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Mass Effect1+2 Mass Effect1+2 ------------------------------www.levelup.comAUTO 3-DIGIT 024 Joseph Smith PO Box 33298 465 Summer Street Boston, MA 02445 GOT A PENNY? Main Menu HIT THE ARCADE This Issues Character we go This Issues Old Versus over some of the biggest names hat’s right the Penny Arcade Expo is open for reg- New we go over the in Video game development. istration and pannel submissions. PAX is one of Mass Effect series is Tthe biggest video game expo’s in the United States it as good as we all and we are bringing it to you first. hope? The people PAX is a great way to see many of the gaming commu- nities biggest people.in the game industry. Shigeru Miya- moto has made multiple appearances. One of the biggest THE RANT: this issue Bombom attractions of PAX is seeing the presenting of new games, riffs on Dragon Age: origins talking with project directors and getting to see what’s in the works. In fact one of the important internet phenom- enons is Mounty Oum. A man who became famous from building and animating many famous video game charac- ters and creating amazing cinematic battle sequences. The Games PAX is without a doubt one of the best places to meet video game enthusiasts , and Indi Video Game Developers. That BGM has hunted down the is not to say that all PAX focuses on is video games. It also Today we go over gammer one ups to get the story and brings you into the realm of pen and paper if you allow it, girls and that dreadful maybe an extra life? that is right Table Top games. Table top games have been phrase Guy in reallife. around for much longer than video games have been, in fact many video games are based on some table top games such as Dungeons and Dragons. Other great games include Call of Cthulhu, Exalted, and the White Wolf Series. Card Games such as Magic: The Gathering, Munchkin, Poke- mon, Yu-gi-oh, and L5R are also predominant More This issue The 360 gives For more information on PAX East go to us a look at video games www.paxsite.com and story, and why they dont always mix Director of Photography: Chang Wu Publisher: Awesome Publishing Editor: Matthew Revezzo Web:Kyle Reed, Marcus O’Connor, Anne Howard, Jessica Winly Contributing Editors: Jonathan Correia Column: Dan Howdel Art Director: Lolita Grum Game testers/Reviewers 2 Level up Magazine, January First edition Art Team: Douglas Adams, Jeremie Winthrope, Alexia Kruchov, Tim Mazzola, Zidane Goalstien www.levelup.com Li Fong, Gerald Hisenburge 3 Fuga. 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Here is what happened. 4 Level up Magazine, January First edition www.levelup.com 5 Guy In real Life. Continued from page 5 of gamer culture. It’s chic now, so you or at least I run into women all the time who have an old school mario tshirt yet they never held a NES controller. On the other end of the spectrum, you have the women who lament that their men spend more time with say Call of Duty than them. I guess the later is still more common. A lot of guys are used to expecting taking crap from the ignored girlfriend. It’s hard to find a lass who, instead of whining that you never buy her dinner, will pick up the second controller AND pro- ceed to put up a good fight if not destroy you. Matt: Lets get down to it, girls and video games, do they play? Why is it seen as such a rarity, and when a gamer chick is found Matt: So is it safe to say a guy would Skyrim why is it really such be more inclined to go for a girl that played games if he himself played games? 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