Events, Game Design, Gamer Culture
Ken Levine @ PAX: A Giant F’cking Nerd
E3 used to be the an amazing event for everything tech and nerd related. It was for the developers, the companies, the toys, and the people. But all those bigwigs got sick of the riffraff making parking too difficult and kicked them out. Suddenly, Joe Gamer had to find his/her fix for a nerd-gasm somewhere else. Then, all at once, the riffraff turned to PAX. Ken Levine (creator of BioShock) kept that in mind as he spoke to the crowded convention hall, but he didn’t hype up the next BioShock or any other 2K game…
