This year Quakecon had over 7,000 visitors and 3,000 people bring their computers to game in the LAN area. Jennifer and I headed down to meet up with our usual buddies to game and have some fun at the event. The very popular and upcoming games BRINK and RAGE were shown to the public for the first time at Quakecon 2009 and I was lucky enough to see both of these presentations and all I will say is those two games are on my get list. We were asked not to take any pictures of either BRINK or RAGE but I tweeted while I was in these presentations and here is what I had to say:

Brink:

When the actual demo started, where one of the game developers takes stage to play the game, the screens on the stage turned to what looked like this very high quality rendered screenshot of the game that publishers use for press material and usually look a bit better than the game because they have been enhanced but then the screen started to move and I along with the rest of the crowd just went awhhh, this game looks insanely amazing!

Tweets

• First public demo for the upcoming game Brink is about to happen, time to check it out. 12:54 PM Aug 14th
• #Brink looks amazing. Features SMART movement that helps make moving over objects easy. Kind of like a mirrors edge mode. #Quakecon 1:15 PM Aug 14th
• 7 Player campaign coop mode, Awesome. #Brink #Quakecon 1:25 PM Aug 14th

RAGE:

• Waiting in line to get to the Main Stage to see the first public demo of popular upcoming game Rage by id Software. 2:23 PM Aug 15th
• #Rage looks graphicaly amazing! 2:54 PM Aug 15th
• #Rage first person element of rage looks very nice. Smooth and fluid like previous id games. 3:24 PM Aug 15th

Some random pictures I took:

AMD Overclocking Show:

Panoramic inside the VendorExhibit area:

Panoramic of the Exhibit Stage and the Ventrilo NASCAR Truck and Mustang Shelby GT 500 that was given away:

Nvidia had people come up on stage and do things to get free schwag. These two people had to eat crickets, minos, and worms for some free stuff: