finally made it to my hotel and got settled in.  The internet here works pretty good, that's a huge plus.  Last night I went out to dinner with a bunch of community members, only two of which I'd ever met.  Trixie even stopped by and hung out with us for a while, she's always fun.  Others from 360Style.net, 360Achievements.com, The Blue Skittle were on hand for the fun.  We ate, drank, and were generally merry.  After that it was back to their hotel to hang out, record some videos for GTR Vision, and general "fun".  Roaming the hotel we ran into lots of community and industry folks, it's weird.  There's always this understood bond with gamers, after one minute of talking it's as though you're old friends.

I left the hotel sometime after 1am, and that's where the one funny thing happened.  I'm not at all familiar with Seattle but I figure I can navigate cities.  Unfortunately I left the hotel out of a different door than I came in.  So I walked about 6 blocks in the wrong direction and had no clue where I was.  Thank God people here are nice, two guys on bikes walked with me to get me back on track.  I found the convention center and was soon back in my hotel room.  On a side note this hotel has the most comfy bed I've ever slept in, props to Hotel Max.  Anyways...check back later for more.

I had someone ask me that a few weeks back and I unfortunately said yes.  I say it's unfortunate because I can't for the life of me figure out what to do with this blog ever since I joined Gamertag Radio.  I can't really post news, and my general commentary I try to reserve for the show.  Right now I'd love to tell everyone what I think of the whole HDMI situation, but I know that will come up Sunday night.  I've at least found one purpose for my blog, PAX.

In addition to interviews, video streaming, and podcasting with GTR I'm going to use the blog as a general PAX rant.  Rant may not be the best word because of the negative connotation, but it's the best I could come up with.  I'll basically try to convey the experience of being at PAX and the crazy situations I'm sure to encounter.  So in a mere two weeks you'll start to see much more content on here, provided the internet in Seattle is better than it was in Santa Monica.  Until then I'm just going to continue doing what I do and hopefully start playing my 360, instead of other consoles, more.