PAX 2006 Recap

Above and beyond the announcement of their videogame last Friday, PAX apparently passed pleasantly for the PA fans who made it to Bellvue, WA this past weekend. Various news organs have a look at what transpired. eToyChest has a journal of each day, with firsthand accounts and lots of pictures. Gamasutra covers the Penny Arcade Scholarship announced at the event; $10k towards an education to get yourself into the games industry. Kotaku was there to liveblog the keynote, while Joystiq covers the making a comic panel. For wrap-up, we have an IGN report, and the ever exhaustive 1up minisite for everything you'd want to know.

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Re:Half a decade?

[cowscows]

I don't know. I really don't mean to crap on video game journalists, but as much as I enjoy video games, I don't think that I'd find spending five years writing about them particularly satisfying.

Turning a hobby into a job is a pretty good way to turn it into something you don't enjoy very much. And while playing video games can be fun, it's not the most productive thing in the world. I guess my point is, in the grand scheme of things, how much does this guy's job really matter? Maybe he feels that it's more important than that, or maybe he just does it for the money. I don't know. It reminds me of people who report on what celebrities wear to the academy awards or whatever. Sure, they sell magazines, and they're probably getting a decent paycheck. But at the end of the day, how can they really be satisfied with how trivial the result is of what they do with the bulk of their time. I would find that work soul crushing, no matter how much I got paid.