Howdy fellow Baltimore IGDA members, It has been awhile since you've received an e-mail for an upcoming Baltimore IGDA event.  Rest assured that you are still on this list, the chapter has just not held a meeting in the past year. I have talked with some of the existing, and prior, Baltimore board members about "rebooting" the chapter.   Today the gears are already in motion and we have a meeting to kick of ...

Welcome, BaltimoreGamers, to December, the month of giving! It has been a long year of great indie games, events, cons, music shows, etc. So, to end the year with a bang, we will be giving away two tickets to Magfest 2012 featuring special guest Nobuo Uematsu, composer of the scores for the Final Fantasy series. To be honest we needed a cheap way to build our fan base on Twitter and Facebook. There were thr ...

[caption id="attachment_2972" align="alignleft" width="270" caption="Tigercon's Chair and Co-Chair"][/caption] I got a chance to sit down with Mykeal Spivey and Catherine Cronin, chair and co-chair of Tigercon, to get the inside scoop on the upcoming anime convention. Tigercon will be held on December 3rd at Towson University’s West Village Commons from 10am to 10pm. And guess what! It’s free. ...

Super Art Fight is easily one of my favorite events to attend. I had the honor of seeing them grow from the beginning, all the way back from the first Super Art Fight. Since then, Super Art Fight has become one of the must-see shows in Baltimore… period. Unfortunately they have become so popular that other cities actually want them to leave Baltimore and entertain their citizens! I say, how dare you DC! I w ...

WASHINGTON, DC -- NOVEMBER 4, 2011 -- MAGFest ( The Music And Gaming Festival), is proud to announce Nobuo Uematsu and EARTHBOUND PAPAS as guests at the next upcoming MAGFest, January 5-8, 2012, in National Harbor, MD. Nobuo Uematsu is best known for being the primary composer for the Final Fantasy series of video games. Uematsu's band, EARTHBOUND PAPAS, will be performing new originals as well as arrangeme ...

Best Buy and Activision are hosting a “Play It Early” event for Call of Duty: MW3. at the Towson Best Buy on Monday, November 7th at 8pm. "We’ll be playing it in the Best Buy Magnolia room, which features the best TVs in the store, along with comfy couches, so you’ll get a real at-home experience while being among the first people in the country to play the game. " The first 200 people in line will get in t ...

This barcraft will be hosted @ Pratt Street Ale House on MLG Championship Sunday! The bar is located right on Pratt Street near downtown Baltimore's inner harbor. There are many ways to get here including the Light rail and Charm City Circulator. There is also parking right around the corner. We will be providing a stream for MLG Orlando (Red/Blue Streams) as well as cover of IEM New York League of Legends! ...

Sorry for the late update! BaltimoreGamer crew will be hosting a panel at Intervention TOMORROW. The panel is titled How To Create a Gaming/Anime Website .It will be held at 4pm Friday the 16th in Panels Room 1. Please refer to the Intervention 2011 Program Schedule for more information. ...

Are you just so attached to your gaming idea but no one will listen to you? How many times have you had, what you thought, was an amazing thought about how to run a gaming company or how to get your name out there within a gaming company? Great ideas occur with our minds every single day so why be suppressed by those wanting to rip genius ideas from you? Go out and make a difference on September 10th at the ...

If you're like me and have Zelda's "Dungeon Theme" playing on a loop on Youytube all day, then BitGen may your musical dream-come-true. ...