GrifballHub at #PAX 2010 – Day 1

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The first day of PAX officially starts today, but day one of GrifballHub’s PAX experience started yesterday. Goose, Tex, Kal and some of their closest grifball pals spent the evening hanging out at Table 219 in Seattle. Joining them was Alison of 343 Industries (the people who produce Halo Waypoint) and DMZilla of Microsoft. It’s [...]

PAX is almost here! Time for a contest. Win 1600 MS Points.

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Unless you’ve been living under a rock or don’t stop by as often as you know you should, you’ve probably heard that Goosechecka and Green Team Tex will be making the trek to PAX in Seattle in just a few short days. Last year GrifballHub was there as part of the first ever grifball panel, [...]

Top 10 Things Not to Do at PAX

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Over 60,000 people attended PAX Prime last year and even more gamers are expected to attend this year. Traveling to an unfamiliar city, being surrounded by hordes of strangers and navigating over 300,000 sq ft of convention center floor can seem like an intimidating or overwhelming task. In an effort to make first-time PAX goers [...]

Bobby’s PAX Preparation Tips

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Hello there everyone. Now, I have some advice to all the PAX goers. I’ve been listening to enough video game podcasts and following their websites over there years, where I have picked up on some key things to do while you’re out on the PAX floor and things you can do to physically and mentally [...]

Grifball HubCast – Episode 8

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Here I am once again a day late presenting you with the eight episode of the now truly weekly HubCast featuring your host, Green Team Tex. Joining Tex were Goosechecka, HighlndHellrazr, BobbyBirdseed and guest PP Moocow PP, the grifball league commissioner. Topics of discussion included the Spring Amateur league finals, Fall league sign-ups, Extra Life [...]

Pup and Friends – September 2009

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As you may have noticed, we’ve recently released a lot of footage from the Hub’s recent visit to PAX09. Because of this and the fact that I have just one PC at my disposal, I had to put this month’s highlight reel on the back burner for a bit. Now that I’ve climbed my way [...]

PAX09 – Left for Dead 2 Impressions

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Coming off of the success of the first installment, L4D 2 had a lot to live up to. Initial thoughts from community members for L4D were that although the game play was fantastic, the lack of expansions, and the quick release of a sequel was a little off putting and detracted from the overall value [...]

PAX09 – Halo 3 ODST Gameplay Impressions

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Those of us with speaker badges got into the convention center a few hours before the general public and got to invest some quality time playing ODST. I’ve been a huge fan of the Halo series since the beginning but I was hesitant about this game. Is it really Halo without the Chief, Cortana or [...]