August 29th to 31st, 2008, chat with musical artists and leaders in the gaming industry live from the floor of PAX! Sign up by joining an official Xfire PAX Clan.
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Click the button above to join an official Xfire PAX Clan to get updates and invites to all the great Live Chats at Penny Arcade Expo! The Xfire client program will notify you with an alert through the Clans and Guilds system when a chat begins.
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Chat Live with all of these guests at PAX. More guests are being added daily!
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Harmonix
Saturday, August 30th at 10:00 am
Harmonix is best known as the developer of Rock Band as well as the original developer of the Guitar Hero series. Join Xfire on Saturday morning for a chat with the masters of musical gaming and get the inside scoop on Rock Band 2!
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Jonathan Coulton
Saturday, August 30th at 11:00 am
Jonathan Coulton left his day job writing software in 2005 to pursue a career as an independent musician full time. Most of Coulton's folky, geek-oriented songs feature Coulton's vocals accompanied by guitar, bass, and drums, though they often feature the various other instruments Coulton plays, including accordion, harmonica, mandolin, banjo, ukulele, or glockenspiel.
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Regina Buenaobra
Saturday, August 30th at 12:00 noon
Regina Buenaobra is the English language Community Manager for Guild Wars, developed by ArenaNet, where she acts as a link between Guild Wars players and the ArenaNet developers. Before she started working at ArenaNet, Regina ran live chats and other events as a community manager for Xfire.
ArenaNet will be giving out 5 Grawl minipets and 15 sets of series 2 Guild Wars skillpins at the conclusion of the chat!
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Ubisoft
Friday, August 29th (Time To Be Announced)
Ubisoft Entertainment is a French video game publisher and developer with headquarters in Montreuil-sous-Bois, France. They are best known for games like Assassin's Creed, Rayman Raving Rabbids, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six, Far Cry and the classic puzzle game Myst.
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Turbine
Friday, August 29th at 6:00 pm
A team of entrepreneurs formed Turbine over a decade ago with the vision of becoming the leading provider of online entertainment. Since then, the Company has grown to over 200 employees and become the largest privately-held online gaming studio in North America. Turbine has created some of the most popular and exciting game worlds on the Internet, like the award-winning Asheron's Call®, Dungeons & Dragons Online™: Stormreach™, and The Lord of the Rings Online™: Shadows of Angmar™.
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The OneUps
Saturday, August 30th at 3:00 pm
The OneUps are a 7-piece band from Fayetteville, Arkansas playing contemporary arrangements of the music from various video game soundtracks. This band is composed of serious musicians; check out some of their tracks on their MySpace page. It's OK to listen to Video Game Music!
You might have a chance to win a CD of The OneUps: Volume 2 at the end of the Live Chat!
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Telltale Games
Saturday, August 30th at 2:00 pm
Telltale was founded in 2004 by game development veterans with years of leadership experience in the entertainment, game, and online industries. Telltale is known for creating excellent games based on established licenses such as Sam & Max and HomeStarRunner.com.
Five chat participants will win a DVD of the complete Sam & Max Season Two!
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Razer
Friday, August 29th at 1:00 pm
Razer collaborates with gamers to develop, manufacture and market cutting-edge gaming peripherals utilizing proprietary technologies that give gamers the competitive edge. Razer peripherals are for gamers, by gamers, for the win!
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Freezepop
Friday, August 29th at 4:00 pm
Freezepop has always been something of an oxymoron: embraced by both hipsters and nerds; serious about irony; and retro-futuristic. A synth band in a guitar videogame, singing pop songs about rock. Formed in Boston in the summer of 1999, Freezepop is comprised of Liz Enthusiasm (vocalist/designer), the Duke of Pannekoeken (producer/vocalist/programmer), and Sean Drinkwater (synthesizers/programmer/vocalist).
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NetDevil
Sunday, August 31st at 3:00 pm
NetDevil was founded in 1997 in Louisville, CO as an independently owned and operated game development company dedicated to the construction of massively multiplayer universes. NetDevil is committed to creating immersive, interactive virtual worlds in unique settings outside the typical fantasy genre. NetDevil has steadily grown from 3 part-timers to over 75 full time developers, with development led by Scott Brown, Peter Grundy, and Ryan Seabury.
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MC Frontalot
Sunday, August 31st (Time To Be Announced)
MC Frontalot is a San Francisco hip hop musician and the self-proclaimed "world's 579th greatest rapper." He is best known in nerdcore hip hop and video game culture. He is responsible for naming the nerdcore subgenre and is a perennial favorite performing at Penny Arcade Expo.
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Astro Gaming
Sunday, August 31st at 1:00 pm
Astro Gaming creates premium video gaming equipment for pro gamers, leagues and their lifestyles. Spun-off from design powerhouse Astro Studios, who felt it was the perfect time to expand their design brand into a line of gamer centric "tech-life" products, supporting this rapidly growing community. Their inaugural product line is centered around the critically acclaimed Astro A40 Audio System.
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Stay tuned to the Xfire Blog for more PAX Guest announcements coming soon!
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