Blizzcon

I just recently went to one of the biggest videogame dorkfests conventions, Blizzcon. Since I am a huge, huge fan of "World of Warcraft", I couldn't pass up the opportunity to drive down to Anaheim and spend 2 days in a roomful of overweight, anti-social males who hadn't take a shower in a week (kidding! Well ok, I'm actually not kidding about the overweight and stinky part). But seriously, I had never been to any sort of convention like this before, and I was interested in listening to the developer discussions about the game and other stuff. Plus, they were handing out awesome goody bags for each attendee, which included a code to redeem an in-game murloc costume and a beta key for a future Blizzard game (yes I am a nerd).

Quite a few people at the convention decided to dress up (presumably for the costume contest). Here's a picture of what I thought were the most impressive costumes:


Aside from the discussions, I also bought myself new WoW soundtracks, played the WoW trading card game, listened to some awesome orchestral WoW music, and endured the apparent un-funniness of Jay Mohr--I'm a bit too old for potty humor. The convention had a lot of computers set up for game play, so I got to try out a little bit of the newly announced WoW expansion and the unreleased Starcraft II, where I learned you should never go up against 13-year-old boys (because you will lose).