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So PAX was hella cool. Ironically the games I demoed the most were PS3 titles. Rock Band of course looked amazing even though it's not really my thing. Haze IMHO was just another shooter (a shooter that crashed during my demo). Warhawk was pretty cool but I don't see what makes it special. Eye of Judgment will make me buy a PS3 if it catches on. YES I even played a bit of Culdacept just for YOU, but it was game already in progess someone left and I really couldn't remember the rules. Bioshock was EVERYWHERE every speaker, every attendee every gamer room was abuzz with Bioshock. Art in games? Bioshock. Censorship of games? Bioshock. Crowd of people watching something? Bioshock. Of the games I played though I think the best (though not as original as they would have you believe) was Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. It's is quite literally Gears of War and Prince of Persia smashed into one game with an Indiana Jones theme, and that is just awesome. The controls take some getting used to (PLEASE developers use cover buttons on triggers like Rainbow Six none of this face button clicking crap!) just because they have to cover so many differnet things you can do in the game but once you get it, it's a sweet game. Of the MMO's Warhammer definitely had my attention, it's not just the graphics, it's the implementation of real full scale war in an MMO that really has my excited, and I don't even like MMOs. BUT, if Graphics are your thing, it's pretty stunning. I also joined the Entertainment Consumers Association a newly forming lobbyist group defending against censorship in video games. I asked a question in the Politics and Gaming forum and met some cool new people because of it who doing their own grass roots sort of stuff. I missed Freezepop which kinda sucks but I was busy showing Matthew BIOSHOCK so it was worth it. The final round of the Omegathon was outright epic with a Halo 3 slayer match with two very evenly matched opponents. The opened it with a band playing the Halo theme to masses of cheers as well which was pretty sweet. Anyways the moral of this story is PAX is cool and I thank my sister for inviting me. Now I get to go do it all again in Las Vegas for the Gamestop convention.