Wondercon!

Today marks the first day of Wondercon 2009! For those of you unfamiliar with the event, Wondercon is an offshoot of Comic-Con that occurs earlier in the year and in the significantly farther north San Francisco. Bandicoot12 was there to not only take in the sight of those in the comic industry, but to investigate the video game presence and try to increase Bandicoot12 Studios' visibility. To spare you the irrelevant details (such as meeting Mike Mignola and Bruce Timm), let us focus only on the game industry topics.

This year's Wondercon has a handful of game studios, including Telltale (the studio at the reigns of the Sam and Max series and the Strong Bad adventure games, and none other than EA themselves. Telltale has a very small presence (of which Bandicoot12 has yet to investigate) and EA had a measly four machines running, all of which habitually crashed. Apparently the performance of their games had infiltrated their hardware, as well. Also, much to my chagrin, Namco's presence is limited to a small merchandise booth, definitively crushing my hopes to latch onto them and beg the representives until they let me head up the Pac-Man franchise.

I hope to bring you as much news as possible from the booths, including my first day impressions of the two houses with the biggest booths and the most storied history. Keep checking back for more news from Wondercon 2009!

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Iwasaki Koji