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Game On Expo
Game On Expo is a multimedia gaming convention that began in August 2015, and is the largest gaming and anime convention in Arizona. It covers all types of gaming from video games and arcades to board games and tabletop games. The expo boasts a large vendor hall, video game lounge area, free-play arcades, tournaments (both video and card games), cosplay contests, panels, and a variety of special guests. The most recent Game On Expo 2022 event had over 12,000 attendees, and Game On Expo has seen significant growth year over year for every event. The Game On Expo is also host of the annual event "Retro World Championships". This event is organized by Dorion Whitlock (Nintendo PowerFest '94 finalist), Mike Iarossi (Nintendo PowerFest champion, Chris Tang (Sega's Rock the Rock champion), and Thor Aackerlund (original Nintendo World Championships champion. The Retro World Championships is sponsored by RetroUSB who provides a limited edition special Game On Expo edition cart as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phoenix Convention Center
The Phoenix Convention Center is an events venue in downtown Phoenix, Arizona located along East Monroe, East Washington, East Jefferson, North Second, North Third, and North Fifth Streets. It opened in 1972 and hosts national and regional conventions and trade shows as well as consumer events and theatrical productions. It consists of three buildings: the North and West Buildings are connected underground by a shared exhibit hall and by a skyway bridge over North Third Street, while the South Building is a stand-alone facility. In addition, the "Third Street Canyon" between the North and West Buildings can be used as an outdoor event space. History The concept for a performing arts auditorium developed as early as 1959. At that time, cultural and theatrical events were being held in outdated high school auditoriums. It was determined that the Phoenix metropolitan area would benefit, not only from having an entertainment facility, but also from a facility that could accommod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jen Taylor
Jennifer Taylor is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Cortana in ''Halo'' games and the intelligent personal assistant. Career Jen Taylor taught herself how to do voice work by recording the radio and imitating what she heard. She graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in theater. Before starting in voice work, she worked as a radio DJ for KNDD. Taylor has voiced characters in video games, Princess Peach, Toad, and Toadette in ''Mario'' games between 1999 and 2006. She voiced the character Cortana in ''Halo'' games since the first game in the series, '' Halo: Combat Evolved'' (2001). She also voices the virtual assistant Cortana. Two decades following the original game, Taylor reprised the role of Cortana by voice acting and performance capture in the Paramount+ TV series. Taylor has played Salem in the web series ''RWBY,'' since 2013. She voiced an episode of the radio series ''The Classic Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'' Taylor has na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Patrick Lowrie
John Patrick Lowrie (born June 28, 1952) is an American actor, musician and author best known for voicing the Sniper in ''Team Fortress 2'' and various characters in ''Dota 2''. He has played Sherlock Holmes in the radio series ''The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'' since 2001. Career Lowrie has performed roles in video games such as '' The Suffering'' and '' The Suffering: Ties That Bind'', ''Total Annihilation'' and its expansions, '' The Operative: No One Lives Forever'' and '' No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy in H.A.R.M.'s Way''. Lowrie is mostly recognized for his voice acting in Valve games such as ''Team Fortress 2'', ''Half-Life 2'', '' Half-Life 2: Episode One'', '' Half-Life 2: Episode Two'', ''Left 4 Dead'', ''Dota 2'', and '' Artifact''. He is noted for playing the roles of the Sniper in the online first-person shooter game ''Team Fortress 2'', Agent Gray in the MMORPG ''The Matrix Online'', as well as Odessa Cubbage and the male citizens in ''Half-Life 2''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellen McLain
Ellen McLain (born 1952/1953) is an American voice actress. She is best known for providing the voice of GLaDOS, the primary antagonist of the ''Portal'' video game series, the Combine Overwatch in ''Half-Life 2'', and the Administrator, the announcer in ''Team Fortress 2''. Her voice roles also include the Jaeger A.I. in ''Pacific Rim'' and The Witch in ''Left 4 Dead'' and ''Left 4 Dead 2''. Career McLain provides voices for many characters in several video games from Valve. Among them are GLaDOS, the primary antagonist of the ''Portal'' video game series (for which she won an AIAS Interactive Achievement Award for Outstanding Achievement in Character Performance), the announcer in ''Team Fortress 2''; and the voice of the Combine Overwatch for the ''Half-Life'' series. McLain sang "Still Alive" and "Want You Gone", the ending credits songs to ''Portal'' and ''Portal 2'', respectively, both of which were written by Jonathan Coulton. She sang " Cara Mia Addio" at the end of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Meer
Mark Meer is a Canadian actor, writer and improvisor, based in Edmonton, Alberta. He is known for his role in the ''Mass Effect'' trilogy, in which he stars as the voice of the player character, Commander Shepard. His voice is featured in a number of other games from BioWare Corp., notably the ''Baldur's Gate'' and ''Dragon Age'' series. Meer stars as the voice of the player character William Mackenzie in ''The Long Dark'' from Hinterland Studio. He also works in animation, providing the voice for several characters in a series of cartoon shorts produced by Rantdog Animation Studios, and the voice of Horse in the Captain Canuck web series starring Kris Holden-Ried and Tatiana Maslany. Career Meer starred as the male voice of the main player character, Commander Shepard, in the ''Mass Effect'' trilogy. His voice is featured in a number of other games from BioWare Corp., notably the ''Baldur's Gate'' and ''Dragon Age'' series. Meer starred as the voice of the player character Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anjali Bhimani
Anjali Bhimani (born August 30, 1974 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American actress. She is best known for voicing Symmetra in the video game ''Overwatch'' and Rampart in the video game ''Apex Legends''. Early life Bhimani was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of doctors Ela and Bharat Bhimani. She is of Indian descent and grew up in Orange County, California. She attended Northwestern University. Career Bhimani's long time collaboration with Mary Zimmerman began in 1997 when she appeared as an Indian princess in ''Mirror of the Invisible World'', adapted from the 12th century Persian epic ''Haft Peykar''. She played Greek mythological character Myrrha in Zimmerman-directed ''Metamorphoses'' world premiere produced by Lookingglass Theatre Company in 1998 and its Off-Broadway opening at the Second Stage Theatre in 2001. Drama critic Albert Williams, in his review for the '' Chicago Reader'', called Bhimani a "stunning dancer". She made her Broadway debut when ''Metamorphoses'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carolina Ravassa
Carolina Ravassa (born 15 June 1985 in Cali, Colombia) is a Colombian actress and producer. A performing arts graduate from Boston College and New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts, Ravassa is best known outside of Colombia for her voice over work in television series and video games, most notably Sombra from the video game ''Overwatch'' and Raze in ''VALORANT''. Life and career Ravassa grew up in several countries, spending her childhood between Colombia and the US, and is therefore fluent in 4 languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian. She was interested in acting from a young age and her first role was in a local production of ''The Sound of Music'' in which she played Gretel. She studied in Spain and Italy, and was then inspired by the power of socio-political change through Theatre of the Oppressed with Augusto Boal in Brazil. She was educated at Boston College, receiving her Theatre Arts degree, as well as undergoing a year of acting for film/TV at the New Yo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patricia Summersett
Patricia Summersett (born March 15, 1982) is a Canadian actress, best known for voicing Princess Zelda in '' The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild'' and '' Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity''. Life and career Summersett has appeared in the Darren Aronofsky psychological horror ''mother!'', in series: CBC's ''Bellevue'' starring Anna Paquin, CTV's ''The Disappearance'' with Peter Coyote, Go90's ''Lost Generation'' with Katie Findlay and scored by Tony-winning Duncan Sheik, and NBC's ''The Bold Type'' on Free Form. She also played a lead in the indie feature ''Maz'' by festival-winning filmmaker Federico Hidalgo. Notable past roles include recurring characters in Ron Moore's ''Helix s2'' as well as ''19-2'' (Bravo/CTV). She was also the official “Onset Smurf” representing Smurfette, Vexy and Clumsy as the reference voice and puppeteer for the making of Sony's ''The Smurfs 2''. Education She holds a BFA in theatre performance from Concordia University and a master's in classica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melissa Hutchison
Melissa Hutchison is an American voice actress, who is well known for her voice role as Clementine in '' The Walking Dead'' and its sequels, for which she won ''Best Performance by a Female'' at the 2013 Spike Video Game Awards and was nominated for the 2014 NAVGTR Award ''Performance in a Drama, Lead'' respectively. She has also been nominated twice for a BAFTA Award The British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the BAFTA Film Awards is an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to honour the best British and international contributions to film. The cere ... for '' Best Performer''. Filmography Video games Television Film References External links * * * Melissa Hutchisonconvention appearances on FanCons.com * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hutchison, Melissa 21st-century American actresses Actresses from Missouri American video game actresses People from Springfield, Missouri American voice actresses Living people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Fennoy
Dave Fennoy is an American voice actor. His video game roles have included Lee Everett in '' The Walking Dead'', Bluebeard in ''The Wolf Among Us'', Finch in ''Tales from the Borderlands'', Gabriel the Warrior in '' Minecraft: Story Mode'', and Lucius Fox in '' Batman: Arkham Knight'' and '' Batman: The Telltale Series''. He also voiced "JP Dumund" in the Vendettas mode in ''The Darkness 2'', as well as Satan in '' Afterparty''. Early life Fennoy was born in Silver Spring, Maryland and then moved to Cleveland, Ohio. He was a child actor at the Karamu House in Cleveland. In his senior year of high school, he was president of the theater club and directed as well as performed in several plays, before attending Macalester College in St Paul Minnesota as a theater major. Fennoy left college when he began touring as a professional musician. He later returned and graduated from Howard University with a degree in jazz studies and a guitar minor. Career Fennoy started as a DJ in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Gothsicles
The Gothsicles is an American industrial and electronic body music (EBM) band formerly based out of Chicago, Illinois before moving to Boston, Massachusetts in 2018. The group was formed in Wisconsin in 2002 by Brian "darkNES" Graupner, who handles vocals and synthesizers, and is the sole consistent member. The band has a rotating lineup of live musicians, including Matt Fanale of Caustic, Matt Slegel of Angelspit, and David Dodson of Abstinence. The band released its first LP, '' NESferatu'', in 2006. Following albums included ''Sega Lugosi's Dead'' (2009), ''Industrialites & Magic'' (2011), ''Squid Icarus'' (2014), and ''I Feel Sicle'', which was released on November 4, 2016. According to ''COMA Music Magazine'', "The Gothsicles are one of the forerunners in Industrial Music for the Nerdy Masses." Known for "spastic" and energetic live performances, they have performed at major festivals such as Infest, Kinetik Festival, Resistanz, Game On Expo, Reverence Festival, Terminus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minibosses
Minibosses is an American progressive rock band originally from Northampton, Massachusetts and now located in Phoenix, Arizona. They are known for their video game music covers, which are instrumental rock variations of the theme music from classic Nintendo video games such as '' Mega Man'', '' Metroid'', and '' Castlevania''. The ''Phoenix New Times'' awarded Minibosses their ''best cover band'' award in 2006. History From 1997 to 1999, guitarist Aaron Burke and drummer Matt Wood played in Jenova Project, one of the earliest video game cover bands, along with other friends from the same dorm at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. In January 2000, Burke and Wood recruited bassist Ben Baraldi to form Minibosses. Initially, the band played both video game covers as well as original songs, and self-released their first album, '' Minibosses'', in September 2000. They were unsatisfied with the quality of this album and have since released new versions of their covers (as well ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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