Category Archives: Convention Report

Tokyo Game Market – Spring 2023 Impressions

If you talk to old-school gamers (and we have a lot of them that write for this blog), you’ll hear lamentations about how the experience of attending Essen has changed. As the tales go, back in the day, a gamer … Continue reading

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Two Days in Tokyo: The Lead Up to TGM Spring 2023

I few years ago, I made a list of conventions I wanted to attend, games I wanted to play, and other gaming “bucket list” items. The only item list I had not checked off was going to Tokyo Game Market. … Continue reading

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Dale Yu: Short Report from the Gathering of Friends – New Games (that I can talk about)

So, the blog has been quiet all week… Many of us have been at the Gathering of Friends, and between game playing, game designing, eating, walking, sight-seeing, museum-going, game-showing, game playing and maybe a little bit of sleeping – we’re … Continue reading

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Convention Report: Gulf Games 49

To paraphrase Chandler Bing (aka Miss Chanandler Bong): “Could the title to this post BE any more boring?”) He has a point… but our three days plus change with the Gulf Games “family” was anything but generic and boring. There … Continue reading

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Tokyo Game Market, At Last

I made it. It’s Saturday morning and I couldn’t sleep. I generally can’t sleep but today I’ll finally make it to TGM. So I was up early. This shot is time stamped 5:48 AM. I saw a few people fishing … Continue reading

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A Few Days in Tokyo

I went to Tokyo! After years of importing and licensing games from half a world a way, I was able to visit in person. I’ll talk about my time at Tokyo Game Market itself tomorrow, but today I’m going to … Continue reading

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