Geek and Fandom Events in BC and Washington State
Village Gamer has posted an infographic from app-promo.com on the realities mobile developers face when they bring their apps to market. Only 12% of apps earn $50,000 a year or more, and they each spend an average of $30,000 for marketing. With the current hype over Vancouver’s Mobile Market, how can smaller devs pay their way. Either there needs to be more Venture capital, or we have to put effort into building the local community.
Source: Village Gamer
The newly liquor licensed Rio Theatre is hosting the Critical Hit Show on Wednesday May 30th. Tickets are available for $6 at Brown Paper Tickets, and $8 at the door. Come and see Dungeons and Dragons as you have always known it: An exercise in improv comedy.
The EMP museum in Seattle is opening their “Icons of Science Fiction” Exhibit this Friday, and the Geeky Hostess is holding a contest for free tickets! The exhibit will feature exhibits from Star Trek, The Matrix, The Terminator, and even Doctor Who! Here’s how to enter.
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Want more chances to win? Enter the EMP Museum’s contest to win tickets to the party AND an overnight stay at Hotel Max! Or skip the chances and just purchase tickets to the event.
The Vancouver Comic Arts Festival was welcomed with gorgeous weather this Saturday. Northwest crowds now have a reputation for filling out events like this, and today was no exception. The convention floor was packed with attendees and exhibitors. The Yaletown Roundhouse was a great venue with a mixture of modern and historical decor. I saw and met many of my favourites here, but I also discovered comics that I had never heard of that are hits by any objective standard. It just goes to show how important these events are. Google’s pretty good, but it can’t introduce you to all these comics in one search query. I mean, how much is a Post-it comic like Savage Chickens going to have in common with a medieval comedy epic like Much the Miller’s Son? Hit the jump if you want to see more of pictures of the convention and the exhibitors.
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Remember that Battlestar Galactica Viper simulator being built by some highschool students a couple of months ago? Well, they brought the thing to Maker Faire, and it works! It does 360 degrees of pitch, yaw, and roll! There wasn’t any time to modify the simulator software so they could take that sucker out for a spin over New Caprica, but it’s here, it works, and it’s awesome!
Source:Gizmodo.
Gateworld has released an exposé on the fate of another Stargate SG-1 Video game, Alliance. Stargate was licensed to Perception Studios to make a PC and Playstation 2 first person shooter. Unfortunately, the project fell apart in 2006, likely a casualty of the shaky transition between console generations. The game features voice work from the actual cast of the show, including the late Don S. Davis. Between this and the unfortunate Stargate Worlds MMO, it seems like so much money has been left on the table by MGM over Stargate. Then again, this may be an opportunity for the franchise to breath for while until we are ready to step through the gate once again.
Source:GateWorld
Judge David Shaw of the US International Trade Commission has recommended that the Xbox 360 be banned in the US due to a patent dispute with Motorola over its H.264 video compression technology. When questioned about how that would be fair to consumers, Shaw just said that Nintento and Sony could pick up demand. Nintendo and Sony? Wow, I don’t think Mr. Shaw knows that your maxbox platters don’t go playmation slot. If his colleagues agree with him, the matter will go to President Barack Obama for a final say on the matter.
Source: TDW Geeks.
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Last March, the Emerald City Comic-con bore witness to the Epicest Epic that ever…Epicced! A Super Team of voice actors featuring Billy West, Tara Strong, Maurice LaMarche, John DiMaggio, Kevin Conroy, Jess Harnell and Rob Paulsen brought a trusty set of scripts from Star Wars: A New Hope and performed the greatest impromptu performance of Star Wars: The Radio Drama ever conceived. All of the actors place their most popular characters in the roles of their lifetimes. Pinky and Bender play Luke, Bubbles plays Darth Vader, and the rest…you will just have to watch the video to find out!
Source: Topless Robot
The Vancouver Comic Arts Festival is happening on May 25 and 26th at 181 Roundhouse Mews in Yaletown, Vancouver! There will be over 60 independent and webcomic artists in attendances, including Christopher Hart of The Adventures of Dr. McNinja and Camilla D’Errico of Tanpopo. Best of all, the price is FREE!!! Let’s see if we can break some fire codes here, fellow Raingeeks. This is the future of comics and pop culture. Come down and say hello!
Source: Vancouver Comic Arts Festival
SyFy had to make some difficult choices this season, and one of those was the cancellation of Amanda Tapping’s Sanctuary. The show will not air any new episodes past its 13 episode run that ended last december. Syfy will be replacing the show with their new “metaseries”, Defiance. Fortunately Tapping and crew won’t stay on the sidelines for long as the Canadian version of Primeval begins production this year.
Source: Hollywood Reporter.
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