Three-Letter Acronyms & Four-Letter Words

I had heard on the radio that here was going to be an "arcade" setup at the Austin convention center during the SXSW Interactive conference. The name of this part of the conference, ScreenBurn.

I don't quite know what I was expecting. And honestly what I saw was I guess sort of what I thought might be there.

You walk into the room and the lighting is a little dim, some of the most noticeable light was coming from the various kiosks and gigantic flat screen tv/monitors.

However, what peaked my interest and ultimately made me want to get down to ScreenBurn was that someone had walked by our booth with a copy of City of Villains.

Apparently, NCsoft was giving away copies of their games. I had played City of Heroes back when it first came out.

Also, when I first walked in there was a table full of games in front of me. I originally thought that was were I was supposed to get the CoV swag. Nope, it was a table being staffed by profession female gamers (mostly) that were doing a charity raffle for Big Brothers, Big Sisters.

They started to really sell me on the raffle, as soon as they said that they were taking donations, I was sold. Any game I might win would just be a bonus. However, I wish I had a $20 on me at the time, that would have allowed me to just pick any game off the table that I wanted. A ten-spot was all I had.

And to win a game at the 4:30 drawing I had to be present to win. Luckily, my booth mates allowed me to sneak downstairs in the nick of time to have my number be the first number drawn out of the fishbowl. Unfortunately, all of the Xbox-360 games had been given away the day before. But there was a XBOX Spiderman 2 game there. I am sure I will enjoy it.

Anyway, I am installing CoV right now. Probably get it all patched up, just in time for me to go to bed.

It comes with one month free play, so I will probably just play the free month then call it quits.

Laterz