Salt Lake Gaming Con – Day Two

Salt Lake Gaming Con – Day Two
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By Robert Hudak On Friday, I arrived at the South Towne Expo Center just before noon to a pleasant surprise; better structure and a larger turnout lifted my spirits for Salt Lake Gaming Con’s three-day event. Where Thursday was the beta access, Friday felt like something closer to a full release. A few booths, Microsoft

Salt Lake Gaming Con: The PC vs. Console Panel – Day Two

Salt Lake Gaming Con: The PC vs. Console Panel –...
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From the beginning, I struggled to see the point of this panel. I get that there are different camps of gamers and different platforms catering to those camps, but at the end of the day, we’re all gamers. I expected a degree of elitism to rear its ugly head during the “debate,” and in some ways,

Salt Lake Gaming Con 2015: Wii U Super Smash Bros. Tournament

Salt Lake Gaming Con 2015: Wii U Super Smash Bros....
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The faint smell of sweat lingered in the air as buttons clicked rapidly and anxious onlookers judged each of the players’ meticulously calculated moves. Six rows of four TV screens spread along the right side of the middle walkway in the main hall of the South Towne Expo Center—tournaments ranged from 2v2 Modern Warfare to

Salt Lake Gaming Con – Day One

Salt Lake Gaming Con – Day One
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Gaming conventions have a subpar record in our backyard. The GEEX expos of 2010-11 felt more like military recruiting grounds with some new tech on display than cons. I attended GEEX in 2011 with the aspiration of winning a Gears of War tournament. Oh, how naive I was. I didn’t expect much of a turnout (and