For the insane amount of people that attended NYCC this year, it felt like there wasn’t as many cosplayers as usual. That, or they were just lost in the crowds. Either way, the ones we DID see were a step above and beyond what we’ve seen yet. They’re getting better and better.
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For the past few NYCC’s, I’ve complained a bit about all the non-comic related media permeating the event. This year, I found myself missing it quite a bit.
Thankfully, Nerd-Base had been invited by South Korean developer Fincon to their NYCC after party promoting the US release of their popular (currently Fincon’s top-grossing game overseas) mobile RPG, Hello Hero.
In Hello Hero, players will journey with a team of five heroes across the Planet of Armon, battling against evil forces with sharp swords and powerful magic while gaining experience. As players build up their roster of Heroes, from guitar-playing cactus to a seductive succubus or a spear-wielding shark, Continue reading
NOTICE: We’re changing stuff around and the Nerd-Base Podcast has been down for a bit, so I apologize for all the broken links. I’m fixing it as fast as I can among all the other processes we’ve got going here. The new home (hopefully permanent) of the Nerd-Base Podcast is at http://www.podcasts.com/nerd-base-podcast-deaacdb0c and the new RSS feed is: http://www.podcasts.com/rss_feed/637e792e31fc5a514ff82f7a002282c4 until I figure out how to set up something more permanent and easily changeable should another move be necessary. I’m learning, always learning. *sigh*
Also, since iTunes cannot seem to find it within themselves to make it easy for podcasters to change their feeds within the system, we’re very likely going to be taking it off iTunes and resubmitting in the near future.
ALSO ALSO….expect some new Podcasts VERY soon!! Along with our NYCC coverage, we’re going to have a nice sit-down and talk about this year’s experience with a few new guests!!
Keep checking back!
The Marvel Shop has some pretty great exclusives coming in for NYCC 2013. They’ll be located at Booth # 1354 Here’s the list thus far with (not final) images of the products:
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The Extra-Life charity event is a gamer-centric event (though any and all are more than welcome to participate/donate/contribute) where individuals or teams gather and promise to game for 24 hours straight through while blogging/vlogging the experience in a sort of crowd-sourced “telethon” of sorts to raise money and awareness for children who have fallen ill with any variety of terrible, sometimes terminal diseases. Thousands of gamers and hundreds of websites have been created for this event and together have raised MILLIONS of dollars to help treat and even cure these kids. To give them an “Extra Life”. ALL PROCEEDS GO DIRECTLY TO HELPING THE CHILDREN IN THEIR RESPECTIVE HOSPITALS. That’s so important to mention, it had to be capped, bolded, and italicized. A more honorable task, you’ll be hard-pressed to find.
We sometimes forget that as cynical and sarcastic as we, the “nerd/geek/gamer/fanboy” community can be, we also have some of the biggest hearts in the world and I’m constantly in awe of what we can do when our powers combined are given a focused target.
Extra-Life was formed in 2008 by a gentleman known as “Doc” who, during his time as a radio DJ, came to know a young girl named Victoria “Tori” Enmon that had been diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia. At the time, Doc had belonged to a group called the Sarcastic Gamer Community and during one of her hospital stays where she really couldn’t get out, he asked the community to help out by sending her games to raise spirits. They responded better than any could have hoped. Sadly, Tori soon after passed away, but her spirit lit a flame in Doc and the community at large and he dedicated himself to honor her memory by continuing to help children who had become innocent victims to horrible illnesses via the Chlidren’s Miracle Network. Doc has since quit the radio biz and gone on to work full-time for the CMN as their Radio-thon Director.
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