Horror Realm week features daily events leading up to convention

Pittsburgh, PA – March 28, 2010 – Horror Realm™, Pittsburgh’s modern horror convention, announces a week’s worth of activities leading up to the convention which takes place September 17-19, 2010:

A book signing event featuring Rhiannon Frater, author of As the World Dies, on Monday, September 13 at Joseph Beth Booksellers in Southside Works
Pittsburgh Paranormal Society lecture/presentation on Tuesday, September 14 at Indian Summer in the Stoner Center in Castle Shannon
Horror film program at The Oaks Theater on Wednesday, September 15
Rock show at The …

Mary Elizabeth McGlynn will be at the Phoenix Comicon
March 24th 2010: Mary Elizabeth McGlynn is an award winning American voice actress best known for doing voices for anime and video games. Among her many credits, her most recognizable roles include Jagura in Wolf’s Rain, Rosso the Crimson in Dirge of Cerberus-Final Fantasy VII- and Motoko Kusanagi in the critically acclaimed Ghost in the Shell. She’s also the winner of an American Anime Award.
Convention Center Director Matt Solberg commented, “We’re very excited to have such a talented voice actor drop by …

The Convention Fans Blog/Alltern8 team rolled back into Philly late last night, after enjoying the final day of PAX East 2010. We’re all pretty tired, and two of us are sick, but the general consensus seems to be that it was all worth it.
Day three of PAX started pretty early. Us members of the press had been invited to a Media Only Q&A with Penny Arcade creators Jerry Holkins (“Tycho”) and Mike Krahulik (“Gabe”). It was originally scheduled for 9 am, but when we arrived at 8:30 to line up, …

Well, day two of PAX is over for us, and we’ve retreated back to the hotel to get packed up and play a little Magic the Gathering. Day two was pretty action packed, and we’re totally beat.
The morning started out with the team splitting ways. Zack and Dan headed to the Chip Tunes panel, while I chatted with the good folks at Fallen Earth. I got a private demo and some great info on the game, which you’ll get a full report on later this week. The boys said their …

It’s relatively early on Day 2 of PAX East here in Boston, and I wanted to go ahead and jot down some initial thoughts about our Day 1 experience. Please forgive the typos. I’m writing this quickly before starting a myriad of meetings with game developers this morning, and I won’t have time to do as careful of a check as usual.
First off, the drive in from Philly wasn’t too bad, aside from a briefly harrowing moment in NYC when we got a bit turned around. We got into the …